It is a 4-day walking trek which enables you to explore the high peaks of the Atlas Mountains and make the most of its excellent scenes. A hike during cool vegetation of juniper and pine trees is a perfect way to make you feel livelier. Your guide takes you on a great walk up and down the beautiful hills, passing across deep gorges, flowing river streams and groves of cherry and walnut trees.
The valleys include small hamlets and villages of the Berber peoples, a network living on herding and farming. Seize the chance to communicate with them and visit their homes to find out about their cultures and traditions.
We leave Marrakech early, driving southwards through the Moulay Brahim crevasse and upper valleys to land at the higher lower regions of the western High Atlas Mountains and our trailhead of Imi oughlad (1450m) with the jbel Toubkal 4167m, Aglzim 3650m and Aksoual 3847m, approaching before us. Here, in Imi oughlad, we meet with our muleteer team. We set off for a 2-hour acclimatization hike, passing by cornfields woods pine and juniper to the tiz n’tachete (2000m), where we will stop to think down on the imlikl and Ait oussaden valleys before proceeding for another 30 minutes to Imi n’ifri and our field picnic. Afterwards, we walk south-west for around 2 hours and a half to Assif n’ ait oussaden and the red earth terraced village of tiziane (1750 m) where we spend the night in a bivouac or a gite.
Our morning hike takes us up along the Assif n’ait Oussaden valley, passing through the walnuts groves, up to Tizi n’taghrhourte (1995m ) ,at that point at last to Assaka spring, where we will stop for our outing break following 2 hours and a half moderately simple walking.Our evening’s hike brings us down along the edges of the woodland until the point when we achieve the Berber village of D’knt (1870m) or Agouns n Assoul where we feast and rest in a bivouac or gite.
We hike up through groves of walnut trees, fields of corn and barley. We may have a chance to see some Berber peoples working in the fields. We cross the Tizi n’Tagdalte, plummeting among the juniper trees till we go to a little spring set, where we enjoy a break for our cookout. From that point onward, we withdraw for a little river toward the start 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 6hours.
We trek to Azib Tamsoulte, where we visit a little waterfall and take some photographs’ return to cross the Tizi ‘n Mzik pass (2,500m) and walk down to Toubkal valley at Imlil (1,900m), where we eat before we drive to Marrakech.
