A Walk Through the Rabat Medina


It’s a typical Thursday morning on Rue des Consuls, the main road of the Rabat medina. The souvenir market section of this medieval, walled area is only a tiny sliver of the old medina. It’s also an easy and stress-free introduction to shopping and sight-seeing in Morocco.

Vendors slowly crack open the doors of their boutiques around 10:30, sipping sweet mint tea as they warmly greet each other and leisurely set up their bright and colorful ware. No one is in a hurry. Fortunately, neither am I.

I start my morning stroll from the main entrance of Rue Des Consuls just below the Rabat Casbah, overlooking where the majestic Bou Regreg River and Atlantic Ocean divinely come together on the north side of the Rabat Medina. Read the full travel article here.

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