Hôtel Tomboctou

Dadès Valley


Quirky, cosy rooms with en suites in a renovated kasbah built in 1944 for the local qaid (chief). Traditional kasbah windows are porthole-sized, but sunshine surrounds the courtyard pool and bar. There's also a good on-site restaurant (menu Dh130). Oasis walking tours and bicycle trips can also be organised.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Dadès Valley attractions

1. Musée des Sources de Lalla Mimouna

23.84 MILES

This indoor/outdoor private museum is the passion project of Tinejdad native Zaid Abbou, built around the fizzing, magnesium-rich springs of Lalla Mimouna…

2. Musée de Oasis

26.4 MILES

Inside the Ksar El Khorbat, this award-winning museum traces tribal migrations through 22 rooms of carefully curated artefacts of seminomadic life:…

3. Ksar El Khorbat

26.4 MILES

This spectacular example of a mid-19th-century fortified village was crumbling to dust when it underwent a major restoration using traditional techniques…

4. Tamellalt Valley

26.88 MILES

Eighteen kilometres from Boumalne you'll find these extraordinary red rock formations that look like wax, melting right into the green carpet of the…

5. Gorge de Miguirne

27.63 MILES

Cresting over a small pass, 14km from Boumalne, is the hidden gem of Gorge de Miguirne, which joins the Dadès Gorge from the south. It offers a fine half…

6. Ferkla Oasis

28.47 MILES

Take a bike (hire one for Dh80) and tour the Ferkla palmeraie (palm grove) with a local guide (Dh200) from El Khorbat. You'll explore the Ksar Asrir, once…

7. Aït Youl

28.94 MILES

Those art-deco tourism posters you’ll see all over Morocco showing a red-and-white kasbah in a rocky oasis aren’t exaggerating: just 6.5km into the gorge,…