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Tazenakht

Eighty-five kilometres north of Foum Zguid is Tazenakht , a handy stop for a quick bite, coffee, petrol and, yes, carpets. The distin...

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Foum Zguid

Traveling  another 30km from Iriki oasis you will find Foum Zguid . Foum Zguid is a strategic military base, so you may be asked to...

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Iriki 'oasis

Exiting Erg Chigaga by 4WD, head north to Ouarzazate or Marrakesh via Foum Zguid. in the road throu...

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Assilah

The gorgeous whitewashed resort town of Assilah feels like somewhere on a Greek island, but...

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Tangier

Always of huge strategic importance at the entrance to the Mediterranean, Tangier is the enthralling gateway to Africa, a tantalisi...

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Tower Hassan

Towering above Oued Bou Regreg, and surrounded by well-tended gardens, is Rabat’s most famous landmark. The Almohads’ most ambitious pr...

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Kasbah des Oudayas

This occupies the oldest part of the city, the site of the original ribat, and commands powerful views over the river and ocean from it...

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Chellah

Abandoned, crumbling and overgrown, the old Roman city of Sala Colonia and the Merenid necropolis of Chellah is one of Rabat’s most...

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Museum of Marrakech

Maybe the rumours are true of a curse on the Mnebhi Palace, now home to Musée de Marrakech. Its low walls and light-filled inner courty...

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Mellah

South of Bahia Palace is the historic home of Marrakesh’s Jewish community. Most Jewish families moved away in the 1960s, but the mell...

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Batha Museum

Housed in a wonderful 19th-century summer palace, converted to a museum in 1916, the Batha Museum houses an excellent collection of tr...

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Artisanal School

Just outside Bab el-Okla is the best artisan centre in northern Morocco. This is a fascinating opportunity to see masters teaching appr...

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Koubbat as-Sufara’

South of Bab el-Mansour lies the mechouar (parade ground), now known as Place Lalla Aouda, where Moulay Ismail...

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Grand Socco

The Grand Socco is the romantic entrance to the medina, a large, sloping, palm-ringed plaza with a central f...

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Medina

The medina is the top attraction of Tangier, a labyrinth of alleyways both commercial and residential, contained by the walls of a 15t...

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Chouwara Tanneries

The Chouwara tanneries are one of the city’s most iconic sights (and smells). Head east or northeast from Place as-Seffarine and take...

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Moulay Idriss Zawiya

Here is the heart of Fez: the mausoleum of the city's founder and the most venerated pilgrimage spot in Moro...

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Kairaouine Mosque

One of Africa’s largest mosques and possibly the oldest university in the world, this mosque complex is the spiritual heart of Fez and ...

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Saadian Tombs

Anyone who says you can’t take it with you hasn’t seen the Saadian Tombs, near the Kasbah Mosque. Saadian Sultan Ahmed al-Mansour ed-D...

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Taourirt Kasbah

Unlike other Glaoui kasbahs, Taourirt escaped ruin by moonlighting as a Hollywood backdrop (Sheltering Sky, Gladiator , Prince of Persi...

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Badi Palace

As 16th-century Sultan Ahmed el-Mansour was paving the Badi Palace, near Pl des Ferblantiers, with gold, turquoise and crystal, his co...

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Koutoubia Mosque

Five times a day, one voice rises above the Djemaa din in the adhan ( call to prayer): that’s the muezzin calling the faithful from at...

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Ksar Char-Bagh Hammam

A trip to this spectacular subterranean red-marble hammam is almost eerily like rebirth. Re-entry to the world is eased with scented ...

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Maison Tiskiwin

Travel to Timbuktu and back again via Dutch anthropologist Bert Flint’s art collection, displayed at Maison Tiskiwin. Each room repre...

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Mouassine Fountain

The medina had 80 fountains at the start of the 20th century, and each neighbourhood had its own for water for cooking, public baths, ...

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Agadir city

Agadir feels unlike anywhere else in Morocco. A busy port and beach resort sprawling beneath its kasbah, the city was completely r...

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Île de Mogador

Just off the coast to the southwest is the Île de Mogador, which has some interesting structures. It's actually two islands and s...

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Medina of Essaouira

Essaouira’s walled medina was added to Unesco’s World Heritage list in 2001. Its well-preserved, late-18th-century fortified layout is...

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Essaouira Ramparts

The views from the ramparts and the ramparts it self are very good. Its interesting to find a little out about t...

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Majorelle Garden

The Majorelle Garden is a twelve-acre botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakech. It was designed by the exp...

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Bahia palace

The Bahia Palace is a palace and a set of gardens located in Marrakech. It was built in the late 19th century, inten...

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Menara gardens

The Menara gardens are gardens located to the west of Marrakech, at the gates of the Atlas mountains. They were bu...

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Jemaa el Fna

Jamaa el Fna is a square and market place in Marrakesh's medina quarter (old city). It remains the main square...

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Ancient Medina of Fes

  As the capital for his newly acquired empire, Idris ibn Abdallah chose to build a new town on the right bank of the Fes river in 78...

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Zagora

is a town in the valley of the Draa River in Souss-Massa-Drâa, southeastern Morocco.  It is flanked by the moun...

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Chefchaouen City

Chefchaouen is situated in the Rif Mountains, just inland from Tangier and Tetouan. The city was founded in 147...

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Dades Valley

Dades Valley,  it's in Dadès River and lies between the Atlas Mountains and Anti-Atlas mountain range. B...

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Fes City

The name of the city is taken from the word Fazaz , the old Berber name for the Middle Atlas mountains near the...

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