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Stay schedules BUDGET FORMULA « PALM-GROVE & DESERT »
- BUDGET FORMULA « PALM-GROVE & DESERT » Get a taste of the oasis and desert, at the lowest price : Only on booking
Only on booking and during the following periods : - BUDGET « FAMILY » FORMULA 4 DAYS FULL BOARD
This is an example as the order of activities may be different according to the season, to the effective dates of your stay (knowing that for example, Zagora’s suq takes place on Wednesdays and Sundays), and to meet your wishes on the spot. Tariffs -
« HISTORY & CULTURE » STAY SCHEDULE DISCOVER THE DRA OASIS , ITS CULTURE , ITS HISTORY, ITS PRESENT 5 DAYS – 260 € ONLY! You stay at Dar Raha Zagora (full board) and your programme is made of the following sequences*
Presentation It is time to take the Dra Valley, the mountains and oasis of Morocco, away from the widespread image of countries without history, inhabited by people who’ve been maintaining millenary traditions down to modern times. The Dra Valley and the whole South of Morocco for that matter, Atlas, Anti-Atlas and oasis altogether, played a foreground role in the political, military, economical and cultural life of Morocco. Just think that the great Almoravids (XIth-XIIth), Almohads (XIIth-XIIIth), Saadiyine (XVIth-XVIIth) and Alawids (XVIIth-XXIth) Dynasties have all been coming from the South of the country. The South has been a place of great importance in the flowering of Sufi mysticism and the spectacular history of the famous “Marabous”, who are seen by ordinary people as doted of miraculous powers by God’s blessing and are objects of an age-old popular cult. Some of them fought for power with the Sultans based in Marrakech, Fes or Meknes. The South also sheltered the most ancient Jewish Kingdoms ever known in Morocco, since their presence in Ifran of the Anti-Atlas and in the Dra Valley gets back to the millenary before Christ. The three monotheisms – Judaïsm, Christianism and Islam – coexisted in the Dra Valley with varying fortunes. Great harbour and platform of the trans-Saharan trade, the Dra Valley played a key role, until the XVIIIth century, in Moroccan economy, mainly as a corridor for the supplying of gold and other precious commodities coming from the “Sudan” – Africa South of Sahara – but also as a provider of indigenous and very sought-after products such as dates, indigo and lac. For all these reasons and others, the Moroccan South, and the Dra Valley in particular, are rich of a glorious and tumultuous history that’s been most often tragic for local populations. Insecurity was such that no one could live alone, all inhabitants being obliged to stay in compact and fortified villages called “kasbah” or “qsour”. These jewels of the mud, rock and palm tree architecture make, together with the immense palm-grove, the magnificence of the Dra Valley. Visits and exchanges introduce the tourist to a disconcerting history that puts into question his modern times vision of the Dra Valley as a cul-de-sac on the periphery of civilisation, next to the immense emptiness of the Saharan desert. Historical reality made of the Dra Valley along centuries an oasis, a harbour, a crossroads, a platform for commercial and cultural exchanges of strategic importance for Morocco and beyond. Herodotus’ mention of the Dra Valley five centuries before Christ bears witness to that. Such an approach allows reconsidering under an original angle the conventional representations of Morocco and Islam, among others, and renewing their content and weight. Present times are not forgotten for all that : visits and exchanges bring out at the same time the age of numerous knowledge, techniques (ex: irrigation) and social distinction criteria, at the same time they accentuate the radicalism of modern times changes such as national unification, individual family housing, education, wages, former nomads settling process, drought and sand invasion, emigration, women emancipation and so forth).
Introduction, Guiding, Commentary Antoine Bouillon, social anthropologist, journalist and trainer, A library, documents and references are at your disposal
One account « Antoine makes stones to talk ! Human history emerges from the geography of mountains and valleys, their words from the topology of the qsour. We’ll come back to listen to his voice and all those that, together with it, are giving, yesterday and today, a tongue to things and an ear to humans. » (Pierre, Daniel & Bernadette)
- “CALAMI” STAY SCHEDULE Dar Raha Zagora offers you A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO STAY IN THE COMPANY OF TWO LITERARY AND ARTS PERSONALITIES who have accepted to dialogue and cooperate in your presence and discover the superb Dra valley with you in southern Morocco. 2d Edition : November 2011 Berber Tales, Poems and Songs
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