Beaches and Berbers, medinas and mosques, souks and sand dunes—Morocco has variety and an exotic feel that has fascinated travellers since long before the modern traveller arrived.
Fez medina. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
Affordable and only a short ferry from Spain, Morocco’s mix of traditional and modern strikes the perfect balance between the intensely exotic and comfortingly familiar.
Hand painted pottery. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
Cities like Fez, Marrakech, and Casablanca evoke images of medinas, spice markets, and couscous, while the geographic extremes—from the Atlas Mountains to beach resorts to camels in the desert—make it eminently photogenic.
Colourful leather slippers in Fez. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
The mad circus of Marrakech’s Djemaa el Fna square, packed with incense, salesmen, and snake charmers, is so bizarre and entertaining you’ll be looking for the hidden camera. Whatever your ‘thing’ is, Morocco will provide.
Marrakech medina. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
Try your hand in the maze-like medinas (bazaars), bargaining for fabrics, leathers, hand painted pottery, carpets, home decor and much more.
Fez Medina. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
Your taste buds are in for an adventure of their own as you try the rich tagines, various vegetable salads and stews, fresh and dried fruits, syrupy sweets and mint teas.
Adventurous eating at Djemaa el Fna Square – where you can order anything from snails to goat brain.
Vegetable stews—or what locals refer to as ‘warm salads’. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
Colourful Moroccan sweets. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
Endless varieties of olives. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
Deliciously sweet dried fruits. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
For all the photography buffs there is an endless palette of visual treats. Colourful tile work on the mosques, rustic doorways, Saharan sunsets. Geometric patterns of the medinas from above, or the leather tanneries of Fez.
Mosque in the medina of Fez. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
The coastal fishing town of Essaouira. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
The roofs of Fez. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
Leather tannery in Fez. Photo courtesy Kathy Meresz.
Getting There
G Adventures runs a number of departures to Morocco encompassing a wide range of departure dates and activities to cater for different tastes. Cities like Fez, Marrakech, and Casablanca evoke images of medinas, spice markets, and couscous, while the geographic extremes—from the Atlas Mountains to beach resorts to camels in the desert—make it eminently photogenic. We’re thrilled at the prospect of showing you this enchanting country as you’ve never seen it — check out our small group trips to Morocco here.
