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The Todra Gorge (part III)

What is on the other side, is more or less only what was on the side you came from: A river with normal, red mountains on both sides.

On this side, you see that the gorge is not just a passing through the mountain. It is also a part of the road between the villages of Tinerhir and the valley of Aït Morrhad, where Tamtattoucht is the first important settlement you come to.

The Todra Gorge (part II)

Sun only accesses the bottom of the gorge, where a ice-cold river flushes through, in the morning. Later in the night the gorge gets its own climate, and while evenings are damp and warm in the nearest village, they easily get to be freezing here.

You can walk through the less than 600 metres of the gorge.

Halfway through, you realize that even if nature is especially harsh here, tourism has left its lasting traces. At one of the few points where the peebles along the river gives enough space, a handful of houses has been put up.

Here you will find restaurants and even a hotel. A great place to pass a night, and definitely different from most hotel experiences.

This would easily allow you the chance of making a walk through the gorge at the middle of the night.

The Todra Gorge

The Todra Gorge is clearly among the most dramatic sights you can get across in Morocco. The cut through the mountain gives at some points only a 10 metre wide passage beneath 300 metre tall walls.

Directions: 5km north of Tinerhir

Palm Plantation (part II)

Agricultural work in the palm plantation of Tineghir. In the south remain some nomad tribes moving with their herds and inhabitant large brown tents. In the Atlas, a seminomad population is folded back in the villages in winter. As for the townsmen, they balance between the respect of some rites and the occidentalization of their behaviour.

Morocco is full of contrast

You can see some old houses and when you walk inside some plantation see some houses of the Yemeni type in the palm plantation of Tineghir. The first campaign of the Arab conquest would go back to 681, directed by Oqba Ben Nafii.

Palm Plantation

We can walk in the palm plantation of Tineghir while being made accompany. In the countryside the women meet up with again around the standpipes for the wash, which they extend on the prickly peartrees - the spines being used as clothes pins.

Tinerhir Nights

The nights are fresh in Tineghir, located at 1350 metres, even in full summer. The villages take the color of the ground, which makes them all different.