El Jadida

African/Oceania Olympic qualifier in El Jadida, Morocco from March 13-15 postponed to March 12-14, 2021.

Professional and amateur groups travel to El Jadida from across the kingdom to perform, in their distinctive uniforms with traditional ornamentation, matching headscarves and embroidered chaps.

After an easy two-hour drive south on the highway, we chose to stay in the only hotel within the 16th-century walls of Mazagan, the historic name my grandfather used for the town of El Jadida on the Atlantic Ocean.

The revised rules stated, among other things, that the maximum drive between a host city and the nearest airport was reduced to 90 minutes when the journey between El Jadida, on Morocco’s west coast, to Casablanca airport had been estimated at 91 minutes.

A change that particularly raised eyebrows was the maximum drive between a host city and the nearest airport being reduced to 90 minutes – the journey between El Jadida on Morocco’s west coast to Casablanca airport had been estimated at 91 minutes.