Mellah Marrakech

Marrakech , Morocco
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    9 reviews 13 travel blogs 15 photos

    Attraction Type:

    Historic site, Neighborhood

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    10of 43 attractions in Marrakech

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  • 1

    You are never lost, only discovering

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    Waking at 8am to the sounds of cockerels and bells, we had breakfast on the roof terrace. Blue sky- hot day. Our breakfast included moroccan flat pancakes, honey, pain au chocolate orange juice, french set yogurt and hot chocolate- yum & only 40 MAD!
    We quickly enjoyed our breakfast before the wasps dived into the honey.

    We …

  • 2

    A city like no other

    10 photos

    So today I was feeling much better - basically completely over my cold. That did not make it any easier getting out of bed though. With the lack of heating in my room, it makes it extra difficult to get out from under the covers. Although I had set my alarm for 8AM, I did not find my self getting out of bed until 9:30, but hey its vacation - why …

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    Marrakech

    9 photos

    ... did not enjoy Marrakech as much as I had hoped. I think Fes spoiled me. The Medina in Fes is another world. The Medina in Marrakech is a shopping mall in comparison. I walked down to the old town and spent a fair bit of time looking for a Laundry and ...

  • 2

    Magical Marrakech- Food, Palaces, Souks,The Square

    144 photos

    ... would be and as long as you pace yourself and take rests from the action it is a rather fun place to be. Magical Marrakech was a wonderfully different city experience but it's time to move on. We are giving up the henna tattoos and hammams and heading ...

  • 3

    Legendary Marrakech

    18 photos

    ... that those with the means built in the past.  This particular set of buildings was the home of a powerful "kingmaker" of Morocco who managed to cunningly install the fourteen year old Moulay Abd el Aziz as king after his father's death.  With ...

  • 4

    Jewish cemetary in Marrakech

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    Thursday Rob and I trekked into the Mellah hoping to be able to find our own way to the Synagogue. On the way I got us lost, but once lost we were free to run right into the Jewish cemetary. The cemetary is supposed to be over 500 years old, but it's ...

  • 5

    Mellah of Marrakech

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    Like most Moroccan cities Marrakech has a Mellah or old Jewish quarter dating from the days when Morocco had the largest Jewish population in the Islamic world.  There are few Jews left in Marrakech and the Mellah is now overwhelmingly Muslim, but ...

  • 6

    Four Nights in the Red City

    52 photos

    ... the souks and their maze of covered streets & produce for what seemed like hours. A visit to the Marrakech Museum, housed in a magnificently restored C19 palace, and to C14 Ben Youssef Medersa (stunning craftsmanship - cedar woodwork,stuccowork ...

  • 7

    Morocco 2008 - Vegetarians visit Morocco

    ... in Casablanca and in an hours time we were on our way to Marrakesh. Finally.     Marrakech (or Marrakesh)      Every city in Morocco has an ancient city center called the Medina, which is made up of old castles and ...

  • 8

    Funny Tummy

    5 photos

    ... like we were paying the same price as teh locals!  Leah and Lisa did some bargaining (which was helped by the fact that Morocco was playing England in the soccer on tv which I think he really wanted to get back to) and bought some xmas ...

  • 9

    Marrakech Mayhem

    14 photos

    ... of the places Fran pointed out on the map were: The Majorelle Gardens, The largest mosque in Africa, the old jewish mellah, as well as the Marrakech souks.  Fran also told us about the tours that the riad could arrange for us.  One particular ...

  • 10

    Hassling, haggling and hustled

    13 photos

    ... the carpet shop, which really was in a lovely building. It was cool to finally go through one of the mysterious doors in Marrakech’s skinny, winding alleyways, even if it was to a dodgy old building. Marrakech really isn’t that bad, but next ...