Marrakech

Morocco’s red city is simply exotic, whilst expanding to offer chic and contemporary restaurants and shopping, real Morocco still exists in Marrakech. The cobbled streets of the old town offer all that is customary with the largest traditional market (souk) in Morocco and also has one of the busiest squares in Africa and the world, Djemaa el Fna. The square bustles with acrobats, story-tellers, water sellers, dancers, and musicians. By night food stalls open in the square turning it into a huge busy open-air restaurant.

Once you have experienced the bustling markets, with donkeys and mopeds in abundance, bartered for Moroccan slippers … you may wish to head to the new town which offers some of the finest restaurants and bars, offering cocktails to Cristal there are some of the hip-est venues in Morocco.

If however you’re feeling like a day out, it is worth taking a trip through the winding roads of the rugged Atlas Mountains and their hidden villages; the lush green oasis’ of the river valleys, the sandy desert with its cacti and wildlife or to the coastline with its thriving fishing villages. One other exceptional aspect of Marrakech is that it offers some of the finest golf courses in the world, most notably the Royal Maroc, built in 1920, one of his Majesty King Hassan II’s favourite courses.