Day trip to the colorful and beautiful town of Chefchaouen. Chefchaouen, or Shaouen as the Moroccans call it, is located in the middle of the Rif Mountains and is a popular tourist destination because of its beauty. One of the distinctive features of Chefchaouen is its blue painted houses and buildings. The blue walls of Chefchaouen are a popular theme. There are various theories as to why the walls are painted blue. One theory is that blue keeps mosquitoes away, another is that Jews adopted blue in the 1930s to escape Hitler. Blue is said to symbolize the sky and the heavens and reminds us to live a spiritual life.