Riad Touareg Badié

Riad Touareg Badié - 40, Rue Berrima - Derb Touareg - Médina - Marrakech - Morocco

E-mail: Riad-Touareg@Riad-Touareg.com

                    About  Marrakech

Marrakech, also called "the pink city", is beautiful located close to the Atlas mountains. Most days you can see blue mountains covered with snow over the rooftops, and in 3 hours by car you can reach the desert of Sahara. Marrakech has been a resort for many years. It is a melting pot with a mixture of traditional cultures and modern western lifestyles. In the part of the town called the "new Medina" (Guliez), you can get all the luxury you can afford, and you find stores with the latest fashion and night clubs. The setting of Marrakech is splendid,  exceptionally beautiful, and the liveliness is never ending.  It is the second largest city of Morrocco (after Casablanca), with a population around one million. Snake charmers sit outside refined palaces. Riotous marketplaces sell all kinds of exotic stuff, and the mysterious old Medina contains nearly two miles of secret passages. Here you also find the largest market place in Africa. Mopeds, mules and Mercedes dart around, yet time seems to move slowly. The Atlas Mountains make a thrilling day trip, while city sights include tombs, souks, palaces, mosques and baths (Hamman). Many people also take a one day or two days trip to the beaches to the beautiful small old town Essaouira on the Atlantic coast 2,5 hours by car or bus from Marrakech. If you want to relax and take a swim at Nikki Beach Marrakech, you also will find delicious wine and food there - only 15 min. by taxi from Riad Touareg Badie.

Marrakech has a sunny, Mediterranean climate. Spring and fall are the ideal months to visit, with pleasant temperatures and little rain. See updated weather forecast for Marrakech. For a lot of people from all around the world, it has also become a tradition to celebrate Christmas and New Years Eve in Marrakech, especially for the international Jet Sets . At this time of the year it is almost impossible to find a free hotel room in all Marrakech.

Tore Kjeilen, a Norwegian specialist in modern Islam, says "Marrakech is not only a fantastic city, it is also a symbol of the Morocco that once was, and which still survives here. What is central in order to understand the position that Marrakech has, is that it never has been Arabic, always Berber. While Arabs and Berbers mingle in most parts of Morocco, Marrakech remains a bastion of Berber culture. It was its own centre in the struggle against the French earlier this century, and could have become a capital in a country away from Morocco if history had wanted it differently. Anyway, its position has been strong for such a long period, that it is from 'Marrakech' that 'Morocco' is derived."

You'll find a thorough and good article by Tore Kjeilen about Marrakech, including a lot of good advices about what to see and what to do in Marrakech, in a section of Looklex on the Internet.    
See also two informative web-sites: www.Marrakech.world-guides.com  and www.Ilove-marrakech.com . The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten also have easy and informative articles for tourists about Marrakech and Morocco with comments from readers who has been there..

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