✦Places/ The Atlas
Ouzoud Falls
The highest falls in North Africa, dropping 110 metres in three stages through a red gorge. Wild macaques in the olive trees on the walk down, and boats that take you under the spray.
- Format
- Single-day escape
- Region
- The Atlas
- On the signature
- not on this route
Ouzoud Falls, Morocco
✦Which trips go here
Ouzoud Falls is a day trip
Ouzoud Falls is a single-day escape rather than a stop on a multi-day route.
✦Nearby in The Atlas
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.
- Reached by
- 21 itineraries
Tizi n'Tichka, Morocco
✦Nearby in The Atlas
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.
- Reached by
- 21 itineraries
Skoura & the Valley of Roses, Morocco
✦Nearby in The Atlas
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.
- Reached by
- 20 itineraries
Aït Ben Haddou, Morocco