Description : We offer a guided walking tours & trekking in the high atlas mountains Morocco, also the camel trekking in the sahara desert, holidays, adventure trips.
Contact :
E-mail : info@atlasandsaharatours.com
Web : www.atlasandsaharatours.com
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Date de création : Mercredi 02 Avril 2008 13:53
Date de mise à jour : Mercredi 02 Avril 2008 14:05
In the west lies the oldest portion of the range. Its high point is the Jbel Toubkal at 4167 m, which is visible from the city of Marrakech. Jbel Toubkal lies in the Toubkal national park, which was created in 1942. The massif consists of Jurassic and Cretaceous formations notched by deep erosion-carved valleys.
Walking is an amazing way to discover wilderness of Morocco's Wetsern high atlas mountains & it's highest valleys, berber villages, stay with the hardy & hospitable berber people & attempt the Ascent of Toubkal the highest Peak in North Africa, our team help as much as possible the customers to enjoy there daily walk.
Most of the walk towards the high Atlas Mountains Start from Imlil, the amazing village on the high Atlas Mountains.
Central High Atlas Mountains
A solid chalk mass morphologically dominated by tabular zones reaching an altitude of 2,500 m extends from Azilal to Ouarzazate. Here, the contrasting landscapes remind visitors of the Colorado, with its high plateaux, its gorges and box canyons, and its peaks sometimes splintered by erosion. Several peaks in this area exceed 4000 m, with Jbel Mgoun at 4068 m being the highest peak in this part of the High Atlas. The area is populated by Berbers.
Walking in the Central Hight Atlas will bring you into close contact with the berbers & spend a good time with them during the trek & evening at the rural gite.
Anti & Middle Atlas Mountains
The eastern part of the High Atlas forms vast plateaux at high altitude which provide the headwaters for the Moulouya River. It extends from the town of Khenifra and includes oases at Jbel Ayachi (at 3747 m), Jbel Saghro and Jbel Sirwa (3305 m). This portion of the range includes the solid mass of the Tamlelt whose northern edge is occupied by its higher peaks, such Jbel Ayachi at 3,747 m. The altitude falls towards the east where the mountains join the pre-Saharan zone.
This massif became an internationally famous paleontological site after the discovery of the bones of the completely unknown ancestor of the dinosaurs, Atlasaurus, which populated Morocco 180 million years ago. This dinosaur is also named Tazoudasaurus, after the name of the village of Tazouda where it was discovered. The creature, about nine metres long, is postulated to be an ancestor of the Sauropoda found in America. Until 140 million years ago the African and American continents were connected.
Note: Please take note that all the itineraries mentioned above can be modified or changed completely and replaced by other ones requested by the travellers.