Holidays in Dades Valley

The Dades is called the Country of the Figs to distinguish it from the drier Draa, the country of the Dates.

The Dades Valley is like a Wild-West land suspended in another age, with snow on one side and semi-desert on the other, an Old Testament wilderness whose savage grandeur and unearthly silence can only be equalled by the Grand Canyon. The Dades River flows through the valley like a magic elixir, lacing a miraculous trail of wheat, fruit, almond, walnut and silver birch trees set against a backdrop of extraordinary and spectacular rocky land formations.

To protect themselves from invaders, the Berbers erected literally hundreds of kasbahs. The 25 Kms of good, though very winding tarmac road from Boumalne du Dades passes directly through this forest of ochre fortresses.

Accommodation in Dades Valley

Chez Pierre

in Dades Valley

In an isolated but beautiful setting

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