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ATLAS MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTH

Getting Your Bearings tourism has arrived since Edith Wharton wrote of southern Morocco's feudal chiefs and heat and savagery in her book in Morocco (1929). But the south is still exotic, and the chance of adventure remains. The tourist images of Morocco are often of the south: end-less ripples of immaculate sand dunes, grand Kasbahs, oases with thousands of plam trees, Berber villages hugging the mountains, and the "blue men-nomadic Tuaregs who epitomise adventure and harsh desert life. But perhaps most evocative of the region are the majestic peaks of the High Atlas, where Africa really begins. Morocco's most exotic region inculdes its highest mountains its hottest desert and its most picturesque Kasbahs. The South in Four Days Day One Start from Marrakech then follow singns for Ouarzazate via the Tizi-n'Tichka mountain road. Turn left after the highest point for the Kasbah of Telouet. Have lunch opposite Glaoui Kasbah Return to the main ro...

THE NORTH

Northern Morocco is where Europe meets Africa or, more precisly, where Andalucian culture meets berber traditions. Between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean coast? the Hispanic-influenced cities contrast starkly with the wild landscapes of the Rif Mountains. In the towns? stylish urbanites mix in markets and squares with the more traditional Rifians who come to sell their produce. TANGIER is a place all its own, with memories of intrigue and dreams, its stories and scandals involving bad boys and femme fatales, lawlessnes and beauty, inspired many writers, filmmakers and artists. Elegant TETOUAN and attractive CHEFCHAOUEN have preserved their Andalucian heritage? as have the seaside towns of ASILAH and LARACHE . And spain still holds five enclaves along the Rif coast: Ceuta, Melilla and three small, ininhabited islets. The Rif Mountains form a barrier between the Mediterranean world and central Moroccan culture. The ruined settlements of many foreign powers, from Phoeni...

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