The Circle of JAFFAR is 80 km long trip around a hollow in the mountain , It is a popular half to full-day excursion beginning and ending in Midelt. The unsurfaced road is in quite good condition and lingers beneath the Ayachi Mountain, the highest part of the eastern High Atlas. The road leads by a number of sweet villages of yellow adobe houses, where apple growing seems to be the main activity. The most attractive among these is Sidi Amar, which has a nice Wednesday suuq. Oaks and cedars are scattered out in the countryside, and birdlife include crows and hawks. The area is often part of an excursion to the Ayachi Mountain, at 3,737 metres, which is easy to reach even for the inexperienced.

There are no people left now. The good old days of finding and excavating lead and silver belong to the time until the mid-1980's. But the setting is still telling many stories — all amplified by the spooky and lomesome location of today's Aouli. The remains of the everyday life of the 3000 people living here about 20 years ago is a large number of tunnels, aqueducts, aerial ropeways, the living quarters and houses that climb the walls of the surrounding mountains.

The village of Berrem, about 6 km west of Midelt, is clearly worth the visit. Smoothly shaded by ancient walnut trees and a village consisting of houses that seem not to have been altered by changing tastes and preferences for centuries.

Mines and Ahouli Mibleden have favored the development and prosperity of Midelt today they are almost completely abandoned. From the beginning of the century, the Portuguese were looking for minerals in the region. 1923et between 1930 surveys undertaken by the mining company in North Africa demonstrate the existence of two deposits has high content of lead:

The stratif elm Mibladen exploitable career has often open

The vein Ahouli

Dice 1925, the mining and metals company in Pennaroya to assume its operating account, the work really begins in 1932.

During the 2nd war, the mines had to be closed, and in 1945 resumed operation, more than 1800 workers are busy day and night in the human anthill.

The BRPM (Office of Research and Mining participation) in 1978 took over Pennaroya. Courses lead fall, no hope and operating mining and stopped in 1983.

TERMINAL 1: Dinosaurs

Mibladen seen before Jbel Ajellab (1640m), these places were areas reserved dinosaurs are over 100 my, it was suggested that these places were in the dark, everything ends after a major event, a comet s 'crashed into the earth, and was the extinction of the dinosaurs, these are now fossilized after the formation of the atlas and intensive erosion.

Bou Selloum Mountain

             By contrast you list a variety of colors: red, beige, silver and purple, due to the mixture of clay layers with substances magmatic metamorphic, you can see that the landscape looks like America or the West Syra Nevada of Spain, it's the training that undergoes this region Cambrian (taking place in our 4x4, we continued to mine Tazensout (Berber couscous).

Oued Moulouya:(Along OUED Moulouya to endorse) To the left you see the vastness of the gorge, the river route to the million years since his career in the arid plateau Basin High Moulouya to the lower Moulouya it lays wood date from the opening Ahouli Mibladen mines throughout the Oued and specifically in these conditions and altitudes, Tamaris, Laurier Rose, Caper ... could germinate easily, this diversity also offers several species of migratory birds and sedentary as well as rodents and reptiles.

village Tazensout  Imagine workers who lived in houses in the mountain staircase, built block of shale mined in the same place.

Sorting, crushing, and washing is done by laborers, mechanics gradually replacing the manual labor, can be seen by the water pump, laundry, etc. triage station., Wagons transporting mined materials.

Mediterranean rains are brief and violent causing heavy flooding that threatens the village, then, to end this situation banked its doors in sheet iron, they used to stop mud and suckers.

           After the village of Anjil more organized, we continued towards the village lost Ahouli the descent on a trail to the Oued to the pond that leads to suspended Ahouli kasbah, this building was built by the inhabitants the region inside the high walls and four towers with loopholes to keep the casbah against possible attacks, constructions 3or 4 floors are grouped as follows: lacing the book with livestock, the second as a dwelling, and each family kept his grain reserves especially in the last floor, a staircase gives access to the terrace which is both a place of stay and the place is dried or crops, houses are separated by alleys a large room with good serving for meetings "Jmaa."

We return to the pond along the river left bank, towards the small valley or Ahouli villagers cultivated wheat, corn, barley, potato, turnip of the onion. Alfalfa, fruit trees such as: apricot, fig, olive, pèchier, quince.