Morocco 2016

Our previous trip to Morocco was planned to visit the High Atlas, but that was cancelled and so we did another one. This year however, the trip was guaranteed to depart, and we still wanted to walk in the mountains. The we headed to Marrakech, had a bus ride to Asni, “the gate into the Atlas mountains” for a week long trekking that brought us over a number of passes at 2500 meters and up, to get from one valley to another. It meant climbing each day, about 1000 meters of more, and a similar descent to the next hostel. Finally another climb to the foothills of the highest peak of Morocco: the Tubkal mountain. Some of the group went up the summit the next day (another 1100, very hard meters, to 4100 m or so), we kept it lower. Of course we walked – our luggage transported (and me for a few kilometers…) by mule. After this, descending to Asni, and a bus ride back to Marrakech to end the trip.
The trekking has been tracked and of course, I kept my camera nearby, mainly to memorize – visually – the countryside; Mountains mean wide views. Of course, there are images about plants and, though not many, animals and people, and buildings. All images and tracks are available , you’ll find the tracks in both generic (.gpx) and GoogleEarth (.kmz) format in the Trackdata folder.