Up to 100 dirhams to sit by the river and 20 dirhams to park your car. A consumer association denounces the prices charged in Ourika and, above all, the appropriation of natural areas that are normally accessible to the public.
Tables, chairs and platforms are taking over the banks, even the bed of the Ourika wadi. Visitors are denouncing an occupation that limits free access to water, compounded by sometimes high prices that are insufficiently displayed.
A French man of Moroccan origin was arrested in the Marrakech region after paying for a meal with a counterfeit euro note . Nearly 70 forged banknotes were subsequently seized.
To celebrate Eid Al-Adha, many Moroccans living abroad have set their sights on Marrakech. Fleeing urban heat, these vacationers boost the local economy by favoring the comfort of hotel stays and leisure spaces.
Suffocated during every vacation period, the connection between Marrakech and Ourika accumulates failures. Between endless traffic jams and regular accidents, this road axis illustrates the planning gaps in the face of the region’s tourism growth.
The Safi-Marrakech desalination project is entering its final phase. Completed at 98%, it will guarantee the water supply for one million inhabitants starting this month. A breath of fresh air for a region hit by scarcity.
A federation of civil society associations in the Ourika region, in the province of Al Haouz, has publicly denounced the practices of certain café and restaurant owners. The latter impose high rates on visitors for the simple fact of sitting on the banks of the Ourika wadi.
Ourika is in shock. Three members of a family have lost their lives by electrocution during the night from Thursday to Friday.
The authorities of the rural commune of Ourika interrupted on Saturday a gay marriage ceremony between a French and a New Zealander in a hotel.
The Ourika tunnel could soon see its northern access facilitated. The Provincial Directorate of Equipment, Transport and Logistics has indeed announced the upcoming launch of a feasibility study for the creation of a new access road.
A French quinquagenarian committed suicide by hanging under mysterious circumstances in the Douar Sidi Moussa, on the Ourika road.
An impressive landslide caused panic on the Ourika road leading to the Setti Fatma region. Foreign tourists narrowly escaped it.