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At 5 km from Asni, this small village highly perched is attended almost only by the Morrocans who made of it a kind of pilgrimage place or holidays. Certain women hang ribbons in the trees. When they are detached, the history says that they are then fertile.

The gravers are numerous and the crowd very dense. Moulay Brahim is a small authentic and coloured village which will enchant you by its animation and its climbing and tortuous lanes filled of souvenir shops. Do not hesitate to leave the gravers to discover the back country with small houses on the hill. It is a holiday place for the Morrocans of the surroundings (Marrakech, Asni, Taroudant, etc.); many inhabitants of the village rent rooms at a very small price where a whole family can place there with the rudiments of use. Happy to be able to leave during a few days their residence, the Morrocans, even poor, feel in holiday You will notice swarming and if you are agoraphobic, it is to better avoid the weekend. People are strong pleasant there even if sometimes they insist much to sell their eternal memories to you. But if you are court of gifts or curios to be brought back, you will be able to fill the tank on the spot: djellabas, spices, turbans, skins, Turkish slippers, etc.

For those who want a tattoo with henné, the women of the village are true specialists. You will be able to also eat a good tagine, on one of the many terraces overhanging the steepsided valley. The sight is astonishing. Moulay Brahim is also a place of pilgrimage for the sterile girls who want to have a baby. You will surely notice on the trees small ribbons; they are the girls who deposit them. The writings say that when the ribbon is detached, the girl can hope to become mom.

But this small city is especially famous for its Moussem (folk festival which dates from the beginnings of the construction of the village) where very large numbers of people precipitate to have fun the festival. The Moussem takes place ten days after the birthday of the birth of the prophet (Aïd El Mouloud). Though it is, if you want to visit a small typical village in the medium of nowhere, if you wish to discover the environment of a vacation village held by Morrocans for Morrocans, do not hesitate!

How to go there: At the end of the avenue of France (by going up it), turn left. To follow the direction of Taroudant, pass Tahanaout and take the direction indicated of Moulay Brahim. At few hundred meters of the village not to miss the junction on the line which is with the accesses of a kind of green palm plantation left nowhere. Distance: about 50 kilometers of Marrakech. The road is rather narrow by places. Many turns curve in the mountain. But while being careful there are no risks. Back