SOUKS SHOPPING TOUR - Spices Rugs and Lightings SMELLS COLORS and SOUNDS

SOUKS SHOPPING TOUR - Spices Rugs and Lightings SMELLS COLORS and SOUNDS

Join this 3 to 4 hours shopping Souks tour. Explore Medina alleys with different craft sections including The Spice areas, Rugs & textiles, lighting & lamps stores. As you walk you will see artisans working in tiny workshops making leather or wood work, blacksmith workers, weavers and dyers. This experience will unveil for you the hidden treasures of Marrakech Medina and Souks with an expert guide who would keep constantly on your side so you enjoy your tour hassle-free. Visit vibrant markets full of wonderful smells, fascinating colours and funny souns coming from all angles as you walk by.. here you can shop for quality goods either for serious shopping or souvenirs for both family and friends.

Why Travelers Choose

This Tour is a walking tour with a difference, aimed to make you feel like a local and introduce you to Marrakech' hidden gems! Learn about craft, food and design while discovering the city's secret Souks.

Enjoy a wonderful shopping tour with an insider who would take you under the skin of Marrakech craft Souks. Start the tour with a briefing on the flow of this half day and the best practices and tips on how to handle the bustle and the bargaining culture.

First you will walk alleys leaded by your expert shopping guide and feel the complexity of the Medina before navigating tranquil alleyways full of surprises and wonderful wooden doors hiding beautiful home courtyards. Such alleys will connect to busy animated souks streets where finished hand made products are displayed for sale.

Together with your insider guide you will stop to visit  a herbal place, get introduced to this ancestral culture of using medicinal plans to strength the imune system, reduce cholesterol, heal skin problems or simply teas good for memory and blood circulation. This colorful experience includes smell different spices, essencial oils and the Magical Moroccan Argan oil. 

The journey of colors will continue to the dying area. See how the wool is dyed in differend color and displayed beautifuly in the sun to dry before it is taken to make rugs and carpets. The following  visit is to stop in an amazing carpet store where thousands of wool, silk and cactus agavi rugs are collected from rural areas, berber villages and nomad saharan tribes are exhibited for sale. Attend a tale of this women art which ladies excels making for this family use, wedding gifts or to sell as an extra income. The situation oblige sharing a cup of peppermint tea. Enjoy!

Continue navigating the souks on the way to the metal and black smith area. In here mastermen work hard forging metal, polishing, hammering and designing lamps, lanterns, cages, tables, chairs, sculptures and all metal creations from copper, brass, tin, puter and more.. right after visit a design store to see the latest lighting creations a Moroccan designer has excelled making and displaying for sale.

This tour was designed with love for guests with interest to shop, designers searching inspiration or simply for curious travelers. Come and join this tour hassle free. Marhaba!