It is 4-day walking trek which enables you to investigate the high peaks of the Atlas Mountains and make the most of its excellent landscapes. A hike amidst the cool vegetation of juniper and pine trees is an ideal method to make you feel livelier. Your guide takes you on an extraordinary walk all over the lovely hills, going across over deep gorges, flowing river streams and forests of cherry and walnut trees.
The valleys include tiny hamlets involve and villages of the Berber people, a network living on herding and farming. Grab the chance to communicate with them and visit their homes to find out about their customs and traditions.
We leave Marrakech early, driving southwards 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 4167m, Aglzim 3650m and Aksoual 3847m, looming before us. Here, in Imi oughlad, we meet with our muleteer team. We set off for a 2hour acclimatization hike, going by cornfields woods pine and juniper to the tiz n’tachete (2000m), where we will stop to look back down on the imlikl and Ait oussaden valleys before continuing for another thirty minutes to Imi n’ifri and our field excursion. Afterwards, we walk south-west for around 2 hours and a half to Assif n’ ait oussaden and the red clay terraced village of Tiziane (1750 m) where we go through the night in a bivouac or a gite.
Our morning hike takes us up along the assif n’ait oussaden valley, going through the wallnuts forests, up to tizi n’taghrhourte (1995m), at that point at long last to Assaka spring, where we will stop for our cookout break following 2 hours and a half generally simple walking.
Our evening’s hike brings us down along the edges of the backwoods untill we achieve the berber village of D’knt (1870m) or Agouns n Assoul where we eat and rest in a bivouac or gite.
We hike up through forests of walnut trees, fields of corn and barley. We may have a chance to see some Berber people working in the fields. We cross the tizi n’Tagdalte, descending amongst the juniper trees till we come to a little spring set, where we enjoy a break for our picnics. After that, we depart for a small river toward the beinning of the valley of Assif n’Ait Oussaden, from where we enter the village of Tizi Oussem (1850m) and walk to the Tamsoult village for our camp or gite. The entire trek takes about 6 hours.
We trek to Azib Tamsoulte, where we visit a small waterfall and take some photos. We return to cross the Tizi ‘n Mzik pass (2,500m) and walk down to Toubkal valley at Imlil (1,900m), where we have our lunch before we drive to Marrakesh.
