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An excellent short trip which combined a city experience (Marrakesh) with an opportunity to walk in an area of outstanding natural beauty – the Atlas Mountains.
Standing on a col 2500 metres above sea level with Atlas Mountains all around you - truely a panorama.
Hassan was well informed and possessed a good sense of humour. He maintained an appropriate walking pace which allowed all members of the group to enjoy themselves. Nothing was too much trouble for him.
Do take a good sleeing bag. The nights at the beginning of April were cold.
This is a perfect 1 week package for someone who wants a break from their routine, to see some incredible landscapes, feeling small against nature and to see the sun!!
Being in a completely different context with the sun on my face - in great company. Wandering back to our Gite with a break-off group, stopping to take in the scenery and bathing our feet in the river.
A true professional - good knowledge, kind, experienced.
Definitely take 2 loo rolls - just in case! And if you feel the cold like me - take long johns and a long goose down jacket for the gite.
A well named and well described trip. Lovely combination of time in Marrakesh and time in the mountains. This simple holiday was unlifting and rejuventing.
The gently relaxed state induced by walking in the sun high-up in the Atlas.
Excellent, a credit to the company, ensured all the groups needs were met with care and consideration; shared his lifelong knowledge of the area in a very accessable way and added greatly to our enjoyment, whislt keeping a good pace up.
This was January so be prepared for coldnights and going to bed early to keep warm, whilst needing a sun hat during the day!
Very well organised trip. Complete confidence in Hassan our guide who was very knowledgeable and good fun. Good range in our group who all gelled very well. Beautiful scenery.
Learning about the culture from Hassan and meeting the Berber people.
Brilliant guide, worked hard for us but was also good fun. Very professional.
Don't worry about taking lots of snacks the food is excellent and plentiful and vegetarians are catered for.
This was an excellent trip! A good mix between the busy city of Marrakesh and the stunning scenery of the Atlas mountains.
Staying at the gite for four nights was the highlight of the trip for me. We were able to walk each day from the door, it was a great opportunity to see/experience some of the village life, at night the view of the stars from the roof terrace was amazing and the food provided for us was fantastic - a hot tagine waiting for us mid-way through a 10 hour hike was much appreciated! Of course I enjoyed the walks too and I met some great people who I hope to stay in touch with.
Our leader, Hassan, was very knowledgeable and patient and dealt well with the demands of a mixed ability group. I also think he has a great sense of humour....
Read the trip notes - they do say to take thermals/warm clothes in winter on this trip and they will come in useful for cool nights in the gite!Don't worry about changing money - you can do this easily at the airport in Marrakesh on arrival. Don't bother with the water purification tablets - we were advised to drink/use bottled water and this was easily available and very cheap (but admittedly there are no facilities for recycling the empty bottles).
This was my first ever organised walking trip and I was quite nervous at the thought of spending a whole week in the company of people I had never met, but it turned out to be rather fun – despite the extremely cold gite. While I understand that it is difficult to gauge the mixed abilities of such large groups, I feel that, with the exception of the last day, the walks are a little too short and we spent quite an amount of time hanging around the freezing cold gite.
The first time our guide lit the small gas heater in our freezing cold gite is firmly embedded in my memory. Until then, I thought I was going to die from the cold!The 32 km walk to and from the lake on the last day was pretty special too. On the first day, I opted out of the lunch venue that our city guide took us to, as I thought the food looked rather bland - as did the restaurant. I found THE MOST AMAZING place to eat in the following place www.lesjardinsdelakoutoubia.com Incredible roof terrace, amazing views, fabulous food and brilliant service, for not much more than the price of the place I had opted out of. I highly recommend it. I spent New Year's eve there too and it was truly amazing.
Our group leader was very competent and very patient indeed. He had his work cut out pacing the walks to suit a very mixed ability group.
If you are travelling in Dec/Jan ditch the T-shirts and take thermals and fleeces. Consider packing a hot-water bottle. Gloves and a wooly hat are a must. Also consider bringing some savoury snacks for munching on. You might also wish to pack a flask as the gite staff will fill it with boiling water if you wish to have a hot drink on the walks.
This was a really excellent and well organised trips. It was a very good mix between the busy streets of Marrakech and the 4 days walking in the Atlas Mountains.
I really enjoyed the guided walks through the mountains, the scenery was beautiful. I also met some really great people on the trip, many of whom I intend to keep in contact with.
Very friendly and really keen to accomodate everyone
If you have any concerns about travelling alone, join an exodus trip.......I met some great people!
A good introduction to Morocco. Blessed by fantastic weather the trip was a great (short) escape from the doom and gloom of the UK. Marrakech was busy, vibrant and fun; the slower pace of life in the mountains was a complete contrast. Not many spending opportunities and no-one seemed to miss the typical UK Christmas excess. Hot showers at the gite and freshly cooked delicious food. Even became accustomed to the morning porridge and herb teas.
