3-Day Mount Toubkal Hiking Tour from Marrakech via Imlil

• Pick up from your hotel in Marrakech and drive south over gorges and high passes of the upper valleys to the Berber town of Imlil.

• Drink a welcome glass of mint tea at our gite d'etape prior to setting out on a 4 km hike towards the Berber villages of Aremd and Targa Imola.

• Stop at Aremd to visit this rather singular village in the Assif Ait Maizane Valley, built seemingly house upon house on a rough moraine spur.

• Carry on to the equally quaint village of Sidi Chamharouch, a Berber village set beside a waterfall and small stream.

• Break for a picnic with full views of the mighty Jbel Toubkal at 4167 m, the highest peak in the Maghreb.

Overnight accommodation, either at the Toubkal Refuge or another refuge.

• Start the day by climbing Mount Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa.

• Descend via the south circuit for a straightforward 2 to 3-hour descent back to the refuge.

• Hike south-eastwards to the head of the Assif Ait Maizane Valley and Tizi n O'unoums.

• Return to our overnight accommodation at the Toubkal Refuge.

• Set off back towards the north along the higher slopes of the valley of Assif n' lsouhouanem n' Ouagounss towards the Berber village of Sidi Chamharouch. On leaving the village, we shall notice a tree sacred to the locals.

• Descend high above the valley of the Assif Ait Maizane, down zigzagging trails around granite and basalt grey rocks to Aremd.

• Continue up to the village of Imlil.

• Travel by vehicle to Marrakech.