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Trekking, desert, mountains and the roads between — written from Morocco, at the pace the country actually moves.

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A stone village built along a rocky spur in the Anti-Atlas, its flat-roofed houses following the ridge above bare hillside under a clear blue sky
Culture
Tafraoute, Anti-Atlas

Tafraoute: The Town the Emigrants Built

Pink granite, almond blossom and the last tribes to submit to France. How a remote Anti-Atlas basin became one of Morocco's wealthiest villages without any of its money being earned there.

6 min read
Sheer rock walls rising above a narrow gorge floor and a shallow stream
Mountains
Anti-Atlas

The Anti-Atlas: Morocco's Quiet Mountains

Older than the High Atlas, lower, drier and almost empty of visitors. Painted rock, almond terraces, and granite the colour of rust.

3 min read