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With this in mind, there are plenty of excellent accommodation options in Morocco to suit most budgets and needs. These are usually refurbished eighteenth- or nineteenth-century Medina townhouses. Generally more expensive than hotels, riads are a good option if you want to make your stay a lot classier.
Strictly speaking, to be classified as a riad, the house must have a garden, ideally divided into quarters with a central fountain. Townhouses with rooms around a courtyard are known as dars.
Get further information on where to stay in Morocco : types of accommodation, room rates, and how to find a room. Hearty soups, fragrant tajines, and succulent kebabs are just some of the culinary delights to enjoy when visiting Morocco. A typical starter to a meal is the classic spicy, bean and pasta harira. Tajine is a dish you will find everywhere in Morocco, steam-cooked slowly in an earthenware dish.
The classic tajines are lamb with prunes and almonds, and chicken with olives and lemon. Couscous is another classic Moroccan food served with a lot of dishes.
For food that is truly unique to Morocco, try pastilla , a savoury meat pie with filo pastry. Camel meat is also a common ingredient.
There is not a huge street food scene in Morocco, but you can find plenty of stalls and street food in the Fez medina. Read more about Fez: Morocco's culinary capital.
In terms of coffee, nus nus half coffee, half milk is a popular beverage throughout the country. Although tap water is generally safe to drink, except in the far south and Western Sahara, most tourists stick to bottled mineral water. Read more on food and drink in Morocco including where to eat, costs, specialities, and etiquette. Skimpy clothes, public displays of affection, and eating or smoking in the street during Ramadan are all almost guaranteed to cause offence. Noting how Moroccans dress locally and doing the same is usually the best policy.
Morocco has developed somewhat of a reputation for sexual harassment of women travellers, but this does not mean the country unsafe. Whilst this harassment can be persistent and unpleasant, it is very rarely threatening, and the ways of minimising it are often the same as those would use at home. These are just some of the tips and advice for travelling to Morocco.
You can find the full, comprehensive list of Morocco travel advice here. Morocco does not have a high crime rate and is perfectly safe to visit. However, thefts do happen, so it is unwise to carry large sums of cash or valuables on your person. This is especially true in crowded places such as bus and train stations where pickpockets like to operate. Credit card fraud is also something to be wary of. Never let your card out of your sight when paying for anything. Unofficial guides who approach you in the street may well be genuine, but there is little way of knowing.
On any tour, official or otherwise, make it clear you do not want to be taken shopping or to a hotel, as it will almost certainly be somewhere which pays the guide commission, added to your bill of course. If you are taken into a shop, usually a place which sells carpets, do not feel pressured into buying anything, no matter what hard-sell tactics or abuse they throw at you.
Find more information on common scams in Morocco and how to avoid them on our travel essentials page. For minor health complaints, pharmacies dispense a wide range of drugs and are usually sufficient.
For anything more serious requiring hospital treatment, you should contact your consulate immediately and follow its advice. State hospitals in the large cities are adequate for anything up to minor surgery.
For anything more serious, a private clinic or even repatriation may be the best option. No inoculations are currently required for visiting Morocco, but it is important to be up to date with polio and tetanus. For extended stays in Morocco, it is advisable to consider vaccinations against typhoid, TB, hepatitis A and B, diphtheria and rabies.
The best way to avoid this is to use mosquito repellent on all exposed areas of the skin. Wild dogs in Morocco can be aggressive and potentially rabid.
The best advice is to avoid getting close to them and, if bitten, seek medical advice immediately. Food, accommodation, and travel costs in Morocco are all relatively low by European and North American standards. You can find more in-depth information about money and costs in Morocco on the travel essentials page. Alcohol is the only thing comparable to Western prices. With regards to transport, renting a car will inevitably be expensive, but trains, buses and shared taxis are all very economical.
It is always worth checking the visa requirements before your departure as these can change. Upon arrival, you will need to fill in a form with personal details, profession and purpose of visit. South African citizens require a visa to enter Morocco and should make applications to the Moroccan embassy or consulate in their country of residence.
Most people avoid the bureaucracy by leaving the country for a few days, usually to Spain, and then re-entering through a different post. Read our travel guide for more information on Morocco visas and entry requirements. You will find souks in every town in Morocco, but the largest and most impressive are in Fez and Marrakesh.
Some of the souvenirs you may wish to purchase include beautiful Moroccan craftwork, semi-precious stones and fossils, or some tasty authentic foodstuffs, all of which you will be expected to bargain for. Learn more about shopping in Morocco including what to buy, locations and times of souks, avoiding scams, and how to bargain.
Morocco offers magnificent trekking opportunities, impressive golf facilities, a couple of ski resorts plus some adventurous off-piste skiing and excellent fishing.
Trekking is among the very best things Morocco has to offer. The High Atlas is one of the most rewarding mountain ranges in the world, and one of the least spoilt. Off-piste skiing is popular in the High Atlas, particularly in the Toubkal massif, where the Toubkal Refuge is often full of groups. Most off-piste activity is ski mountaineering, but skinny skis langlauf are good in the Middle Atlas if there is snow, in which case the Azilal—Bou Goumez—Ighil Mgoun area is possible.
Snowboarding is also gaining in popularity at Moroccan resorts. Another stable offering horse riding is Amodou Cheval near Agadir. A number of operators offer horse and camel treks, including Best of Morocco. Morocco has an immense Atlantic and small Mediterranean coastline, with opportunities to arrange boat trips at Safi, Essaouira, Moulay Bousselham near Asilah , Boujdour, Dakhla and elsewhere. Inland, the Middle Atlas shelters beautiful lakes and rivers, many of them well stocked with trout.
Pike are also to be found in some Middle Atlas lakes such as Aguelmame Azizgza, near Khenifra , and a few of the huge artificial barrages, like Bin el Ouidaine near Beni Mellal , are said to contain enormous bass.
Agadir offers opportunities for sailing, yachting, windsurfing and diving, while Taghazout, just to its north, has become something of a surfing village, with board rental and board repair shops and some great surfing sites. With your own transport, you could scout out remote places all the way down the coast. For windsurfing, the prime destination is Essaouira , which draws devotees year-round. The Atlantic can be very exposed, with crashing waves, and surfers, windsurfers and swimmers alike should beware of strong undertows.
Inland, most towns of any size have a municipal swimming pool, but women especially should note that they tend to be the preserve of teenage boys. The High and Middle Atlas have also become a popular destination for whitewater rafting and kayaking enthusiasts.
One holiday firm specializing in these sports is Water by Nature. The British opened a golf course in Tangier as far back as Several tour operators offer Moroccan golfing holidays. The Arabs arrived at the end of the seventh century, after sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East in the name of their revolutionary ideology, Islam.
Eventually, nearly all the Berbers converted to the new religion and were immediately accepted as fellow Muslims by the Arabs.
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