I’ve spend 3 weeks in Morocco mostly Marrakech and Casablanca and a couple of day in Asilah and Tetouan.

1) I have been traveling in 20 different countries including poor countries but I’ve never felt so much poverty around me and it’s depressing as vendors and fake guides try to rip you off all the time and they are being very annoying. Although, the poverty isn’t higher than places like India or the Philippines, but the constant begging for money makes you feel like people are in “famine like situations”.

2) people are poorly educated and don’t respect personal space. They are always trying to interact with you when you are only trying to enjoy the place by yourself.

3/ I’m in my late 20’s and appreciate night-life spots wherever I go. Casablanca and Marrakech night-life looked great on paper. I found most clubs to be very descent and I was clearly not against the possibility to encounter a Moroccan female partner to show me her cities. but those clubs are filled with lady who directly tell you their “price” for one night or 1 hour. Prostitution is rampant in almost every night club. I could say that 90% of girls are prostitutes. Although, I found 2 clubs in Casablanca who doesn’t allow those type of activities and their clients are moroccan upper class youth. ( Maison B in Casablanca is one of them). However, after doing some research online, I found out that Morocco is pretty big for sexual tourism and it’s considered one of the top 10 countries.

Do I need to say that I wasn’t seeking this type of tourism?

I’m not against prostitution and I believe people should be able to do what they want with their body, but this situation has contributed to grow feeling of being a walking wallet.

For the average American that I am, I found it very exhausting to be always trying to get away from people that doesn’t understand the word “No”.

Although, I have to admit that I haven’t experience that in Asilah and Tetouan, 2 northern, smaller and cleaner cities. And Marrakech is king for harassment compared to Casablanca.

And I have to admit that I never felt in physical danger day or night.

I don’t like giving bad reviews and I actually never leave review and I travelled in early 2020 so I’m late for this review but I don’t think the situation as changed since 1 year.

I understand that my impression isn’t representative of the entire country of Morocco but most tourist go to Marrakech or/and Casablanca, so the goal of my post is to inform people about what to expect. My sensibility is different from other people, but in my case, I won’t be back to morroco unlike the situation and mentalities changes in very drastic way.

For ending positively my post, I wanted to add that Moroccan landscapes are the most beautiful I’ve seen in my whole life. I’ve seen just a fraction of the country’s landscapes and I was amazed of how lush and green the northern part is, the mountain, the dry south, the land color.

I tought Morocco was a dry dusty land but I couldn’t be more away from the truth, I was immensely surprised by the breathtaking and contrasty panoramas.

I enjoyed comments about my country and that make me lauph(indeed about monkey story)and this our tempre we turn our misery into mockery and laugh but your comment grieved me in last quote”Countries were tourism is an important source of revenue should invest in educating and monitoring its population.” thank u for ur honest words that affect me and i know some causes of this hell . I hope u enjoyed travel.

You are welcome , and we are so sorry if anyone got unhappy experience visiting this country , but acttully i live in meknes and every time i was visiting FEZ MEDINA i was feeling not comftable an unsafe me too , i wish that you are meeting great and nice people in your visite to my countrny who could left a unforgatable happy images .

In my experience, everything you said is true. Overall, the people in Morocco are extremely kind and welcoming. Much more than in other travel destinations. Europe has more pickpockets.

It is true that the male attention is too much if you are alone as a woman, but at least it is only attention and every woman in the world, sadly, is used to sexual harrassment.