Markets, Souks, shops, goods




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Chicken and eggs sale
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Caged chickens for sale
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Not only chickens, there's also turkeys...
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Pottery on display by the road
going to the  Ourika Valley


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Grains, legumes and spices
at Fes Market
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Tiny village shop


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A nut pedlar in Agadir


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  Colored plastic garlands on sale
at Agadir Souk


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A make-up vendor
Agadir Souk


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Spices (on the left) e honeys
(on the right). Agadir Souk


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Pottery vendor
Agadir souk


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"Tajines"(*) for sale
Agadir Souk


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Fancy goods on display
Agadir Souk


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A street butcher shop
in Fes Medina


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souvenirs for sale on display
Agadir beach


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Fresh fruit street vendor
Moulay Idriss


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Moulay Idriss Market



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Dental care  shop sign
in Fes Medina


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Lamps
Agadir Souk



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Other Lamps
Agadir Souk



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Water pipes on display
Agadir Souk




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Bread and olives for sale
at Moulay Idriss market
(I like this pic)


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Meat transportation
Moulay Idriss Market


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Fruits on display
Moulay Idriss


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Torrone,  marzipan, candies,
toffees, dried figs and other sweets
Moulay Idriss


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A dairy in Fes Medina


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Sweets display
Moulay Idriss market


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People at Moulay Idriss market


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Tinmen shops in Marrakech Souk
(I like this pic very much)


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Lamp shop - Marrakech Souk


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Leather and wood shop
Marrakech Souk


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Things
Marrakech Souk



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Sweet cookies vendor
Marrakech Souk


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A Market in El Hedim Square - Meknes


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Chameleons and turtles for sale
Marrakech Souk


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Spices shop - Marrakech Souk


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Marrakech Soulk


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Lamps, knives, cutlery
Marrakech Souk


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Dried legumes and fruits
Marrakech Souk


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Tiny yarn shop - Marrakech


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Dried legumes and fruits
Marrakech Souk


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  Le cafe' est un art - Marrakech


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Turists at a souvenir shop
Marrakech Souk


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Souvenir shop - Marrakech


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Prikly pears street vendor
Fes Medina


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Damasks, a kind of handicrafts
typical from Meknes


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Souvenir shops
Marrakech


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This sweet vendor didn't want to be photographed,
but I had already shot when I realized it!
(BTW, look at the wonderfully colored marzipans)


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Inside a fancy goods shop
Marrakech


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Dried fruit on display - Marrakech



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Lotsa different kind of dates
(and with different prices!) - Marrakech


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Hyper-coloured mats for sale
at Marrakech Souk


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Waste or goods?
Marrakech Souk


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Marrakech-small square near the Souk


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Those are camel bone decorated
objects. Marrakech Souk


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Fes Souk is always very busy and crowded...


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Moroccan slippers, made from
camel leather - Marrakech Souk


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Inside overview of a Fes restaurant.
On each table a Tajine(*) is ready


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Coppersmiths(**) at work in
Fes Medina


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Outdoor restaurants are setting
up for their evening business in
Jama El Fna Square (***), Marrakech 


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Jama el Fna Square is getting busy...


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And we are on the verge...


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... of plunging in the crowd!


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Cooked snails vendors
Jama El Fna Square - Marrakech


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Snail vendor
Jama El Fna Square - Marrakech



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Fancy goods shop - Fes


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You gotta bargain before you buy!
Jama El Fna Square - Marrakech


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Mmmh this stuff looks interesting...
Jama El Fna Square - Marrakech


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An Eddie Murphy lookalike sells various
oddities. You can recognise ostrich eggs,
Antelope horns, and other stuff.


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Street vendor
Jama El Fna Square - Marrakech


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Outdoor restaurant
Jama El Fna Square - Marrakech


 



(*) If you have been either in Morocco or in a Moroccan Restaurant you don't need any explanation of what a "Tajine" is. For the others, Tajines are Morocco's national dish, a bit like pasta for Italy. Tajines are different kinds of stewed meat (cow, chicken or mutton). The meat is cooked for a long time in the typical clay pot with a conic cover shown in the pics. The pot name is also "Tajine", and the recipe's name comes from the pot's name (not vice-versa). While cooking, spices are added according to different formulas, and other ingredients are mixed to the meat to obtain different flavours. So you can have a chicken lemon tajine, a cow tajine with dried figs, a mutton tajine with olives and so on. You'll probably end up eating tajines in 90% of your meals in Morocco, unless you head for a pizzeria or kebab fast food.

(**) These coppersmith (tinker?) guys are cleaning a very big copper pan. Like the other huge saucepans which are around them, the pan is for rental, not for sale. In fact, being those pots really huge, they are too big for a family, but can be rented for cooking in special occasions like weddings, birthdays or other feasts with lotsa guests. After the party, they are given back to the rent-a-pan shop which re-rents them after careful cleaning.

(***) Jama El Fna Square can't be described in a footnote, you simply GOTTA GO there once in your life.


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