For three days the colourful port city of Essaouira, Morocco, comes alive with music, theatre and art as the Gnaoua world music festival celebrates traditional […]
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Celebrating nomadic traditions at the Sahara Festival
This lively festival takes place in the rolling dunes and stifling heat of Douz, a small town in the Tunisian Sahara. Camel and horse races, […]
Essaouira, Morocco
Exotic and soulful, serene and weather-beaten, Morocco’s historical coastal city, Essaouira, moves at its own relaxed pace. It’s the perfect destination to de-stress and immerse your senses in another world […]
Wedding Moussem or ‘September Romance’
This festival, in the Atlas mountain town of Imilchil, Morocco, is about livestock and romance in equal measure. Herders come together after spending the summer […]
Sahara camel ride
We love this photo by Matthew Williams-Ellis of tourists on a camel ride in the Erg Chebbi Desert, part of the Sahara near Merzouga, Morocco. (Matthew […]
Morocco photo gallery
Today marks the anniversary of Morocco’s independence from France and Spain in 1956. We searched our favourite photos of this fascinating country from our picture […]