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MOROCCO: UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES

MARRAKESH: My first visit to Marrakesh was in October 2019 and I was so impressed but somewhat overwhelmed with this city. It's such an unusual city where the ancient and the modern world exists side by side. Going through the old medinas and the souks, I was imagining Aladdin jumping across from one rooftop to the next in his constant escape from the authorities chasing him from 'roof to roof!' It seems my childhood 'fairy tales' of the 1001 Arabian Nights come to life for me! Morocco is home to more  UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES than any other country on…

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by Eleanor Tan
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The Valley of the Roses, Morocco (Vallee des Roses Morocco)

KALAAT M'GOUNA, MOROCCO: A TOWN OF ROSES “A rose is an argument. It proclaims the triumph of beauty over brutality, of gentleness over violence, of the ephemeral over the lasting, and of the universal over the particular. The same rose bursts into bloom on the North Cape and in the Sahara desert.“ Alan Meilland El-Kalaa, M'Gouna Rose Festival The Rose Festival or Moussem of Roses takes place on the second weekend in May and lasts for two days. Kalaat M’gouna means Valley of the Roses and the city itself is named after the nearby Mount Mgoun, The Kelaat M'Gouna Rose…

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Volubilis, Morocco (UNESCO): Roman Ruins in North Africa – The Last Roman Frontier

Volubilis near Meknes in Morocco was an ancient Roman city. An impressive well preserved UNESCO-listed site housing extensive ruins dating back to the 1st century BC. I have missed this site during my first visit in October 2019 and I am happy that I have made it on this visit in November 2021. What is Volubilis? The Roman ruins of Volubilis, Morocco, the finest of all the Roman ruins to be found in the country, are at once important for their Roman connections to the region. This crumbling skeleton of a once-flourishing Roman city. This place, called VOLUBILIS by the Romans and Oualili…

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