Emerging from the tranquility of your riad on your first day in Marrakech, little can prepare you for what lies in store. The labyrinth of salmon-pink streets that make up the Medina is a frenzy of sounds, smells, textures and colour. A myriad of scents fill the air from sizzling tagine, cumin, fresh orange and mint, to strangely sour whiffs of unknown origin. You will walk past the most intricately beautiful tiled doorway one moment, and then, a bedraggled donkey cart…
