Culture Villages and Berber Lifestyle Trek - 4 Days

Code: 4CULTURE
4 DAYS 3 NIGHTS
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Tour Overview

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. ...

Great four day through atlas morocco berber villages and through high atlas mountains valleys …

Overnight at the berber villages guest house.Sightseeing tour of azzaden valley, imlil valley, Dkent Valley High Atlas Waterfall and High Atlas Peaks.

This trip is for 4 days from Marrakech and back to Marrakech and you will have option to extend your Trek in the Atlas Mountains as long as you want.

DEPARTURE/RETURN LOCATION From Airport or Your Hotel/Riad
DEPARTURE TIME At 9h AM from the Hotel/Riad
INCLUDED
Transport pick us from Marrakech and get us back to Marrakech.
Accommodations ( Type of Accommodation )
All meals during your trek ( breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Mules to carry your luggage during days of the trek

English French speaking guide / Local Guide
NOT INCLUDED
Travel Inssurance
Drinks

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Day 1: Marrakech – Imi Oughlad Village 1450m – Tizian Village 1750m h

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.

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Day 2: Tizane Village 1750m – D'knt Valley 1870m

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 .

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Day 3: D'knt Valley 1870m --Tizi Oussem Village 1850m .

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.

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Day4: Tizi Oussem Village 1850m – Tizi Mzik pass 2479m – Imlil Valley 1740m

Trek to a small waterfall at Azib Tamsoulte and return to cross the Tizi 'n Mzik pass (2,479m). We join the main Toubkal valley at aroumd village (1,900m), where we have lunch before the drive to Marrakech from imlil valley

Highlights

  • Explore the Berber Villages 8 days
  • Berber Lifestyle and Atlas Valleys
  • discover the traditional Berber way of life
  • Hike through many berber villages in Toubkal National Park.

Tour Price

  • Group 2 people : 180€/person
  • Group 3 people : 170€/person
  • Group 4 - 7 people : 160€/person
  • Group 8 - 12 people : 155€/person.

What to Take

  • We recommend packing the following items:
  • Good walking boots and socks / good trainers
  • 3 to 4 season sleeping bag
  • Day sack/backpack
  • Head torch / headlamp
  • Ice axe and crampons (winter)
  • Lightweight waterproof over-trousers / rain-pants
  • Water bottle or camel back (recommended

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