The easiest way to call within Morocco or abroad is to use a public phone booth (cabine), which takes a phonecard (télécarte) issued by Maroc Télécom. The cards are available from some news agents and tabacs, and from post offices, and come in denomi­nations of 18dh, 30dh, 60dh and 99dh – the higher denomination cards give you more units per dirham. Card phones are now wide­spread throughout the country, and you can usually find a number of them by a town’s main post office if nowhere else. Unfortunately, they are not very well main­tained, and often don’t work. Not…

Mail

To mail letters between Morocco and Western Europe generally takes around a week to ten days, around two weeks for North America or Australia. There are postboxes at every post office (PTT aka La Poste) and on the wayside; they seem to get emptied fairly effi­ciently, even in out-of-the-way places.

Stamps can sometimes be bought along­ side postcards, or from some tabacs as well as at the PTI, where there is often…