1.     day :Marrakech –imi oughlad –tizi n'tachte –tiziane : early morning  departure from marrakech for  a pleasante drive south winding our way up through the moulay brahim gorge and upper valleys to arrive at the higher foothills of the western high atlas  mountains and our trailhead of imi oughlad  (1450m)  with the jbel toubkal , at 4167m the highest peak in north africa  , aglzim 3650m  and aksoual 38847m ,looming before us . here we alight from our vehicle  and meet up with berber muleteer crew .  We set off up in north-westerly direction for a 2hour acclimatisation hike up switchback mule tracks , passing by cornfields woods pine and juniper  to the tiz n'tachete (2000m),where we shallstop to look back down on the imlikl and ait oussaden valleys  before carrying on for another half hour to imi n'ifri and our field picnic .thence  a slow hike for about 2 and half hours  south-west  down along a dirt track to assif n' ait oussaden and the red clay
 terraced village of tiziane ( 1750 m )for our accommodation in  our bivouac or gite.

2.     day :tizziane – tizi n'taghrhourte – D'knt :after breakfast  we now set off on our hike up along the assif n'ait oussaden valley , passing through the wallnuts groves , up to tizi n'taghrhourte  (1995m )and through to a rare almost flat strecth to arrive  at assaka  spring, where we will  stop for our field picnic amidst and awesome silence after some 2 and half hours relatively easy walking .our afternoon's hike takes  us down along the edges of the forest  untill  we reach the berber village of D'knt (1870m) or agouns n Assoul  where we will have our dinner  and spent the  in a  bivouac or gite .

3.     day : D'knt – tizi n'tagdalte – tizi oussem : we set off for our morning's 3 hours hike up  through groves of walnut trees, fields of corn and barley to greet the many sheep and goatherders – and women and children bent over with 20kg loads of faggots and dried herbs. We traverse the tizi n'tagdalte  to the descent  amongst the juniper trees till we come to a small  spring set amongst the trees , where we will stop for our picnic .once refreshed , we are off down winding tracks of upper slopes for some 3hours to come to a small  river at the beginning of the valley of assif n'ait oussaden . from here we enter the village of tizi oussem (1850m) then up to the summer village Of Tamsoult  for our camp or gite.

4.   day : tizi oussem --  Tizi M'zzik --- Imlil
Trek to a small waterfall at Azib Tamsoulte and return to cross the Tizi 'n Mzik pass (2,500m). We join the main Toubkal valley at Imlil (1,900m), where we have lunch before the drive to Marrakech.

Mohamed Aztat

Mountain & desert tour Guide

Imlil - Atlas Mountains - Morocco

E-mail : aztat.trek@gmail.com     Tel : 00212 6 68 76 01 65