Berber Villages & Mountain Passes Trek

Berber Villages & Mountain Passes Trek
Spend 4 days exploring the high peaks of the Atlas Mountains on foot. A hike amidst cool vegetation of juniper and pine trees is a perfect way to rejuvenate your mind and body. Go across deep gorges, gushing river streams and groves of cherry and walnut trees, as your guide takes you on a great walk up and down the beautiful hills.
The valleys are home to tiny hamlets and villages of the ethnic Berbers, a herding and farming community. Visit their homes and interact with them to know more about their traditions and customs.
See their terraced fields of corn and barley and get a glimpse of their day to day living.
Berber Villages & Green Valleys and Mountain passes Trek Itinerary:
1. day :Marrakech –imi oughlad –tizi n'tachte –tiziane :
early morning departure from marrakech for a pleasante drive south winding our way up through the moulay brahim gorge and upper valleys to arrive at the higher foothills of the western high atlas mountains and our trailhead of imi oughlad (1450m) with the jbel toubkal , at 4167m the highest peak in north africa , aglzim 3650m and aksoual 38847m ,looming before us . 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.
2. day :tizziane – tizi n'taghrhourte – D'knt :
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 .
3. day : D'knt – tizi n'tagdalte – tizi oussem :
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 gite.
4. day : tizi oussem -- Tizi M'zzik --- Imlil :
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 (1,900m), where we have lunch before the drive to Marrakech.

Option 2 :
Day1: : Marrakech - imlil – tizi n’tamaterte – Tachdirth :
Transfer from marrakech to Imlil then set out towards the east ; up winding mule tracks to the tizi n’ tamaterte (2279m) to enjoy the amazing panorama of the surrounding atlas mountain range peaks and valleys on our way to our picnic spot on the tizi n’tamaterte , overlooking jbel oukaimeden and the beautiful encircled plateau. After lunch set of following the path down to imnane valley intill our gite d’etape in Tachdirth village . 5 to 6 hours walking.
Day2: Trek down the valley of Imnane accross lot of Berber villages :
Ounskra, tamguist , ikkis , amssakrou , Arg and Imsker , night in a Berber home. 5hours walking.
Day3: Trek from Imsker to Tizian via Tizi n Lbour and tizi n tacht mountain passes all day through tuya and juniper groves. 6hours.
Day4 : Tizian to Imlil via Ighouliden waterfalls , summer villgaes of Azib n Tamsoult and Tizi M'zzik Mountain pass , 6hours walking
Note : Itinerary is just a guideline and subject to change to suit local condition.


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