Morocco · best March-May and September-November

Casablanca

Casablanca doesn't perform for tourists the way Marrakech does — it's a working port city of Art Deco facades gone gray with salt air, where the Hassan II Mosque juts into the Atlantic like a dare. This is Morocco's economic engine, and the energy shows in its traffic, its rooftop bars, and its total indifference to your expectations of what Morocco should look like.