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Lac Lalla Takerkoust
A view worth the climb · Lalla Takerkoust, Morocco
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Year-round. Spring for wildflowers on the shore, winter for snow on the Atlas behind it; it is the coolest escape from the city in July and AugustBest time
The experience
The lake behind the Cavagnac dam, built between 1929 and 1935 on the oued N'Fis — a High Atlas tributary of the Tensift — to irrigate the Haouz plain and generate electricity, and raised again in 1978–80. It backs up a reservoir roughly 7 km long, about 35 km from Marrakech, with the High Atlas rising straight out of the far shore. You come to walk the bank, eat on one of the waterside terraces and watch the mountains; the water level swings a long way between wet and dry years. It is a 40-minute run from the city.
A 7 km mountain lake 40 minutes from the medina, with the Atlas standing right behind the water.
reservoir shoreAtlas reflectionsno swimmingterrace lunches
Where it is
Lalla Takerkoust, Morocco · Al Haouz, oued N'Fis / Cavagnac dam. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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