We had many stops in the Marrakech medina or market, but I’ll just post here about the two longest stops that we made. The first was a Herbalist store and it was my favorite visit in the medina. It had spices, dried plants, oils, minerals, lotions, and more. The woman helping us gave us endless smells, dabs, treatments, and advice. We all happily made purchases here.

The second longest visit was to a slipper/shoe store. I made the mistake of saying, “Sorry but I doubt you have anything in size 15.” They did. It took me a long time to try them on and in their measure, I’m a size 49. Yikes! The slippers felt odd to me though, so I didn’t buy any, much to their disappointment.

The first photo is the Herbalist store. You can see Vicky in the center paying for our purchases.

We were taken up two flights of stairs and given a room all to ourselves. The entire store was full of all sorts of containers, bottles, baskets, cans, spray bottles, and everything else.

This was our own Herbalist. She must have had us try a sizeable percentage of everything they sold. She would say what it was, explain what it did, dab a little on our wrist, give us a smell, or somewhere else. She even had a helper and one of our fellow travelers said her leg was sore and kazam, he had her leg up giving her some herbalist treatment.

The fourth photo is a slipper or shoemaker hard at work in the shoe/slipper store. There were many of these workers spread all around the store.

The last photo shows a very small sample of the slippers for sale. They also had all sorts of other shoes and related goods.