After a few days exploring the bustling, hectic city of Marrakech, a stay in the High Atlas Mountains is the perfect antidote. Lush, verdant valleys, snow-capped mountain peaks; it is hard to believe that the tranquil, rural life led in the High Atlas is a mere hour from the madness of Marrakech.

Here Berber life remains unchanged as it has done for many years, locals living a simple life and relying on the surrounding land to make a living.

The Berbers are friendly, welcoming people and you may even find on a gentle mountain hike that you are invited inside a mud baked pise house for a glass of homemade mint tea.