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Forests
Palmeraie de Marrakech
A forest kept quiet · Marrakech, Morocco
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Year-round, but go at first light between May and September — the grove offers dappled shade, not real shadeBest time
The experience
Around 15,000 hectares of date palms north-east of Marrakech holding roughly 100,000 trees, planted as an irrigated oasis about 1070 when the Almoravid sultan Youssef ben Tachfine founded the city. It is watered by khettara — a network of underground channels tapping the water table, dug so the flow never evaporates on the surface. Beyond dates the grove has historically yielded palm oil, palm hearts and timber. It has no formal protected status, and luxury hotels, villas and golf courses keep pushing into it and drawing off its irrigation water.
A thousand-year-old oasis on the city's doorstep that is still, just about, a working one.
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Where it is
Marrakech, Morocco · Palmeraie, north-east of the city. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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