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Drive through the Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Last updated on December 18, 2017 by Claire / this article contains affiliate links (Info)

The Atlas Mountains could be a destination for a whole holiday. However I had only a week and the plan was to erach the Sahara, so I only had a glimpse of those majestic mountains while driving from Marrakech to the Dades Valley.

Drive through Atlas Moutains - Things to do Morocco

TIPS FOR TRAVEL PLANNING ADDICTS

Driving through the Atlas Mountains

  • Main roads through is generally in good conditions
  • There are villages and places to stop along the way
  • Sometimes narrow and windging so prepare your motion sickness pill
  • The drive from Marrakech to the Dades valley took us the whole day.

Day trips from Marrakech can take you to several valleys in the Atlas Mountains - check out my suggestions


Lower Mountains

After that started our ascension of the high Atlas mountains. The road is quite challenging but as we had a driver, we could focus on the change in scenery from soft peaks with green to bare and sharp summit. We crossed several villages including some where the Sunday market was going on.

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High Atlas Mountains.

Higher up some of us had to focus on the road rather than completely on the landscape as motion sickness kicked in... I wish I had more photos to share but this is it. 

Such a bare landscape! I am used to shades of green but here we only had shades of brown.​

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Driving down

Then we drove down to Ouarzazate. Some vehicle carry a heavy load...

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And the drive continued to the Dades Valley... 

Down from the Atlas mountains

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HOT AIR BALLOON MARRAKECH

NEXT LOCATION: 

DADES VALLEY

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