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Souks
Colourful souks (markets) are a major part of Moroccan life and a huge attraction. Most villages have a weekly souk when people from a wide area turn up on their donkeys to sell or buy vegetables and household wares. In contrast, the souks in towns and cities offer an extensive range of goods aimed at the tourist market. In Marrakech, for example, each trade has its own unique area such as the metal or wood quarter where proud artisans craft objects as their forefathers did centuries before them; the dyers quarter where colourful skeins of wool hang drying in the sunlight that streams into the narrow walkways; the carpet quarter where beautiful home-crafted Moroccan rugs hang like exquisite paintings; the jewellery quarter where glass-fronted windows glitter with gold; the spice quarter where the merchants build conical mounds of multicoloured spices.
