" A cold country with a hot sun "

    For a relatively small country, Morocco has a strikingly varied landscape. Many different types of local climate have produced such contrasting scenery as mountain valleys carpeted with flowers, the sun- scorched dunes of the Sahara, moist cedar forests and wadis swollen with spring rains. This subtropical climate is similar to that of the maritime regions of California and southern Europe. You can quite easily travel from the snows of the High Atlas to the sands of the Sahara in the space of a day.