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Chefchaouen proves what a little paint can do: the townswomen bucked the Moroccan trend of whitewash and painted everything in town a robin's-egg blue. That may not sound like much, but the result is something akin to walking through a sapphire; as the sun moves in the sky, the blue-hue "changes" from bright sky-blue to navy and cobalt. Walls and alleyways become almost aquatic. Some houses have grown together over a street to form long tunnels, but instead of getting darker, they just get bluer. The visuals are striking, to say the least -- I don't think I took so many photos of random alleyways in my life.