MOROCCANMOROCCAN, EUROPEANHôtel des Cèdres €
( 0535 56 23 26; Place Mohammed V; mains around Dh50) A hotel restaurant with a 1920s
dining room and log fire, and our favourite eating place in Azrou. The local trout is always good,
plus there are some more unusual dishes like rabbit tajine.
Hôtel le Panorama €
( 0535 56 20 10; set menu Dh130) Another hotel restaurant, the Panorama is better in the
evenings, when you can also wash down your meal with a glass of wine or beer. Some decent
tajines, and a handful of continental dishes in pleasant surrounds.
Shopping
The weekly souq is held on Tuesday about 1.5km northeast of town. Here you’ll witness Berber
women from the surrounding villages haggling with dealers over the flat-weave carpets, as well
as fresh produce and other market goods. Take care if it’s been raining though, as the souq
area can easily turn into a muddy quagmire. At other times, you’ll find carpets and handicrafts
aplenty in the stores around Place Hassan II and in the medina.
Information
BMCE (Place Mohammed V) Bureau de change and one of several ATMs on the square.
Cyber Abridnet (Place Mohammed V; per hr Dh6; 9am-midnight) Internet access.
Cyber Kawtar (Bus station; per hr Dh6; 9am-midnight) Internet access.
Post office (Blvd Prince Héritier Sidi Mohammed)
Getting There & Away
Azrou is a crossroads, with one axis heading northwest to southeast from Meknès to Er-
Rachidia, and the other northeast to Fez and southwest to Marrakesh.
Bus
CTM offers daily departures from the bus station on Blvd Moulay Abdelkader to Beni Mellal
(Dh55, three hours), Casablanca (Dh110, six hours), Fez (Dh30, two hours), Marrakesh
(Dh145, seven hours) and Meknès (Dh30, 1½ hours).
Other cheaper companies have frequent daily departures to Fez (Dh18), Meknès (Dh16),
Ifrane (Dh7), Midelt (Dh30) and Er-Rachidia (Dh70).
Taxi
The grand-taxi lot is down a stepped path below the bus station. Regular taxis go to Fez (Dh28,
one hour), Meknès (Dh30, one hour), Khenifra (Dh25, one hour) and Ifrane (Dh7, 10 minutes),
and less frequently to Midelt (Dh50, 90 minutes). Those for ‘Ain Leuh (Dh14, 20 minutes) wait
beside the Shell petrol station on the main road out to the southwest.
Midelt
POP 35,000