Agafay desert day trip overview:
Agafay Desert, Atlas and Lake Mountains see everything in only 1 day, a wounderful journey across Agafay Desert, the Atlas and berber villages Mountains in one day along with a refreshing stop off at Takerkoust Dam! May take a stroll or even use a camel or a mule across the breathtaking sceneries. During our Marrakech day trip you’ve the opportunity to go to a neighborhood Berber home to see the berber life.
Start our one day Agafay desert journey, the nearest desert to Marrakech. A hilly barren landscape in the foothills of the Atlas the Agafay Desert is a playground for quad bikers plus buggy buffs having a backdrop of generally snow capped peaks. Next you will pause for tea at Lake Takerkoust, a favorite weekend recreational lake for Marrakchi in the community. Boating, swimming and sailing are activities that are popular with these.
Agafay Desert Day Trip Itinerary:
Get away from the stress of the community as well as appreciate the peace of the countryside and also the wasteland with this particular day trip to Takerkoust Lake and Agafay Desert. You’ll be purchased from the accommodation of yours at 9.00am and taken on the west of Marrakech. The path is shaded by lush vegetation, orange and olive passes and orchards through the unexpected village of Ait Imour from in which we are going to go off street and traveling through a different scenery of stone desert, bare light brown plateaux, Bedouin village, Oasis and then high hills with panoramic views on the High Atlas
A number of hours later small spots of natural will begin showing without very long after you’ll be again on the tarmac road side lined by the good old eucalyptus trees. You are going to arrive on the advantage of the Lalla Takerkoust lake made as a dam by which Marrakech gets its electricity from. Through very small hills across the dam you are going to get to Nfis valley crossing Berber villages and also turning up to some Berber family house. You are able to check out the house and also have a lunch inside. After lunch at this time there is going to be the choice to hike for two hours with Hamid or Saida (not provided in the cost) as well as clambering for an hour to go to among the earliest villages in the foothill of the greatest forest of the Atlas Mountains.
Sticking to the trip of conventional organic olive oil presser you are going to descend between olive trees and terraced areas on the only person home next to Nfis river from wherever the trip of yours will do to Ouiragan via the forest, regular salt pools prior to getting to Asni, a little town (market on Saturdays) having a perspective on Toubkal the highest peak in North Africa. You then are going to pass Moulay Brahim gorges, Tahanouete and ghighaya valley prior to getting to Marrakech.
Agafay desert day trip highlights :
Cross the stony desert of Agafay
Visit a Berber family and then see the way they live
Take a very short hike or walk in the Atlas Mountains