Biking in and around the Old Medina Of Marrakesh, Morocco

This year I was in Marrakesh with my brother. Just a short trip, 6 days to explore the city and its surroundings. We really loved the city eventhough we were scammed, read about it here.

The second day we were in Marrakesh we rented a bike to cycle around the city. We wanted to go around the wall, around the old city, the Old Medina. 

We started at the entry, where if you go inside you see the Koutoubia.

 

Riding on my bike in Marrakesh

The wall surrounding the Old Medina

We went right and started to bike on the sidewalk. We could stop and look at the wall and at the people who were working at the restauration of the wall. At some point we entered a big roundabout, if you would turn right there you will go to Garden of Menara. 

First we wanted to bike around the city so we cycled along the wall. It was nice cycling there, the wall on the one side and on the other side the moroccan landscape and some big hotels.

 

Bab Agnaou

After two turns we entered a gate. We entered that one and it turns out to be the Bab Er Robb. When you enter there you see the Bab Agnaou on your right side. That Bab is famous, it is build in the 12 century in the time of the Almohad dynasty. On each side of the Bab is a canon. The name, Agnaou, refers to black people or land of the black. I don't know why that is. 

We liked the look of it and of the street behind it so we stalled our bike. We saw a trafficsign in the  middle of the road, we locked our bikes to it :) Seemed the savest way.

 

In the street after Bab Agnaou are a lot of nice shops. We went walking and soon we saw the building were the Saadian Tombs are. It didn't seem very inviting and the costs were high so we didn't enter. In front of it is a very nice Kasbah where you can eat and drink, we sat on top of the Kasbah and I had a coffee and my brother had a Moroccan tea.

 

After that we started to bike again. We went into the Old Medina. We went into the suburbs of the Old Medina. We biked along the streets and saw the people of Marrakesh in there own neighbourhood. They were working and just doing they're business. 

We saw the children going to school and the mothers doing there shopping.

 

  

I really love those old doors!

 We were biking and saw Bahia Palace so we parked our bikes and went inside. Very nice garden and building, the rooms were very nice. Everything in the palace from floor to ceiling decorated. The whole  palace has several gardens and courtyards. The hallways has nice, very big, old doors. And I do love the courtyards with its waterbassins in the middle. 

I thought it was really worth a visit!!

Inside the first garden of the palace

Inside Bahia Palace

 

 

After biking for a while we were at the other side of the Old Medina, we saw the wall again. We went through a bab again. I don't know which one. But on that side were all kinds of small bab's. We went biking along the wall again. We had a great time. My brother took pictures of me while biking with the camera on his shoulder, I didn't thought he had me on the picture.....but he had, all of them were good!! I almost had a stomachache from laughing!!!

Laughing my heart out!!