Dar Zemora: a tour of magical Marrakech

Jon Connell explores from this charming boutique hotel just outside the medina

The pool at Dar Zemora, Marrakech
The pool at Dar Zemora, Marrakech
(Image credit: ©Dar Zemora)

I’m not much of a tourist. Give me a sunny Caribbean beach and a good book and I’m happy. But just for a change (and because my eldest daughter is getting married, meaning we had but little time), we thought we’d go somewhere closer at hand and escaped to Marrakech in Morocco.

It’s an extraordinary, rather bewildering place, right on the edge of the Sahara desert and refreshingly warm after England, yet majestically framed, in the distance, by the snow-covered Atlas mountains glowing in the sun. Sweeping through the wide avenues, you’re struck by how strikingly pink it is, this “Red City”. The pink stone is all around you in the interminable high walls which stretch round the city, and in its many lustrous palaces.

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