Description
Mountain hikes in Morocco’s Anti-Atlas.
Around Tafraout, you’ll encounter a landscape very different from the green European mountain regions. Eroded cliffs, open valleys, and Berber villages set the scene for these routes. David Wood shows how to explore both the most striking rock formations and the lesser-known paths around them.
41 walks and scramble routes across six areas.
The guide covers Tafraout, Jebel El Kest, Ait Mansour, the Ameln Valley, Taskra, and Tanalt. The routes are graded, allowing you to distinguish between ordinary walks and more demanding scrambles. Maps at 1:50,000 and sketches for the scramble routes support the route descriptions. The book also includes an outline for a week-long traverse of part of the Anti-Atlas.
Help with planning your trip.
Practical chapters cover transport, accommodation, and conditions in an area with less tourist infrastructure than many established hiking destinations. Tafraout and the Ameln Valley serve as key bases. The guide also provides background on the natural environment and local communities, making the mountain hikes part of a broader travel experience.
Who is this book suitable for?
The book is aimed at independent hikers who are confident in finding their way and want to explore a less developed mountain area. The most difficult scramble routes require particular experience. The publisher mainly recommends the period October–April; even here, high-lying areas can see cold and snow in winter.
A long tradition of hiking guides.
Cicerone has published guidebooks since 1969. The publisher grew out of climbers and mountain people who wanted to share thorough knowledge of their routes – a tradition that still characterizes these compact books for walking, trekking, and other outdoor experiences.
About this edition.
Author: David Wood. English language. 280 pages. First edition, published in 2018. ISBN 9781852848095.
