Beaches
Its coastline stretching from the Mediterranean to the Sahara, Morocco packs in beaches for
every taste between its coves, cliffs, boardwalks and ports. Some are fit for family fun, others
wait and will development to happen, and many are untrodden apart from the odd surfer and
migratory bird.
Marabout’s Beach With its eponymous saint’s tomb and savage rocks, this is the most
dramatic of Mirleft’s half-dozen Atlantic beaches (Click here )
Agadir The city is a concrete grid, but its long, curving beach, clean and well-lit at night, will
have families scrambling for buckets and spades (Click here )
Yellich Facing a small Mediterranean island you can walk to; visit Yellich and Cala Iris’ other
beaches before the fishing village becomes a resort (Click here )
Tangier Escape the city on a day trip to Plage Robinson, at the northwestern extremity of
Africa’s Atlantic Coast, or Ksar es-Seghir on the Strait of Gibraltar (Click here )
Deserts
Morocco’s Saharan expanses are some of Africa’s safest and most evocative places to
experience the great desert. Not only can you see curvy dunes and harsher hammada (stony
desert), you can also meet blue-robed Berbers and try the nomadic lifestyle.
Erg Chebbi This classic Saharan sandscape, its dunes rising to 160m, can be explored by
camel, 4WD or sandboard, followed by a night in a Berber tent (Click here )
Figuig It’s worth trekking east to Morocco’s oasis par excellence, with palmeraies , ksour and
views of Algeria (Click here )
Erg Chigaga Enlist a ‘Blue Man’ in M’Hamid, where dunes nuzzle against the guesthouses, to
find this 40km stretch of sand mountains reaching 300m (Click here )
Drâa Valley Timbuktu-bound caravans once passed through this desolate valley; now you can
board a ‘ship of the desert’ (read: camel) to palm-shaded oases (Click here )
Mountains
With Berber villages nestling beneath snowy peaks, the High Atlas is one of the world’s most
awe-inspiring mountain ranges. Whether you want to climb, trek, experience rural life or just
escape the rat race far below, Morocco’s other mountains are also worth exploring.
Jebel Toubkal Trek to the top of North Africa for thin air and views across the High Atlas (Click
here )
Ameln Valley Stay in a traditional village house among palmeraies and the gold-pink Anti Atlas
(Click here )