Camel Dance touareg in Erg Chebbi Sahara Desert

MOROCCO A Cold Country With a Hot Sun

MOROCCO'S DIVERSE GEOGRAPHY Arab geagraphers called the highlands of North Africa "Jazirat el Maghreb"- the Island of the west or Sunset. This "Island" was surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and, in the outh, by the vast sand sea of the Sahara Desert. Morocco, on the westernmost tip of this "island", had everything from lush valleys to arid sand dunes and barren mountains, from cool rivers and lakes in the Middle Atlas to sunny beaches on its Atlantic coast. Morkosh Tours www.morkosh.com

Gnawa Music Trance in Moroccan Sahara Desert Erg Chebbi

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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