Location :

Quiet residential area in the Sidi bin Slimane area, near Bab Taghzout. 15 minutes from Place Jma el Fna and the suqs (markets).

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Directions for Riad Ariha in Marrakech

As the riad is situated in the medina (old city), it is easier to find your way by simply asking for the general area in which the riad is situated—Sidi bin Slimane, which is between Riad Larouss and Bab Taghzout. Ask for the parking at Bab Taghzout and the masjid Nasser (the mosque) at Sidi bin Slimane, which is essentially the same place.

Follow the signs for our riad, Riad Ariha, or for La Maison Nomade, which is in the same street as us.

A taxi would then drop you off at an open space with stores and a mosque on the right-hand side, and a school on the left-hand side. This open space narrows into a road. With the mosque on your right take this road and walk straight ahead. It opens out into another square—there are orange walls in front of you and a mosque with wall fountain to your left. (You will also see signs on the wall for Riad Amina, Bab Janna and La Maison Nomade). Take the right-hand lane where the stores are. If you look up, you will see an arch with an open window and green mosaic tiles. At the end of this street, turn left. Straight ahead of you is a mosque with a mosaic-tiled wall, the road zig-zags towards the right, go under an arch, keep to the right and walk straight ahead. You will go past some small stores, a téléboutique on your right, then a wall fountain on the left from which people fetch water. On your right is the restaurant Dar Zellij with a large black door. Keep going straight and turn right about 50 yards on. Walk a little way, then the road turns left 90º under a covered archway. Keep going straight until you're out of the covered archway and you see another open arch ahead of you with a sign for La Maison Nomade and a corner house with dark yellow walls. Turn left here which is Derb Ahmed el Borj. Ours is the first door on the right, number 90.

It should take about 5 minutes by foot.

If ever you are not sure of the way, just ask people for Sidi bin Slimane or Bab Taghzout. (pronounced: Ta'zut—the ' being a kind of gurgling with your tonsils)

Tel.: 024 37 58 50

Cell phone 073 784 678

Views on your way to the riad from the parking, Bab Taghzout

Taxi stop— Nasser mosque

Parking-go straight ahead

Go straight, under the arch

Turn left into this street, see mosaic wall ahead

Road zigzags, keep right

Keep going straight through the arch, turn right at the bottom,

into this street. You will turn left, and walk straight ahead

going through this alleyway

to come out here. Turn left into the small alley before the arch.

You're there. First house on the right

90 Derb Ahmed el Borj

 

 

These photos are views from the riad towards Sidi bin Slimane.

 

You turn right into this lane leaving Riad Ariha, turn right again at bottom

into this lane. Turn left here

Go straight ahead

Turn right after the mosque

Move through this open area to street ahead slightly left

Road back to parking

Just before the open area where the mosque is (on your left)
and the school (on your right).