Atlas Mountains

Jebel Toubkal (4167m) is the highest peak in North Africa — a two-day climb from Imlil village that rewards with a panorama stretching from the Sahara to the Atlantic. Below the summits, hundreds of Berber villages cling to slopes accessible only by mule track: stone houses, terraced fields, women in bright fabrics carrying water from mountain springs. The Ourika Valley offers easy day hikes past Berber farmsteads to Setti Fatma's seven waterfalls. The Dadès and Todra gorges on the southern flank carve 300-meter walls of rose and ochre rock. In winter, the Atlas wears snow; in spring, wildflowers erupt across every slope.