• The souk in Marrakesh

    January 6, 2018 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    The souk or old market in the medina is a wonderful place. Narrow, winding streets/alleyways with innumerable merchants selling anything you can think of. Even though it might look like it is indoors, it is not. The roofs are there to block the sun in summer. It very easy to get lost. I was thankful for GPS that got us out.
    The tour guide warned me that locals would call me Ali Baba because of the beard. They did, often, and in the souk I got my inner Ali Baba on.
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