Todra Gorge→marrakech→ouarzazate→tinghir
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Todra Gorge & Tinghir
Morocco's deepest canyon — three hundred metres of vertical limestone with barely enough room for the river and your held breath.
Todra Gorge
The Todra Gorge is a fault line — a crack in the eastern High Atlas where a river cut through limestone over millions of years and left vertical walls rising 300 metres on either side. At its narrowest point, the canyon is only 10 metres wide. The light enters from directly above.
The gorge sits 15 kilometres north of Tinghir, a town on the old caravan route between the Sahara and the imperial cities. The road from Tinghir follows the Todra River upstream through a palmery of date palms, past villages built from the same pink stone as the canyon walls.
Rock climbers come for the walls. Over 300 bolted routes climb the limestone on both sides of the gorge. The rest come for the walk — the paved road runs through the narrowest section and continues into the mountains as a dirt track toward Imilchil.
In the late afternoon, the walls turn from grey to orange to red as the sun drops. The river, even in dry years, still flows. Small cafés line the base of the gorge. There is nowhere else in Morocco that looks like this.
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