One of the largest car-free urban areas in the world, a UNESCO site, with about 9,000 lanes, souks, the Al-Qarawiyyin university (founded in 859) and the Bou Inania madrasa. From terraces above the Chouara tannery, watch leather being dyed in stone vats.
Hire an official guide on the first day; it's easy to get lost.
The best-preserved Roman ruins in Morocco, a UNESCO site, with mosaic floors still in place, a triumphal arch and basilica columns among olive groves.
A mountain town in the Rif whose medina is painted in every shade of blue.
One of the largest mosques in the world, built partly over the Atlantic, with a 210 m minaret.
A narrow canyon with walls up to 300 m high in the eastern High Atlas, popular for walks and rock climbing.
Erg Chebbi is the great sea of Saharan sand dunes beside the village of Merzouga in south-east Morocco, with dunes rising up to 150 m.
A 16th-century Islamic college, the largest in Morocco, with a courtyard of carved cedar, stucco and zellige tiles around a pool, and tiny student ce…
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