Welcome To "Petite Kasbah"
Around Draa Tinghir Zagora
Zagora, often called "La porte du désert" (Edge of the desert), offers you a unique base to discover the huge arid spaces, not to forget oasis of the Draa Valley, its wonderful Ksaars and Kasbahs, made from pisé and adobe
- The Road : The road : Marrakesh-Zagora (N9) main road is considered to be one of most beautiful roads of Morocco. While driving in it, you will pass by High Atlas. This mountainous road offers you great landscapes.
- Drâa
valley:
although the oued (river) Drâa,
has its spring in the
surroundings of Ourzazate, it
flows underground until Agdz,
where it irrigates the valley,
helping growth of some fruit
farming of dates and food crop.
- Ksaar
and Kasbah (casbah):
Ksaars and Kasbahs skattering
over the valleys of Drâa, are
traditional homes and
residences, made in pisé and
adobe, for pillars. This kind of
constructions fits to the local
climate and tends to be replaced
by modern ones
- The pisé is a construction method that consists in building walls 50cm wide in rammed earth.
- The adobe is a sort of brick made of crude clay dried in the sun.