So many. Negotiating the souks - still not sure how I managed to find my way out! The amazing mosaics on the walls and floors of the kasbahs and palaces. Haggling over the price of a taxi journey to save maybe 50p! Walking in the mountains. The delicious al fresco lunches prepared and delivered by one man on his donkey on two of the walking days. Spotting birds I'd never seen before (it helped that there was a great great birder on the trip - thankyou Joe!). Eating Christmas cake on the terrace as the sun went down (brought by one of the group to share).
Hassan wonderful. He was very welcoming and friendly from the moment he met us all at the airport. As well as guiding us on the walks he worked hard in the gite, serving us meals, arranging a heater and in lots of subtle ways was genuinely kind and helpful throughout the trip. He made sure that everyone was catered for.However, the guide in Marrakesh (Mohammed) was not so impressive. There was no "orientation" included as part of the guided tour. Very disappointing. We were taken to two retail emporiums - one a pharmacy were we were given a hard sell demonstration of various lotions and potions - the other a carpet place where they trapped a number of the group and tried to sell their wares. I can only assume that these were the places that offered the best commission to the guide.
There isn't that much walking - only 2.5 days of walking in the mountains plus an hour up to the gite and back again on the first and last days. A lot of spare time in Marrakesh, but that may have been down to the flight times. Some of the group managed to fit in a massage and hammam on return to Marrakesh. Haggle everywhere. Cold in the gite at night. We saw very little of the community; a few people working in the fields and children playing on their way back from school. Go for tea at the Berber house. It gives you the opportunity to see into a typical yard and understand a little of what goes on behind the locked doors and gates. Bonus - we sampled some delicious cakes and fresh local nuts.Take earplugs. Go soon.
It was our first Exodus trip and we were very impressed with the organsation of the holiday, particularly when we were in Morocco. We were interested in the trekking part of the holiday in the Atlas Mountains but found the time at the beginning and end of the holiday in Marrakech to be enjoyable.The highlight for me was really the contrast between the city and country. It felt as though we had been away much longer than one week.
Staying in the village in the mountains gave us a view of life that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. The remoteness of the village and the lack of motor transport.Arriving at the dinner site on the treks, meeting up with the cook and donkey and having a lunch cooked for you in the middle of nowhere.
Our group leader was always very conscious of our safety and the ability of the group members, which meant we had to turn back on one of the day walks because of deteriorating weather conditions.
On the guided tour of Marrakech we were taken to a pharmacy where we were really expected to buy some products and at the end of the tour we were taken inside a restaurant to a table which had already been laid for us. We were obviously expected to have lunch there but it certainly wasn't the best quality or the best value for money. I think you would be better to make your own arrangements.
I've given the trip 4 stars because experiencing the Atlas mountains was so magnificent. We were well looked after in the gite and our guide – Hassan – was excellent. However, the Marrakech segment of the trip leaves a lot to be desired and the actual experience in the mountains felt much more commercial than I would have expected from the way it was sold to me on your website. I'm explaining all this below.
The 10 hour 32 kms walk on our last full day in the High Atlas. It was difficult but very rewarding, we were extremely lucky with the weather for the full trip and the ruggedness of the mountains is just something else. The colours were beautiful. The cook from our gite came all the way with his mule to the semi-frozen lake where we had our break and cooked lunch for us there that was nutritious and tasty as always. I also enjoyed the 4-hour walk on our second day, it was reasonably hard and the views on the top were breathtaking.What wasn't so inspiring though was the fact that the first walk (the 7-hour one) felt like hiking on someone's farm. The valleys are reasonably built up by having several villages neighbouring each other, the hills are used for farming sheep or chopping wood. Our first walk was interrupted considerably by dogs who were guarding the various sheel pens. Even if there had been some wildlife, they would have been scared away by the dogs. The walk itself is reasonably strenuous and challenging, the mountains are gorgeous but it feels like being a rambler on someone's farm rather than being out on an adventure.
Hassan is a very warm, genuine and knowledgeable group leader. Not once did he try to limit our options just to make his own life easier. He is very patient and he is without a doubt a very good man.I didn't think much of our guide in Marrakech though, he showed us a couple of sites and took us to shops where he gets his commission. He didn't give us any kind of orientation so we were a bit lost first when our free time came.
Take into consideration the amount of time spent in Marrakech, there isn't that much to look at. A lot of historic sites were either destroyed by succeeding dynasties over the centuries or didn't survive due to poor building practices.We arrived in Marrakech on Sunday and had a free evening, had a full day there on Monday with the afternoon/evening free again after being guided around in the morning a bit. Then we travelled the full morning on Tuesday and arrived in the mountains in the afternoon, again with a lot of spare time on our hands. We didn't start the actual hiking until Wednesday.I think it's quite difficult to guage from the field notes the amount of time you need to kill until you can get your hiking boots on properly. It would have been better if we had been able to leave Marrakech Monday afternoon and start hiking on Tuesday. It felt like we were kept waiting for the bit that we all booked the holiday for in the first place.Beware of the hotel you get booked in in Marrakech too, Hotel Oudaya is awful.
Thank you for your valued feedback. We have decided to use a new hotel for all Exodus trips to Marrakech in 2013.