Surviving the Souks

10 essentials haggling your way through the Marrakesh madness

It’s not about what you buy, but about how you buy it!

The moment we step into the Moroccan culture, we leave our habits and unwritten rules. These unwritten rules, make life ‘easy and normal’ for us at home. Call it your hold on to when life gets mm…kind of unpredictable.
‘NORMAL’ is the word we LOVE to use in this context.

As the ‘normal’, we easily refer to our own cultural etiquette in interacting. Often we forget that here, the norm is the Arab and Berber business etiquette and this has not much in common with our own.

It’s a fascinating and totally different way!

Stress and feeling cheated on are emotions that many visitors experience.
A lost trust might be an inevitable consequence of this. You might think that every issue in the souk is a personal one.