Visitors are flocking to the country, but there are many pockets of peace and tranquility where you'll mingle with locals rather than tourists
Visitors are flocking to the country, but there are many pockets of peace and tranquility where you'll mingle with locals rather than touristsEarly evening in Rabat and the setting sun is turning the colour of the mandarins that are ripening on trees all around the city.
The long tree-lined boulevard that leads up to Dar al-Makhzen, official residence of King Mohammed VI, puts me in mind of the Champs-Élysées in Paris, while the centre of the Kasbah, with its whitewashed buildings, blue shuttered windows, and primary coloured plant pots makes me think of Mykonos’s old town.
Not far from the docks, the Hassan II Mosque is a feat of engineering. Completed in 1993, in a coastal area of the city that was previously little more than the bedrock and brine of the Atlantic Ocean, the structure was born of more than 50 million hours of manpower. Its minaret is 60 storeys tall while its footprint is 22 acres . I feel like a Lilliputian as I approach one of the largest mosques on the continent.Inside, the craftsmanship is intricate.
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