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Djemaa el Fna: Marrakech‘s central market place is the liveliest place in the city, where you’ll bump shoulders with locals and travellers alike. Haggle at the stalls, check out the snake charmers, buy colourful spice and consider what the apothecaries have to offer.

The Hammam: No trip to Morocco is complete without a visit to a traditional bathhouse.

The Souks: Getting lost in the maze of central souks north of the Dejemaa el Fna is great fun (and quite easy to do). The narrow alleys lead onto narrower ones, before spreading out into little open squares. These areas are great for practicing your haggling skills.

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Discover all the fun and excitement of Moroccan folklore at the Fantasia Moroccan Dinner and Cultural Show.
Presented in the heart of a Marrakech palm grove, under the shelter of exotic Berber tents, the show is a dazzling, multi-colored extravaganza, accompanied by a typical Moroccan feast served in an open-air setting.
Seated on cushions encircling the show arena, you’ll enjoy a traditional Moroccan meal and be serenaded by a chorus of girls and boys in traditional dress, accompanied by typical Arabian music.

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ALTHOUGH ethnic restaurants have been proliferating throughout Connecticut, especially in Fairfield County, there remains one big void: North African and Middle Eastern cuisine. The arrival of the Fez in Stamford in May has helped fill that void.

The Fez is an exciting addition to Restaurant Row (the downtown Summer Street block between Broad and West Park Place), a restaurant that fairly hums with activity.

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Favourite food destination: Djemaa El Fna square in Marrakech, Morocco, where farmers parade fresh produce, marinated meat, poultry, snails and home-made harira soups. There are mountains of sweet oranges, tasty nuts, aromatic herbs and spices and freshly ground coffee from the foot of the Atlas Mountains. There’s also freshly baked bread and organic vegetables. This popular marketplace is where traditional Moroccan culture blends together and is exhibited. After soaking up the atmosphere, head deep inside the medina to the world-renowned Le Yacout (79 Sidi Ahmed Soussi, near Bab Doukkala), a restaurant that’s as famous for its elaborate interior design as its fine cuisine.

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There’s this scene in the classic Hitchcock film, The Man Who Knew too Much, where Doris Day and the amazing James Stewart have dinner with a British couple in the epic Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakesh. They have large platters of couscous, merguez, all kinds of dips and small things. The two couples discuss the food, the culture and customs. They discuss how to eat the food and the customs related to it. “Tear the bread… Oh, allow me to show you, will you? You use only the first two fingers and thumb of the right hand. You don’t use the other two fingers, and always the left hand in the lap.”

There are no forks and no plates, just the ultimate sign of respect and conviviality of eating from the same bowl. The next day, the couples stroll the exotic markets of Marrakesh. Snake charmers, colorful food stalls, merchants selling strange skins all culminating in a plethora of enchanting noise and mysterious peddlers. It is the uneasy calm before the plot thickens into murder, kidnapping and treacherous false diplomacy.

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MARRAKECH, Morocco — The Djemaa el-Fna emerges like a living, breathing organism from the labyrinth that is the ancient medina, a large, open plaza framed by nearby minarets and the more distant and dramatic Atlas Mountains. Relatively sleepy during the day, with a few snake charmers and monkey handlers roaming around, the Djemaa transforms itself every evening into a truly unique jumble of makeshift restaurants — roughly 100.

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Time Out Marrakech gives readers the ground rules for wandering this chaotic, charismatic city at will, as well as taking them directly to all of the addresses they shouldn’t miss, from current hip hangouts to the riad (boutique) hotels of choice. Local writers offer pithy profiles of the best, the worst, the most stylish, and the most overrated of destinations for dining and shopping.

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