Good Housekeeping

There are few journeys you can make from the UK that take four hours, cost as little as £60 and transport you to another world. Marrakech is one of them.

With bustling souks full of stained glass lanterns, colourful ceramics, Berber rugs and colourful spices being sifted into huge hessian sacks, this is a city that’s guaranteed to stimulate your senses and there are so many things to do it’s hard to know where to start.

Walk through a door or gate that looks unassuming from the street, and you’ll find an oasis of serenity inside, be it an Aladdin’s cave full of leather bags, a blue-walled garden with a trickling fountain or one of the many riads which have been transformed into luxury boutique hotels. This is a city of contrasts – of joyful chaos, blazing sun and intense flavours, but also of meditative calm, cold tiles and a quiet, creative focus.

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