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Trekking, desert, mountains and the roads between — written from Morocco, at the pace the country actually moves.

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A clay tagine with the lid lifted, beef with prunes, toasted almonds, sesame seeds and hard-boiled egg inside
Food
Morocco

Moroccan Cuisine Is Not One Cuisine

A Fez tagine and a Marrakech tagine are different dishes. The regional map of Moroccan cooking — Fassi refinement, Marrakchi smoke, Souss argan, Rif mountain food and the Saharan bread baked in sand.

5 min read
Blue-washed walls and staircases in the medina of Chefchaouen
Mountains
Rif Mountains

Chefchaouen and the Rif, Beyond the Blue

The blue town is genuinely worth the trip and takes about a day. The mountains it sits in are the least-visited range in Morocco and take considerably longer.

3 min read