{"id":225934,"date":"2013-07-09T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/the-atlas-mountains"},"modified":"2024-09-27T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:09:54","slug":"the-atlas-mountains","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/africa\/morocco\/the-atlas-mountains","title":{"rendered":"The Atlas Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Traditional villages, high mountains and deep valleys<\/h2>\n<p> The <strong>Atlas Mountains<\/strong> run through Northern Africa, from west to east through <strong>Morocco<\/strong> , Algeria and Tunisia. The mountain range in Morocco is divided into several parts &#8211; the High Atlas, Middle Atlas and Anti-Atlas &#8211; surrounded by various foothills and mountain massifs.<br \/>\nAlmond trees, walnuts and saffron grow in the valleys; water sometimes flows.<br \/>\nVillages seem to stick to the mountainside, the houses have the color of the surrounding rock.<br \/>\nThanks to a microclimate, a place can be surprisingly pleasant, even in the cold winters.<br \/>\nAt high altitudes it can freeze then, there is even some snow.<br \/>\nLovely, raw and pure alternate, but the Atlas Mountains are always impressively beautiful.<br \/>\nSome parts are easily accessible by road, but the real untamed adventure lies far from that road, in villages and valleys accessible only by mule tracks.<br \/>\nThere, old traditions live on, life has a different rhythm.         <em>Where the world can&#8217;t find you &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Toubkal and M&#8217;goun<\/h3>\n<p>  The <strong>High Atlas<\/strong>, with its highest point <strong>Toubkal<\/strong> (4,165m), is a major attraction. Mount Toubkal is also the highest mountain in Northern Africa. Another highlight is the peak <strong>M&#8217;Goun<\/strong> (4,068 metres), which is very different in landscape from the area around the Toubkal. Pleasant in summer, icy cold in winter.<br \/>\nFrom a mountaintop you will have insanely beautiful views of sharp rocky ridges, eroded volcanoes, stone plains and in some places even sand dunes.<br \/>\nSO different from the lower coastal regions of Morocco, and SO worth exploring the higher parts of the Atlas as well.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional villages, high mountains and deep valleys, with the highest peaks being Toubkal and M&#8217;goun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":338401,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[228],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-225934","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-morocco","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/225934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/225934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335914,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/225934\/revisions\/335914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=225934"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=225934"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=225934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}