Category: Africa
Berrechid: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Berrechid Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Berrechid is a Moroccan city of 168,687 inhabitants sitting at 213 metres above sea level on the Chaouia plain, just 32 km south of Casablanca — close enough to visit in an hour yet authentic enough to feel nothing like a tourist hub. Founded as a […]
Beni Mellal: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Beni Mellal Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Beni Mellal is a north-central Moroccan city of 209,594 people, sitting at 620 metres above sea level at the foot of Jbel Tassemit — a location that gives it a noticeably cooler microclimate than the scorching plains below. Founded in 1688 when Sultan Moulay Ismaïl […]
Azrou: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Azrou Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Azrou is a mid-sized Berber market town of 57,657 residents sitting at 1,330 metres above sea level in Morocco’s Middle Atlas mountains, roughly 80 km south of Fez. Founded as a Berber stronghold — its name literally means ‘rock’ in Tamazight — it anchors the Ifrane […]
Asilah: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Asilah Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Asilah is a compact Atlantic coastal town of 36,039 residents perched just 31 km south of Tangier on Morocco’s northwest tip, sitting at a mere 2 metres above sea level. Its Portuguese-built ramparts from the 15th century stand fully intact and frame one of North Africa’s […]
Al Hoceima: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Al Hoceima Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Al Hoceima is a Mediterranean coastal city of 50,225 residents perched at just 37m above sea level on the northern edge of Morocco’s Rif Mountains, with Mount Tidghin (2,452m) looming dramatically inland. Founded as Villa Sanjurjo by Spanish colonists in 1926, it remains one of […]
Ait Bouguemez: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Ait Bouguemez Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Ait Bouguemez, nicknamed ‘Happy Valley,’ sits at roughly 1,900 metres altitude in Morocco’s Central High Atlas Mountains, within the Azilal Province — one of the country’s most isolated yet rewarding trekking corridors. The valley stretches approximately 30 kilometres end to end, threading through a dozen […]
Agdz: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Agdz Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Agdz is a small Moroccan oasis town of 11,189 residents perched at 942m above sea level in the Draa Valley, roughly 70km north of Zagora on the N9 highway. Founded as a caravan staging post along one of the great trans-Saharan trade routes, it sits dramatically […]
Agadir: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Agadir Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Agadir is Morocco’s premier Atlantic beach city, home to 538,000 residents and sitting at just 74 metres above sea level on the Souss-Massa coastline, roughly 509 km south of Casablanca. Rebuilt entirely after a catastrophic 1960 earthquake that killed 15,000 people, it is unlike any other […]
Djibouti: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Djibouti Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Djibouti is a tiny Horn of Africa nation covering just 23,200 km² with a population of 83,636, making it one of the least visited yet most geopolitically strategic countries on earth — home to military bases from the US, France, China, and Japan simultaneously. Perched at […]
Sao Tome and Principe: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Sao Tome and Principe Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) São Tomé and Príncipe is a two-island nation of 64,255 people sitting in the Gulf of Guinea, roughly 135 nautical miles off the Central African coast — one of Africa’s smallest and least-visited countries. Founded as a Portuguese colony in 1470, it retains […]
Burundi: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Burundi Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Burundi is a landlocked East African nation of 14 million people, sitting at altitudes between 772m and 2,670m in the Great Rift Valley, bordering Rwanda, Tanzania, and the DRC. Founded as a kingdom centuries before European colonization, it gained independence from Belgian trusteeship on July 1, […]
Niger: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Niger Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Niger is a landlocked West African nation covering 1.27 million km², making it the largest country in West Africa by area, with a population of 3,337,141 in its capital Niamey alone. Founded as an independent republic on August 3, 1960, Niger sits at the edge of […]