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A Fez to Remember: 600,000 people, 9402 streets, 158 mosques, 44 bakeries and more carpet showrooms, slipper souks and magic lantern shops than you could care to count. The World-Heritage-listed medina in Fez is the largest in the world, but there’s more to Morocco’s most ancient imperial city than souks and shopping.  Here’s our top 10 things to see and do in Fez..
Story by Lee Atkinson

Imperial Overload: What’s the first thing you do when you take over a country?  Build a new capital city, if the history of Morocco is anything to go by. Over the past 2000 years or so Morocco has had five imperial capitals. And while capital cities can often cop a bad rap for being boring, in Morocco, they are anything but. We take a look at Volubilis, Fez, Marrakesh, Rabat and Meknes. Story by Lee Atkinson

Valley of the Kasbahs: It may just be a trick of the light, but time seems to have moved slowly on the Road of 1000 Kasbahs, a journey across Central Morocco, from Merzouga on the edge of the Sahara not far from the Algerian border to Marrakesh. With Bedouin camps in the desert dunes, ruined castles, isolated Berber villages, white knuckle mountain passes and Hollywood movies sets, The Valley of the Kasbahs is a world away from the bustling medinas of Morocco’s cities. Story by Lee Atkinson

Souk in the City: Stepping into a Moroccan medina is a journey back in time, a glimpse of what life was like in the middle ages, because in essence, not much has changed since then in these winding alleyways and labyrinthine laneways so narrow that two people must turn sideways to pass each other. Getting lost is a certainty, becoming overwhelmed by the crowds and the noise and the clamour is highly likely and paying more than you bargained for something you never knew you really wanted is an inevitability, but the souks and medinas of Morocco have an addictive and bewitching charm like no other place on earth.
Story by Lee Atkinson
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