The ancient Greeks believed that Atlas was the primordial Titan who held up the sky. The mountain range that takes his name separates the Sahara desert from the Atlantic Ocean; Marrakesh, the ...

It had taken the camels and their black-turbaned Berber herders four long days to walk from the Sahara. When we met them, the dromedaries’ panniers were being loaded with everything we needed ...

After lunch, we drove just a short distance to Kasbah Tamadot, perhaps the most famous property in the High Atlas Mountains and part of Richard Branson’s Virgin Limited Edition collection of hotels.

Mike McHugo has known all about these Berber qualities since the 1970s, when he first came trekking here. An adventurous traveller from England, his mountain guide back then was a Berber, Omar Ait ...

HIGH ATLAS MOUNTAINS, Morocco — When we set off on foot from a tiny mountain town called Imlil, it was still early, the sky purple. The peaks towering above the valley were just visible in the ...

Reuters photographer Youssef Boudlal travelled to the High Atlas mountains in Morocco to document the lives of the Berber people. "It took a ten-hour drive from Casablanca to get to the mountain ...

Details: Atlas Mountains Kasbah Angour ( kasbahangour.com ) offers rooms from £108 B&B. Half-day walks are 295 dirhams (around £24). Transfers from Marrakech Airport cost 220 dirhams each way ...

Just 90 minutes from the crowded souks of Marrakech, the Ouirgane Valley offers adventure and relaxation. Annabel Grossman recommends combining the two on a trip to the High Atlas Mountains ...

Trekking in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains is surprisingly easy with young children, ... near the Berber village of Ouirgane, ... where we had lunch (more tagine). Our eight-year-old daughter, ...

The road winds up through the Atlas Mountains, passing 1,000-year-old Berber villages which, if you removed the electricity poles and kids in logo'd T-shirts, would look much the same as when they ...