Marrakech Riad Adventures

Can you moonlight as a sewer cleaner?  In Marrakech, yes.  Well, you can if you are familiar with the labyrinthine sewer system and know w...

MARRAKECH has its troubadours and traveling musicians, analogous to the minstrels, bards, and other street performers who entertained cour...

Only necessity compels people to take up this small trade.  Such hard labour! Whether carrying tourists' suitcases at airports and tra...

In addition to legitimate dentists, Marrakech is home to a most peculiar profession: the tooth yanker. These men practice their trade in...

Out in the middle of the little alleys of Marrakech, you come across cobblers' workshops, really just simple iron crates on wheels, sh...

In Morocco, like in much of the Eastern world, smoke rituals are integral to certain ceremonies.  Plants are left to smoulder slowly, like...

Street Trades are disappearing everywhere.  However, in Marrakech they still flourish and are often indispensable.  They are on every stre...