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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acrocephalus" data-source="post: 3330481" data-attributes="member: 54391">I see now and then birders asking about the safety while birding in Morocco. I just saw Nick’s response (quoted below) in the Lanner Falcon thread, because I don’t want to hijack the lanner’s thread (it's about the new book by Giovanni Leonardi), I started this thread for this purpose. If there is any future questions, I would like other birders to answer based on their own experiences.As many already said, Morocco is one of the safest countries to visit, and one of the bird-rich places in the Western Palearctic. The <a href="http://www.hansoverduin.nl/travel-tales/taste-of-morocco/" target="_blank">Dutch birder and photographer Hans Overduin</a> nicely summarised in his blog what he thinks about Morocco. The minor problems you may encounter in Morocco, can also encountered elsewhere including in Europe and North America. For the ‘hassle’ that some birders experiencing in some popular places, that is part of the enjoyments of the birding for some other birders. If you don’t want the goods or the services offered to you, just say “no, thank you” and it’s done. A similar safety question was asked by an American birder in <a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=249562" target="_blank">this thread</a> (post 2), different European birders and me replied in posts 3, 4, 6 and 7. <a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=249562" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=249562</a></blockquote>

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