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Forests
Cactus Thiemann
A green pocket the city kept · Marrakech, Morocco
4.6★Rating
278Reviews
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Oct–Jul; the farm shuts completely for its annual break in AugustBest time
The experience
A seven-hectare cactus plantation on the Casablanca road, started in 1964 by Hans Thiemann, who acclimatised American and Latin American species to the Haouz plain. Around 150 varieties grow here and some of the columnar specimens have reached eight metres. You walk the rows on foot with a guide; there is a small cafeteria at the end. It sits at Km 10 Route de Casablanca, directly opposite the Grand Stade de Marrakech, about 20 minutes north of Guéliz by taxi.
A 1960s cactus farm the size of ten football pitches, with eight-metre specimens and no tour buses.
eight-metre cacti1960s plantationby appointmentalmost nobody
It's only worth the detour Oct–Jul; the farm shuts completely for its annual break in August. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Marrakech, Morocco · Ouahat Sidi Brahim, Km 10 Route de Casablanca. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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