Places to Go in Morocco - Places of Interest

Morocco

Berber Culture
The Berbers are the indigenous people of Morocco. During the Arab conquest they retreated into their mountain strongholds and took refuge in the inhospitable deserts of the south. This is where their culture persists, based around fortified dwellings; a strong sense of community and an ability to cope with almost any hardship.
Berber Culture
Desert
The Sahara washes into Morocco at its western extremities, and the Erg Chebbi sand sea is the best place to see this. Passing first through dramatic ridges of blackened rock, the going becomes sandier and sandier, until you're eventually confronted with towering dunes and the best sunsets in Morocco.
Desert
Kasbahs
A kasbah is a fortified village, made from traditional pisé, or mud brick. Their distinctive towers, with ornate windows, are a dominant feature of the Moroccan landscape, none more so than along the Dades and Draa Valleys in the south: some have been converted into hotels, so you can even spend the night in your very own kasbah.
Kasbahs
Medinas
At the heart of any old Moroccan city will be the medina, the vital core encircled by walls punctuated by ornamental gates. It's in the medina that you'll nearly always find the souqs, and there will probably be a number of old palaces too: some of these are now hotels, some are museums, while others are abandoned and decaying gracefully.
Medinas
Mountains
The High Atlas are home to Jebel Toubkal, at over 4,100m the highest mountain in north Africa and a challenging climb. But the Atlas mountains also offer gentler hikes, perfect just to appreciate the scenery, the cool, clean air, and to enjoy Berber hospitality in remote villages.
Mountains
Souqs & Shopping
The souqs of Marrakesh are the most famous in the country, but almost every town has its souq. Those of Fez seem endless and labyrinthine, whilst those in Taroudant are much more compact and sell the simple goods that the local, rural population need. It's unlikely you'll escape from Morocco without doing a bit of shopping at some point!
Souqs & Shopping

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Asilah
Casablanca
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Essaouira
Fez
Marrakesh
Meknes & Voloubilis
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Ourika Valley
Ourzazate
Rabat
Skoura
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The Draa Valley
The Erg Chebbi
The Sous Massa National Park
The Southern Oases Valleys
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- Fez
- The city of Fez has always occupied a place at the spiritual and political heart of Morocco. Founded in the ninth century, many of the early settlers were Islamic refugees, fleeing neighbouring Spain and Tunisia.
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- Marrakesh is a fabled city and one of the most evocative names in African travel. Today it is the medina that defines the city, a sprawling lattice of narrow alleyways resounding to the manufacture and sale of countless goods.
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- Meknes & Voloubilis
- Meknes is only a short distance from Fez and was developed into a dramatic city by Sultan Moulay Ismail, the remains of which can still be seen. Nearby at Voloubilis are the remains of one of the Roman Empire’s key Moroccan cities.
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- Oued Mellah
- The Oued Mellah, which translates as Salt River, runs through the High Atlas from Marrakesh, providing the easiest route to the oases and valleys of the south. It was traditionally one of the principal trade routes.
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- Ourzazate
- Ouarzazate is a great base and staging post for exploration of the kasbahs, valleys and desert of the south, and possesses a couple of interesting kasbahs itself.
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- Rabat
- Rabat, the capital of Morocco, shows two distinct faces existing side-by-side. There is the modern, French-inspired town, with wide tree-lined boulevards, cafes and bistros, and there is historic Rabat, centred on the 12th century walled medina of the Almohad sultans.
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- Skoura
- Skoura lies astride the route from Ouarzazate to the Sahara. Here palm plantations are criss-crossed by paths that run by crumbling pisé walls up to kasbahs in equally ruinous condition. The whole effect is quite beautiful.
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- Tangiers
- For many years, Tangiers enjoyed the status of an International Free Zone, free from normal rule, which helped create a raffish and cosmopolitan society. Something of this spirit lingers and life in Tangiers perhaps has more of an edge than anywhere else in Morocco.
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- Taroudant
- Taroudant is a wonderful little Berber town, completely encircled in ochre ramparts that cradle good traditional souqs trading with a gentle parochial air.
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- The Anti Atlas
- The Anti Atlas is the hub of all commerce in Morocco’s grocery trade: banana and orange groves flourish amongst the extensive vegetable crops. The landscape is dominated by vast granite rock formations, and palm plantations line valley floors.
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- The Atlas Mountains
- The Atlas Mountains are in fact three distinct ranges that divide the interior of the country into strips of lower lying land: the Middle Atlas, Anti-Atlas and High Atlas.
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- Ourika Valley
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- The Erg Chebbi
- The Erg Chebbi are the most accessible dunes of the Sahara in Morocco and the best time to see them is at sunrise and sunset when the changing light subtly alters their colour.
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- The Sous Massa National Park
- Just 40 kilometres south of Agadir, the sandbars, ponds and reedbeds of the Sous-Massa National Park provide perhaps the most important habitat in Morocco for birdlife.
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- The Southern Oases Valleys
- Stretching south and east from Ouarzazate, the Southern Oases Valleys are arguably the most beautiful area of the country. Towering gorges, steep canyon sides, verdant palm plantations and crumbling kasbahs dominate the landscape.
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- The Dades Valley
- The Dades Valley is the principal route between the desert and the ancient trading oases of the Tifilalt. At its eastern end, the valley joins that of the Ziz, where towering palms threaten to spill over canyon lips hundreds of feet above.
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- The Draa Valley
- Heading south-east from Ouarzazate, you cross the Jebel Sarhro massif into the Draa Valley, a wider, less rugged river course. The broad gravel plains of the river bed are planted with palms stretching as far as the eye can see, protected by a network of pisé walls and kasbahs.
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- Zagora
- Dating from French Colonial times, when it was set up as an administrative post in the Sahara, the town of Zagora is a great base from which to explore the surrounding palm groves and Kasbahs.
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