Tangier
The Strait, the Kasbah, Cape Spartel.
Beyond Tangier
Travelling in Morocco from Tangier
Tangier is the gateway to Morocco. The Al Boraq high-speed train takes you to Rabat and Casablanca; the rest of the country can be reached by train, bus or plane.
The map and the cities
Schematic map: outline and positions are approximate. The dotted line is the Al Boraq train line.
Tetouan
A UNESCO-listed medina with an Andalusian heritage.
Chefchaouen
Blue lanes in the heart of the Rif.
Fez
Fes el-Bali, the tanneries and Al Quaraouiyine.
Meknes
Bab Mansour, with Volubilis close by.
Rabat
The capital: Hassan Tower and the Kasbah of the Udayas.
Casablanca
The Hassan II Mosque facing the ocean.
Marrakech
Jemaa el-Fna, the souks and the Majorelle Garden.
Essaouira
Ramparts, a fishing port and wind for kitesurfing.
Agadir
A long beach, sunshine, and surfing at Taghazout.
Ouarzazate
Aït Ben Haddou and the film studios.
Merzouga
The great dunes of Erg Chebbi.
Laayoune
The largest city in the Sahara, between dunes and ocean.
Dakhla
A lagoon known for kitesurfing.
The destinations, one by one
What to see, how to get there from Tangier, when to go and how much time to allow.
Marrakech
Morocco's most visited destination: a huge medina, palaces, gardens and Jemaa el-Fna square, which changes face at nightfall.
Read the pageAgafay desert
A desert of stones and pale hills about forty kilometres from Marrakech, with the Atlas as a backdrop. People come for a sunset, a dinner or a night in a desert camp.
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The country's economic capital: a modern, busy city, with the Hassan II Mosque set on the edge of the ocean and an Art Deco city centre.
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A calm, well-kept capital, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, between the ocean and the Bou Regreg river.
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Fes el-Bali is one of the largest car-free medinas in the world: a maze of lanes, workshops and madrasas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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An imperial city calmer than Fez and, half an hour's drive away, the Roman ruins of Volubilis, the best preserved in Morocco.
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A small mountain town with lanes painted blue, two hours' drive from Tangier. It is the most requested day trip in northern Morocco.
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A fortified port on the Atlantic, with ochre ramparts and blue shutters, known for its trade winds, its Gnawa music and its relaxed pace.
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The great seaside resort of the south: a long sandy beach, sunshine almost all year round, and twenty kilometres away the surfers' village of Taghazout.
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On the other side of the Atlas, a town of kasbahs and film studios and, thirty kilometres away, the ksar of Aït Ben Haddou, listed by UNESCO.
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The great sand dunes of the Moroccan Sahara. People come to spend a night in a desert camp and watch the sun rise over the erg.
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Far to the south, a peninsula between the Atlantic and a vast lagoon, now one of the world's top kitesurfing spots.
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