The Drâa valley is not only a 100 kilometres stunning long stretch of date palms between Ouarzazate and Zagora, in Southern Morocco. It's also a region providing great possibilities of exploring Marrakech and impressive views with the mauve Atlas Mountains, with the Oued Drâa River -the longest in Morocco- disappearing progressively while you move downstream from the Atlas Mountains, and where dozens of Kasbahs might be spotted along the river.

On best of this, in the outstanding Drâa Valley area you can even learn some cave paintings and rock engravings or can venture on a Marrakesh desert trip.

The Drâa Valley is actually a fascinating valley supplying an impressive selection of irresistible attractions. The organic beauty from the valley is beautiful and absolutely deserves a take a look at. Should you comply with the river down in the Higher Atlas Mountains, you may enjoy the sight of an endless plantation, largely of palm trees, on each and every river bank. The plantation goes on for numerous kilometres until the desert seems and requires more than the landscape.

But it just isn't till you reach Zagora that accurate desert progressively starts, initially with just a stone desert displaying some lonely sand dune right here and there. But when you pass M'Hamid, the genuine endless sand sea covers the complete horizons along with the real dunes dominate the scenery. Here, you'll be able to take pleasure in some correct desert camel trekking, caravan-style...

In addition to the plantations -which involve cereals, vegetables, henna and other crops- and the desert, there are many (six in total) oases consisting of palm groves a with an average width of three kilometres, but reaching up to one hundred kilometres in some places. The beauty of those oases -called Mezguita, Tinzouline Ternata Fezouata Ktaoua, and Mhamid el Ghuzlan- is really impressive and also the contrast with all the aridity and also the dryness of their surrounding is really startling.

Other web sites that happen to be worth a stop by along the Drâa Valley would be the lots of rock art engravings or petroglyphs that may be identified in the region. There are several websites where rock art might be admired, while the very best identified are Foum Chenna (Tinzouline), Aït Ouaazik (Asguine Tarna, Tazzarine) Tiouririne and Tisguinine (Zagora).

Apart from this rock paintings and engravings, there is a necropolis, also dating from prehistoric times, in Foum Larjam -meaning "Mouth" or "Passage in the Tombs"- around the Djebel Beni-Selmane, to the south of Tizi Beni- Selmane.

Since the history of the Drâa Valley consists mainly of periods of warfare in between the unique nomadic tribes, there is no wonder that the Drâa is specifically well-known for its Kasbahs or Islamic fortresses. There are actually dozens of Kasbahs along the Drâa Valley, however the most famous ones are, North to South, the Kasbahs of Tamnougalt and of Aït Hammou Ousaid close to Agdz, the Kasbahs of El Caïd Ouslim and Oulad Outhmane in Tamezmout, the Kasbahs of Foum and Achnna N'Kob in Tinzouline, the Kasbah of Tat Ifli in Beni Zouli, the Kasbahs of Amezrou, Aït Ali Tighramt Ouziguen, and of Laglaoui in Zagora, the Kasbahs of Agouim Nouaadjou and Tagounite in Tagounite, along with the Kasbahs of Aït Bounou, LaAllouj, Oulad Driss, and Rgabi in M'hamid El Ghuzlane.

In addition to the all-natural, the historical and the architectural wonders that the Drâa Valley delivers, there are actually also smaller villages along the valley where time appears to possess stopped, so little is definitely the influence of modernity on them. In these villages that spot the landscape here and there, girls are totally and normally veiled even though they wash their clothes on the riverbanks and males are somehow watchful and distant, possibly unaccustomed to foreign guests. These men and women, besides Arabic, speak their own dialect of your Berber vernacular, known as Tashelhiyt.