Trekking in Tassaout valley.

In the central High Atlas region lays the beautiful valley of Tassaout. The river rises at the foot of the famous plateau Tarekeddit and its abundant waters roll deep in a beautiful green valley where nature is fierce and making access difficult for the beautiful and isolated villages and amazing buildings made of adobe (Ighrem) used as granaries.

Programm,

Day 1 : Transfer to Tabant (1900m), the main village of the happy valley and place of weekly market in Sunday. Visit of dinosaurs footprints in Aguerd n'Ouzrou. Night in the Berber house, about 5 hours drive.

- Day 3 to Day 10 : We discover the valley of Ait Bouguemez called happy valley, we walk through the fields and under the walnut threes and through some villages to Tarekkeddit a large plateau located at 2900m, from this point we climb Djebel Mgoun(4072m). Along the oued Tassaout we discover beautiful natural landscapes and many beautiful Berber villages built of adobe, as Amezri, Fakhour, Ifoulou, Ait Ali n'itto, and the most beautiful one which is called Magdaz thanks to it's big buildings dated back to the 16 century : It's the birthplace of the famous Mririda, Berber singer, whose songs were translated into a book called "Songs of Tassaout". The average time of the stages is 6 hours walk, our trek continues to the foot of Anoghmar (3610m) and a flank march up a hill from which a descent into the bed of a river leads to the natural lake Tamda. In Tighza village we spent the night in a beautiful Berber house.


-Day 11: Short walk along a trail to the Anmiter village , where our driver waits for us. Back to Marrakech via Telouet where we will visit the beautiful Kasbah of  the Pasha Glaoui, and have lunch in a nice restaurant in the village before we drive up to Tichka pass (2260m). Overnight at hotel in Marrakech.