Located between the High Atlas Mountains and the Jebel Sarhro, The Dades Valley offers Morocco’s most spectacular scenery. Lined with impressive Kasbahs the deep red cliffs on each side, traditional Moroccan built forts. To appreciate its Berber villages and the valley, the best way is get out of your car and walk, especially when you reach Dades Gorges and the Todra. In this region, Several Kasbahs have been turned into hotels.
Dades Gorge
It will never escape your memory with the strength of the colours, green, red and white. Just after you leave the rather dull Boumalne du Dadeshe, Dades Gorge has a fairy-tale feeling, on both sides of you the mountain closes up, you are in a world where the grass is greener, the houses nice and the soil redder.
Through community after community, Serpentine roads leads you slowly, by dramatic twirls in the mountains villages set apart, or through the middle by the fresh river meandering. Between the villages there still are blood feuds perhaps, legendary romances across hostile clans, rivalries that fills a life time? By the marvelous nature your imagination is fed that unfolds while you make sure carefully that you do not drive off the road. But, it is all calm now, from what everyone tells you.
Dades Valley
Through the Dades Valley the drive will not lead you to any landmarks, but in catching how life conditions change quickly there is a mind-bending drama as the valley gets more and more narrow, and as you and your vehicle slowly rise in altitude.
The most dramatic part of the Dades Valley is before you reach A?t Oudinar, along the normal road. Some places at the mountains twist and turn into formations not seen many other places, but the intense red colour ven better does not fade.
Important for you along the Dades Valley, to stop and walk close to the settlements. While the landscape shifting could intrigue for slow driving up a whole day and back, once you stand in a garden colours become even stronger, and also happene in front of one of the houses. usually, in January, the white blossoms on the almond trees added to the drama of mint-green grass and red stone.
Ait Youl
The one of A?t Youl is among the largest, as one of several fortified ksours along the road. It was naturally turned into a fortified dwelling, protected by the mountains and protecting the fertile fields along the river.
A?t Oudinar
About one hour from Boumalne du Dades, at A?t Oudinar, the nature changes dramatically. The stones and the mountain lose their red colour, and the valley narrows to a gorge. As the continuation will lead you through landscapes, most travellers turn around here, which than the Dades Valley are less unique and for normal cars, the road becomes hard to pass. Here, some handful of small hotels and caf?s makes a natural stop. Also you can buy handicrafts here, but are not unique to Dades Valley for most of these.
With lush fertile valleys and barren grey brown mountains, it is dramatic enough wih the continuation beyond A?t Oudinar. The winding and rough roads will add much exitement to the total experience. You will be allowed a spectacular view at several points, over the valleys. Msemrir is the main part destination of the trek, but the road deteriorates beyond this and if without local guides, it’s not recommended for travelling.
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