{"id":649,"date":"2013-11-02T03:35:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T03:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2013-12-02T01:57:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T01:57:58","slug":"marrakech-morocco-november-2-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Marrakech, Morocco 11.2.2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hired a local guide to take us on a walking tour of the medina.\u00a0 Our first stop was El Bahia Palace, a beautiful royal home with 160 rooms. The rumors were that the palace was built as a home for the sultan’s wives and\u00a0official concubines. The size of the rooms and apartments were based on how much the sultan favored the woman.<\/p>\n

Then we walked through the mellah\u00a0 – the old Jewish quarter of Marrakech. Jews and Muslims lived together in the medina for centuries although most Jews have\u00a0moved from the area. We saw synagogues and fountains which had different architecture than the Muslim areas of the medina.<\/p>\n

Our guide left us at Ben Youssef Madrasa, an Islamic college founded in the 14th century. The architecture was absolutely beautiful.<\/p>\n

After dark, we headed to Jemaa el Fna square. It was basically Eastside night at the Iowa State Fair except with snake charmers, story tellers, and a large mosque. We made the mistake of giving a little boy some change\u00a0– we had a parade of children following us.<\/p>\n

\"Vendors<\/a>

Vendors in the medina<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Marrakesh<\/a>

Marrakesh medina<\/p><\/div>\n

\"El<\/a>

El Bahia Palace<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Ben<\/a>

Ben Youssef Madrasa<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Ben<\/a>

Ben Youssef Madrasa<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Jemaa<\/a>

Jemaa el Fna square<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lanterns<\/a>

Lanterns for sale in Jemaa el Fna square<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Storytellers<\/a>

Storytellers in Jemaa el Fna square<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Snake<\/a>

Snake charmers in Jemaa el Fna Square<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Koutoubia<\/a>

Koutoubia Mosque<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hired a local guide to take us on a walking tour of the medina.\u00a0 Our first stop was El Bahia Palace, a beautiful royal home with 160 rooms. The rumors were that the palace was built as a home for the sultan’s wives and\u00a0official concubines. The size of the rooms and apartments were based … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-morocco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}