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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Keith Drew has travelled in nearly sixty countries but has yet to visit another city quite as bewitching as Fez, or drive on mountain roads quite as hairy as the High Atlas’s. Publisher at Rough Guides, he is also co-author of the Rough Guide to Costa Rica and, slightly closer to home, the Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol & Somerset.

Chris Griffiths immediately fell in love with the diversity of Morocco’s landscapes, cultures and architecture, and has now settled there permanently. Based in the Middle Atlas region, Chris is frequently on the road and most enjoys spending time in laid-back oasis villages. As a graduate of journalism and a keen backpacker, he is passionate about travel-based media.

Thomas Hollowell has been living in Morocco since 2002. He’s currently based in the Middle Atlas Mountains and helps to run a Morocco tour company called Journey Beyond Travel. He has written both travel and sport-related books.

Darren Humphrys is a writer, photographer and tour guide who left his native Australia in 1997 for an African safari – and stayed. Now residing in his adopted homeland of South Africa and a self-confessed “Africa-phile,” he has been leading tours to Morocco since 2001 with his company Compass Odyssey ( compassodyssey.net). Darren has contributed text and images of his favorite North African country to various guidebooks, travel publications and image libraries.

Daniel Jacobs has worked on Rough Guides to West Africa, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Kenya, India, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia.

Martin Zatko has been more or less constantly on the move since early 2002, during that time writing or co-updating the Rough Guides to Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Turkey and Europe. He’s a big fan of Morocco’s far south, and its various fascinatingly desolate landscapes.

Acknowledgements

Chris Griffiths would like to thank Naim Souhel for his expert knowledge of the Dades and Todra Gorges, and Kolin Goncalves for his help mapping the Middle Atlas. He would also like to thank Lahsen Alkouch and Abdel Karim for his assistance in researching the Sahara region.

Thomas Hollowell would like to thank Fazia for her genuine support throughout the research and writing of the guidebook. He would also like to thank Omar Jellah, who he considers to be the best mountain guide in the country, for his dedicated work and unprecedented knowledge of the Atlas Mountains.

Darren Humphrys Shukrran bezzef to khouya Rachid Nassar, Hassan el Janah and Bouchaib Boudki, and love as always to their families. Thanks also to all the staff at Moroccan Club Travel in Marrakesh. A final thank you to my wife Kate, for allowing me to follow my dreams while keeping the home fires burning and taking care of Henry, Olive and Hume.

Daniel Jacobs Thanks to Chris Silver, Mohammed Ben-Madani, Abdellilah Alami and Marc Dubin, to Faiçal Alaoui at Morocco Tourism in London, and to my colleagues Thomas Hollowell, Darren Humphrys and Helen Abramson.

Martin Zatko would like to thank Around Morocco Tours for their assistance with accommodation during his time in the far south, and Sahara Services for their help with transport. He would also like to thank John Tipper for his company throughout the trip, and for limiting our car crashes to one minor beaching in the sand.

The publishers would like to acknowledge the work of Hamish Brown, Keith Drew, Mark Ellingham, Daniel Jacobs and Shaun McVeigh on previous editions of this guide.

Readers’ updates

Thanks to all the readers who have taken the time to write in with comments and suggestions (and apologies if we’ve inadvertently omitted or misspelt anyone’s name):

Mikal Ahmed, Liz Asch, Amanda Ameena Barr-Bekka, Ernest Baden, Damiano Bardini, Inda Bevis, Carlo Borghi & Catherine Davis, Duygu Cantekin & Sahan Evren, Robert Chiarito, Kasper Claes, “Clare & Mike”, Paul Duffy & Kirstie, Dr Katrin Eigener, Darya Fraiman, Anne Freimanis, David Goslett, Jana Hadravova, Elizabeth Headley, Alexander Hentzsch, “humpfilm2010”, Tanja IJzer, Philipp Jalowietzki, Martin Judson, Kathy-Ann Koralek, Andy Lutz, Patrick Mattison, Gerben and Marieke Meijer, W. Nichols, William O’Neill, Grace Pascoe, Michiel Ruijter, Keith Ryan, Matt Seddon, Ilana Shemoul, Anthony de Sigley, Michael Steiner, E. Struikmans, Inge Teklenburg & Michiel Born, Emma Walker, Luke Warren, Nicola Widnall & Dean Ellis.

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