Beating heart of Marrakech, the sprawling ‘square’ of Jemaâ el Fna is both the city’s greatest tourist draw and still a genuine social hub for the Marrakchis. On a médina map, Jemaâ el Fna, aka ‘la Place’ figures as an irregular space in the middle of the .... Click Here for More The great museum-palaces of Marrakech lie south of Jemaâ el Fna. With its wider, straighter streets, this area is easier to negotiate than the labyrinthine northern médina. From ‘la place’, Riad Zitoun el Kedim leads down to a confusing junction and the Place des Ferblantiers .... Click Here for More Marrakech médina’s other half is the commercial district of Guéliz. The main artery, the Avenue Mohammed V, is lined with arcades housing banks, travel agencies and shops for the chic. Though the villas are gradually being demolished, only to be replaced by rusty rose-coloured hot .... Click Here for More This involves a trip into a part of the High Atlas less frequented by visitors. You can see a working town on the Haouz Plain at Tamesloht, then head for Amizmiz, where there are some good short walks in the foothills behind the village. If you have time, and own car, take the winding mountain r .... Click Here for More The most visited area of the High Atlas, popular with trekkers and day-trippers alike. An insight into the life of the once-isolated Amazigh communities, and an opportunity for short walks or even to climb North Africa’s highest mountain, the Jebel Toubkal. Sights Click Here for MoreOurika Valley .... Click Here for More Tizi n Tichka route Of the two mountain routes over the High Atlas to the southern side of the mountains, the P31 from Marrakech to Ouarzazate, and its Tizi-n-Tichka pass, is the larger road and safer option. Completed in 1936 by the Foreign Legion, the P31 gives stunning views. It runs through the full range of At .... Click Here for More An eagle’s nest of a place, high in the mountains, Telouet is something of a legend. It has one of the most spectacular kasbahs in the Atlas, megalomaniac and decaying. The bloodstained history of the dynasty which built it is recounted in Gavin Maxwell’s Lords of the Atlas . Today, Te .... Click Here for More Essaouira, ‘little picture’, is one of those stage set places: you half expect to see plumed cavalry coming round the corner, or a camera crew filming some diva up on the ramparts. A purpose-built 18th- century military port, it doesn’t seem to have changed much since the end of t .... Click Here for More Sprawling and industrial, Atlantic Safi has a small médina and a lively fishing port. Its walls testify to a past devoted to keeping European marauders out of Morocco. Despite its renown as a centre for fine, traditional pottery, Safi is probably best left to enthusiasts – although som .... Click Here for More
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