Essaouira might be the coolest city in Morocco. Find all the best things to do in Essaouira, where to eat, how to get around and even what to pack.

Our driver wove his vehicle around an immense plaza that fronts Essaouira , giving us our first full view of this Moroccan city that sits on Africa’s northwest coastline. But before I begin describing ...

Even high on the roof terrace of the Riad Al Madina, the smell of leather from the narrow streets of the souks below is heady, curling up in tendrils on the hot evening air. Peek down, and stalls ...

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"Once, everyone was here. There were 13 consulates. The French, the British, the Portuguese, the Dutch, even the Brazilians, half the city was Jewish, there were synagogues as well as mosques and we ...

Maybe it was the kebabs smoking on sidewalk grills, or the layer of fog that colored the afternoon sky a pale gray, but when I walked through a stone archway into the walled city of Essaouira, being ...