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ATLAS MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTH

Getting Your Bearings tourism has arrived since Edith Wharton wrote of southern Morocco's feudal chiefs and heat and savagery in her book in Morocco (1929). But the south is still exotic, and the chance of adventure remains. The tourist images of Morocco are often of the south: end-less ripples of immaculate sand dunes, grand Kasbahs, oases with thousands of plam trees, Berber villages hugging the mountains, and the "blue men-nomadic Tuaregs who epitomise adventure and harsh desert life. But perhaps most evocative of the region are the majestic peaks of the High Atlas, where Africa really begins. Morocco's most exotic region inculdes its highest mountains its hottest desert and its most picturesque Kasbahs. The South in Four Days Day One Start from Marrakech then follow singns for Ouarzazate via the Tizi-n'Tichka mountain road. Turn left after the highest point for the Kasbah of Telouet. Have lunch opposite Glaoui Kasbah Return to the main ro...
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SPECTACULAR MOUNTAINS

On the Shoulders of a Giant in Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan who revolted against the gods. As a punishment they placed the heavens on his shoulders. When his load became too heavy he begged to be turned into stone and was transformed into mount Atlas. About one seventh of the country lies more than 2,000m (6,500feet) above sea level, and the Atlas Mountains consist of three ranges. The High Atlas , the most famous has more than 400 peaks above 3,000m (9,800 feet) and 10 over 4,000m (13,000 feet), including Jebel Toubkal, at 4,167m (13,671 feet) the highest mountain in North Africa. The Middle Atlas is a range of high plateaux, where many Berber tribes herd sheep and goats. The highest point here is Jebel Bounaceaur at 3,340m (10,960 feet). The Anti Atlas , featuring Jebel Sarhro at 2,712m (8,898 feet), is barren range skirting the desert alogside the Draa Valley. The mountains of the Atlas are made of sedimentary rocks with intrusions of granite and quartzite. The northe...
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