High Atlas Travel Guide

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The High Atlas region is perfect for outdoors adventure and the perfect antidote to the concentration and animation of Marrakesh. You can hang-glide, ski, hot-air balloon, quad-bike, and ride mules. Best of all, you can walk. And if trekking in the snowy mountain ranges for days on end with only Berber women and their mules for friends isn't your thing, you can wimp out and drive.

Hotels

High Atlas Hotels

Most of the better hotels in the High Atlas are located in or around Ouirgane, which is quickly becoming a sought-after refuge from the sometimes excessive...read more

Restaurants

High Atlas Restaurants

There are a few excellent restaurants in the hotels around Ouirgane, and a couple near Imlil, but beyond these, fare is limited mostly to what's available...read more

Things To Do

Things To Do in High Atlas

Explore the best sights, entertainment, and shopping with our top choices and insider tips.

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High Atlas Experiences

  • Top Reasons to Go

    The chance to hike North Africa's tallest peak: Djebel Toubkal, which soars to 13,671 feet, is only a two-day climb. Trekkers can find everything... Read more

  • Romance Among the Rocks

    Every year hundreds of people get married at the three-day marriage moussem, the engagement festival that takes place at Imilchil every August/September... Read more

  • Moroccan Wines

    South and west of Meknès, from Sidi-Slimane to Boufakrane, are Morocco's best vineyards, known since Roman times for producing fine wines... Read more

  • Who Are the Berbers?

    Berbers live in every part of Morocco and move in every social class, from the poorest rural farms to the wealthiest neighborhoods in Rabat... Read more

  • Ibn Tumart, the First Almohad

    A Tashelhit speaker from the hills in the Souss Valley, Ibn Tumart (died 1128) traveled north to the great Kairaouine University in Fez and then... Read more

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