Essaouira

Essouira is a fairly small city, by now we know the place pretty well, this is the main plaza.

Lots of coffee shops

The medina

The nicest part about the medina, beside that is cleaner than any other medians, is that merchant here are less aggressive than anywhere else, we can actually look at the stores. Stores are wonderful, leather goods, bags, shoes, scarf, dresses, silver jewelries, cosmetics, spices….It is very hard not to buy anything. At the beginning I said that I am not going to buy anything on this trip, but now I kind of change my mind, so I will see……
By the tourist information centre

Alliance Françoise Moroccan

As part of the Festival Gnaoua there are films at the Alliance Francoise Moroccan ; we have seen 2 movies so far :
“ Ali Farka Toure, le miel n’est jamais bon dans une seule bouche » life story of the african singer nick named Bluesman du desert.

Made in Jamaica – documentary movie about reggae music and its importance in Jamaican life from hunderds years ago to today.

In the evening we watched outdoors concerts ; there were mostly Maroccan bands playing morcoon folklore music. Around 11 pm Wayne Shorter Quartet started palying but by then we were tired of standing up for a long time, also I couln’dt stand the crowd moving continuasly around us. The music was beautiful we would have enjoyed a lot in a different setting, maybe a jazz longe sitting on low confortable chairs and sipping on Martinis 