Chefchaouen: Morocco's 'Blue Pearl'

A kaleidoscopic melange, from powder blue to periwinkle, and pretty much everything in between, crafts the cobalt cityscape
A kaleidoscopic melange, from powder blue to periwinkle, and pretty much everything in between, crafts the cobalt cityscape (photo: Sugato Mukherjee)

Nestled in the Rif Mountains of northwest Morocco, Chefchaouen – where Jews, Amazigh and Arabs settled to impart a unique blend of cultural identity – seems lost in a maze of myriad shades of blue.