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Photographs from real tours.

Every picture here was taken on a tour, by Adil or by the people he was guiding. Nothing is bought from an agency and nothing is staged.

Every photograph on this page was taken during a tour, by Adil or by the people he was guiding. None comes from a stock library, apart from a few excursion landscapes marked as such. That is deliberate: you see the places as they are on an ordinary day, with the real light and the real crowds, rather than a retouched version.

You will find the medina and its lanes, the palaces and medersas, street food and Jemaa el-Fna after dark, the souks and their craftsmen, then the south: Agafay, the Atlas, Ourika, Ouzoud, Ait Ben Haddou and the dunes of Merzouga. The faces that recur belong to travellers who agreed to be photographed.

If you are planning a trip, these images are most useful for judging the atmosphere and the season. The green of the valleys is spring, the low light on the dunes is sunrise and sunset, and the crowd on the square is nightfall.

Adil walking with guests through a covered souk
Adil talking to a student group under a painted ceiling
Adil with three guests in front of the Koutoubia
Adil and a group over coffee on a Marrakech terrace
Adil with two guests at the brass door of a riad
Adil with a family and their baby at their riad
Adil, wearing his official guide badge, with a guest
Adil explaining a monument to a small group
A family with two children at a tea table in the souk
Adil walking a group through the Bahia Palace
A student group with Adil in the courtyard of the Bahia Palace
A group with Adil at the end of an evening walk
Adil and guests with the snake charmers on Jemaa el-Fna
Brass lanterns hanging in an archway of the souks
Adil and a guest at a babouche stall in the souks
A narrow pink alley in the old medina of Marrakech
The Koutoubia minaret lit at dusk above the crowds, Marrakech
The Koutoubia minaret against a golden sunset
The carved courtyard of the Ben Youssef Medersa in Marrakech
A painted cedar ceiling in a Marrakech palace
A tiled courtyard path at the Bahia Palace
The ruins of El Badi Palace reflected in its pool
Coloured light from a stained glass window on a zellige floor
Adil, government-certified guide, in a doorway in Marrakech
Adil with a woman baking bread over a wood fire
Adil and a guest at a Marrakech coffee house
Guests sharing slow-roast lamb in the medina
Adil and a guest eating tanjia at a street table
Adil with two guests over coffee at Dar el Bacha
Harira, chebakia and Moroccan pastries on a table
The earthen Taourirt kasbah at Ouarzazate
A film set at the Atlas studios in Ouarzazate
The desert camp, white tents and carpets
Tables set in the river itself, in the Ourika valley
The top of the Ouzoud waterfalls, between olive trees and red rock
A lone camel train crossing the Agafay desert, the snow-capped Atlas behind
The earthen ksar of Aït Ben Haddou rising above the palm trees
A camel train crossing the dunes of Erg Chebbi at sunset
Excursions from MarrakechAgafay, the Atlas, Essaouira, Ouzoud and four more, in a day. Morocco toursMarrakech to Merzouga and Fès, in 3, 4 or 5 days. Talk to AdilWhatsApp, email or phone. He usually answers the same day.

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