Apr 4, 2025
Mustafa is the best! - It was a great, exciting experience. Our guide Mustafa fulfilled all our wishes and showed us great hiking trails and cooked deliciously. We would do the tour again!
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Mar 19, 2025
Amazing experience ! - We had an incredible experience exploring the Berber villages in the heart of Morocco. Walking through these beautiful landscapes and discovering local traditions was unforgettable. A special thanks to our guide, Samir, who was amazing—knowledgeable, friendly, and speaks in English and French. The food was another highlight: fresh, local, and absolutely delicious. Highly recommend this authentic and enriching experience!
Martin Taffonneau
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Mar 17, 2025
Beautiful treck - Beautiful day with a 2 hour treck in the mountains. Exceptional shooting.
The mountain guide Samir super friendly and helpful.
Important to be well put on and asked for a minimum of fitness
I recommend
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Mar 11, 2025
An amazing trip with a great guide - Had an amazing trip with Samir as our guide. He is very knowledgeable about the region and tended to our every needs. Communication was a big plus because his English was very good. Would 100% do this trek again.
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Mar 3, 2025
Unforgettable stay - Wonderful days with Samir, great knowledgeable of the Atlas Mountains, speaks good French (which is what we intended), attentive, friendly and very helpful. Delighted!!!
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Mar 2, 2025
Excellent authentic experience - We had a great time with Kamal (guide) and Halit (chef). The hiking was so beautiful and Kamal made the experience unforgettable. The hiking felt very remote and not touristy in the slightest, which is what we wanted.
Some top tips:
- read the reviews on here with a grain of salt, I think the routes and accommodations vary across tours
- pack a variety of things.. we have 20+ degrees on our first day and then a snow blizzard on our second
- bring cereal bars or some snacks
- bring a towel, toothpaste, shower gel, flip flops and pillow / sleeping bag liner (the accommodation was fine, but the bedding is fleece so not sure how/if this is washed)
- it was freezing at night so bring hat gloves etc
- walking shoes would be helpful but one of us did it in trainers and was fine (although regretted not having hiking boots when it snowed)
Review provided by Viator
Feb 24, 2025
Great tour with great guide! - We did a three-day hike in the Atlas Mountains with Houssine, and it was an amazing experience. He was a great guide, nice, looking out for us and super knowledgeable about the history and Berber culture, which made the trip even more interesting.
The hike itself was beautiful, with stunning landscapes and well-organized logistics. We got a real taste of Berber life. The food was delicious and all locally sourced. We met a lot of locals who were really nice!
A small tip for future travelers: bring your own towel and soap.
A small minus: The driver bringing us back to the hotel was a bit rude. He apparently had a reservation later and was obviously not happy to bring us to the drop off point.
Overall, a fantastic adventure—highly recommended!
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Feb 16, 2025
Atlas Mountains adventure - Fantastic hike with amazing views at every turn. Our guide, Samir, was AWESOME! He was knowledgeable about the area, looked out for all members of our group, and was incredibly personable. I highly recommend any of the trips into the Atlas mountains with this team.
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Feb 15, 2025
Three Days in the High Atlas: Dust, Sweat, and Sunburn - If you want to understand a place, really understand it, you have to walk it. Feel the dirt under your boots, the sun clawing at your skin, the wind cutting through your jacket like a dull knife, and the magnificent mountains dropping your jaw over and over. The High Atlas Mountains don’t just reveal themselves to you; they test you, wear you down, and, if you’re lucky, let you in.
We started as strangers. Me and Rory, a pair of best friends catching up, joined by Frans and Sofie from The Netherlands and Myrna from the UK, all of who were doing their own wandering. Within ten minutes of the meeting, the mountains had done their work. Small talk gave way to shared laughs, conversations unspooled easily, and before long, we were sharing mints and tea like old friends. Something about the altitude strips away pretension, makes you honest. Maybe it’s the thin air, or maybe it’s just the fact that you’ve got little to no signal and no escape—only each other and the road ahead.
Samir, our guide, was everything you want in a mountain man: calm, steady, the kind of guy who could probably survive out here with nothing but a knife and a good pair of boots. Then there was our cook (Abdulla), a quiet operator with simple skills and a donkey for company. He kept us fuelled on simple tagines and flatbread, the kind of food that under any other circumstances, might feel unremarkable. But up here, after hours of walking, it was energy-packed and appreciated.
The mountains themselves? Brutal, rugged and beautiful in equal measure. Snow-capped peaks sliced into the sky, the sun burned fiercely by day, then disappeared into a freezing, endless night filled with unspoilt views of the stars. The villages—Imlil, Tinerhourhine, Aït Aïssa—felt like they had been there forever (except those damaged by the recent earthquake), stone and earth blending seamlessly into the landscape. It was humbling, walking through places where life carried on as it had for centuries, where people worked the land with their hands and lived by the rhythm of the seasons.
Accommodations were exactly as they should be: simple, functional, no frills. You sleep where you sleep, and if you’re lucky, there’s a shower that’s more warm than cold. But that’s part of it. If you’re the kind of person who needs turn-down service and a pillow menu, this isn’t for you. If you’ve walked mountains before, if you understand that comfort is relative and the best sleep comes after a long day’s trek, then you’ll be fine.
If there’s one thing I’d change, it’d be a deeper connection with the Berber communities we passed through. A chance to sit down, learn about their history, their traditions, their food—not just observe but truly engage and gain a little more insight. I’d pay more for that, especially if I knew the money was going where it should.
And one last thing: if you’re booking this through some big platform, know that a chunk of what you pay never reaches the people making it happen. Tip your guide, tip your cook, and acknowledge the ones who make the journey possible.
Because when the trek is over, when you’re back in the madness of Marrakech, drinking a beer and peeling off layers of dust and sunburn, you’ll realise that what made the trip wasn’t just the mountains. It was the people, the stories, the long silences broken by laughter. And maybe, if you’re lucky, you’ll have left a little piece of yourself up there, tucked into the winding trails and the cold, star-soaked nights.
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Jan 22, 2025
Ideal 3 day hike - We had a great time on our 3 day hike in the Atlas. Kamal was an exemplary guide: he set a good pace, he had great local knowledge of the area, and we even had a pitstop at his home for a mint tea on day 2. The mountain views were beautiful, particularly on Day 3. We travelled as two friends (male and female) with no hassle. Hassan cooked hearty meals for us each day. We had good accommodation on both nights. Bed linen and towels are provided.
Although TripAdvisor technically "confirmed" our trip at the time of booking, we had no communication from our pick-up guy until 5 minutes before our scheduled pick-up, so bear that in mind while you're waiting!
Overall, I'd definitely recommend
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