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Life TimesTravel

About this journal

Lifetimes Travel is a slow journal about Morocco — its buildings, its crafts, its food and the roads between them. It is written from Marrakech, mostly on foot, and it is not in a hurry.

What you will find

Long pieces rather than listicles. A guide to a pass will tell you the driving time honestly, including the part where you are stuck behind a lorry. A piece about zellij will explain the geometry, because the geometry is the interesting part.

What you will not

Sponsored posts dressed as recommendations, and the word hidden gem.

Every place written about here is somewhere we have actually been, usually more than once, and usually in more than one season.

Who writes this

We run trips across Morocco — the Atlas, the Sahara, the imperial cities — and write here about the places we work in. Everything published is based on routes we walk and drive ourselves. You can reach us at lifetimestravel@gmail.com.

The guide behind it

Aziz Mahmouch · Founder & mountain guide

Aziz Mahmouch on a snow slope in the High Atlas in winter, wearing a climbing helmet and carrying an ice axe

Aziz Mahmouch is a state-accredited mountain and trekking guide, and the founder of Lifetimes Travel. Accreditation in Morocco is not a formality: guiding in the Toubkal National Park requires a licence, it is checked at the Imlil trailhead, and the qualification covers alpine safety, first aid, and the terrain itself.

He works the High Atlas — Toubkal and the valleys around it, the long traverses, and the Amazigh villages that the routes pass through. The trips he leads range from single days out of Marrakech to multi-day expeditions at altitude, and they include mountain biking as well as walking.

Lifetimes Travel grew out of that guiding work rather than the other way round. The company is based in Marrakech and organises trekking and adventure travel across Morocco — the Atlas, the Sahara, the imperial cities — often in partnership with international operators who need someone on the ground who actually knows the mountain.

This journal is written from the same place. The routes described here are ones the team walks and drives, and the practical detail in them — how long a pass really takes, which month a traverse is passable, what a refuge night is actually like — comes from working them repeatedly rather than from reading about them.

Qualification
CFAMM, Tabant — national mountain guide school
Languages
Tamazight · Arabic · French · English
From
High Atlas, Morocco

Licence and certification numbers are not published here — guide credentials get copied and reused by people who do not hold them. Aziz produces his licence on request, and it is checked at the Toubkal park trailhead in any case.

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