• Maurits & Mary (May2011)

  Dear Mohamed
  
  We just wanted to thank you for the most excellent trip
  we had in the Atlas mountains as arranged by you last May (2011). Here
  are some photos of our trip. We will definitely recommend you to all
  our friends.
  
  All our best wishes to you, your family and your work
  force for 2012.

   

• Simon Hitchens (July2011)

  Dear Mohamed

  Very, very belatedly I'm writing you a quick line to say how much we all enjoyed our trek with Mustapha, from Agouti to ait Alla  during July.  The trek was a perfect length for our two children and they coped extremely well with the heat because it was dry.  Mustapha our guide was superb, always taking care of us and including us in discussions and showing us natural wonders in the locality.  Mohamed the cook was brilliant, always managing to deliver scrumptious food every day and the two muleteers were great fun.  All in all we got exactly what we hoped for, so thank you.

   

  I hope the rest of the year has gone well for you.

  best regards
   

  Simon

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• Janez -slovinie (September 2011)

Dear Mohamed,

we are already at home. I would like to thank you for the excellent organization of transfers, trecking and accomodation in Marrakesh. Everything was perfect. I wish you a lot of success in your work in future and maybe sometimes we will meet again.

Best regards!
Janez Markošek

• Cathy Tilby (April2011)
  Dear Mohamed
  We have just returned from our Moroccan holiday and we all had a wonderful time. The organisation was faultless and the Dar Adrar very welcoming and the staff very helpful. Abdul , our guide, looked after us really well and Ali kept us very well fed! All the trekking was amazing - the views, the villages, the people, the food etc etc. Abdul was very willing to answer our many questions and we really learnt a lot as well as having a wonderful time. Thank you very much for everything and we may well be back!

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• Mathew Scott (Octo 2010)

  Hi Mohamed,

  I didn't get a chance to thank you personally for a truly wonderful 3 days.

  The scenery and landscape were truly beautiful and Mohamed was an excellent guide.

  Huxley, my son, and I were always asking questions about the Berber way of life, language, wildlife and local names etc. 

  Hohamed was always attentive and patient and made everything come to life for us. I always felt so safe in his company too.

  I found him to be such a genuine person with a big heart.

  I must also mention Samir, he too was excellent in his attention towards us, cooked lovely food and always had a smile on his face.

  Such wonderful, wonderful, honourable people.

  For my son it is important to me that he sees and understands cultures that are totally different to ours yet richer in a quality that money cannot buy. 

  We left the valleys feeling sad but with a realisation that we left with a piece of your culture forever within us.

  Thank you, I will highly recommend your organisation,

  Matthew Scott.

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• Gerry Smith ( October 2010 ) from Tripadvisor

  Just back from Imlil with3 friends and 4 day trip with Mohamed's company.Excellent experience,well organised,great food,wonderful scenery.Top marks to Khalid who is a brillant guide,very friendly and knowledgable about his country,mountains,nature and his Berber people.As for Samir and Hussain,great cooks and muleteers,always cheerful and happy they were great company.We hope to return and will definitely use Aztat Treks again.Shukran.Gerry Smith

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• Vilma Vaskeviciene ( October 2010)

Dear Mohamed,
I'd love to thank you for our exellently organised visit to Morocco October 9-14th. Without your hard work our stay wouldn't had be so welcoming and enjoyable. It is really apreciated.
Could you give my best regards to your friendly team: mountains guide (Abdul Aziz?), cook and muleteer; they were very professional and hospitable to us.
Best regards
Vilma Vaskeviciene

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• Kate Stamp Family ( Agust 2010)

  Dear Mohammed

  As we told you, we greatly enjoyed our trekking experience with Aztat Treks and would highly recommend your business to anyone who wished to trek in the High Atlas.  Our guide Mohammed, with muleteers Samir and Ali were all delightful company and made the experience more enjoyable.  Samir’s food was amongst the best (if not the best) that we had during the rest of our trip in Morocco – especially his spicy lentils!

  We are now back in England and when I have sorted things out I will email you a photograph of Mohammed our guide for you to give to him if you would be so kind.

  With kind regards

  Kate Stamp

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• Sophie & Eleanor (July 2010)
  Dear Mohamed
  We have just returned back to Marrakech after our trip with your company,
  and we wanted to email to say how much we had enjoyed it. The food was
  some of the best we have had in our entire visit to Morocco, the walk was
  beautiful, and our guides were very helpful!
  
  Please pass this message on to Brahim and Mohamed, we will certainly
  recommend your company.
  
