Morocco Travel:
The Top 10 Natural Wonders of Morocco
Ifrane – Morocco’s Switzerland
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Looking like a town in the Alps |
The hidden
ski and winter paradise
When I first
heard of Ifrane and saw photos of it, it really took me by surprise. This place
will luckily never be a tourist spot but its simple rarity makes it worth
mentioning. Who would ever think, to find such a place in Africa? This time I'd like to introduce you to a very special place, that is called: Morocco's Switzerland. Ifrane.
To share a
little bit of history, Ifrane was founded by the French in 1928 who colonized
Morocco and held it under administration until around the late Sixties. And
it’s no mistake people bring up similarities with the Alps, It’s because its
climate makes it very similar to all the best resorts located deep or high up in the Alps, therefore it was used as a sort of a resort for the French colonizers an escape from
the heat and a place where one can literally ski , enjoy snow, the clean air of higher altitude and feel like being in Europe.
Looking around, Ifrane
also looks more like a European town. Located at an altitude of over 3000
meters in the Middle Atlas region, life is very different up there. If you look
at the red roofs and European style mountain houses, you would never think for
a moment, that this place you see is in fact in Northern Africa. Today, Ifrane
is a popular travel destination for lots of people who live in the nearby
cities and villages such as Fez or Meknes.
Ifrane is best
accessible from Fez and Meknes as the nearest big cities: it takes around 2
hours to get there from there. There are local buses go up to Ifrane on a daily
basis. If you would like to get there from a different city,
If you would like to be visiting Ifrane from a different city, I suggest you to
do it first getting to Fez or Meknes, which you can easily access by train or by bus ( not to mention Fez has an international airport if you plan to get there rightaway),
then change to a bus.
Check out more
photos of
Ifrane on my Pinterest by clicking
here.
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Part 7
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