TRAVEL PREPARATIONS
When we started to prepare the getaways that we would do this year, just as we were quite clear that returning to Italy was going to be a reality, fulfilled the trip to Naples and Pompeii, there was another country, to which we return whenever we can and where it fit perfectly a beautiful route, in the 4 days we had in the month of October, with which we have been dreaming for a long time ...
Prepare a trip to the Kasbah Route in 4 days
… Morocco and its Kasbah Route!!
This time we will enter Morocco through Marrakech, just as we did a few years ago on the trip to Marrakech and Essaouira, where we will arrive in the afternoon and where we will have dinner and stay that night, thanks to Royal Mansour, in one of the hotels most spectacular in the world, in one of its private riads.
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The next day we will pick up the rental car in Marrakech to start the Kasbah Route in 4 days.
From Marrakech we will head south through Tizi-n-Tichka, the mountain pass that crosses the Atlas Mountains, leaving dream landscapes as we pass and also passing through the Kasbah of Telouet and Anemiter, before reaching the Kasbah Ait Benhadu, one of the best known in the country and one of the best preserved, where that same afternoon we will try to travel some of its streets and where we will stay this second night of the trip.
Kasbah Ait Benhadu
The third day of the trip after finishing visiting Ait Benhadu, we will resume our journey, making a first stop at Ouarzazate and his well-known Kasbah Taourirt, where we hope to find another of the most preserved kasbahs.
From here we will enter the Draa Valley, one of the most fascinating places in the country.
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The Draa Valley continues its way south, about 100 kilometers until it reaches the gates of the Sahara desert. In this area, the kasbahs and the ksur, plural of ksar, which means fortified people, are a constant along the way.
Once we arrive in Agz, we will continue the road passing through Nkob and Tazzarine, thus skipping to continue further south and reach Zagora, since having only 4 days we had to delete some of the places we had in mind and on this occasion we have opted to eliminate the desert gate, which we will surely arrive on another occasion.
From here we will continue to Tinerhir, where we will stay in an old Kasbah this third night of the trip.
Tinerhir
On the fourth and last day of the trip, we will follow the road in the west direction, to reach the Dades Valley, parallel to the Todra Valley, an area where we will find nine kasbahs, in an excellent state of conservation, through the Valley of the Roses, Boumalne and Kalaat M'Gouna.
Dades Valley
We will pass through the group of Kasbahs of the Sidi Flah oasis and also through the five Kasbahs, where no one lives today, which make up Timatdit, one of the most photographed enclaves of this lower Dades area.
And from here we will go back to Marrakech, to return our rental car and late in the afternoon, take a plane with which we will end this trip to the Kasbah Route in 4 days.
Update after the trip: As we explained on the second day of this trip to the Kasbah Route, where we go to Ait Ben Haddou from Marrakech, we realized that the difference between the "time"that we had calculated with the real ones were too different, so it was impossible to cover the route we had planned when we wrote the preparations for the Kasbah Route. While it is true that we could do it, this would have meant being all day in the car and practically not stop the last two days of the trip, so we decided that the route instead of being circular, passing the penultimate day through the Gorges of Dades and Todra and the last day through the Valley of the Roses we would leave it in a linear route, covering only the area of the Route of the Thousand Kasbahs and the Draa Valley, leaving for another occasion this area to which we will surely return, expanding it with a stay in the desert.
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Day 1: Lloret de Mar - Girona Airport - Marrakech
