Mt Toubkal Climb

What's Included

• Crampons if required

• All breakfasts, 5 lunches and 5 dinners included

• All accommodation

• Free transfers

What's Not Included

• Single supplement

• Travel insurance

• Visa's and Vaccinations

Food

All breakfasts, 5 lunches and 5 dinners included.

Moroccan food is, generally speaking, excellent though not particularly
varied.

Breakfasts usually consist of porridge, bread and jam with coffee or
tea. Main meals will often be in the form of tajines of meat and vegetables
with a great mix of herbs and spices and light fluffy cous cous. Salads will
often comprise of both cooked and raw vegetables including tomatoes, smoked
peppers and aubergine. Seafood is also popular as are dried fruits and
pastries. 

When eating out, meals are reasonably priced - kebab and bread cost only
about £4 (approx. US$6.50). In main towns it is possible to find very good
French and Moroccan restaurants where a meal with wine will cost anything
from £20 (approx. US$30) upwards. Generally dinner is likely to cost between
£5-10 (approx. US$8-15) depending on what you drink. £15 (approx. US$25) a
day for food should be sufficient. Local beers, wines and soft drinks are
available at very reasonable prices but you can pay UK prices or more for
imported alcohol. Your leader can help recommend restaurants each evening.

Vegetarians can be catered for but there is a fairly limited choice of cous
cous and tajine or omelettes. This is particularly the case during the more
rural or trekking sections of the trip.

If you have any special dietary requirements you should inform the Exodus
Office prior to the trip. If you have a specific medical/dietary need (i.e.
coeliac or vegan) you may find it helpful to bring some items of food with
you from home. 

We advise you buy your own water purification tablets in the UK and take them
with you. Bottled water can be purchased throughout the trip, but as
recycling is not fully established in Morocco plastic bottles are an
increasing waste problem.

We encourage you to bring water bottles and a means of purifying, filtering
or sterilising water (see packing section) in order to be able to drink cool
water from mountain streams. Bottles of water are available but we strongly
discourage buying these as it contributes to plastic waste.

Accommodation

On this trip, we spend two nights in a hotel in Marrakech, four nights camping and one night in a gite. Below are the accommodations we typically use:



Marrakech: Hotel Gomassine (nights 1 and 7)







Our adventure begins and ends at Hotel Gomassine in the Guéliz neighbourhood of Marrakech. The hotel itself has a small pool with sun loungers, plus there are plenty of shops, cafes and restaurants nearby. If, upon arrival, you need to pick up anything for the days ahead, the Carre Eden mall is a five-minute walk away, where you'll find international shops and a Carrefour Gourmet supermarket.



Camping: Nights 2-5







Our four camping nights are a truly wild experience, as we sleep under the Moroccan sky, cradled by the High Atlas Mountains. Our first two nights are spent wild camping, firstly in the Azaden Valley on the outskirts of a small village (night 2), then at L'Azib N-Tzikarte (night 3). Our final two nights (nights 4 and 5) are at Mount Toubkal Base Camp, where we normally camp within walking distance of a mountain refuge where (for a small fee) you can shower (though the water is often cold).



To make the experience more comfortable, the camp team put up a toilet tent at our campsites – it’s basic but does the job. All the camping is full service, which means you don't need to put up your tent or do the camp chores. Sleeping mats are provided.



Aroumd: Hotel Aremd (night 6)







One night is spent in a gite (guesthouse) in Aroumd. This is twin-share with shared facilities, including hot showers and a lovely terrace overlooking the mountains.



Worth knowing



Hotel Aremd is more akin to a mountain refuge with a dorm room. Single supplements are not available for these nights.

There may be times when the weather forces us to use a gite instead of camping at Mount Toubkal Base Camp.

Single supplement is not available in the Gite.

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