Marakech Day 3: Pikla Bike Tour - Morocco - CycleBlaze

February 8, 2025

Marakech Day 3: Pikla Bike Tour

We've found that a good way to get oriented to a city and the biking culture is to take a bike tour. We've taken city tours in Cuba and Vietnam and found them to be well worth it. Check out their website-we felt particularly good about using them. There were 6 of us on the tour and our guide took us to a mausoleum, community bakery and tile shop. We also went the the palace which has been described as the Taj Mahal of Morocco. Part of it was being worked on. I found it to be unimpressive.

Bike tour route.
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Bike tour.
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Community bakery.
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People bring their bread here.....
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....to be baked and they pick it up later.
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This was a tile place we went to on the tour. This guy chips out the little squares, arrows, etc that are used in making the tile pieces.
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ON the tour.
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This is the bottom of a hammam where they heat the water. This where tangia (not tajine) was traditionally cooked. Women would bring a clay pot filled with the ingredients to the hammam and leave it in the hot ashes while they were having their bath. When they were done they'd retrieve the pot with the cooked ingredients.
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Pikla bike shop sink-clever faucet design.
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This is the Bahia Palace....
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....palace....
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....where you can see how they use those little tile shapes the guy was making a few photos back.
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More palace. This was not part of the bike tour.
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A rooftop restaurant that had Tanjia the dish traditionally cooked at the hammam.
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Our waiter at this restaurant over looking the square.
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Get your picture taken with a cobra!
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Lots of activity in the square.
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Today's ride: 8 miles (13 km)
Total: 20 miles (32 km)

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