Day 1: Arrival in FES /Marrakech/Casablanca
Welcome with your tour guide and transfer to your hotel or Riad. Night at the hotel or Riad..
Day 2: Fes – Tounfit
Transfer by minibus or 4x to TOUNFIT, a large assembly town (2200 ml) at the foot of Jebel MAASKER and called Ighil Ouhbari, continuity of Jebel AYACHI—high mountain pastures with intense agricultural life: barley, wheat, and alfalfa crops. Dinner and night at the inhabitant..
Day 3: Tounfit – Village of ASSAKA
Departure from TOUNFIT by the track frequented only by the mountain dwellers on the back of mules who join their high villages. Ascent to the ATMAN plateau. Despite the altitude, you will cross wide rolling plains where you will meet villagers busy in the fields doing agricultural work with their rudimentary tools everywhere and crossing forests of holm oaks, junipers, or majestic cedars. Crossing the TIZI HAMMOU pass to descend to the beautiful village of Aït CHAOUALI (Lemri), a white and ocher adobe house with flat roofs. After crossing the village, you will arrive at the village of ASSAKA at the foot of the TATROUT Gorges. You will be surprised to find very traditional clothing habits and an ancestral way of life where time does not seem to have had any hold on these Berbers from the high valleys. Dinner and night at the inhabitant..
Day 4: ASSAKA – TATROUT gorges – The valley of TEGRARA – AGHEDDOU
Picnic day. The ascent towards the TATROUT Gorges crosses the gorges, allowing passing towards the southern slope of the DJEBEL MAASKER. Superb narrow altitude gorges with vertiginous walls planted with cedars. The group leaves the gorges and runs along the TEGRARA valley, passing through the TIZI n'HOUDIM pass, then descent to the very isolated village of AGHEDDOU.! 1800 m. The only way for the inhabitants of this village to get to TOUNFIT is by mule. Dinner and night at the Camp under tents..
Day 5: AGHEDDOU – ANEFGOU – TIRGHIST
Ascent of the AGHEDDOU wadi, crossing the feet in the water. Crossing the forest of cedars and holm oaks along the djebel TAGZIZAOUT. The mule track continues the path, which leads to ANEFGOU—crossing the village where an intense pastoral life reigns everywhere. The track will continue the path to reach the forest house of TIRGHIST. Superb view. Opportunity to see mouflons. Stop at the forest guard for explanations on the life of the mouflons. Dinner and night at the Camp near the forest house. 2,170m.
Day 6: TIRGHIST – Lake ISLI
Ascent to the ISSOUAL pass (fossils) 2,400 m panoramic view of the village of TIRGHIST, its valley, and the lake plateau. Crossing the immense ISLAN plateau towards the large ISLI lake. Dinner and overnight at the Camp near the lake..
Day 7: Lake ISLI – Lake TISLIT – IMILCHIL
From May crossing the ISLAN plateau, grazing land of the Eastern High Atlas, you will meet the shepherds of the tribes of AïT HADDIDOU, AÏT MORHAD, AÏT YAZZA, and AÏT BRAHIM. Many come to the plateau to pitch their traditional Berber tents woven from goat hair and graze their herds. With a proud gaze and a haughty bearing adorned with their traditional burnous, they will not hesitate to offer you their simple, generous, and...comforting hospitality! The group continues toward the small lake TISLIT along the Bab -n-Ouayad. Descent to the large town of IMILCHIL (2,200 meters), where the Engagement Moussem is celebrated yearly. Arrival in the village of Imlouan, Dinner and night at the inhabitant. In the evening, at sunset, young girls and boys gather for their traditional songs and dances to the sound of bendir. The show emerges from another era, moving, tender, and full of nostalgia..
Day 8: Transfer to Airport
Return to Marrakech/Fes/Casablanca by minibus or 4×4.
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