Marrakech is chaos — I found Morocco’s oldest city that has hardly any tourists ... Google Maps going dark in the medina — the ‘Red City’ doesn’t exactly ease you in.

Riads, souks and lashings of history: Taroudant, 90 minutes from Agadir, has everything visitors love about Marrakech – only with a fraction of the crowds.

It’s early morning in Taroudant, southwestern Morocco, and the lively market town is awakening to the muezzin’s call. Its inhabitants, mostly on foot, by bicycle, or horse-drawn calèche ...