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Anti Atlas Trekking

A sunburned granite range leading to the Sahara, the Anti Atlas remains unexplored
compared with the High Atlas. The star attraction for trekkers is the quartz massif of Jebel
L’Kest, the ‘amethyst mountain’, which you can walk to through the lush Ameln Valley. More
farming villages and crumbling kasbahs are found around Jebel Aklim, another of the excellent
trekking possibilities in this area of blue skies and Berber shepherds. The landscape has
enough variety, from palm-filled gorges to brooding, volcanic Jebel Siroua, to justify multiple
treks.

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