This day trip takes you right across the chain of the high atlas mountains and over the famous tizi n tichka pass the highest in the whole of africa all along the route you can see the berber villages perched on the side of the mountains sometimes hardly distinguishable from the mountains themselves at times you come down into the valleys to drive alongside the river bordered by oleander and fruit trees the gardens are full of olives walnuts pomegranates apples pears and quinces berber