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Le Toubkal, nous voila!
Nous voila a Imlil, a 1 700 metres d altitude, notre base pour planifier notre ascension du Jebel Toubkal, la plus haute montagne d Afrique du nord, avec environ 4 200 metres. C est ici qu on a inaugure notre tente... et notre tuque! Tout un changement de temperature! Au camping, on a fait de belles rencontres, l un d entre eux, un anglais, nous a accompagne pour l ascension. Apres environ 5 heures de montee, ...
Once again on top of a mountain
... accommodation was mainly Gites or huts. The weather was perfect. It was sunny but cold. Although this year everywhere seems to have had less snow than last year, we luckily had enough snow and ice on the top and on our way to the summit. The temperatures varied from 0 to -15 C with the wind chills. Our itinerary was as follows:Day 1: Rendezvous at the group hotel in Marrakech. Day 2: Morning sightseeing around the Djemaa-el-Fna and souks. After lunch we drove to Imlil and made a ...
Atlas Mountain Hike and Berber Villages
... of Vienna, plus a strenuous walk at some altitude up a mountain, I actually fell asleep in the cold sunshine on my mat on the rocks.
I was awakened to a wonderful hot lunch which had been prepared by the men. The mules had been set free to graze and, the lunch preparation over, the men also rested and smoked. Much too soon they were packing up again, but not until they had served us the requisite sweetened mint tea which we were beginning to love so ...
High ideals in the High Atlas
... low climbing terrain, it can stilll be a bit of a monster.
This 2-day trek would cover a distqnce of 22kms, climbing for 6 hours on average the first day and 13 hours on Day 2. The second day involces the final 967m, returning to the refuge (where we've spent the previous night) for food and then continuing on to Imlil to return to our resting accommodation overnight.
We quickly left Imlil below. As we walked ...
African Trekking
... to be seen are little lizards and birds. The weather was pretty hot and we were going through the water quite quickly. It was pretty tempting to fill the empty bottles with the river water coming from the melting snow, but it seemed a little off putting not knowing what could be in there even though it looked completely fine.
After a zig-zag climb for about 1hr uphill at the halfway point, the trail is a small gradual and constant incline to the base camp. We both were ...
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