Group of unrecognizable fishermen in casual clothes standing on wooden pier near various old boats before catching fish in sea on cloudy day
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Follow the smell of charcoal and the gull-cry to the working port, just past the medina's sea gate — this is where Essaouira earns its fish-town name, not on the postcards. Blue wooden boats jostle at the quayside, nets are hauled and mended in the open, and open-air grills cook the morning's catch to order; the blue-and-chaos of it is the photograph most travellers miss. Come hungry, come mid-morning when the boats land, come ready to point at your fish rather than read a menu. Morocco feeds its coast on its own water, and nowhere shows that hand-to-mouth chain more plainly than this harbour.
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