Category: Africa

Tetouan Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Tétouan sits at 90 metres above sea level in northern Morocco, just 60 kilometres from Tangier and a short drive from the Mediterranean coast, with a population of 422,757 making it one of the country’s most historically layered mid-sized cities. Founded in the 13th century and […]

Taroudant Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Taroudant, a walled city of 83,496 inhabitants sitting at 240m in Morocco’s Sous Valley, is often called ‘Little Marrakesh’ — but it trades that city’s tourist circus for crumbling ramparts, orange groves, and a souq that still serves locals first. Founded well before the Saadian dynasty […]

Tanger Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Tangier sits at the northwestern tip of Morocco where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean, just 14 km across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain, making it Africa’s closest city to Europe. Home to 1,275,428 residents, it has been a crossroads of civilizations for over 3,000 years […]

Sidi Ifni Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Sidi Ifni is a small Atlantic coastal city in southern Morocco with a population of 22,696, perched at 155m above sea level on dramatic cliffs overlooking the ocean. Founded as a Spanish colonial enclave — Spain only returned it to Morocco in 1969 — the […]

Sefrou Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Sefrou is a walled Moroccan medina town of 86,903 residents sitting at 850 metres above sea level in the Fès-Meknès region, just 28 km southeast of Fès. Founded as a Berber and Jewish trading post centuries before the Islamic conquest, it earned the nickname ‘Little Jerusalem’ […]

Oujda Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Oujda, with a population of 506,224, sits at 470 metres above sea level in northeast Morocco, just 15 kilometres from the Algerian border — making it one of North Africa’s most strategically positioned frontier cities. Founded in 944 AD by Ziri ibn Atiyya, it serves as […]