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| Morocco travel |
Westerners Morocco holds over a direct and enduring
charming so use Morocco travel. Though just an hour’s journey on the ferry from
Spain, it seems at once so far from Europe, with a culture – Islamic and
pointedly traditional – that is almost wholly novel. Throughout the country, in
spite of the years of French and Spanish colonial rule and the existence of
modernistic and cosmopolitan cities like Rabat, Marrakesh and Casablanca, a
more distant past permanently makes its presence felt. Fez, perhaps the most
beautiful of all Arab cities, maintains a life still steadfast in Middle Ages
times, when a Moroccan kingdom stretched from Senegal to northern Spain, while
in the mountains of the Atlas and the Rif, it’s still possible to draw up
intertribal maps of the Berber population. As a backdrop to all this, the
country’s physical make-up is unusual: from the Mediterranean coast, through
four mountain ranges, to the empty sand and scrub of the Sahara.
This blend of the peculiar and the familiar, the
variety of landscapes, the dissimilarity between new city and ancient Medina,
all add up to make Morocco an intense and rewarding experience, and a country
that is perfectly suited to independent travel – with enough time, you can
cover a whole range of activities, from hiking in the Atlas and relaxing at
laidback Atlantic spa like Asilah or Essaouira to getting lost in the back
alleys of Fez and Marrakesh. It can be difficult at times to come to terms with
the privilege of your position as a tourist in a country with severe poverty,
and there is, too, occasional hassle from unofficial guides, but Morocco is
substantially a safe and politically stable place to visit. Indeed, your
enduring impressions are likely to be overwhelmingly positive, shaped by
encounters with Morocco’s powerful tradition of hospitality, generosity and
openness. This is a country people return to again and again.
