The Hotel:
Is in a traditional, hand shaped, mud plastered stone dwelling, backing on to 750-850 year old fortifications, overlooking a meandering six mile long lake.
The nearest village is Bin el Ouidane, nestled in to the middle of the mid Atlas mountains,
owned and built by Berbers who have lived and worked there for many generations.
Accommodation
There are four twin and one single ground floor rooms, each with their own access to the outside. Upstairs there is one double bedroom with space for two single beds. Also there  are five sweet little rooms divided from the traditional large dwelling area. This design gives the room a gentle soft light from the centre roof window. The roof window is left open in hot weather and we have mosquito netted the gaps between beams and dividing walls where light comes into the rooms.
The Berber Longroom is carpeted in rich hand spun thick pile wool carpets and sleeps 8 with seating area. In days of old 12 people would have happily spent the night here.
The price paid is for the room, so it is for you to decide how many people you wish to share with.
A small lobby with sofas, shaded trellis to eat under, and olive groves to relax under
Recycled wooden doors speak of decades of use and the naturaly pigmented mud plastered thick stone walls create a still tranquility seeped in history.
The toilet blocks sittuated very close to the hotel and are tiled Moroccan style. Both have hot showers, and one block has a Hamman a sauna like room where you scrub, massage and wash.
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Surrounding Terrain
Scrub, rocks, cactus and canyons, gravel roofed stone dwellings.
Eco farming as it has always been done -
without the use of petrochemicals .
Explore:
The web of interconecting footpaths rambling over the stoney slopes or take a Kayak journey and discover otters and fresh water turtles who bathe in the sunshine on ledges around the lake, whilst eagles soar above. Maybe join a stream of donkey traffic to the local market. where you will find pyramids of spice, tea stalls, and watch the hubbub of local life.
Our track:
Turns off by the olive oil mill, up along the edge of a canyon, through areas of wheat growing between the rocks, then an olive grove and the hotel peeps out. It is accessable by car.
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