TANGIER TO MARRAKECH

Forget the Marrakech Express. The hippy train that Crosby, Stills and Nash sang about riding through Morocco has been usurped by Africa’s first high-speed rail line, which connects Tangier with Casablanca in just two hours. The French-built TGV was launched in late 2018. Panoramic windows frame medinas and forests that rise into the Rif Mountains, while a buffet car serves thé à la menthe. Great Rail Journeys’ tour from London St Pancras blasts through France and Spain in first class, before riding the new Moroccan TGV and the old High Atlas railway lines to Fes and Marrakech.

Great Rail Journeys (01904 527180; greatrail.com) offers the 13-night Magnificent Morocco & Moorish Spain tour from £2,995pp, including meals and a flight home from Marrakech to London.

A NIGHT ON THE TILESInside In Tangier’s Continental CoHotel, Ho above; and a ap pair of elephants in Amboseli, Kenya, Ke left