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Day Trip : Ouarzazate and its Kasbahs

Take  A day trip starting and ending in/from Marrakesh with Morkosh Tours
Discount Code is : KhansaDiscovery
Sight begins very nice from the neck of Tizi-imquer has 1470 m altitude, as background scenery. The nature and the changing colors of the soil along the way. from pink to gray mineral, then ocher, which is reflected on the villages relentlessly crossed as chameleons who take their dyed according to the surrounding scenery, except for white or green minarets. stalls merchants minerals successive turning bend. you will geodes beautiful painted mercuchrome to, or better yet, true "geodes" completely reconstructed from an orange plaster impregnated with salt crystals to larger than life! and fossils are made of polyster castings.
Work of art! The highway is the highest in North Africa with its 2260 m above sea level, marks the border between the provinces of Marrakech and Ouarzazate.
(For excursions 4 * 4 of the kasbah telouat is included), after the pass, we arrive at Telouat by a small road on the left. to visit the kasbah of the former stronghold of the pasha of Marrakesh, which rondit here his last breath he led a life closely linked to the history of his country during the first part twentieth century. The village is a large agricultural town of more than 1200 people.

KASBAH OF THE TELOUAT: Palace of the last Lord of the Atlas, there is a maze of corridors, courtyards and arches, more or less degraded leading to 2 rooms richly decorated with fine floral and geometric detail, both in wood than in the stucco marberies and inlaid with faience, the latest evidence that splender lived in this great Berber leader. it is true that labor is cheap, it is said that 300 workers worked for 3 years to carve the ceilings and walls.


NB: the Kasbah Telouat is not included for customers who take a Van

Ait Ben Haddou: 160 km from Marrakech. Many films have been shot in this former ksar world heritage of UNISCO. David Lean y turned including Lawrence of Arabia.


The few Berbers living in the village you will find a way of life unchanged for centuries.

OUARZAZATE: 200 km from Marrakech. this former garrison town PASAGE is a necessary step towards the deep south. Kasbah Oasis and follow along a vast film is also for his great Kasbah and its surrounding landscapes that contain real wonders.

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