Once is not customary: let’s talk little but talk beautifully! Because Morocco is the most beautiful country in the world if we believe the Moroccans… Overview in 10 favorites!
#1 : Do you know Chefchaouen? This small town in the North has nothing to envy of the famous Majorelle gardens of Marrakech: it is bluer than blue! Its streets and houses display all the tones in monochrome. From Majorelle blue, to pastel blue, through Klein blue or turquoise, it’s a fairytale. And a 360-degree postcard!
#2 : The lake of the Bin el-Ouidane dam, little known to foreigners, is a must for Moroccans. We understand them! With its crystal clear waters, this lake surrounded by red and ocher soils planted with thousand-year-old olive trees and nestled between the High Atlas mountains, is a little paradise. It is in Bin that you can admire a starry sky like nowhere else.
#3: The dunes of the Sahara,whether they areMerzougaorChegagaare fascinating by nature. The colors displayed at sunrise and sunset, on these mountains of sand with their reliefs shaped by the winds, are one of the most unforgettable spectacles there is.
#4 : The Dadès gorges valley, 25 kilometers long, is one of the most incredible in southern Morocco. Splendid landscapes, houses melted into the colors of the rock, dizzying overhangs… The Wadi Dadès continues to carve out these canyons, which are among the most spectacular in Morocco. At sunset the spectacle is magical!
#5: The Draa Valleyextends, over more than 200 kilometers, superb palm groves, ksours and kasbahs, breathtaking landscapes, incredible lights. It’s intense and fiery Morocco with, at the end of the road… the Sahara!
#6: The Dakhla lagoon, a paradise for surfers and kite-surfers, extends in the middle of the desert for nearly 40 kilometers. The subtle mixture of water at 22°C and air at 25°C all year round combined with three hundred days of wind per year make it an ideal spot. Located 1,200 kilometers south of Agadir, the lagoon is a pure marvel of authenticity and purity.
#7: 14 kilometers from the Spanish coast, Tangier offers Morocco a Mediterranean face. The Big Blue gives a special light to this magnificent city, once a source of inspiration for many writers. Its medina is sumptuous, its picturesque fishing port and its beaches invite you to stroll with your hair in the wind, under the sun, exactly!
#8: Casablanca the bustling, economic capital of the kingdom, deserves a little lingering time. Its ancient medina still bears witness today to the cosmopolitan past of the white city and the life led there together, in good harmony, by Christians, Jews and Muslims. The sumptuous Art Deco facades of the city center, although a little dilapidated, are worth more than a detour, as well as its central market, a colorful place to live, especially in the fishmongers’ corner. Without forgetting of course the magnificent Hassan II mosque, the largest in the Maghreb, a jewel of modern times, which fascinates in particular with the play of light and shadow inside.
#9: Rabat, administrative capital, seat of the royal family, is a city with many facets. You have to get there via the station and visit the Mohamed VI museum. Then quickly move on to the medina, sparkling with life and colors, and its rue des consuls. But it is above all in the superb Oudayas kasbah that we will linger. Because sitting down at the end of the afternoon at the Café Maure and sipping a mint tea with some Moroccan pastries is an unrivaled pleasure.
#10: Essaouira, open to the ocean, with its fishing port and its blue boats, offers behind the ramparts a very pleasant medina, a place of expression for prolific painters. Its long and beautiful beach is an open-air scene with vacationing families, camels and horses, or even the multicolored sails of kitesurfers. Invigorating!
#11 : Fez, is refined Morocco, culture and art, palaces of wonders. In this city, which is said to be the oldest in the kingdom, the ryads are like nowhere else: carved cedar wood ceilings, chiseled stucco walls, mouchariabehs and zelliges. We feel a certain luxury here, a nobility. You must enter the medina via the Bab Boujloud and walk through the narrow streets of this ancient capital with its thousand-year-old charm. And don’t miss the Quarayouine mosque, Nejjarine square, the Merenid tombs, the Bou Inania madrassah. A dive into the purest Orient.
#12: Ah, Marrakech… impossible not to mention the ocher city. In the collective unconscious, it certainly embodies Morocco. And yet… Kech (for those close to me!) offers a thousand and one faces, not all Moroccan, and this is what makes its charm and its appeal. We therefore delight in everything it has to offer us: the Majorelle garden, the Bahia palace, the Mamounia, the Jeema el-Fna square, the Menara, the medina with its craft souk and its trendy boutique-restaurants around the spice square, the designer or traditional ryads competing in brilliance, etc. You have to see and see Marrakech again and enjoy without moderation!
Of course, there is also Tetouan, Asilah, the Valley of Roses, Mirleft, Agadir and Taghazout, and… and… Difficult to limit yourself: Morocco is a concentration of landscapes from all over the world!… So, the most country in the world? We can’t say, but he would definitely be among the finalists!
Source: courrierinternational
