Highlights overview

Ait Ben Haddou

The old ksar of Aït Ben Haddou, without doubt is the most photogenic village in the Moroccan South. Casbah towers mirrored within the water of the river, houses staggered on a mountain, framed in its top by the remains of an ancient enclosure wall, and, in its foreground, those women who wash their linen in the wadi, here all of the ingredients in the classic shot…”

Three successive places have been known to the village throughout its history, two of which are still present. Houses originally had been constructed all over the Agadir and there was a fortified granaries (ruins still visible) which were sheltered by a surrounding wall on the top of a hill, forming a curvature at the top of its summit: there was a question of protecting oneselves from looters.

By the end of the 19th century, with the increasing authority of the successive Glaouis improving security standards, the settlers started building on a less steep hillside outside the defensive enclosure. It was the age of the Kasbah: the ksar enclosure’s communal security was replaced by the kasbah’s individual protection. The simpler houses were constructed behind the screen while the older kasbahs collapsed. Since 1970, the new generation of homes has started to struggle as a result of their age, it was planned to skip wadi and develop individual homes over and above crops on the right bank.

A labyrinth of alleys and covered passageways is the village, where few residences exist. For film-makers, the old Ksar is indeed a gospel. In or near this prestigious natural environment, several great films have been made. The decorators had obtained approval for the Nile Diamond to create an enclosure directly on the wade and at more gates, of which the largest was partially demolished by a plane to depart the village at this entrance. David Lean shot there a few scenes of his famous Arab Lawrence.”

Ouarzazate

Marrakech This is a region in Morocco’s southwest, at the foot of the High Atlas. Founded by the Almoravids at approx. 1070, or 1062, according to other accounts. Estate of Morocco in the 19th-17th centuries. It’s a medieval town enclosed by rectangular walls and gates, including the Medina, the Casbah, the Agvedal Gardens and pavilions and pools. Medina Monuments: Cubba al-Baruddin (domed stucco and stone carvings pavilion, – the first half of the 12th century palace of the unparished Almoravid). Qutubiya – Mosque (Beton, Stone, Mortar, twelfth century). Kutubiya (beton, rock, stone, 12th century);Ben Youssef Madrassah (2565; 7 courtyards, stone carvings, stucco-worked painted – zilliji).

Zawiya Sidi bel Abbas as Sabti (16th Century cult ensemble, 1184-1999; walls of the mosque were decorated by steep tiles). 17 transverse and one longitudinal nave, stalactites domes, artesonado), Minaret (stone, 1,184-99), Ben Salih with minaret (1331), Bab Dukcala (1557; 7 navies); Ben Youxef Madrasser (1565; (1894-1900; garden). Monuments to the Kasbanan: the Bab-agvenau (gate; 12th century, stone-sculpted decoration), the mosque (1197), the necropolis and tomb dates from the 2nd half of the 16th century. (late nineteenth century; garden).

The new town was founded west of the medina in 1913. The old hub of the weaving of carpets, stones, and so on is Marrakesh. Museums: The Moroccan Art Museum, the Museum of Treasures and Ceramics (in the Dar Said Palace at the end of 19th century). Tasgimut Ruins (XII century), located 30 kilometers southwest of Marrakesh.

Merzouga (Erg Chebbi)

A natural curiosity in Africa, Sahara is not only in a geographic textbook, but also in front of you. You will now see the white sand sun and all the yellow dunes that reach above the sky. The extent is impressive, of course: the dunes seem infinite.

You just can’t fly in the Sahara on your own, just by tour. This is mostly done for visitor welfare. During the tour you can try the traditional food of desert residents, listen to the real Berbers’ songs and music, get to know their life and culture. A ballon trip or a quad-cycle, ski or snowboard ride on the big dunes is an incredible experience! You should sit in a special desert tent at night, enjoying the glow of far off stars.