Places to stay in Morocco

Marrakech is a city in the grip of a delirious imagination. A feverish dreamscape of honeycombed alleys and minarets quivering in the moonlight...... more>>

Caught on a relentless wave, you are carried through slithers of alley-way, dodging donkeys and ducking under enormous baskets of mint as they...... more>>

With its majestic gold, pink and orange tinted circuit of high walls, Taroudant is half citadel and half oasis. It is a town of great charm and...... more>>

Pronounced Weer-gan, Ouirgane is located at the foothills of the Atlas mountains (about 90 minutes drive from Marrakech) with a gentle winter...... more>>

The village / community of Asni is a cluster of small Berber villages and farms in a fertile valley at the foot of the High Atlas mountains.

Casablanca is often called the "United States of Morocco" as if a thousand years of history had been brushed aside to let through a modern city....... more>>

The Dades is called the Country of the Figs to distinguish it from the drier Draa, the country of the Dates.

The Dades Valley is like...... more>>

El Jadida, sixty-three miles south of Casablanca, was held by the Portuguese for 250 years commencing in the 16th century - they called it...... more>>

The road connecting Zagora with Erfoud (about 4-5 hours drive via the oasis towns of Alnif, Tazzarine and Nkob) enables travellers to complete...... more>>

The word Essaouira means image. Observed from any angle, Essaouira is a perfect photograph. Behind its purple ramparts and inside its...... more>>

Imlil is a quiet berber village on the road from Marrakech to Taroudant, via the Tizi-n-Test pass.

Forty-two miles from the bright lights of Agadir high in the hills (alt 3,600 ft) where the High Atlas meets the sea. The drive from Agadir is,...... more>>

The Souss Massa

The Souss Massa National Park opened in 1991 and is probably the most important birdwatching site in Morocco. It...... more>>

A wonderful place to use as a base to visit the dunes or start your camel trek.

Midelt is a small town in the Middle Atlas roughly midway between Fes and Errachidia and makes a convenient place to break the journey. The view...... more>>

Pronounced 'Walidia', this is a charming little coastal village situated between El Jadida and Safi.

The village is spread around the...... more>>

Ouarzazate (pronounced War-za-zat) is the goal of travellers looking for the different and more audacious kind of holiday. You will not be...... more>>

Pirate stronghold, breakaway republic, Imperial City and today's capital, Rabat has worn many cloaks during its 700 year history. Poised above...... more>>

Skoura is a small town in forests of palm trees 35km east of Ouarzazate, in the location of the Dades, Todra and Draa valleys.

A visit to Tafraout is stimulated, not by its peripheral history or indeed by its buildings but by its natural phenomena. The oasis of Tafraoute...... more>>

The Valley of the Kasbahs

The road from Ouarzazate passes directly between hundreds of kasbahs that line the Dades Valley and...... more>>

Created by Sultan Moulay Hassan in the middle of the 19th century to stabilize the dissident South, Tiznit established a reputation by settling...... more>>

The Draa is known as the Country of the Dates, in comparison to the damper Dades - the Country of the Figs.

Rising in the High Atlas,...... more>>

Mirleft is a small village to the south of Tiznit near the Atlantic coast.

There is an oasis and a ruined fort nearby. A small market is...... more>>

Tabant is near Azilal in the Bougmez Valley in the Middle Atlas mountains, 4 hours from Marrakech.

The region offers wonderful scenery,...... more>>

The Valley of Ourika is only 30 min away from Marakech Medina; rising gently up to the preliminary hills of the High Atlas where small villages...... more>>