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The dazzling nature of southern Morocco Turn inland, away from the sea, and allow the towns of Midelt, Errachidia and Merzouga to show you another side of Morocco. Their stunning panoramas unfurl between the summits of the Middle Atlas and the infinite expanse of the Sahara.     Midelt and Errachidia are mountain towns. Varying...Read More

Fossil of Morocco During the Devonian period, the Paleozoic Era, about 380 million years ago, the Moroccan Sahara (Rissani) was a floor of a large prehistoric ocean, the first proto-Tethys Sea Mediterranean. Because of different natural factors , fish, plants and other ancient marine fossils animals were after the withdrawal of the sea. The lack of...Read More

Marrakech designated African Capital of Culture 2020 23 November 2018 Marrakech Marrakech has just been designated African Capital of Culture 2020, a showcase of today’s urban Africa, highlighting the diversity of African cultural expressions, announced on Friday in Marrakech, the Mayor of the ochre city, Mohamed Larbi Belcaid.     In 2020, Marrakech, this thousand-year-old city doubly inscribed...Read More

Tbourida   Or Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and for Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an Orientalist name from the French, the actual traditional term derived from the Arabic word baroud, meaning gunpowder. It is present in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mali, Niger, and Mauritania.     The performance consists of a group...Read More

THE SAND BATH, WHAT IS IT?   In Merzouga, as in many areas of the Moroccan desert, the sand bath, also known as psammatotherapy, or sand otherapy, is a practice of alternative medicine adopted by many people affected by rheumatism. The sandbath takes its name simply from the method of practice itself, consisting of burying...Read More

TANGIER Most of Morocco’s cities have storied histories, but few have carried such a libertine reputation as the ancient port of Tangier Tangier is a great city for myths. Classical mythology has it as the home of the Pillars of Hercules that marked the end of the known world, beyond which lay the sunken city...Read More

The beach and the Berbers, the medinas and the mosques, the souks and the dunes … The variety of Morocco and its exotic atmosphere already fascinated the travelers well before the arrival of the modern traveler.   Affordable and a short ferry ride from Spain, the blend of tradition and modernity of Morocco reaches a...Read More

Road of the thousand Kasbahs The road of the thousand Kasbahs is currently one of the main attractions of Morocco. It’s integrated, indeed, by more than a thousand of these monuments. However, most travelers roaming the area only get to see half a dozen of them, the most famous, those that are in all the brochures. The...Read More

Morocco Meeting Point Morocco is an ancient country with a strong sense of culture. Though the ancient culture of Morocco has influenced its people for centuries, it is diverse and seems to have been derived from several other ancient cultures. If you would like to know more about the history, developments and influences of this country’s unusual culture,...Read More

Meknes Is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, located in northern central Morocco and the sixth largest city by population in the kingdom. Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement. Meknes became capital of Morocco under the reign of Sultan Moulay Ismaïl (1672–1727), son of the founder of the Alaouite dynasty. Sultan Moulay Ismaïl turned Meknes into an impressive...Read More