Places/ The Atlas

Ouarzazate

The door of the desert, and the point where the mountain road gives way to the kasbah country. The Taourirt Kasbah still holds the centre of town in rammed earth and geometric relief.

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9 itineraries
Region
The Atlas
On the signature
The Grand Traverse
The crenellated rammed-earth towers of the Taourirt Kasbah at Ouarzazate in late light
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Ouarzazate, Morocco

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9 itineraries include Ouarzazate

Including the signature — The Grand Traverse, twelve days at $4,800 per person, departing April 1 – April 12, 2027.

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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