At 600 m high above sea level, the Kasbah du Toubkal Hotel looks out over surrounding villages and majestic mountains. It is located in the High Atlas Mountains, only 1.5 hours drive of Marrakech, Morocco. Originally built in the 1940’s it was totally rebuilt in the 1990’s. The hotel is combination of hostel and hotel which provides a comfortable mountain refuge in the stunning setting of the beautiful Toubkal National Park.

Definitely it is a place for those that love nature adventure and mountain hiking. The Kasbah du Toubkal isn’t accessible by car. You must park your car in the village of Ismlil and walk through the town past a long strip of stalls and onto a dirt trail that leads up the hillside to the Kasbah. Your luggage is carried up by donkeys.
 

The hotel is a product of a Berber and European partnership. The pleasant en-suite rooms – newly built in the gardens – are decorated with lots of rugs and Berber crafts, giving them a traditional ambiance. The food served is traditional, with many tagine and coucous dishes.

With exceptional views, The Kasbah du Toubkal is not a hotel in the traditional sense. The Berbers making it less a hotel, and more an extension of the hospitality they would offer in their own homes.

These camping tours are for the people who are looking for adventure. The oasis at the edge of Merzouga’s sand dunes, Morocco, gives you an opportunity for one remarkable desert holidays. The Berber tents (or the Bedouins tents) are located right on the dunes so you could take long walks and see sunset in the desert easily. It’s your own place on the dunes.

After a good Tajine dinner, the perfect thing for you to enjoy cold Sahara nights is watching the stars – the nights are so beautiful…. Facilities are excellent – hot showers, clean toilets and a (cold) swimming pool. The multi- language staff organizes different camel trips and trekking tours. Also you can rent 4×4… The prices are starting at $20 per night.

An exellent situated fascinating hotel in Marrakech, Morocco, with princely rooms and plenty of luster and flaunt. The hotel’s inner court is a scenic oasis from the hectic Medina with hanging gardens and full grown palms. The colonnaded patio has a pool and is surrounded by Moorish arches, while the hammam has an impressive range of therapeutic treatments. La Sultana’s large roof terrace space offers stunning expansive views over the Medina out to the Atlas Mountains.

The four-hand massage in the spa is strongly recommended.

 

There are 21 luxurious guestrooms and suites which are animal-themed. The Crocodile Room features carved antique wood panels, while the Camel Room is caramel-coloured, with bronze camel statues and a bathroom hidden behind immense golden doors.

Asilah is a town on the northwest coast of Morocco, where sounds of waves drift over the town’s brilliant white architecture and down its freshly swept alleyways.

Asilah had once been rundown, but an annual arts festival, the International Cultural Moussem, renewed and cleaned up the town, turning it into a fashionable place.

Today Asilah is emerged as the cleanest cities in Morocco.

A view from a three-bedroom house that faces the sea, with housekeeper and chef, for 600 to 900 euros a week.

A henna tattoo.

The centre of Casablanca is fairly impressive. It’s brand modern, with big, lively boulevards, high, white, well-kept buildings. And it’s clean and efficient. People visiting Casablanca as their first city, could easily end up hating this place. There are few things here confirming the newcomers conception on the Orient. But for people having visited other parts of Morocco first, Casablanca is good! The city is modern in a Moroccan way, and an excellent example of Moroccans capacity of taking charge of the future of their country.

No other city in Morocco equals Casablanca when it comes to nightlife. The Boulevard de la Corniche, along the Atlantic Ocean, is home to several upmarket exclusive clubs. And of course, there’s Ricks Cafe. From the service to the food…

Casablanca isn’t really the place to go searching from shop to shop. The city has a laid back feeling to shopping, especially if you step out from the market zone of the Medina. The commercial areas reminds you principally of Europe’s. But money isn’t a problem — and as far as you could determine, the handicraft shops here are not cheap — Casablanca is one of the better places in all of Morocco to buy pick up something nice and different.
Regardless of the size of your budget, you can find a superb place to enjoy a meal in Casa. Generally accepted as the best place to eat when in Morocco, Casablanca has a large variety of traditional, seafood and take-away eateries. Try make a turn by “Stella”. This ice-cream parlor will have 30 different flavors.

