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Water Aguelmame Azigza
"A blue-green lake fills a limestone bowl where cedar forest comes down to the water."
City Ait Benhaddou
"One man who lives here has been in ten films, because crews keep casting the village."
Mountain Aït Bouguemez Valley
"Dinosaur tracks survive on the valley floor among irrigated fields and earthen villages."
Mountain Aït Mansour Gorge
"The road falls out of pink granite into a red gorge roofed with date palms."
Mountain Akchour Waterfalls
"A rock arch twenty-five metres over the river, and the village crosses it daily."
Water Al Hoceïma
"Ospreys fish turquoise water beneath limestone cliffs rising straight from a city beach."
Mountain Ameln Valley
"Ochre villages disappear into Jbel Lekst while almond blossom clouds the valley floor."
Water Asilah
"Fresh murals break across whitewashed lanes inside a fifteenth-century Atlantic wall."
City Azemmour
"The first recorded African in the American Southwest was born beside this muralled river medina."
Wilderness Azrou
"Cedar trunks swallow the road outside Azrou, where macaque families wait beside the picnic tables."
Mountain Boumalne Dadès
"A green river cleaves a wind-scoured plateau where mountain caravans changed seasons."
City Casablanca
"The Atlantic runs beneath half a mosque whose roof opens in five minutes."
Mountain Cascades d'Imi-n-Ifri
"A river vanishes beneath a fifty-metre limestone arch furred with pale travertine."
City Chefchaouen
"A whole mountainside rinsed in blue, and the town still argues over who started it."
Mountain Dades Valley
"Five tonnes of Damask rose petals disappear into one kilo of perfume."
Water Dakhla
"Kites lift over a 37-kilometre lagoon where dune ridges hold back the Atlantic."
City Debdou
"A spring runs past a Jewish cemetery beneath the broken walls of a mountain kasbah."
Wilderness Draa Valley
"Two and a half million date palms carry a green river towards the Sahara."
City El Jadida
"Atlantic light enters Mazagan through cannon embrasures while fishing boats work below the ramparts."
Wilderness Erg Chebbi
"A hundred and sixty metres of rose-gold sand interrupts a plain of flat grey rock."
Water Essaouira
"Gnaoua rhythms carry a devotional trance through ramparts that once guarded half Morocco's foreign trade."
City Fes el-Bali
"Cedar, cumin and thirty-day leather hang in lanes that refuse to tell you where you are."
Wilderness Foum Zguid
"Tyre tracks cross a white lakebed, then vanish between walls of windblown sand."
Mountain Gorges du Dadès
"The road loops back on itself where a river folded red rock into knuckles."
City Guelmim
"Camel calls, wool, silverwork and bargaining give Amhayrich souk its desert-edge pulse."
Mountain Ijoukak
"Walnut terraces drink from two rivers below the ruins of a mountain palace."
Mountain Imlil
"One short street of guides and gear ends where North Africa's highest mountain begins."
Mountain Imouzzer Ida Outanane
"Winter rain wakes a cliff cascade above white villages, honey stalls and terraced argan."
Water Imsouane
"A mellow right peels beside blue fishing boats while Cathedral gathers the heavier swell."
Mountain Jebel Saghro
"Black volcanic towers break a winter desert where mule trails vanish between water sources."
Mountain Jebel Sirwa
"Purple crocuses give way to black volcanic rock on a summit between two Atlases."
Mountain Jebel Toubkal
"Before dawn, headlamps climb scree towards North Africa’s 4,167-metre roof."
Water Legzira Beach
"The arch everyone photographed fell in 2016. The bigger one behind it is still standing."
Wilderness Lixus
"Roman garum vats cover a hillside ancient writers called the Garden of the Hesperides."
Wilderness M'Hamid El Ghizlane
"Fine sand crosses the last strip of tarmac, where camel tack hangs beside flour sacks."
City Marrakech
"Smoke climbs above Jemaa el-Fna as storytellers, drums and twelve thousand suppers take the square."
Wilderness Massa
"Mist, reeds and birdcalls follow one estuary path until Atlantic surf drowns them out."
City Meknès
"Water runs beneath roofless granaries where tribes once paid their taxes in grain."
Wilderness Merzouga
"Rain puts a lake at the foot of the dunes, and the flamingos find it."
