The High Atlas

Long the province of the Berber tribes that fiercely resisted all efforts at external governance, the High Atlas are less than an hour's drive from Marrakesh. Two mountain passes, the Tiz n' Tichka, and the Tizn n Test, cut through these mountains, past breathtaking vistas, spectacular rock formations, and river valleys in their beauty rivaling, if not surpassing, any others in the world. Hikers and climbers from around the world come to the Atlas.The people of these extraordinarily beautiful, romantic mountains were, even until quite recently, wholly untouched by modernity, still live largely as they have for millennia, in small, self-sufficient communities.