Travel Photo Impressions 📷 - Jemaa el-Fnaa (Marrakech, Morocco)
The huge, lively square at the heart of Marrakech, Jemaa el-Fna is one of the city's principal attractions. By day or by night, the square is filled with wandering salesmen, musicians, dancers, and snake charmers attracting the attention of a cosmopolitan crowd, who come to experience the lively and colourful heart of Marrakech.
Jamaa el-Fna is a destination for all magic, and tells its storytellers, dancers, water sellers and snake charmers, the history of Morocco from yesterday and today. The square is great, very lively and lots of restaurants with roof terraces.
During the day it is predominantly occupied by orange juice stalls, water sellers with traditional leather water-bags and brass cups, youths with chained Barbary apes and snake charmers despite the protected status of these species under Moroccan law.
As the day progresses, the entertainment on offer changes: the snake charmers depart, and late in the day the square becomes more crowded, with Chleuh dancing-boys (it would be against custom for girls to provide such entertainment), story-tellers (telling their tales in Berber or Arabic, to an audience of locals), magicians, and peddlers of traditional medicines. As darkness falls, the square fills with dozens of food-stalls as the number of people on the square peaks.
The atmosphere is a bit crazy :)
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!steemitworldmap 31.626953 lat 7.988799 long Place de Marché Animée Jemaa el-fna
That market looks very pretty. Awesome shots, specially the first 2. :-)
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Lovely photos of the square. I specially loved the first two. Second one is the gem!
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Such an awesome place and what great post. You could use the archisteem and travelfeed tags. This article is perfect.
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