Water Mirleft
"Mirleft means prince of turnips, and the wadi they grew in still runs onto the beach."
City Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
"Five pilgrimages here during the moussem are said locally to equal one hajj to Mecca."
Wilderness N'Kob
"Forty-five earthen kasbahs crowd an oasis beneath the broken ridges of Jebel Saghro."
Water Oualidia
"A saltwater lagoon where oyster beds gleam at low tide and flamingos wade."
Mountain Oukaimeden
"Bronze Age daggers hide among sheep-cropped pasture high above Marrakech."
Mountain Ouzoud Falls
"A hundred-metre waterfall throws a rainbow over cliff caves where macaques sleep."
Mountain Paradise Valley
"The crowds stop at the first pools. The turquoise ones run thirty kilometres upstream."
Water Plage Blanche
"Low tide reveals a forty-kilometre Atlantic corridor between dune, cliff and river mouth."
City Rabat
"A forty-four-metre minaret still waits for the mosque that died with its sultan."
City Rissani
"Date crates, donkey carts and ironwork crowd a market beside medieval Sijilmassa's ruins."
City
Salé
"Ships once sailed through this horseshoe gate into an arsenal hidden behind the medina walls."
City Sefrou
"Silk-buttoned festival dress meets river-cooled lanes in Morocco's century-old cherry capital."
Water Sidi Ifni
"Spain left on the last day of June 1969, and the Art Deco is still standing."
Water Sidi Kaouki
"White surf folds beneath a saint's shrine while the Atlantic wind gathers strength."
Water Sidi Moussa d'Aglou
"White doors puncture an Atlantic cliff where fishermen carved rooms into rock."
Wilderness Skoura
"Water runs beneath twenty-five square kilometres of palms and a kasbah still occupied by its family."
Water Source Bleue de Meski
"A blue-painted basin marks where a deep aquifer shaped Meski's date-palm oasis."
Wilderness Souss-Massa National Park
"Red-faced ibises lift from Atlantic cliffs while migrants crowd a desert-edge estuary."
Mountain Tafraout
"Pink granite boulders above almond trees that blossom white in February."
Water Taghazout
"The surf break is named for the row of anchors that held a tuna net."
Wilderness Talassemtane National Park
"Endangered fir darkens the Rif until pale limestone cliffs break through the canopy."
Mountain Taliouine
"Three crimson threads leave each dawn-picked crocus in Morocco's saffron heartland."
City Tamnougalt
"Covered earthen lanes hide caïd, servant and mellah quarters above a sea of palms."
City Tan-Tan
"Tbourida thunders past white tents as Hassaniya poetry gathers more than thirty desert tribes."
City Tangier
"Mint tea cools on cliff terraces as ships carry the world through Tangier's strait."
Water Tarfaya
"An airmail museum faces an Atlantic trading fort marooned beyond the harbour wall."
City Taroudant
"A hundred and thirty mud towers circle souks where silver is still chased by hand."
Wilderness Tata Palm Groves
"Elephants and rhinoceroses survive in stone beyond Tata's living palm shade."
City Tazenakht
"Siroua wool drinks pomegranate red beneath thousands of hand-tied knots and orange borders."
City Tétouan
"Jewish goldsmiths here shaped pendants like doves, in the city they call the White Dove."
City Tinghir
"Water flickers through palm shade before the road disappears between limestone walls."
Mountain Todra Gorge
"A river and one walker squeeze through three hundred metres of orange limestone."
Mountain Toubkal National Park
"Sheep graze beneath telescopes on a plateau under one of Earth's clearest skies."
City Volubilis
"Roman mosaics lying open under the sun, in a city ringed by flowering olive groves."
Wilderness Zagora
"Date palms thin into stone while Zagora's painted Timbuktu sign points south."
Mountain Ziz Gorge
"An old tunnel opens onto a limestone gorge where the river holds villages to the rock."
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Behind painted lanes, homes continue into the rock.
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Beyond the last town, the wind keeps redrawing the road.
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Seven settlements share an oasis, each with its turn at the water.
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Under the cedar forest, the earth opens into a deep stone world.
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Two mountain lakes hold the ending of a lovers' legend.
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Behind earthquake-scarred walls, painted cedar remembers a palace.
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