Duration: | 8 Day(s) - 7 Night(s) |
Tour Category: | Hiking Tours |
Day 01: Arriving in Marrakech.
Welcome by Your Morocco Tour assistance at the airport. Transfer to your hotel. Dinner and accommodation in your hotel.
Day 02: Marrakech - Imi Oughlad (1350m) - Tizi Oussem (1700m)
8h30 Drive for 1 and ½ hours to Imi-n-Oughlad village (1700m), where we start our hiking tour. Meet our team of muleteers and cook and load luggage. Ascending to Tizi-n-Tacht pass 2300 m and then descending to the Azzaden valley (1500 m). Lunch in or after the pass near a water resource.
Continuation to the Tiziane village and Tizi Oussem vilage (1800m). Overnight in camp (Bivouac) in Tiziane village. (Nice view on the Oukeïmeden, and Angour village before the Tacht pass and Tazaghart plateau and Azzaden valley after the Tacht pass). 5 to 6 hours walking.
Day 03: Tizi Oussem - Azib Tamsoult (2200m) – Tizi n Izgaren (2800 m)
Breakfast under the nut trees and we cross the Tizi Oussem village to the Tamsoult summer houses (summer shelters for animals) for domestic animals. It’s hard to climb but the landscape makes you forget the physical effort.
Lunch near Tizi-n- Tizikkert (Azib Tamsoult), and continuation to Tizi-n-Izgaren, panoramic view on all the Toubkal massive and Marrakech city (Oukeimeden and Marrakech city in the very far distance on the Haouz plain). Overnight in camp in Tizi n Izgaren. 6 hours walk.
Day 04: Tizi-n-Izgaren (2800 m) – Tizi Ougelzim (3550 m)- Toubkal refuge (3200m)
Very spectacular ascent to Tizi-n -Ouguelzim passes after breakfast, doing many zig-zag paths. Picnic on the top 3550 m high. Then we descent to Toubkal refuge (3200 m). Lunch in the camp place. Overnight in camp (or Toubkal refuge for a supplement). 7 hours walking.
Day 05: Refuge Toubkal (3200m) – Toubkal summit (4167m) - Refuge Toubkal (3200m)
Early morning (between 4h00 and 5h30 depending on the weather/season) we begin our ascent to the summit of Toubkal (1st big summit in North Africa and Morocco), (1st lunch in the summit as a picnic). Nice panoramic view on the many height summits of the High Atlas in the surrounding Toubkal summit. We can also see the M'goun summit when the horizon is very clear.
Return to lunch in our camp base near the Toubkal refuge. Overnight in camp (or refuge for a supplement). 6 to 7 hours walking.
Day 06: Refuge Toubkal (3200m) – Imlil (1850m) - Marrakesh
We descend to Imlil village, crossing the Sidi Chamharouch holly tomb, a very visited place by Moroccan people to ask the (BARAKA) and good things in life from a holly man died in this place. We reach the biggest village of Armed in the occidental High Atlas. Lunch in Imlil village. 5- 6 hours walk. After lunch, we take our minibus for 01h30 driving to reach Marrakesh city. Dinner & accommodation at your hotel.
Day 07: Marrakesh (City tour or free day for Shopping and Visits)
After breakfast, visit of the red town all day to discover its monument, beauty, and traditional markets OR have a rest near the sunny swimming pool of your hotel.
Day 08: Marrakesh – Home
According to your flight departure, assistance & transfer departure to the airport.
THE PRICE INCLUDES:
- Transfer between airport and hotel (Arrival & Departure).
- Transfer between Marrakesh and Toubkal Mountains.
- Transfer from Toubkal Mountains back to Marrakech.
- 03 nights in 3* or 4* stars hotel with half-board in MARRAKECH.
- 04 nights under tents, or nomad tents, or lodging in family houses in Imlil or Refuge (On request and if it is necessary when bad weather only).
- Tents and mattresses.
- All meals during the Trekking days from the lunch of the 2nd day till the lunch of the 6th day.
- Full board during the tour from Marrakesh (except the lunch of the 7th day).
- Mules services, a mule for two hikers. (When 02 to 03 hikers we provide 02 mules because of necessity).
- Cook.
- Berber & English speaking Guide.
DOES NOT INCLUDE:
- Ticket flight.
- Drinks during all meals in trekking and stays (It’s possible to buy mineral water in village’s shops in all parts of the Mountains, please ask your guide when & quantity of water to buy).
- Repatriation Insurances,
- Traditional tips.
THE LEVEL OF THE EXCURSION:
It is about a Trek without notable technical difficulty. It is necessary to be in the good physical condition and to be able to go 5 to 6 or 8 (Toubkal summit) a.m. each day, with a quiet rhythm. We have between 1h30 and 2h00 rest in lunchtime for lunch and rest.
There is always a light back bag where they take minimum (gourd, food of race, camera…) All the luggage and food are transported by the mules.
When a medical problem (distortion for example), it is always possible to call upon a mule. However, it should be known that the ground is not flat, that it is necessary sometimes to go up to climb a collar, that you will find certain stages a little long… In short, you will have physical feelings, it is certain, and it is necessary to have the desire and the spirit of hiking and walking.
The itinerary indicated will be able to undergo modifications imposed by the mean level of the group, or by the climatic conditions.
EQUIPMENT TO BE ENVISAGED
Sleeping bag, a large bag with zippers for clothing (not too many clothes, not tired mules, just needed to change during the trip), a small backpack without a frame for the day, shoes walking or tennis walking sandals for camp and walking in the water, windbreaker, raincoat, Kwe, polar, gloves, personal medication, water bottle (1 liter or 2 liters) of water purification tablets or buy mineral water in villages, sunscreen, a pair of sunglasses, hat or Chech (turban), camera, a torch (frontal), spare batteries, toilet bag, and other personal belongings.
[1] A supplement is payable for additional mules that children or adults can use for personal transportation.
[2] Tissue that covers the head and faces against cold, sun, and wind as the nomads use in the desert.