Ouzoud is the highest waterfall in North Africa, and the things to do in Ouzoud are built around one thing: getting to the bottom and back up. The water drops about 110 metres in three stages into a pool you can reach on foot, and there are resident Barbary macaques in the olive trees on...Read More
Ait Ben Haddou is a fortified earthen village on a hillside above a river, UNESCO listed since 1987, and the first of the things to do in Ait Ben Haddou is to climb to the top. The ksar is a cluster of kasbahs behind a single wall, built on the old caravan route between the...Read More
Imlil is a village at 1 740 metres at the end of the road into the High Atlas, and almost all the things to do in Imlil involve walking. It sits at the foot of Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa, and it is the last place a vehicle can reach: everything above it...Read More
Ouarzazate is where the Atlas ends and the desert begins, and the best known things to do in Ouarzazate are the film studios and the kasbahs. Most visitors pass through on the way to the Sahara and see it in an afternoon, which is roughly what it deserves on a first visit. The town itself...Read More
Agafay is a stony desert thirty minutes from Marrakech, and almost all the things to do in Agafay happen in the late afternoon and evening. There are no dunes: it is a landscape of grey hills and dry riverbeds that empties completely at sunset, which is the whole appeal. It works as an evening rather...Read More
Essaouira is a walled fishing port on the Atlantic, three hours west of Marrakech, and most things to do in Essaouira fit inside a morning of walking. The medina is UNESCO listed, the harbour still works, and the wind never stops, which is what makes it bearable in August and cold in January. It is...Read More
Merzouga is a village on the edge of Erg Chebbi, and almost all the things to do in Merzouga happen on or around the dunes. The sand rises to roughly 150 metres, which is what separates it from every other desert in Morocco, and what you do there is dictated by the light: activities happen...Read More
