Marrakech is known as the Red City. Even simply flying over, it’s not difficult to see why – against the desert sun, the red clay of the city is the first thing that strikes you about it. Almost all the walls are some shade of clay, brick-red. When you look out over the Old City, [...]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is nothing – nothing – better than a good massage. Armed with this truth, I was looking forward to my first ever experience in a Moroccan hammam. A Moroccan hammam is roughly the equivalent of the Turkish bath, which is in itself a type of sauna. While [...]

I was expecting a lot of desert in Morocco. Well, I wasn’t entirely wrong – there is a lot of desert, but there is a lot of green, too. Especially so here in the Majorelle Garden, named after the French artist Jacques Majorelle, who designed and landscaped this 12-acre piece of lush, green land. I [...]