MOROCCO, COUNTRY OF MOUNTAINS

To continue my friend @protomar 's post i decided to let you guys know about :

THE MIDDLE ATLAS
250 km long, more watered but much lower than the High Atlas, the Middle Atlas is the privileged area of ​​the forest and the scrubland.
Two massifs compose it, whose forms and the altitude differ deeply.
To the west, it is the Middle Causse that Khénifra and Ifrane, a flat country of medium altitude, with the concave valleys dominated by the forest of oaks, and higher, of cedars. Its gently undulating heights shelter small amounts of sinkhole lakes. It is the mountain of the promenade, cures of rest, fishing and hunting. But it is also, from the end of December to the end of February, an incomparable domain of cross-country skiing in the huge cedar of the triangle Khénifra - Azrou - Itzer where many colonies of maggot monkeys live.
To the east, it is the pleated Middle Atlas of Taza, which benefits, in Bou Iblane (3172 m), of an early snow and abundant snow, allowing the practice of ski touring from December to May. It culminates on its southern ride, Bounasseur, 3326 m.
Note that the taza region is also rich in remarkable caves and sinkholes, including the famous Friouato.
ANTI ATLAS AND SARHRO
Huge punctured ridge, more than 400 km long with its eastern extension of Jbel Sarhro, the Anti Atlas stretches from the white beaches of the Atlantic to Tafilalet.
It is an already Saharan mountain, bare and dry, with dark eruptive rocks, but dotted with green oases.
The first culminates at Imgout (2530 m) and the second at Amalou - n - Mansour (2712 m).
High country austere and poignant, it is the mountain of the great winter and spring hike, pedestrian or equestrian, in an amazing mineral atmosphere and under an immutably clear sky