The Merzouga desert is 562 kilometres away from the red city of Marrakech, and it takes between 9 and 10 hours to get there by road. The trip to the Merzouga desert from Marrakech involves at least 3 days and […]
Remarkable sites around Marrakesh
The Zagora Desert is located in southern Morocco, about 355 kilometres away from Marrakech, and takes about 6 hours to reach. You will pass through the Atlas Mountains, Ait Ben Haddou and Ouarzazate. Although the journey may seem long, the […]
Situated at an altitude of 1,150 metres south of the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains, Ouarzazate is known as the gateway to the Sahara Desert on the road to Zagora. It is reached through the lush palm groves of the Draa […]
Previously called Mogador by the Portuguese, Essaouira is a port city with a fortified medina on the Atlantic Ocean. The region of Essaouira was occupied since Antiquity in a discontinuous way by the Phoenicians, by the Berbers at the time […]
Ouzoud waterfalls are the most beautiful and highest waterfalls in Morocco. Often dominated by a rainbow, they offer visitors a spectacular view from a height of about 110m on three levels. Located 150 km northeast of Marrakech on the picturesque site […]
Agafay desert is located about thirty kilometres away from the red city of Marrakech, on the first heights of the High Atlas mountains. It extends over several hundred hectares.You can admire breathtaking landscapes in a rocky and hilly environment, composed […]
The Ourika valley is a valley in the Moroccan High Atlas located 40 km away from Marrakech. It is mainly populated by Berbers. It is still considered a relatively unspoilt natural oasis, both for its lush nature of terraced fields, […]
Marrakech’s palmeraie has more than 100,000 palm trees that have been planted since the 11th century at the time of the Almoravid dynasty on a 15,000 hectare plot of land in the form of oases irrigated by an ancestral underground […]
The mountain village of Imlil with its terraced cultivation and mud houses is located at 1,740 m altitude. It is the starting point for the ascent of Mount Toubkal, whose summit is the highest point in the High Atlas as […]
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