Dar Si Said: Museum of Regional Handicrafts, emphasis on carpets, lives in an 18th century palace. A small one. As you might guess, lots of tile,a few fountains and arches. There were explanations in Arabic, French and English, of the different regions and how the carpets differed from region to region.
Musee Tiskiwin Marrakech: Moroccan art and handicrafts. We are given same laminated pages in English guiding us through 13 rooms. We only found six.
House of Photography. Features a shaded rooftop terrace where we sat for a while with cappuccino for Grubb and sparkling water for me. Nice view over the rooftops of the Medina.
All the museums are small. And worth a visit. The Musee Tiskiwin and the House of Photography are located in what seem to be old Riads. Rooms around a courtyard.
After the museums, back to our Riad. A break from the noise and crush. It is amazing how the noise of the medina is totally tuned out behind the thick walls of this Riad.
We have signed up for a cooking class tomorrow so Grubb decides to do a trial journey to find the mosque which is the meeting point for the class. I wish him well. I am the navigator in the family. Three hours later, he’s back with a shawarma in hand and he says he *thinks* he found the place.
You haven’t mentioned going to the Koutoubia, the 12th century Almohad mosque, and probably the most important mosque in Morocco (certainly Marrakech) historically and artistically. They probably won’t let you in, but it is worth seeing from the outside.
We have walked by it several times and stopped to take a closer peek today. Not allowed inside of course.