Leaving Fez, we drove south up through the Middle Atlas Mountains and came into quite a bit of snow as we approached the charming Swiss-style town of Ifrane. We reached a plateau blanketed in white that made me yearn for my snowshoes.…
Morocco – Side Trips from Fez
We took a few side trips from Fez during our stay in Morocco. One day we spent a morning touring the surprisingly impressive site of Volubilis, the Roman Empire’s most remote outpost that was built in the third century…
Morocco – Fez
On the drive to to the colorful city of Fez we passed mile after mile of cork-oak trees with their bark half-stripped. Everything here was intensely green due to recent unseasonably heavy rains, the land becoming more smoothly undulating as we drove. This area is the…
Morocco – Casablanca and Rabat
We started off our delightful Morocco trip in Casablanca, the country’s financial capital. We arrived to bad weather and couldn’t do much sightseeing on foot, but that was just as well because we were exhausted from our overnight flight from Dakar, Senegal, and…