Morocco is the most exotic country within easy reach of the United Kingdom, yet it remains enigmatic, uncrowded and full of the mysteries of the “east”. Rabat is the capital of Morocco with an ever-growing population of nearly one million people!

Hassan Tower or Tour Hassan (Arabic) is the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco. Begun in 1195, the tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world along with the mosque, also intended to be the world’s largest. Begun in 1195, the minaret was intended to be the largest in the Muslim world, soaring some 86m (260ft) into the sky. Construction was abandoned, however, upon the death of the sultan, Yacoub al-Mansour, in 1199 and the tower instead rises to just 44m. Tour Hassan is located along the banks of Bou Regreg River.
The mosque should have been the largest of the Islamic world : 312 columns and 42 marble pillars. It would have been larger than the Giralda of Seville and the Koutoubia of Marrakesh. When Sultan Yacoun El Mansour died in 1199, the half finished mosque was abandoned. The rest of the mosque was also left incomplete, with only the beginnings of several walls and 200 columns being constructed.

The Mausoleum, a beautiful white marble building designed by the Vietnamese architect Vo Toan and built in the 1960’s, houses the tomb of King Mohamed V and some of his family, namely his son, King Hassan II. Mohamed V figure is much respected in Morocco because he his considered the main responsible for the independence from the French, who effectively ruled the country since the late 19th century until 1956. The tower, along with the remains of the mosque and the modern Mausoleum of Mohamed-5, forms the most important historical and tourist complex in Rabat.

Kingdom of Morocco

Geography
Area: 446,550 sq. km. (172,413 sq. mi.) slightly larger than California. (The disputed territory of Western Sahara comprises another 267,028 sq. km or 102,703 sq. mi.)
Major cities: Rabat (Capital), Casablanca, Marrakech, Fes, Meknes, Tangier.
Terrain: Coastal plains, mountains, desert.
Climate: Mediterranean to more extreme in the interior and south.

People
Nationality: Noun and adjective–Moroccan(s).
Population (2004): 31,478,000
Annual growth rate (2004): 1.4%.
Ethnic groups: Arab-Berber 99%.
Religions: Muslim 99.99%, Jewish population estimated at 4,000 people, Christian population estimated at less than 1,000.
Languages: Arabic (official), several Berber dialects; French functions as the language of business, government, and diplomacy.
Education: Years compulsory–9. Literacy–52.6%.
Health: Infant mortality rate–49.72/1,000. Life expectancy–66.92 yrs. male, 71.44 yrs. female.
Work force (10.7 million, 2003): Agriculture–50%; services–35%; industry–15%

Environment

Physical Description: Morocco boasts the highest mountains in northern Africa. The Rif mountain chain runs along the northern Mediterranean coast with its peak at Mount Tidirhine at just over 8,000 ft. The Atlas mountains dominate the center of the country with an average elevation of 11,000 ft. At 13,665 ft., Mount Toubkai is the highest peak. Rocky plateaus make up half of Morocco’s land area. The alluvial lowlands, where agriculture is concentrated, around 20 percent. The Saharan plateau dominates the south. Morocco is dominated by Algeria to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the disputed Western Sahara to the south.

Climate: Mediterranean with extreme heat in the interior

Irrigated Land: 4,857 sq miles (1993 est.)

Land Use:
Arable Land: 21%
Permanent Crops: 1%
Permanent Pastures: 47%
Forests and Woodland: 20%
Other: 11% (1993 est.)

Natural Resources: Phosphates, iron ore, manganese, lead, zinc

Natural Hazards: Northern mountains geologically unstable and subject to earthquakes; periodic droughts

Eco-alerts: Morocco suffers from the standard regional environmental problems of land degradation from farming exhausted lands, overgrazing and destruction of vegetation. Water supplies are frequently contaminated by raw sewage. Oil pollution plagues coastal waters.