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We arrive in Marrakech by train from Rabat:

Rabat Ville – Marrakech
Date: March 08th, 2023 from 1:35 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Class: Grand Public Semi Flex
Price for 2 people: 395 MAD (Moroccan Dirham) = €38

We will spend 4 nights in Marrakech. We will stay in 2 accommodations (Riad Assala and Riad L’Arganier), 2 nights in each.

To go to our first accommodation (Riad Assala), we take a taxi from Marrakech train station. Our taxi drops us off 250m from the Riad (31°38’02.0″N 7°59’27.9″W). The rest of the way is closed to cars.

We are harassed by luggage carriers. Seeing us get out of the taxi with luggage and stroller, a man loads our luggage into a small cart and asks us the name of the Riad. We let him do it, he drops our luggage at the door of our accommodation. And there, he asks us for €20 for these 5 minutes (while it is completely doable by ourselves). We give him the equivalent of €5 to cut short the discussion. Little tip: always agree on the price of the service in advance and avoid « No, it’s not a problem, you will give me what you want »

We are welcomed at our Riad.

City: Marrakech
Accommodation: Riad Assala
Address: 8, Derb Ouaihah Sidi Abdel Azziz Medina, Medina, Marrakech
Location: N 031° 37.936, W 07° 59.368
2 nights, from March 08th, 2023 to March 10th, 2023
Price: €177
Booked with Booking.com

It is magnificent. We are offered a welcome tea and our luggage is dropped off at our room. The Riad has a beautiful interior courtyard

And a Rooftop with a superb view

Our Riad is located at the beginning of the Medina of Marrakech, we take advantage of the evening to take a tour. The Medina is impressive in size and colors:

For dinner, we choose the restaurant « El Mida« . You can sit in the Rooftop with a beautiful view of the Medina. The dishes are very good. We recommend this restaurant for the setting and the cuisine.

We return to our Riad to spend the night.

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We wake up with a good breakfast served in our Riad

We leave the Riad to go and discover the « Medersa Ben Youssef« .

« Medersa » means school in Arabic. The Ben Youssef medersa is a Koranic school. It is one of the witnesses of the richness of Saadian architecture (The Saadians or Zaydanides are a dynasty of Arab origin who reigned over Morocco from 1549 to 1659, and whose capital was Marrakech).
This is a beautiful school that is definitely worth a visit. The architecture and decorations are impressive.

We continue our tour in the Medina of Marrakech. It is a huge open-air souk with lots of colors, spices, crafts …

You can find leather factories there:

We leave the lively part of the Medina towards the residential part to return to our Riad.

For the afternoon, we take a tour to the famous « Place Jemaa el-Fna »

The Jemaa el-Fna square is the most famous square in Marrakech. It is a place that is always lively, especially at night. We continue our tour to the Koutoubia Mosque. This is the largest Mosque in the city of Marrakech.

We return to Jemaa el-Fna Square in the evening to discover it in full swing, between crafts, snakes and monkeys. The square is huge and full of people.

We return to our Riad to spend the night.

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This is our day of changing Riads. When I wake up, I choose to take the luggage on foot to the Riad L’Arganier before returning to the Riad Assala for breakfast. This allows us to avoid the solicitations of the luggage carriers.

We have breakfast and leave our Riad quietly. On the way to our second accommodation in Marrakech, this time without luggage, we take advantage of the journey to go around the Medina and the Jemaa el-Fna square during the day.

We arrive at our Riad, Riad L’Arganier. It is located a few steps from the Moulay Al Yazid Mosque and the Saadian Tombs

City: Marrakech
Accommodation: Riad L’Arganier
Address: 32 Derb Abda Kesbah district, Kasbah, Marrakech
Location: N 031° 36.933, W 07° 59.271
2 nights, from March 10th, 2023 to March 12th, 2023
Price: €130
Booked with Booking.com

It is a sumptuous Riad, very welcoming and charming

After a short rest, we go out for an evening stroll in the Medina of Marrakech before ending up at the Café des épices (31°37’44.5″N 7°59’14.6″W) for dinner. This is a beautiful restaurant with a beautiful view of Jemaa el-Fnaa square

For the return to our Riad, we take a Tuk-Tuk for 50 MAD. This is good to saves us the long walk through Jemaa el-Fnaa and especially to discover this authentic means of transport

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We wake up quietly with a breakfast in a magnificent setting at our Riad

We start our day with a visit to the Saadian Tombs

It is a royal necropolis that dates from the time of the Saadian dynasty. (The Saadians or Zaydanides is a dynasty of Arab origin that reigned over Morocco from 1549 to 1659, and whose capital was Marrakech).

For the rest of the visit, we head to the Bahia Palace, before taking another tour of the Medina. We were unable to visit the Bahia Palace because there was a film shoot that day.

After another tour of the Medina, we return to our Riad for a short rest

We spend the evening wandering through the souks of Marrakech, the Jemaa el-Fna Square, before returning by Tuk-Tuk

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This is our departure day. We leave Marrakech for Rabat by train

Marrakech – Rabat City
Date: March 12th, 2023 from 11:50 to 15:25
Class: General Public Semi Flex
Price for 2 people: 395 MAD (Moroccan Dirham) = 38 €

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PS: For other visits in Marrakech, you can see:

• The Palmeraie (Palm Grove) of Marrakech: Nearly 100,000 palm trees, on approximately 15,000 hectares
• Majorelle Garden: Botanical garden of approximately 300 species on almost 1 hectare
• Menara Gardens: Garden planted with olive trees developed under the Almoahades dynasty
• El Badi Palace: Palace built by the Saadian Sultan Ahmed al-Mansur ad-Dhahbî to celebrate the victory over the Portuguese army in 1578

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