How to Plan a Morocco Trip ? Planning a Morocco trip well is the single most important thing you can do to make it extraordinary rather than merely good. The country is vast — the size of France — and infinitely varied: ancient medinas, Atlantic beaches, Sahara dunes, mountain villages, Roman ruins, coastal fishing ports,...Read More
Let’s start with the thing everyone wants to know and nobody says clearly enough: Marrakech in summer is hot. Genuinely, seriously, life-reorganisingly hot. July and August temperatures regularly reach 38–42°C (100–108°F) in the afternoon, and the sun in the medina — bouncing off pale stone walls into narrow alleys with no shade — feels fiercer...Read More
Taxis in Morocco are one of those topics that every traveller eventually Googles at 11pm in a Marrakech medina, phone in one hand and a driver asking for three times the correct price on the other. The system is not complicated once you understand it — but it is different enough from what most visitors...Read More
Morocco Backpacking will surprise you. It almost always does. You arrive expecting a budget destination that requires constant vigilance, constant negotiation, and constant management of the gap between what you read online and what you find on the ground — and then something happens, usually on the second or third day, when the walls come...Read More
Merzouga vs MHamid, this is the question that every traveller who has done their research eventually arrives at. You have seen the photographs — the towering orange dunes, the camel silhouette at sunset, the vast silence of the Sahara — and you have discovered that Morocco has not one great desert destination but two. Merzouga,...Read More
There is something quietly profound about visiting a country where your faith is not an afterthought — where the call to prayer echoes across the medina five times a day, where every restaurant menu begins with Bismillah, where the question “is this halal?” is met with a look of gentle surprise that you felt the...Read More
How to Book a Desert Tour in Morocco: standing at the base of the Erg Chebbi dunes at dusk, watching the light turn the sand from amber to deep crimson, hearing nothing except wind, you understand exactly why people come so far for this. The Sahara desert in Morocco is not just a tourist attraction....Read More
Morocco receives more solo travelers than almost any country in Africa and the Mediterranean — and has for decades. The ancient medinas of Fes and Marrakech, the Sahara desert, the blue alleys of Chefchaouen, the windswept Atlantic coast of Essaouira: these are precisely the kind of deeply atmospheric, visually extraordinary places that draw people to...Read More
Morocco is one of the most diverse countries on earth to pack for. In a single 7-day trip, you might walk the medieval stone lanes of Fes in the morning, cross a 2,260-metre mountain pass in the afternoon, spend a night in a Sahara desert camp under stars so thick they look like spilled salt,...Read More
There is a specific moment on a Morocco road trip that happens to almost everyone, usually somewhere between the Tizi n’Tichka Pass and the first glimpse of pre-Saharan desert: you realise that no photograph you have seen of this country — and you have seen many — came close to preparing you for the actual...Read More
