Ouarzazate
is a city in southern Morocco that is known as the gateway
to the desert. Situated at the meeting of the valleys
of the wadi and Ouarzazate Oued Dades (from the High Atlas)
that make up the Wadi Draa and downstream of their confluence,
it is the hub of a vast region of southern Morocco . Ouarzazate
evokes both the southern foothills of the High Atlas and
the nearby desert. His countless casbahs adobe, mountains
and arid plains, valleys and lush oasis of palm groves
and villages of red earth or ocher are the charm of this
region and give it a tourist attraction.
The
gorges and the valley of the Oued Todra The
Todra Gorge cliffs are high (max = 300 m) and narrow.
A car with "normal", it can be quite within
the grooves on a good asphalt road, close to a river
where it passes ford. Then the road is land with
stones. There is a hotel and restaurants at the
foot of the highest cliff. This is where climbers
with climbing equipment, an assault on the cliff.
It's very nice.
valley
Todra oasis
which runs like a ribbon of green surrounded by
desert stretches for a distance of 20 km and an
average width of 1 to 2 km. Status of the valley:
the limits of the valley are in the north, the great
Atlas, the threshold and the valley of Wadi Imide;
south, the eastern part of jbel Saghro in the East,
links the north-south oriented bou touri the jbel
Tisdafin and Ferkla.
the
Oued Todra l'oued
todra est un des oueds droite du Chéris,
il change de nom dans sa partie inférieur
et prend celui du district qu'il traverse, le ferkle,
avant de se jeter dans le chéris. L'oued
todra descendant du grand Atlas est alimenté
dans sa partie haute par de nombreuse et ne manque
jamais d'eau, tout au moins dans sa moyenne vallée.
The
valley and gorges of Dades Dades
Valley, miles of road casbahs. Ouarzazate to Dades
Boulmane of you will discover about 170 km, one
of the most stunning landscapes of Morocco. Caught
between jbel Sarho and the mass of the High Atlas,
Dades wadi winds through a landscape and arid desert
to successfully power a series of oases. Among its
many casbahs those of el Kabbaba, Aïchil Dar
Dar Aït Souss, Amerhidi.
Valley
Drâa Drâa
The river has given rise to a huge oasis 200 km
long at the foot of the Anti-Atlas. The valley at
the gates of the desert has long been coveted by
nomads and inhabitants of Drâa last fortify
their homes (casbahs) and villages (Ksour). From
Agdz in Zagora, eight successive palm.
Tamnougalt Impressive casbah, which,
despite its dilapidated interior, has kept its allure
fortress of the ancient capital of Mezguita. Below,
and Palmeraie Ksour interesting that people continue
to maintain using traditional techniques. Tamegroute
with its famous mosques with blue tiled roofs and
white minarets, and its influential Medersa library
created in the sixteenth century, containing beautiful
illuminated Korans.
Acacias Halfway
to Agdaz in the Draa Valley is the town of Ait Saouna.
Here the soil has a typical tree found nowhere in
the valley to the Acacias that is accustomed to
seeing in the savanna of tropical Africa. It is
a tree with fragrant yellow flowers, arranged in
clusters, growing in hot regions.
Valley
M'goun It
lies between Boumalne and Skoura and is an integral
part of the upstream part of the wide valley of
Dades at 1586 meters. The particularity of this
site lies in crops and gardens which are irrigated
by the waters of the wadi.
The
palm Skoura The
palm Skoura is about forty km from Ouarzazate down
the Dades valley at 1188 meters above sea level
between Atlas, Anti-Atlas and the Dades valley,
famous for its olives and its oil. The foggara bring
mountain water for irrigation of the palm that offers
the freshness of the oasis maze of lush gardens
in the shade of date palms, grenadiers, fig, almond,
checkered cereal. Among the many casbahs of the
oasis, that of Ben Moro et d 'Ameridil worth.
