Souk Jdid

After our walk through the Medina and the Jewish Quarter, Essaouira surprised us with the Souk Jdid market area. This area contains four markets of different specialities, like meat, fish, spices, cereals and food in general. To our western eyes it was a spectacle of scents, colours, people wearing different styles of clothing. The stalls are on the street. In Essaouira, as in the rest of Morocco, traditional areas do not have the same idea of shops as we do. Life is outside. Windows do not exist. The street is the shop window, almost a movie set. In places like this enjoy mingling among the native