CAFE, SANDWICHESSOUVENIRSSOUVENIRSmenu Dh80-100) Do not adjust your GPS: there’s authentic wood-fired pizza here, including a
pizza margherita with local anchovies, olives and oregano. If you can wait 15 minutes longer,
order the stellar madfouna : a dough pocket stuffed with minced onions and herb-spiked lamb,
baked until puffy and golden.
Hotel-Restaurant Benhama $
( 0661 82 64 57; Ave Moulay Ismail; sandwiches Dh20-25) Roast chicken or cheese
sandwiches, hamburgers, fruit smoothies and espresso served at spiffy sidewalk tables on the
main road or inside the glam, air-conditioned lobby-restaurant.
Shopping
Museum of Fossils & Minerals
( 0535 57 68 74; [email protected]; 8am-7pm) Prize fossils in museum display
cases aren’t for sale, but in the boutique you can buy tiny fish frozen in a final flip and ingenious
espresso cups studded with ammonite fossils. It’s 5km along the Rissani road.
Manar Marbre
( 0535 57 81 26; www.manarmarble.com; Rte de Jorf; 8am-6pm) Watch fossilised
marble being cut into prehistoric sinks at this showroom selling some portable items, including
prehistoric bookends and trilobite earrings.
Information
Banque Populaire (Ave Moulay Ismail) and BMCE (Ave Moulay Ismail) have ATMs. Internet
access is available at Internet Moulay el Hassane (Ave Moulay el-Hassan; per hr Dh8;
10am-11pm) .
Getting There & Away
Bus The CTM station ( 0535 57 68 86; Ave Mohammed V) runs buses twice daily to Fez
(Dh135, seven hours) via Er-Rachidia (Dh25, 1¼ hours), Marrakesh (Dh175, 1½ hours),
Meknès (Dh125, 6½ hours) and Rissani (Dh20, 20 minutes).
Supratours and other buses leave from Pl des FAR to Tinerhir (Dh55, twice daily),
Ouarzazate (Dh105, three daily) and Fez (Dh135, three daily).
Taxi Grands taxis and taxi minivans depart Pl des FAR and opposite the post office for
Merzouga (Dh30, one hour), Rissani (Dh7, 20 minutes), Er-Rachidia (Dh20, one hour) and
Tinerhir (Dh60, five hours).
Association Tamounte ( 0535 57 75 23; 5 Ave Moulay Ismail) rents a car and driver for
Dh450 to Dh550 a day, plus the cost of diesel.
Rissani
POP 20,500