Morocco Orientation

Northern Morocco is punctuated by ports and the occasional beach and bounded on the south by the high Rif mountains. Its valuable coastal cities, fought over by Moroccans, Berbers, Spaniards, and other European powers for centuries, have traditionally been the most common ports of entry to Morocco. This political back-and-forth, which continues today with Spanish exclaves Ceuta and Melilla, gives the north a strange flavor of a Morocco mingled with a touristed Europe. The aftertaste is not always the most pleasant, so for a better experience of an older, unadulterated Morocco, keep on pushing south.

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