It has a dry mediterranean climate with an average yearly temperature of 19,2º, between 11,6º in January and 27,6º in July. There is rarely any ice but there is an abundancy of high temperaturesin the summer, many times goes over 40º.

If you are going to travel to Morocco, Marrakech is not to be missed, as it's impossible to know the true essence of Morocco without visiting one of its most historia Cities. Marrakech was founded in 1062 by Youssef Ibn Tachfin, the chief of the Almoravides who set up his tent in this place and planted a palm tree where the future city would be built. It became one of the most importante cities of Medieval Islam. It even gave its name to the Country, Morocco.

But without doubt the heart of Marrakech is the Jemaa el Fna Square a simbol of the identity of this city, where people go to be involved in the frantic comercial and social activities. But if you want to go shopping and haggle, then the zoco of Jemaa el Fna Square is at the entrance of the Medina, there you will be able to find anything you heart desires. If you want to have fun, you can visit the many cafés and tea rooms.

At the markets you'll find everything: snake charmers, street merchants, henna tatoo artists, fruitand every kind of exotic fruit juice. Its possible to visit various monuments: the Saadies tombs (a Saadi dinasty cementery open to the public for the first time in 1917), the Bay Palace (Bay comes from the term bello (beautiful), making reference to the most beautiful concubine of Ba Ahmed), the medina or the Jewish Part of town.

Before leaving don't miss the city walls that change colour during the day depending on the sun light, the Royal Palace and the Al Menara Gardens. Last of all Marrakech has more than 300 mosques, one of the best known ones is the Ben Youseff Mosque.

To submerge yourself in the images, sounds and aromas of Marrakech, you have to enter the twisted passages of the Medina, the old part of the City. Go to Rue Souk Semarine and you will walk amongst scarved ladies, donkeys pulling carts and tiny shops that sell every kind of hand woven materials, decorative mirrors, lamps, wooden boxes, fragrant piel items, ceramic jugs and so many tapestries that they would cover the whole of Alaska. Remember that it's obligatory to haggle and do it like a professional: with an expression of indiferrance, serenity and an ocasional sigh of indignation as you hear the flow of offers.