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Inspiration The eight summits of Morocco, and which ones really get climbed
Toubkal, M'Goun, Ouanoukrim, Siroua: the panorama of the eight summits that count in Morocco, with the season and the commitment for each.
By Pierre-Marie Coupry · 9 Jun 2026 · 9 min read
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Practical tips Marrakech during Ramadan: a different trip, not a worse one
Ramadan does not shut Marrakech down, it inverts its rhythm. Slow days, extraordinary nights: what actually changes for a visitor.
Stories & notebooks Water in Marrakech: what the visitor does not see
Basins, gardens, pools: Marrakech's abundance is a feat of engineering under constraint. What the drought changes for a visitor.
Inspiration The forgotten coast: Oualidia, Safi, and why nobody goes
A Ramsar-listed lagoon, the oyster capital, and a town damaged by its own industry. What the coast nobody drives to is actually worth.
Stories & notebooks Marrakech crafts: where your money actually goes
Moroccan craft is not souvenir trade: 2.4 million jobs, 93% of the value made by individual artisans. Where your purchase actually lands.
Practical tips Marrakech in a wheelchair: the obstacle is not the one you expect
The medina is flat and wide. The real obstacles lie elsewhere: shop thresholds, kerbs, buses. A survey of what passes and what blocks.
Practical tips Getting lost in the medina: why GPS fails, and what works
Why GPS gives up in the medina, the landmarks that replace it, and what the person offering to guide you really costs.
Practical tips Friday in Marrakech is not the Moroccan Sunday
Friday is not Morocco's day of rest. What stops is precise, limited, and has almost nothing to do with what you came for.
Practical tips One night in a Marrakech palace, in the middle of a riad stay
A palace night costs three riad nights and buys only twenty-one hours. When splitting the stay pays off, and when it is worth nothing at all.
Through the seasons Marrakech in summer, the heat the guidebooks skip (and how I hold up)
45.6°C in August, 90% occupancy: Marrakech in summer is not the low season travellers picture. My rhythm, cool refuges, out-of-town escapes.
Inspiration Fes and Marrakech, two imperial cities that answer each other
Scholarly Fes, extroverted Marrakech. The direct train or the grand tour through Merzouga. How I combine both in a full week.
Stories & notebooks Souk Sebbaghine, a morning between indigo and madder
Nine-ten in the alleys of Souk Sebbaghine: indigo, madder, stick wringing, skeins strung under the grazing light.
Through the seasons Marrakech in winter, the light that changes everything
Grazing light, white Atlas to the south, riad colder than the street in the morning. What Marrakech in winter really is - and what I do there.
Stories & notebooks A Sunday morning at Bab Doukkala, the medina's real rhythm
Daily market, communal oven, workers' café. What a Sunday morning at Bab Doukkala shows, off the circuit.
Practical tips Alcohol in Marrakech, the honest picture: where I buy, where I drink, what I do not do
1967 decree, hotel licence, palaces that serve, aisles shut for Ramadan, taxes climbing. Where I buy, where I drink, what I do not do.
Practical tips Animal ethics on Jemaa el-Fna, what I gave up doing (and what I do instead)
Chained macaques, mutilated cobras, calèches under 42°C. What I no longer fund on Jemaa el-Fna, and six real alternatives.
Practical tips Photographing Marrakech: where, when, with what and what you are not allowed to do
Two windows of light, one drone not to bring, one medina ethic to hold: what I photograph, where, when and what I no longer photograph.
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