The Atlantic Coast (Casablanca & Rabat)2 places
- EssaouiraThe antidote to Marrakech: a small blue-and-white walled port on the Atlantic where the medina is laid out on a grid…
- RabatMorocco's calm, walkable capital on the Atlantic, where a blue-and-white cliff-top kasbah, an unfinished medieval…
Fès & Meknès (the imperial cities)2 places
- FèsThe best-preserved medieval city in the Arab world, a vast walled medina of thousands of tangled car-free lanes where…
- Volubilis & MeknèsThe best-preserved Roman ruins in Morocco, a whole provincial city of arches, columns, and intact floor mosaics…
Marrakech & the High Atlas2 places
- The High Atlas & ToubkalA wall of high mountains just south of Marrakech, home to Berber villages of flat-roofed houses on terraced slopes and…
- MarrakechThe great red city at the foot of the Atlas, where a huge open square erupts each night into a carnival of food stalls…
The South (Souss, the Drâa & the film desert)2 places
- Aït Benhaddou & the Desert RoadA fortified village of red-earth towers rising in tiers above a river on the old caravan road to the Sahara, so…
- Merzouga & Erg ChebbiThe Sahara as everyone pictures it: a single wall of orange dune rising 150 metres out of flat stony desert, going soft…
The North & the Rif (Chefchaouen)1 place
- ChefchaouenA small mountain town in the Rif whose old medina is painted almost entirely in shades of blue, lane after lane of…