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Why You Should Visit Chefchaouen, Morocco
It is so much more than just the blue buildings!
To say that we were delighted and amazed by pretty much everything in the Chefchaouen area, would still somehow be understating it.
We arrived there (read about our first impressions) weary and jetlagged after traveling across the Atlantic Ocean from Canada. We had no idea what to expect, we hadn’t researched this place online, and we didn’t even know how to pronounce the name (it’s CHEF-CHOW-AN for those interested) before we arrived. Of course, I had seen the odd picture on Instagram of its famous blue walls, which has created the monicker “The Blue Pearl”, but, of course, those pictures do not do this place justice!
Our very first morning in Chefhaouen we were up for the first Muslim call to prayer. This is the first time that either of us had ever heard it!
We initially spent a week in Chefchaouen before heading off to Fez and the Sahara Desert. This gave us the time required to get…
