Places/ The Atlas

Imlil

A Berber village at 1,740 metres and the walking base for Toubkal, North Africa's highest peak. Walnut groves, terraced fields, and mule tracks that were the only road until recently.

Format
Single-day escape
Region
The Atlas
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not on this route
The village of Imlil built into a High Atlas hillside above walnut groves

Imlil, Morocco

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Imlil is a day trip

Imlil is a single-day escape rather than a stop on a multi-day route.

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Tizi n'Tichka

The pass over the High Atlas at 2,260 metres, and the reason the south feels like another country. The road switchbacks for two hours through bare red ridgelines, and the weather changes at the top.

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The Tizi n'Tichka road switchbacking down a bare red mountainside in the High Atlas
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Tizi n'Tichka, Morocco

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Skoura & the Valley of Roses

A palm oasis full of half-ruined kasbahs, the finest of them Amridil. North of it the valley floor is planted with damask roses, harvested by hand over three weeks in April and May.

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Kasbah Amridil rising from the Skoura palm oasis with damask roses along an irrigation channel
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Skoura & the Valley of Roses, Morocco

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Aït Ben Haddou

A fortified earthen village stacked against its hillside above the Ounila, continuously built and rebuilt in mud brick since the eleventh century. UNESCO-listed, and the backdrop to more films than anyone can list.

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The fortified ksar of Aït Ben Haddou stacked against its hillside above green fields

Aït Ben Haddou, Morocco