If your first stop in Morocco is Casablanca then let your second stop be just 60 miles up the coast in Rabat. It is the country’s capital and where most of the foreign embassies are located as well as the country’s head of state, King Mohammed VI. The most talked about and well-visited site in [...]
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The city of Casablanca was immortalized in the movie of the same name staring Humphrey Bogart. It was actually established in 1906 and had a population of approximately 20,000 people. Today, the city boasts a population of over 4 million and, as the heart and soul of Morocco, it resembles a Southern European city more [...]
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Visitors journeying to Morocco will no doubt enjoy visiting some of the country’s most famous and exotic cities; they will be drawn by the ancient pink walls of Marrakech, the old medina in Fez and the endless beaches of Essaouira. However, one city that tourists sometimes (and unfortunately) overlook is Salé. Salé is the twin [...]
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On the Sale side of the estuary, it seems that time has been forgotten. It still carries some practices from earlier eras. Sale is a walled city. Central to life is the Grand Mosque and medersa, built in the 1300s. The Mosque itself is closed to non-muslims but the medersa is open to visitors as [...]
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After you’ve spent some of your Morocco holiday time in Casablanca, What else is there to do?, you may have wondered. As your Moroccan tour operator will be glad to point out, there is a whole country to explore out there. If you’ve only got one or two days in Morocco, then travel northbound where [...]
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Casablanca, Morocco, is home to more than 3,600,000 residents. Of this population range, roughly 30.8% of residents are at or below 15 years old. That leaves the remaining 69.2% to feed into the economic development of this city. For that reason, Casablanca is the highest economic city in Morocco and the fifth largest for the [...]
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Morocco has always held some mystery for travelers. This part of North Africa bridges mainland Europe and the African continent, though separated slightly by the clear blue waters of the Mediterranean. With the Atlantic Coast thousands of miles long and the Sahara thousands of miles across, Morocco has many different prospects of topography and offers [...]
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