A DAY AT DJEMA EL FNAA
7:00 am At Mic Mac Bakery (1) (by the Post Office) or at the many cafes in the Bab Agnaou Street (2) (a pedestrian street) you can have an early breakfast. If you wanna see the square awakening from a terrace, go to the Cafe Glacier (3).
9:00 am The first performers arrive: fortune tellers, orange juice sellers, henna women... Cross the Square to the Argana Cafe (4) and have a mint tea at the terrace. Buy a newspaper in the newsstand close to the CTM Hotel (5).
10:00 am Enter the Municipal Market (6) to see the rush in this moroccan food market, buy some oranges (real cheap).
11-13:00 Have an orange juice at one of the many stalls around (2,50 Dh). Wander around the souks, entering via the Souk Semmarine Street (7), the main long covered street of the the souks. If you get los (you will!), ask for the Djema el Fnaa Square, or just take a taxi back...
13:30 Lunch at a terrace (shade required), for instance in Cafe de France (8) or at the Residence de la Place(9), witha nice view of the Square at noon.
15-18:00 Back to the souks, bargain and wander.
18:30 Take a ride in a Horse-drawn carriage (10) now that the sun is down. 80 Dh for 1 hour, 50 Dh for 1/2 hour, 30 Dh for a quick ride.
19:00 The sunset is one of the main shows in Djema el Fnaa. The terraces (Cafe Glacier, Argana, Cafe de France...) get really crowded at 19, so go there in advance to take a place. The main performers start moving around, the square gets at its best!!
20:00 The many food stalls (11) in the center of the square are a wonderful animated place for dinner or, if you don't dare, just to walk around and have a look at the many different foods served there. Smoke and lights all around.
21:00 to midnightWalk around the square, look at the performers, bargain with the berbers that come to seel their goods at night. Relax and have a Mint Tea at one of the terraces, enjoy the show!!
You can take a look at some pics & portraits at the travelogue

Unlike any place I've ever been in my life. It has it's nerve-wracking points and it's amazing higlights. It's definietely an experience and a lot of fun! There are very interesting people, art, food and shopping at the markets. Of course, the bartaring is the most unnerving, but if you get use to the negotiating salesmen, it's kind of fun. Must be safe, however. Especially if you are a woman traveler. It's safer to have a male companion with you, but if not, just be on guard. And tank-tops and shorts in the market are a no! Other than that, have fun and enjoy all it has to offer! It's great! And get a henna tattoo, it's pretty cool.

Djemma al Fna is the wonderland heart of Marrakech, a plaza with many faces. From early morning orange juice sellers, to afternoon snake charmers and henna ladies, to evening food stalls and nighttime storytellers, this ever shifting square is a carnival ofsights, sounds and smells at any time of day!

This is one of the liveliest main squares I have ever seen. If you're in Marrakech for more than 1 day try to pass by here on different times of the day, different times, different things to see. Always very athmosperically

very good place with always animations (serpents charmer; horses...) lot of choice of typical marocan products always remember that you have to negociate the price to pay less and because it s fun