However, there is another Morocco. This is the Morocco of quiet villages, never empty tea pots, and open-armed hospitality. The stranger receives endless invitations to share a meal, attend traditional festivities, and sleep in the simple homes of the Berber people, all within the most striking scenery that the country has to offer. This is the more rewarding Morocco, though it is not as easy to find and most travelers never venture there. Stone and mud settlements and cascading terraced fields line the stream beds of this high, dry, and rocky terrain.
Shepherds traverse the countryside with their flocks.
Women work the fields in kaleidoscope colored dresses, babies slung on their backs. And five times a day, in these places in the middle of nowhere, the air resonates with adulations to Allah. Marrakech The city of Marrakech serves as a good base for forays into these mountain villages, and is a place in itself not to be missed. The life of the central square, the Jma el Fna, fits the image that the word Morocco evokes. As the sun sets, it becomes jammed with food stalls and street entertainers, including snake charmers, medicine men, acrobats, musicians, and storytellers.