Wild & Beautiful Morocco

Since Morocco is a tribunal system just 50 years ago. Every tribe has its own land and pastures, where they move from one season to another, looking for better herbs for their herd, and water. Most of the nomads live in the Atlas mountains in a goat-hair tent, such as in the case of the Ait Atta tribe. The main income would be goats and often a few camels. Ait Atta originally lives in Jbel Saghro mountain, their homeland, although they have their pastures in the High Atlas, where they move in the summer month. Every May, The families with their goats and camel would take over 15 days of journey walking from the Saghro mountains to the High Atlas. By the beginning of the first snow, they would do the same trip back to their homeland in the Saghro mountains.

Nomads live also in the Sahara desert of Morocco, in small communities, often far from each other. They live in harmony with the harsh environment of the Sahara. Nomads of the Sahara live in different areas, around Erg Chebbi dunes, you still can observe such a lifestyle as well as the surrounding of Erg Chegaga and the western Sahara in big numbers. This way of nomadism is the same as Touareg nomads in the north of Mali.

Some nomads in Morocco lives also in caves, their movement used to be from one cave to another. For the same reasons as the other nomads. Most of the families who live in a Cave can be seen in the region of Boutghrar, Dades Valley, and around Todgha Gorges. Semi nomadism luckily is the name we can call this lifestyle that still keeps animals as the main source of living.

The life of nomads in the wild under tents or inside the caves is definitely a harsh lifestyle, In this case, it’s not always nomads who choose their way of living, but often it’s the other way around.