Archive for Morocco Cities

• Marrakesh

  Marrakesh – Known as being a pleasure city, a place where all people come to buy and sell and find entertainment. Marrakesh is a city of enormous beauty and excitement. Djemaa El Fna, an open space in the centre of the city, a place where circles of onlookers gather round groups of drummers, acrob...

• Tafraoute

  TAFRAOUTE stands at the edge of a rambling palmery - quite unexpected after a rather barren approach over the last few kilometers from both Tiznit and Agadir. It is a small place, created as an administrative center by the French, and little expanded since, as Tafraoutis prefer to stick to their ...

• Sidi Ifni

  SIDI IFNI is uniquely interesting: a town that was relinquished by Spain only in 1969, after the Moroccan government closed off landward access to the colonial enclave. More than thirty years on, it still preserves an outpost air and can seem rather wonderful. Built in the 1930s, on a cliff top site...

• Mirhleft

  Heading south from Tiznit to Guelimim, you have a choice of routes: a fast inland road across scrubby desert via Bou Izakarn, where the road to Ifrane de l' Anti-Atlas and the Tata oasis heads off east into the Anti­ Atlas; or a more circuitous journey along the coast, by way of the splendid old Sp...

• Guelmim

  GOULIMINE (also spelled Guelmim or Gulimime) sounds pretty exciting in the brochures: "The Gateway to the Sahara", with its nomadic "blue men" and traditional camel market. The truth, sadly, it is considerably mundane. Goulimine is actually a fairly standard administrative town with a distinctly fro...