Lifestyle • Travel In Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains, a Chance to Disconnect Only an hour from Marrakech, the High Atlas Mountains offer the ideal place to unplug.

Even in winter, the trees are full of songbirds. Brian Mann/NPR HIGH ATLAS MOUNTAINS, Morocco — When we set off on foot from a tiny mountain town called Imlil, it was still early, the sky purple.

A veterinarian tries to bottle feed a tiny puppy found by a CBS News team amid earthquake rubble in Talat N'Yaqoob, in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, at the vet's office in Marrakech, Sept. 14, 2023.

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Morocco's devastating earthquake last week hit thousands of people who live in traditional villages high in the Atlas Mountains, and helping them has been fraught with difficulty.

Moulay Brahim was once a happy place for Sami Sensis. The village is located high in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, and its scenery, the fresh air, the friendly people drew his parents there nearly ...

A new study published in Nature highlights how rural-urban interactions and improved city connections are transforming oasis agriculture in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains. The ancient oasis ...

The epicentre of Morocco’s devastating earthquake on 8 September was in the High Atlas Mountains, about 71km south-west of Marrakesh. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Jesús ...

Imidal, Morocco — High in the central Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, hope was fading fast Tuesday of finding more survivors four days after a devastating earthquake rocked the region and ...

The ancestral lands of the Amazigh include the Drâa-Tafilalet – the stunning desert and oasis region bordering Algeria that includes the High Atlas Mountains. A 2014 census in Morocco showed ...

The High Atlas can be as much as 15C cooler than Marrakech, which makes much of the spring-to-autumn window viable for a hiking trip. High summer can reach 28C, so June and September either side ...