Guidebook for Tighza/Telouet
Everything Else
There are a number of activities you can be involved in during your visit. Be it using the village hamam, eating in a family home, trekking using Tighza as a base, visiting the Thursday souk in Telouet, Taking one of many of the walks around the area surrounding the villages. Exploring the mountains in this region and much more.
Once a magnificent Kasbah entertaining the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill. A guided visit adds interest and will pique your curiosity to learn more. Wonderful mosaics and natural painted wooden ceilings still visible showing it's once lavish history. These photos do not do it justice.
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Kasbah de Telouet
P1506Once a magnificent Kasbah entertaining the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill. A guided visit adds interest and will pique your curiosity to learn more. Wonderful mosaics and natural painted wooden ceilings still visible showing it's once lavish history. These photos do not do it justice.
A good and medium challenging walk amongst mountains, plains. Sheep, goats and donkeys drink a the streams and the lake, traditional shepherds sheep folds and fascinating geology en route. Takes about 4.5 hours from Tighza to walk to the lake and in warmer weather you can camp out overnight under the stars.
Lake Tamda
A good and medium challenging walk amongst mountains, plains. Sheep, goats and donkeys drink a the streams and the lake, traditional shepherds sheep folds and fascinating geology en route. Takes about 4.5 hours from Tighza to walk to the lake and in warmer weather you can camp out overnight under the stars.
The reputed most fortified village in Morocco because of the number of old kasbahs. Not far outside Anmiter is the Mine De Sel where you can visit the mine and see how salt is still carved out of the mountainside. Amazing that work is still carried out this way.
Anmiter
The reputed most fortified village in Morocco because of the number of old kasbahs. Not far outside Anmiter is the Mine De Sel where you can visit the mine and see how salt is still carved out of the mountainside. Amazing that work is still carried out this way.
Conseils aux voyageurs
Coutumes et culture
It is polite to ask people before taking a photo
Until the introduction of digital cameras it was not common for people to have their photos taken so cameras were held with some suspicion. Even now there are people who prefer not to have their photo taken while others will be happy to oblige so please ask first.
Que faut-il apporter ?
Bring some flip flops or easily removable shoes
These can easily be removed before walking on floor covering homes in the villages or can be used in the village hamam where the floor gets pretty hot.
Que faut-il apporter ?
Clothes that can be worn in layers
No thick jumpers as they are bulky and it is better to have many layers to allow for difference in temperatures during the daytime and at night. Layers can be added or removed as temperatures dictate. The nights can be pretty cold from October through until May while daytime temperatures can be in the upper teens and low 20 degrees centigrade during the day at times but some days may be cold and it might snow during your trip from November through to April though it rarely lasts for long in this area of the mountains.
Coutumes et culture
Wearing respectful clothing
Allowing for local sensibilities please wear t-shirts with no plunging necklines with short, medium or long sleeves rather than sleeveless vest tops. 3/4 length or long trousers are also suggested. These can also help prevent overexposure to the sun when walking at this altitude.
Que faut-il apporter ?
A good pair of walking shoes
Trainers are not recommended as terrain is medium difficulty. Walking shoes, walking boots or walking sandals are recommended to make the most of the many walking routes in the area.
Phrases utiles
How to say "good morning" How to say Good Night Bread please
Sba L'hir (sounds like seba la hear)
Im sich um a lakhir (sounds like siccccch rather than the 'ch' sound in English
Arum N'arhamoyadine
Voyage avec enfants
Ask car hire companies or bring your own car seat
Most airlines will allow you one or two items of equipment for young children. It is not common for transport companies to provide European style car seats so it is best to bring your own.
À ne pas manquer
The Souk at Telouet
If you are in the village on a Thursday take a trip down to Telouet in the local minibus with the villagers and visit a locals souk. While in Telouet visit the Kasbah ruins, the former home of the Glaoui family The Lords of The Atlas.
Se déplacer dans les environs
Cheap transport
Using the Express Tichka Bus from Marrakech to Animeter.
Using local taxis
Using local minibuses
Hire mules for the day
If hiring a car it is advisable to park at Animeter as the road to the village is a single track dirt road (We will arrange for you to be met and brought up to the village by mule or local minibus)
4 x 4s can reach the village easily