Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Morocco
Spring and autumn are the comfortable seasons, but Morocco is really three climates at once, and the one you are packing for decides when to go.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Morocco: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Volubilis: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A 42 hectare Roman town on the edge of the empire, inscribed in 1997, that was an Amazigh capital first and an Idrisid one last.
Heritage
Medina of Essaouira: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A fortified Atlantic port laid out on a European military plan in the 1760s, inscribed in 2001, and called by UNESCO the Port of Timbuktu.
Heritage
Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A fortified earthen village on the road from the Sahara to Marrakesh, inscribed in 1987. Its communal buildings include a caravanserai and two cemeteries.
Heritage
Medina of Marrakesh: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Founded in 1070 and inscribed in 1985, Marrakesh gave the country its name. Its medina covers 700 hectares and its square is inscribed in its own right.
Heritage
Medina of Fez: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Founded between 789 and 808 and inscribed in 1981, the Medina of Fez is a working city of some hundred thousand people, not an open air museum.
Destination
Morocco
Fez after ten centuries of building, the earthen ksar at Ait Ben Haddou, and a country whose entire World Heritage record is architecture.