Family with kids driving from Marrakesh to Fez – any threat of danger for daytime driving?

7/29/2013 10:11:47 AM

I’ve just returned from a 1500km driving tour of central and eastern Morocco. My girlfriend and I both felt very safe in and out of the car, welcomed by the locals in cities and villages. The only risk for driving during the day is the abundance of traffic police with checkpoints and radar guns. We were stopped for crossing the white center line (which is hard to avoid doing with very slow trucks, donkey carts, and cyclists on the road) and asked to pay a fine. I talked my way out of it, but could see it happening again if I wasn’t on my toes.

3/9/2012 10:34:02 AM

Morocco is a relatively safe place.

The biggest issue would be heat and sun if you travel in summer.

Take care of air conditioning in the car and of long sleeves to protect the skin of your blonde and red head children (though I guess that all the family could benefit).

3/5/2021 3:17:45 PM

You’re worrying way too much about this! Morocco sees a huge number of European tourists (~370,000 from the UK alone) due to its proximity to Europe thanks to cheap low-cost carrier flights as well as historic ties it has with France, being a former French colony. (To this day, French is one of the more commonly spoken languages, at least in the bigger cities, in Morocco.) Travel advisory by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK mentions a general threat of terrorism as is common in the Asian/African region, and yes, driving standards may be significantly different to what you’re used in the US or Europe. However, in practical terms Morocco is an extremely safe country and you certainly aren’t going to find ‘machine gun toting rebels’ (who exactly do you think is rebelling against what?) kidnapping tourists.

There have been incidents of tourists being kidnapped a couple of years ago in some other North African countries such as Algeria, but not Morocco (as far as I can see from a general web search).

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