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Lonely Planet Experiences: Marrakech Medina Walking Tour Including Bahia Palace
Recommended for your Marrakech trip
Free Cancellation
up to 24 hours in advance
4 hours (Approx.)
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English
Good for avoiding crowds
Keeping you safe during COVID-19
What you can expect during your visit
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Regular temperature checks for staff
Temperature checks for travelers upon arrival
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Overview
Discover the maze-like souks, foods, and must-sees of Marrakech’s medina neighborhood on this walking tour. With a local guide, roam the atmospheric souks around Djemaa El-Fna and visit the Bahia Palace, where the gilded pavilions and harem hosted sultans and their concubines. Sample fresh-baked bread at a communal bakery, see ‘tanjia’ ovens where locals bring clay-pot stews to be cooked, and head for the Marrakech Museum of Photography to view its stunning photographs of old and modern Morocco.
- Half-day walking tour of Marrakech’s medina and major attractions
- Experience the chaotic energy of Marrakech’s medina with your local guide
- Witness the spectacle of Djemaa El-Fna with its multitude of vendors
- Enjoy guided tours of Bahia Palace and the Photography Museum of Marrakech
- Small-group tour limited to 12 people ensures more individualized attention from your guide
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This tour takes you to some of Marrakech's most fascinating cultural attractions and gives you the chance to experience the vibrant atmosphere of the medina without getting lost!
Meet your friendly guide in Djemaa El-Fna, the buzzing square in the center of old Marrakech, and set off on your small-group walking tour.
Soak up the sights of the vibrant square, and then head into the warren of neighboring souks. With your guide to navigate the alleyways of the medina, you’re free to drink in the atmosphere and peruse the enticing wares that range from carpets and hand-painted plates to spices, gold, and textiles.
Make your way to one of Marrakech’s historical highlights—the Bahia Palace (Palais de Bahia)—a lavish sultan’s palace built in the 1800s. Explore the opulent pavilions and courtyards to admire the mosaics, halls, and fountains as your guide recounts tales of the sultans who lived here with their wives and concubines.
Head back into the medina and follow the aroma of freshly baked bread to a traditional bakery. Learn how the locals bring their prepared dough here for baking, and sample some of the fluffy warm bread. Then, check out a tanjia oven, where clay pots filled with meat and spices are cooked for locals.
Lastly, visit the Marrakech Museum of Photography and Visual Arts to see its photographic exhibitions. Gain insight into old Marrakech from the photos charting life in the city in the last century, and inspect the stirring portraits of locals and Moroccan villagers, as well as contemporary works from around the world.
Return to Djemaa El-Fna where your tour finishes. Get directions back to your hotel from your guide or continue exploring the medina independently.
Meet your friendly guide in Djemaa El-Fna, the buzzing square in the center of old Marrakech, and set off on your small-group walking tour.
Soak up the sights of the vibrant square, and then head into the warren of neighboring souks. With your guide to navigate the alleyways of the medina, you’re free to drink in the atmosphere and peruse the enticing wares that range from carpets and hand-painted plates to spices, gold, and textiles.
Make your way to one of Marrakech’s historical highlights—the Bahia Palace (Palais de Bahia)—a lavish sultan’s palace built in the 1800s. Explore the opulent pavilions and courtyards to admire the mosaics, halls, and fountains as your guide recounts tales of the sultans who lived here with their wives and concubines.
Head back into the medina and follow the aroma of freshly baked bread to a traditional bakery. Learn how the locals bring their prepared dough here for baking, and sample some of the fluffy warm bread. Then, check out a tanjia oven, where clay pots filled with meat and spices are cooked for locals.
Lastly, visit the Marrakech Museum of Photography and Visual Arts to see its photographic exhibitions. Gain insight into old Marrakech from the photos charting life in the city in the last century, and inspect the stirring portraits of locals and Moroccan villagers, as well as contemporary works from around the world.
Return to Djemaa El-Fna where your tour finishes. Get directions back to your hotel from your guide or continue exploring the medina independently.
Itinerary
Destination of all magic, Jamaâ El Fna square tells through its storytellers, dancers, water sellers and snake charmers, the history of Morocco yesterday and today while subjugating its visitors by its charm that starts in the morning and still only reaches its peak in the evening
Duration: 30 minutes
Admission Ticket Included
Bahia Palace is considered one of the grand palaces of the Moroccan city of Marrakech, or what is called the Red City. Created by Minister Ahmed bin Musa, in the 19th century, to commemorate the name of his wife, “Bahia”, and today it is an artistic masterpiece dating from the splendor of Moroccan architecture of Andalusian character which overflows with its civilizational manifestations, in particular What you tell about the secrets of ancient history.
Duration: 1 hour
Admission Ticket Included
Located next to the mosque of the Kasbah, the Saadian tombs are one of the only vestiges remaining from the Saadian dynasty which reigned on the golden age of Marrakech between 1524 to 1659. At the beginning of the 18th century, Sultan Moulay Ismaïl indeed decided to remove all traces of the magnificence of this dynasty by asking for the destruction of all the remaining vestiges. However, he did not dare to commit the sacrilege to destroy their graves and ordered that the entrance to the necropolis be walled up.
Duration: 1 hour
Admission Ticket Included
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