Berber cultural holiday, Morocco
This trip can be tailor made to create a unique holiday for your individual requirements by travel experts with intimate knowledge of the destination. Sites and accommodations can be arranged to suit you and your budget. This is a comfortable trip that will suit those who enjoy immersing themselves in new cultures and environments before relaxing in comfort in characterful local accommodation!
How this holiday makes a difference
Environment
We ask all our customers to respect the environment. Litter, in particular, is damaging to the landscape and can injure animals so we encourage people to take their litter home. Our guides are proud guardians of their natural heritage and will ensure that rubbish is collected and disposed off. Our guides have been known to take a few extra minutes to collect and burn the rubbish of groups that were not so environmentally sensitive.
Community
100% of our guides and drivers in Morocco are local people. Our local trekking planner, together with our Head Guide, Houceine, regularly review our small team of trekking guides to test their local knowledge and guiding abilities. We firmly believe that a local licensed guide can offer more insight into the High Atlas region and Berber people as well as enhancing the local economy. This is preferable, in our opinion, than sending a guide from another country or even from elsewhere in Morocco. All food on the included trek is bought locally.
Most of the riads we use in Marrakech are locally owned or are partnerships with a European owner and a Moroccan National, as is all of the accommodation in the mountains. All staff members at these properties are local and all food and materials are sourced locally. The Kasbah Samra especially has embraced the local community – this ‘Douar’ was transformed from a derelict house with the help of the villagers of Tamatert. The owner has created a wonderful Berber home which is most definitely part of the village and which has employed many of its residents. It is the local people who grow the vegetables, bake the bread and wash the laundry.
We are proud to support the Berber Cultural Centre in the Atlas Mountains, an innovative new project to preserve, protect and demonstrate the rich heritage of Morocco's indigenous people. The one day programme gives an invitation to the heart of village life. During the day you will be involved in daily activities, which concern the local people.
Your visit will give you a taste of the incredible hospitality which these people are famous for, and it will give you an insight into a way of life that has disappeared in many parts of the world - where family and community are still important. Not only will your experience will be inspirational and personally rewarding, but you will contribute to the direct support of the local economy, education, people and land.
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