Morocco - Marrakech

Home of the best cuisines, as well as phenomenal mint tea, it's a country that reverberates with Arabian themes despite being a north African country. Predominantly Muslim, the country has a mixture of Arabic, Muslim, and French, due to the long period spent under French rule that finally ended in 1956. Morocco is known for its beaches, the Atlas Mountains, its Moroccan mint and its amazing food.

Not long ago, Marrakech was a poor, bustling caravan town. It’s still bustling, but the poverty has replaced with moneyed European tourists and air conditioning. Fortunately, most visitors agree Marrakech’s soul lives on, in the marketplaces, mosques, and surviving whitewashed, crumbling architecture.

The ‘souks’ are covered areas among sheltered lanes and often lead to tiny squares specializing in particular enticing crafts of products. They can seem vast and confusing, but drifting around lost if half the fun, and you’ll stumble across some astonishing souvenirs. End up in the famous Djemaa El Fna, for example, and you’ll find snake charmers, acrobats and storytellers entertaining the masses in amongst the rusty fairground rides, and Moroccan market cuisine.



Marrakech Museum is an exotic taste of North African art and sculpture, while Royal theatre and medina still have that old Arabian spirit.

Koutoubia, a seventy-meter tower visible from miles, is Marrakech’s most distinctive tourist attraction, peaking up amongst the low-rise buildings north of the city, and surprisingly ornate close up.

The selection of extravagant tombs, impressive city gates and archeological sites are well worth peering over, too. To top it all off, Marrakech’s new selection of hotels - invariably featuring pools, roof terraces and shapely local architectural traits of their own - make the city a far more appetizing attraction for travelers who like a bit of luxury than it used to be.