Morocco travel blog

Whatever lives has meaning and whatever has meaning lives. ( C. Geertz) Years ago, strolling around Gueliz, something in a shop window caught my eye. It was a book store and the cover of the book in question portrayed a fortress ( or a castle ?) strung up on the top of a bluff. The

This trek is specifically thought for those that look to trek Morocco when the desert and its surroundings are too hot. It’s also an alternative to the High Atlas mountains next to Marrakech ( Imlil, Ourika Valley, Asni) where both local and foreign tourists teem in summer. If you prefer to meet other tourists on

  Tafraoute is also home to spectacular Morocco trekking, when the High Atlas is covered in snow. It’s a glorious morning in Ameln valley, perhaps a little too warm for this milder- than- usual November. Leaving Tafraoute behind, Lion’s Head is winking at us. Or so it seems from down here. The lush valley spreads

La Mamounia revamped itself during the pandemic. Staying true to its origins: the epitome of luxury in Marrakech. Never resting on its laurels and making good use of the forced shutdown during the pandemic, La Mamounia revamped itself in 2022. The French restaurant has been replaced by an Asian. The Italian restaurant boasts a new

Mount Toubkal, the highest summit in North Africa. Always the reference when it comes to hiking or trekking in Morocco. 60 km south of Marrakech, it’s become a staple with tourists, a box to be ticked off along with the likes of ‘Sahara desert camp‘ or a ‘tour of the Jemaa El Fna Square’. 4160

” He deems the Wild the sweetest of friends, and travels on where travels above him the Mother of all the clustered stars” It is early afternoon, under this tree, a fig tree pitched here on the bank of this wide sandy river bed, dry – how many centuries, (millennia ?) no water had surfaced