Morocco’s happy valley – the wilderness that lies just beyond the souks of Marrakech | Marrakech holidays

I did not notice until the distant spots in the sky over the city, but now I count more than 20 of them, and wander east on the breeze of dawn. The realization that even a crowded sky makes it easy to photograph the rock that resonates through one of the world’s most vital cities every morning.

I fell in love with Marrakech during my first mission there for three decades, and I am still one of my favorite cities. However, at the present time, I am very grateful because I decided to swear to myself in the Orika Valley, where the only sounds this morning are the buzz of my barbaric omelette and the pile of the mountain road behind the house.

Abdarim led me to a rise in these mountains the previous day, and I am surprised that such a virgin wilderness could fall close to a million people. Abd al -Dakarim, a mourning son, works as a mountain guide, who leads tours and trips missions throughout the high atlas outside. The trees appear to me with the pods Le Poivre des Pauvres (Poor pepper). “The mountainous people put the dried Olind leaves on the fire to create an antiseptic smoke,” tells me.

From the valley below comes the sound of the wild boar flowing through the vegetation. It comes out of the woods with five striped pigs that accelerate to keep up with, but fortunately we are in the direction of the wind and still unaware of our existence.

At the distance, snow stains are a sparkle on the tops of the Tokal National Park. Four years have passed since the highest mountains in North Africa had a suitable snowfall, and the ski season was in the near Oukaïmeden that did not exist again this year.

The last Lion of the Land Atlas was shot near those high peaks in 1942, but experts believe that African wolves are now returning to the finest remote Atlas in Atlas. We see hoofs from pigs everywhere and it is easy to imagine that wolves may find rich choices if they come back. Abdulkarim explains that the pork is almost at the level of injury because their flesh forbidden (Forbidden to Muslims). There are fears that drought is to bring them increasingly with villagers, as hungry raid fields and homes are based on a night.

He adds that it was a difficult time for farmers. Spring Meltwater instead of rain is the main life force of fruit orchards in the Orika Valley, olive orchards and saffron gardens.

Marrakech is famous for its light parks: the most famous Jardin MajorellFounded in 1923 and bought by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner in 1980. In recent years, although increasing numbers of visitors have escaped from the city to spend time in Anima ParkThe Austrian artist André Heller was established by what was arid for the north of Aurea. I love Anima’s peaceful maze for tropical gardens and Sufi sculptures, but I also admire the lower key Jardin du Safran close.

It is the place where I learn how Saffron, the Moroccan “red gold” is harvested. The refreshing mint tea is celebrated in Morocco, but the tea that suffers from saffron. Even among a variety of flavors-thyme tea, wise tea, lavender tea, metalin, even Artemisia tea (also known as Wormwood)-are popular among the Berbers, and this is the most prominent.

Rural markets that revolve daily around villages provide a wonderful contrast with the city’s spice, carpet and baskets markets. We nourish our exploration to the Friday market in the village of Aghmat with the dates of the fresh ouarzate and the tangible sugar cane juice with broken ginger.

Continuous excavations on the archaeological site of Aghmat prove that this modest village was now the regional capital for more than 700 years, until the city was transferred to the current Marrakech site in the eleventh century. The brick domes that were part of a tried garor were occupied by AGHMAT by a society of the poohns for a longer period than anyone could remember before archaeologists began recovering the site in 2005.

The restoration project remained largely not affected by the 6.8 Size earthquake that was struck on September 8, 2023, killing nearly 3,000 people and destroying or destroying an estimated 60,000 homes. In the village of Potter in Tafza, near the escape of the Orika Strait and 40 miles from the earthquake center, half of the houses were destroyed.

“It is strange how the fate works,” Khaled bin Youssef tells me when I reached a Pottery category in his workshop In Tafza. “When we were wiping the rubble, we discovered a large stone board engraved in the Hebrew language. When I finally got her translation, I learned that he was carrying the date of 1575 and I was engraved in the name of the Bin Youssef family!”

The Tafza people are still struggling to reconcile with destruction, but at least the years of drought in the pottery industry were. It was a good drying weather, surfaces and patio all over the village permanently stacked with rows of artistic utensils, vessels and writings. Although I am a complete beginner, an expert in Khaled is enough to make me create an amazing elegant Tanga A bowl, where the meat is traditionally slow in embers.

On weekends, the banks of the most important Orika opens with tablets and scattered pillows, while chefs in dozens of Riferside cafes cut the load of sheep and goats in steam utensils, or prepare the amazing mini mini from Tajin who are raised with vegetables, chicken or rabbit.

It is a series of seven picturesque waterfalls in the village of FATMA Village Setti, to a large extent the most popular tourist clouds card in Orika. On the way to the top of the valley, the tourist attractions often stop to take their photos on beauty. After taking a single photo in CASCADE, most visitors immediately cross the river to return to the city.

But ABDELKARIM guides me on an upness to a narrow path-more than just a goat path-which leads to the chasm that falls the jaw to the second, third and fourth waterfalls. Half an hour later, we got to the fifth CASCADE series, where the perfect natural swimming pool offers a place for perfect excursions, which is a world away from the bustling Riverside restaurants.

“It seems that a few, even between Marrakech, are familiar with the extent of the width of the Orika Valley,” says Abd al -Dakarim. “It is amazing to be our valley, near the city, the best secret to Mariac.”