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**beetlejuice** · #1 22 Feb 2024

Hi all,
I'm planning a trip to Morocco in October this year with my KTM.
I'm looking for a place to stay in the Anti Atlas, in the West of Tata, around the villages Ait Ballou, Issafn, Tazalaght and Timkyet.
Does someone know a place (hotel, camping) around there?
The aim is to stay there 2 nights, unload the motorbikes for 1 day and do an offroad trip following Chris Scotts routes MA8, MA3, MA14.
Thanks in advance for your replies!
Manuel

**Tim Cullis** · #2 22 Feb 2024

I know the area well, but the only place I could suggest is some basic rooms at the cafe in Issafn. The Amelyn Valley hotels would be over an hour to the west. The last time I stayed in the best of the Irherm hotels to the north, the only washing facility was a sink in the corridor. In Tata I normally stay in the Renaissance.

**beetlejuice** · #3 23 Feb 2024

Hi Tim,
thank you very much for your answer.
May you share with me a contact from that cafe with basic rooms in Issafn I could enter in contact with?
I already thought about the possibility to stay in Tata and do the day trip from there. What me prevent from doing so is the time I'm going to lose on the street before entering the "Ait Ballou, Issafn, Tazalaght and Timkyet" - area.
Is there a possibility to leave quite fast the street after Tata?
Manuel

**Chris Scott** · #4 23 Feb 2024

We covered that region in a car last November.
Tata has a few more options now besides Renai and Sables. See my post: https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hu...-10#post634625 (note what it says about Igherm).
One day we noted a couple of cafe/auberges in the palm-lined Aït Mansour Gorge (MA3) which otherwise seems to draw in day-trippers from Tafraoute. That's as close as I know of places in your area.

See also update 3.35 – Autumn 2023 here about tracks and amazing new roads (below) around there.

With light? KTMs, for a bit of sport you might try the short MA3 'old route' (KM93) to Ait el Haj.
Not tried it, but for a bit more sport you could then trace a piste near Haj's Haul Road junction that may link via villages / pylon tracks down to Angarf on the Akka Gold Mine piste (shown on map p184). AGM happens to be a great way of dodging asphalt from Tata; a fun, fast haul road you can bang out in less than an hour (below).