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Carpets: carpets and kelims
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  • Written by iwys on Oct 7, 2006
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    • Name of Shop: Souk Zrabia

    There are thousands of carpet stores in Marrakech, selling Berber carpets and kelims, mainly to tourists. The salesmen here are some of the sharpest in the world and will manage to squeeze every last dirham out of you. Most customers later find out too late that they paid far too much for purchases that they had no intention of buying before they were lured in by a smooth-talking salesman. I bought a yellow, Berber kelim for a fraction of the original asking price, but stilll paid double the amount a local would have paid.

    My advice is completely ignore the initial asking price as it will probably be anything from five to ten times the value of the carpet. Pay no more than half of what you would expect to pay for a similar carpet in your own country. The salesman will still have made a handsome profit and you won't feel that you have been cheated.

    Souk Zrabia is the traditional carpet souk, where the Berbers come in every week to sell their carpets at auction, so it is probably the best place to look.



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    Anita_Porec Wed Mar 18, 2009 16:25 UTC
     Hi there! How is it to drive in Marrakesh??    		Arkeolog Mon Feb 23, 2009 16:15 UTC
     I got this city into my "must see places list" after your VT page. Best wishes from Istanbul.Bora
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     By the time I get to Marrakesh I will be too old....so many places I want to go!    		sourbugger Tue Jan 20, 2009 19:18 UTC
     some excellent advice here on warnings and dangers - i could not agree more
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