Morocco is a sensory overload. The North-African nation that reaches from the Atlantic and Mediterranean through the High Atlas Mountains to the edge of the Sahara and throughout, it’s a country that floods all five senses with unique stimuli.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Marrakech’s main square Djemaa El-Fna. It’s a microcosm of the nation where dancers and musicians are bathed in the smoke from nearby food vendors who sell anything that can be consumed by human beings and some things that probably shouldn’t be. Snake charmers and monkey handlers drape you with living beasts you might not be ready to have clinging to you. Story tellers tell tales next to open-air dentists who can fix you up if you’ve fared poorly after renting boxing gloves and going toe to toe with a stranger. Surrounding all this is a maze of Islamic architecture housing souks, hammams, riads and mosques.

Djemaa El-Fna is the most concentrated burst of Moroccan culture, but the rest of the country follows it lead with similar sights, sounds and experiences.

This gallery is only one part of my photos from Morocco. Make sure you check out Part 2 of my Morocco images here. And for even more images from Morocco, have a look at my sandscapes from Zagora.