Moroccan Atlas - The Trekking Guide: Planning, places to stay, places to eat; 44 trail maps and 10 town plans; includes Marrakech city guide

Useful, but hard to follow the map locations. There aren’t many resources available, so it helps, but I want more.

This compact trekking guide is fantastic. I bought it as a gift but had a flick through as I am very interested in Morocco. As a linguist, I checked out the phrases at the back. Some interesting choices there, but some good ones too. I like the maps and all the info on when to go and what to wear. Very useful.

I'm currently planning a winter summit of Jbel Toubkal in the Atlas Mountains and this book seemed to be the logical purchase.I've pre booked the trip through a UK based tour operator who, to my surprise, I've come to realise is author of this very book!I've read most of the parts of the book that are relevant to my trip and I'm very pleased with my purchase.The book manages to relay basic information, as well as things that only the hardiest of trekkers might consider, without being condescending.One of my favourite features of this book is that it is not just a factual travel book. Yes, it has plenty of facts and lots of useful information. But scattered throughout the pages, you'll also find colourful journal entries from trips taken by the author himself in the Atlas region.Some sections begin with relevant and interesting quotes from texts about Morocco and the Berber people. I find this to be a nice touch that helps fuel the sense of adventure in planning such a trip, and stops it from becoming merely an admin exercise.I feel I would have enjoyed reading this book even without my impending trek and it has made me consider trips and treks in other parts of the Atlas Mountains.It's a nice sized book to chuck in a bag. I shall be bringing it with me on my trip to Toubkal.

I used this guide to help me select and plan an interesting trek for friends in a mountaineering club in 2016. The overview of each trek and its particular pros and cons was particularly helpful in this respect. Having selected a combination of the author's routes making a two-week traverse across the Jebel Sarhro region, I was able to plot our intended trail on Google Earth armed with the book's helpful GPS Waypoints and the detail from the sketch maps and the text. We had a guide on our trek, but the sketch maps and the GPS route would have been enough to successfully navigate our route across the Sarhro - an unfrequented and interesting region to visit.This guidebook can be warmly recommended if you are considering a trek in Morocco, either with or without a guide.

Bought it for the Mrs. Must be good she made it back.

Excellent book for our solo first time trekking in Morocco. Great details, accurate information and helpful advice.