Marrakesh Local Custom Tips by tini58de

We have had lots of tea while in Morocco and have enjoyed it enourmously!

The most common tea was thé à la menthe, a rather sweet tea made from fresh mint leaves. You either get it in a lovely silver tea pot (and when pouring it you have to put the pot way up over your glass!) or in a glass with all the mint leaves in it!

Another very exciting tea was hunja, a tea made from ginseng, ginger, cloves and other spices. This tea is hot - spicy hot that is, but once you get used to it, you will love it!

On our trip to Ouarzazate we were served a tea made of different herbs like sage, thyme and some others, which was quite enjoyable as well!

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Stucco is a form of art that you will come across in almost all of the sites you visit in Morocco: beautiful ornaments and kalligraphy on the walls, around the windows or on the ceilings.

It was quite fascinating for us to see this old art still being performed! In the suuqs of Marrakesh we saw this man still working on stucco frescos! You have to be fast, because you have to sort of carve the ornaments out of the whole material while it is still moist!

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Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stucco

..... unless you are a Moslem/Muslima.

As a non-Muslim visitor you may enjoy the outside of the mosques (with their unique square minaretts), but you are not allowed to enter the mosque.

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