  
  Best wishes,
  Eleanor and Sophie

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• Irina, Maya and Paloma ( June 2010 )

  Dear Mohamed,

   

  We have (unfortunately) returned back to the UK and wanted to say thank you so much!

   

  We had a great time in Morocco, especially in the mountains. Looking back at our pictures we cant quite believe we actually did trek up Toubkal and certainly would not have done so without your help. We definitely had the best meals on the trek and in your guest house whilst we were in Morocco. A big thank you also goes to the cooks both on the trek and in the house. We felt very much being taken care of and appreciated your efforts very much to make our stay as comfortable as possible.

   

  Although we were utterly exhausted coming back to Imlil and had sore muscles for the next three days - this was a fantastic trip we will remember for a very long time.

   

  You have got a lovely place and we hope to come back some day for some more trekking and to stay a little longer.

   

  Wishing you all the best for your future!

   

  Kindest regards

   

  Irina, Maya and Paloma

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• Chris and Marcia (May 2010)
  Hi Mohamed,
  Just a quick note to express our appreciation for the 2 day Toubkal Ascent you organise for us.
  All aspects of the trek more than met our expectation. Even when the weather turned bad overnight and we woke up to a deep covering of snow and high winds I felt secure in the knowledge of your experience and had no hesitation in summiting with your guidance. The view from top was well worth effort and will remain in my memories for a long time I am sure.
  I attach a couple of photos and have others if you want more.
  Thanks for everything.

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Thomas Schopper  ( May 2010 )

Dear Mohamed,

We would like to thank you for the great trek you organised for us!

Everything went so smoothly, starting with the pick up from our Riad in Marrakesh, the rental of the equipment we were still missing and the trek itself (3 days Toubkal Ascent Circular route via Azzaden Valley): it was just wonderful.

And above all we would like to thank Mohamed and Ali who were marvellous:
Mohamed - such an excellent guide, who had to give all his support to make sure we reached the summit and returned safely (believe us - this was not an easy task considering we are coming from flat Holland), and Ali, our mule driver and cook: amazing the great meals he was able to prepare for us out there in the wilderness!

Again, all the best to you and please forward our best wishes to Ali and Mohamed too!
(especially to Mohamed for his upcoming wedding!)

Els & Thomas

NB - and be assured that we will recommend you further!

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Thorsten & Maren

Hello Mohamed

Me and Maren only want to thank you again for the great trip you have organized for us in the Atlas mountains (Toubkal Ascent Cicular route via Azzaden valley 3days/2night). Everything worked out perfect: the pickup, the trip itself (with your great guide lahcen and “muledriver” and cook Ali) and bringing us back to marrakesh, as you have answered and told me in all of the mails with questions I have sent you J

 

There are many other guides there but Lahcen REALLY IS special compared to the other guides we have witnessed during our trip and on the refuges. And this fact is not only related to his open and kind behaviour or his English and general languages skills! You were able to notion this too with the little things: Lahcen provided us with little snacks (nuts, dates, etc) during our trip and we always had a great time together, either if it was counting the 89 zig zags or trying to aim at some rocks.

 

And the meals Ali fixed us during the track with the given possibilities: GREAT! We never had better support of food and meals during the whole 4 weeks we stayed in morocco than within these 3 days!

 

Please forward our best wishes too to Lahcen and Ali!                                         Picture of Ali the cook

If my parents will go maybe next year for a trip in the Atlas mountains (or in shallah me again) I know as well whom we will contact for this: Mohamed from Aztat Treks!

 

Thanks for everything!!!

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vera austermann

Hello Mohamed
Sorry for not answering earlier, I did not have access to my emails.
Thank you very much for organising the tour for us, everything ran so smoothly --  it was fantastic and we enjoyed it a lot. Your guide and muleteer/cook were brilliant.

Thanks again and I will recommend you to my friends.
Vera

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 By Emma viljoen  (from Lonelyplanet )

John from Malta  :

Hello Mohammed

How nice to hear from you. 

Your e-mail is bringing back happy memories of a very good if not the best holiday I have ever had.  

The M’Goun trek had great scenery and it was easier than Toukbal so in a sense I enjoyed it more. The first gite at Agouti was amazing, very clean  and we also had a good meal. But climbing Toukbal was a magnificent experience. Ibrahim was very supportive, I would not have made it up Toukbal without his help. Thanks for the service and support you gave us. I will send you some photos very soon.

My wife has recovered well and she liked the gifts I bought her in Marrakesh. She says hello and wants to come to Morocco.

Good Luck and may God bless you.

