There are mixed emotions about this place, and mostly that was because of 1 guy who decided who would be our guide, which I didn't understand at first. About the place. This is a huge market with lots of shops. You can buy here anything you need - 1 big stop shop. This market is behind high walls. There is a 5 minute walk to an old Medina as we were told. I would suggest visiting this place, but preferably with someone who knows the area and who is 100% trustable. The short story happened to us. At the gates before entering my husband and were discussing something about the place in English, said few words in Russian. 1 guy was passing by, and he asked what we were doing, said 2-3 words in Russian, and he spoke good English. He said he has a Shop in this bazar, and was going there, and till the shop he can wall us through and guide is toward old Medina (which was our original goal to see). So he started walking in the 2 steps in front of us, and would stop to wait for us, meanwhile was talking about the place and asking about us a bit. My husband got suspicious, I was trying to calm him by saying the guy is just going to his shop. I had an expensive phone in my hand. I was making some videos and taking some pictures. Farther we walked, shops disappeared, narrow streets started, some suspicious looking locals were sitting on the streets. When I say Narrow street that means 3-4 normal size people can fit if they line up. That's when I got scared. I instantly hid my phone, and took my older phone into my hands in case if we were about to get mugged, at least I was ready to say bye to my older phone. I started panicking. Now I started telling my husband to stop following the guy. We walked some more, we saw shops of another bazar or same bazar from another side. We were relieved. Then again, narrow streets, some locals standing, and our appeared to be guy said that this Old Medina started. It was just narrow streets with hanging from top baskets, lamps and something else. He said we can some pictures and we will go back which we did. So the way back was the same, but at least we knew he was ok guy, but we asked him to take us to shops. We wanted to go to a crowded place. He took us to some shop where they sell arogan oil, we didn't buy. We said our taxi was waiting, just take us back to the gates. He did. Thanks, Allah. He asked for money. We honestly didn't have any dirhams. We had some saved to taxi driver who was with us all day. We had agreed rate with him, and didn't have any spare. So my husband told him that he (the guy) volunteerly started giving us a guided tour we didn't ask for. We thought he was going to his shop. We said we have no money with us, and gave him $5 older looking bill. He seemed to be a little upset, but we just ran to our taxi. That French and Arabic and Zero English speaking taxi driver was the safest guy for us in Casablanca))) we were so happy to see him))))))) We didn't see the place I had in mind to see, but at that moment, whatever we saw was enough for us)))))) So please be very cautious when you go in or bring some whim you trust and know the place. I don't have much media coverage because I was scared most of the time, and photos and videos were taken on 3 different devices. I don't have pics of those narrow streets I was talking about. So here are some of them.

Casablanca, Morocco 🇲🇦