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Tours of the City Walking Tours It is only necessary to step outside a hotel to find a ‘guide’, offering to escort visitors around the city, for a fee. While it can be useful to have someone with local knowledge when first venturing out, it can be a hit and miss affair. As always, a fee should be negotiated in advance and visitors should be particularly cautious in the souks, as many guides have commission arrangements with shops and these will be the ones you will be ‘guided’ to. Official guides can be hired at a cost of around Dh150 for a morning from any hotel or from the tourist office but even these guides often have a commission arrangement. Other Tours Details of organised tours to destinations outside Marrakech can be found at the tourist office. For tours of the city and day excursions, grand taxis can be chartered for around Dh200 a day. Visitors can find grand taxis for hire at the ranks in Guéliz by the Post Office or at Jemaa El Fna. It is also possible to hire a calèche for a tour of the town. For both modes of transport, the price should be negotiated in advance. Travel Link, 19 Rue Mauritania, Guéliz (tel: (04) 444 8797; fax: (04) 444 8839; e-mail: nait@travellink.ma; website: www.travellink.co.ma), offers hot air ballooning just outside the city (30 minutes; Dh2500 for one to two people) and helicopter tours of the ramparts and High Atlas (30 minutes; Dh3500 for two to three people). There is also a growing market in more adventurous excursions, such as 4x4 safaris, Atlas trekking, hunting, fishing, and whitewater rafting in the High Atlas mountains. Operators include Voyage Voyages, 194/7 Résidence Firdaous, rue Mohamed El Baqal 15, Guéliz (tel: (04) 442 0667; fax: (04) 443 0310; e-mail: voyagevoyages@iam.net.ma; website: www.voyagevoyages.com). |
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