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4 Days Berber Villages TRek

Overview

Berber Villages

Morocco is a great destination with wonderful trails, wild mountains, fascinating people and a dozen summits over 4000 metres high – they’re not called the High Atlas for nothing! Lower elevation treks are available too. English speaking guide(s) cook your meals, and mules carry all the essentials so you can enjoy traveling light and spend your day exploring ancient villages, pastoral valleys and hidden passes that lead to panoramic ridges. Far above dramatic stark crags and rocky trails contrast with terraced village gardens and ruined kasbahs. You can wander at will and perhaps bag a few peaks..

Itinerary

Day 1: Marrakech – Imi oughlad –Tizi n'tachte – Tiziane :

Departure from marrakech at 9h00 and drive to arrive at the higher foothills of the western high atlas mountains and our trailhead of imi oughlad (1450m) . here we alight from our vehicle and meet up with berber muleteer crew . We set off up in north-westerly direction for a 2hour acclimatisation hike up switchback mule tracks , passing by cornfields woods pine and juniper to the tiz n'tachete (2000m),where we shallstop to look back down on the imlikl and ait oussaden valleys before carrying on for another half hour to imi n'ifri and our field picnic .thence a slow hike for about 2 and half hours south-west down along a dirt track to assif n' ait oussaden and the red clay terraced village of tiziane ( 1750 m )for our accommodation in our bivouac or gite..

Day 2: Tizziane Village – Tizi n'taghrhourte 1995m – D'knt Vaalley:

After breakfast we now set off on our hike up along the assif n'ait oussaden valley , passing through the wallnuts groves , up to tizi n'taghrhourte (1995m )and through to a rare almost flat strecth to arrive at assaka spring, where we will stop for our field picnic amidst and awesome silence after some 2 and half hours relatively easy walking .our afternoon's hike takes us down along the edges of the forest untill we reach the berber village of D'knt (1870m) or agouns n Assoul where we will have our dinner and spent the in a bivouac or gite.

Day 3: D'knt Valley – Tizi n'tagdalte 2000m – Azib Tamsoult 2550m :

we set off for our morning's 3 hours hike up through groves of walnut trees, fields of corn and barley to greet the many sheep and goatherders – and women and children bent over with 20kg loads of faggots and dried herbs. We traverse the tizi n'tagdalte to the descent amongst the juniper trees till we come to a small spring set amongst the trees , where we will stop for our picnic .once refreshed , we are off down winding tracks of upper slopes for some 3hours to come to a small river at the beginning of the valley of assif n'ait oussaden . from here we enter the village of tizi oussem (1850m) then up to the summer village Of Tamsoult for our camp or at the refuge.

Day 4: Azib Tamsoult 2550m - Tizi M'zzik 2500m - Imlil Valley 1740m :

Trek to a small waterfall at Azib Tamsoulte and return to cross the Tizi 'n Mzik pass (2,500m). We join the main Toubkal valley at Imlil (1,740m), where we have lunch before the drive to Marrakech

Cots Includes

English, Frensh, Sapich Mountain Guide

Transport from & Back to Marrakech

Accommodation & Cook to prepare all meals

All meals during your trek

Mule to carry your luggage during the trek. & Cook

Cots Excludes?

Travel Inssurance

Soft Drinks

Guide gratuity

What you need to Bring?

- Good walking boots and socks

- Comfortable shoes/slippers for camp/guesthouse

- Trekking pants

- Lightweight waterproof over-trousers / rain-pants

- Underwear

- Long johns

- T-shirts

- Fleece jacket or warm jumper

- Lightweight windproof/waterproof jacket

- Hat

- Goggles (winter) and sunglasses (summer)

- Lightweight thermal or fleece gloves

- 3 to 4 season sleeping bag

- Walking stick

- Day sack/backpack

- Head torch / headlamp

- Basic First Aid Kit - Ice axe and crampons (winter)

- Water bottle or camel back (recommended)

- Penknife (useful)

Other: - Personal items (e.g. towel, sunscreen, wipes, toilet tissues, antibacterial handwash)

- Small First Aid Kit including insect repellent, plasters, meds

- Small rubbish bag to carry out what you carry in

- Matches e.g. burn toilet paper

- Trail snacks

- Zip-Up bags for camera

- Repair kit (eg. needle, thread, duct tap