My plan was to spend two days hiking in the High Atlas mountains, then return to explore Marrakech for an evening and morning before the flight home on Sunday afternoon.
Topping out at over 4,000 metres, the
Toubkal is the country's highest massif, although I was only trekking at around
the 2,000m.
The treeline peters out at the village of Imlil at around 1,500m,
where there's a clutch of small hotels, cafés and shops selling everything from
Mars bars to guttering.
Imlil is an hour and a half by road
from Marrakech, the last 20 minutes on a swaying mountain dirt track clinging
to the contours.
The villagers have voted not to have it paved as they like their
semi-isolation at the head of the valley and are worried about being inundated
by Moroccan tourists in their cars.
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