Morocco
- Population: 31.6 million (UN, 2005)
- Capital: Rabat
- Area: 710,850 sq km (274,461 sq miles) (including W Sahara)
- Major languages: Arabic (official), Berber, French, Spanish
- Major religion: Islam
- Life expectancy: 67 years (men), 72 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: Dirham = 100 centimes
- Morocco Times – English-language news site
Road Junky has 19 Morocco articles. Scroll down to view.
Morocco Travel Guide Online
Morocco is the nearest exotic place to most of Europe and is the last foothold of Islam going East. In many ways it’s quite isolated with war-torn Algeria to ...
The Valley of the Hippies in Morocco
Shuffling out of town along the coastal road, it occurred to me how easily the spell of civilization is broken, and how easily this void is filled. In Taghazoute a ...
Morocco - No Country For Young Women?
On my first full day in Morocco, I briefly thought I was being thrown off a cliff. It was a most unfortunate, and terrifying, misunderstanding: My ´guide` thought it would ...
Morocco Hashish
From Algeciras, Morocco can be seen, the point where travellers catch the ferry across the Gibraltar Straits. Algeciras is a town with the usual random menace of a ...
Marrakesh Travel Morocco
Travel in Morocco would have been great if not for the actual travelling bit. That was when you met all the hustlers and punks who made your life a ...
Fez Moroccan Wedding
The sound of ecstatic singing, drums and trumpets floated up from the narrow streets and reached the rooftop where Iqbal and I lay looking at the stars. We had no ...
Morocco Travel Sahara Desert and Bedouin
Ivan was another long-term road junky who happened to have gone to university in my home town in England. He’d hung around with some old friends of mine and ...
Fez Travel Morocco Flutes
I’d been told that the city of Fez was about as medieval a place as you could hope to find anywhere. The old parts of the city are still comprised ...
Dating Moroccan Girls & Guys
Moroccan women are gorgeous but they’re a package deal. You could well meet a girl from university and date her but you’d be expected to marry soon afterwards. And that ...
Morocco Travel Tuareg Nomads
Mountains wrap the perimeter of the hard scrubbed desert landscape and acquire a bluish tinge in the afternoon light. This is the southern tail of the Anti-Atlas mountains (named Djebel ...
Morocco Travel News
- Van Gogh's Letters: The Artist Speaks, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Independent
- Relax with more cash when you go on holiday - Daily Mail
- Simon Calder: Want a no-impact break? Holiday at home - Independent
- The Goods: The weekly travel buzz - Globe and Mail
- Imaginative travel for winter retail relief - Imaginative Traveller
