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Morocco Things to do :
Shopping Check out the typical souks in Fes for some authentic buys. This medina is a UNESCO world heritage site.
Trekking The atlas mountains provide the highest point in North Africa the Jebel Toubkal  is the highest at 4167m. Tours for trekking up this giant start from  the Berber village of Imlil, right in the foot of the mountain. The Atlas mountains also allow white water rafting experiences.

Try a Camel Trek in the Sahara Desert or Mountain Biking through this beautiful land.

There is a chance to go to the best places in Morocco on a Photography Tour click for details.

Watersports include Surfing and Swimming places to check out include Essaouira, Agadir, Oualidia and El Jadida.

Morocco is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of nearly 32 million and an area of 710.850 km², including Western Sahara which is mainly under Moroccan administration.

Its capital is Rabat, and its largest city is Casablanca; other large cities includes Fes, Salé, Agadir, Marrakesh, Tangiers, Meknes, Oujda and Tetouan.

Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with three small Spanish exclaves, Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera), Algeria to the east, and Mauritania to the south.^[6]

The information technology and communications sectors have been witnessing significant expansion. Morocco is the first country in North Africa to install a 3G network. The number of Internet subscribers in the country jumped 73% in 2006 over the year-ago period. Further, a new offshore site at Casablanca, with state-of-the-art technologies and other incentives, has grabbed the attention of many global multinationals. Setting up offshore service centers in the nation has become tempting. Such is the rate of growth, that off-shoring and IT activities are estimated to contribute $500 million to the country’s GDP and employ 30,000 people by 2015. The communications sector already accounts for half of all foreign direct investments Morocco received over the past five years.^[7]

Morocco is the world's biggest exporter of phosphate and the third-largest producer of phosphorus. The price fluctuations of phosphates on the international market greatly influence Morocco's economy.

Berbers (the Amazigh people) constitute the largest and essential ethnic group of the country as most Moroccans acknowledge their Berber ethnicity or heritage, one way or another. The dual policy of open Arabization and subtle Frenchification has been conducted by the Moroccan governments since 1956, and played a key role in Morocco's cultural and educational changes and even crises. It also resulted in a the growth of lingual Arabization of millions of Moroccans, until it slowed down recently, with the rise of Berber political and cultural movements. The Berber language is still spoken by a large portion of the population.

History of Morocco