Bab Agnaou

Bab Agnaou street is the one that springs to mind when I think of Marrakech. It's the busiest street in the city by day, because it runs to the famous Djema El Fna. It's always crowded, even during the evening. This is a very wide pedestrian street lined with shops selling goods of all kinds: jewellery, clothing, shoes, nuts, souvenirs, banks, bureaux de change, etc. There are restaurants, too, selling all kinds of food; ranging from kebabs to pizzas. There are guys armed with menus trying to convince you to come to their restaurant. We called it the street of palms, because there were quite a

This is one of the 19 access points into the Marrakech Medina. It's really impressive, with arches and brightly coloured floral motifs. This is where the heads of executed criminals were once displayed, but now it is a masterpiece of art, probably the most beautiful of all the entrances to the Kasbah.