Monday 20 February 2023
There is a huge Berber market every Monday in the town of Tnine near Ourika. It's about an hour's drive outside Marrakesh. It's probably the most crazy, interesting, authentic market we've ever seen. Vegetables, spices, fresh meat, livestock, clothing, tagine stalls, barbers, tools, second hand cell phones and bicycles and more and more. And only men. No women anywhere. No other tourists either.
They don't like you taking photos and those who agree to have their picture taken want a tip. We did manage to get a few snaps.
Two barbers enticed us to their chairs and got Stephen to pose for a haircut and then a tooth extraction. They even had someone's old tooth as a prop. We all had a really good laugh together and they got a dollar each out of us.
The road up the Ourika Valley is lined with pottery and carpet stalls but there were very few tourists.
Nearer Sti Fadma there are lots of tagine restaurants along the river. This is a popular weekend outing for Marrakeshis. It was quite cold and windy out so we chose an indoor restaurant; the one with all the tourist cars outside. We enjoyed the tagine set lunch.
From here there were views of the snowy Atlas mountain peaks.
We got cheese and snacks from Carrefour for a light supper at the apartment, enjoying wine and Neil's music.
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