Quiet Walks
Three self-guided walks timed around the tour buses — dawn on the spine, the makers' lanes, and sunset from the Spanish Mosque — with the etiquette residents ask for.
Chefchaouen's crowds move along one diagonal — Bab El Ain up through Place Outa el-Hammam to the Ras El Maa spring — roughly between 10am and 5pm, while the day-trip buses are in town. These walks work around that clock, and they point your money at the town's own trades: workshops, cooperatives and family kitchens rather than the busiest square. People live in every lane you'll walk.
Watch for motorbikes
The medina is pedestrian in principle, but residents have complained in the local press about motorbikes speeding through lanes barely two metres wide. Keep children close on the longer straights.