John

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Alexandra Guild May2009

Felicity  : October 2009

Mohamed:

Before I return to everyday life, I wanted to thank you for a wonderful experience. Our trek was blessed with a great guide, a great cook, and hardworking and humorous muleteers. They took us into a world that was beautiful, unfamiliar and fascinating, and they never failed to be solicitous of our various needs and failings. (In this vein, I was very touched that you and Abdou came to La Roseraie to give me back the walking sticks, which are now safely stowed in my home).  I have already had one request for a recommendation (there is a meeting of population specialists in Marrkech in October, and a professor I encountered said he wanted to take a trek before the meeting started). I now must figure out how to get back to Morocco and do another trek with the rest of my family.

Kindest regards,

Felicity Taubman

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Jon Visnic (U.S)

Hi Mohamed,
Just wanted to thank you for organizing our trek. We had a great time. Your staff was wonderful and we really enjoyed the time we got to spend with them. Mohamed is a very good guide. We especially enjoyed that he ate dinners with us. Ali was a great cook and Abdul was such a nice man. We are already home and have such great memories.
Thanks again, Sarah & Jon

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Nick Bradley

Dear Mohamed

We'd like to say a huge thank you for arranging such a marvellous trek for us. Right from the start you handled the arrangements delightfully - clear, flexible when we changed our plans and without fuss. You will have seen, from the warmth of feeling at our farewell to Ahmed, how beautifully he had looked after us throughout the trek, 24 hours a day. He made some execellent decisions , about the route and where we would stay. Without him, we could not possibly have navigated or made contact with Berber families. He explained and lit up the places we walked through. He managed the men well. And he was very funny. Ali our cook, and all the four muleteers - Ali, Lahcen, Mohamed and Omar - were exceptionally friendly, attentive to us beyong the call of duty and worked hard. We felt priveleged to have been brought close to the High Atlas and to the Berber people who live there - even if only for a few days. We learnt much. 
With our thanks and best wishes
Yours, Nick Bradley

 

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 Paul Sherridan

Mohamed,

Many thanks for the wonderful experience of climbing the mountain. It has formed a lasting memory that I will share with Hannah and Matthew for the rest of my life. The care you took of my family was invaluable and made the experience special.

I have attached a couple of photos but have more if you would like them, I hope to return to morocco and take part in some of your other adventures, however if you have any plans to visit England you will always be welcome to stay with me and my family.

Many Thanks,

Paul, Hannah & Matthew


 

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Mary Rose Weston

Dear Mohamed
At last I am writing to say thank you for the most fantastic trek. We all really enjoyed ourselves and now back in England it seems so far away.

I am going to try and send you some pictures but I'm not very clever on the computer, so will give it a few tries. Let me know if they arrive.

You run your business so well and we were so impressed with your efficiency
and organisation

kind regards
mary rose weston


 

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Sunita Mizar
We did a 4 day trek in the High Atlas Mountains including a summit trip to Jabel Toubkal. The trip was arranged in its entirety by Mohamed Aztat to our utmost satisfaction. He is well versed with the entire Atlas region (he is a Berber by origin and local to the Imlil region) and customized our trip depending on our exact needs. Starting with our Riad accommodation in Imlil which was superb, our delicious meals and camping arrangements, to a generous sprinkling of tales of local colour, Mohamed made our trip truly enjoyable. I highly recommend him for his exuberance, friendliness and expert mountain skills. He truly loves his job and the region he grew up and lives in. His fluency in English (he also speaks French, Arabic and Berber; he is working on adding Spanish to his repertoire) allowed free communication and it enabled to satisfy my curiosity about Morocco, the mountains, Berbers and the like. Having travelled and hiked all over the world, Mohamed definitely holds up my standard for a great mountain guide in a foreign country.

 

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Carman Yeung
Dear Mohamed,

Thank you very much for your warm host at the gite as well as the very organised four-day-trip! My boyfriend and I enjoyed it very much. Could you please help us express our sincere thanks towards our guide Ait and Ali (the mule guy) too? We hope to see you soon again.


Regards,
Carman


 

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Marlene Faulkner
We very much enjoyed our trek up Toubkal. It was much more difficult than we expected, but the scenery was spectacular and our photos are ones that we will treasure forever. We would not hesitate to recomend you or your services!!

Thank you again for starting our Moroccan adventure off on such a great note.
Marlene Faulkner

 

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ANA JARA

Hi Mohamed,

I would like to say thank you for all you did for us, it was really well organised and enjoyed every minute! Lahcen was very good, knew the area really well and made the journey very amicable. Ali is a fantastic cook! enjoy all his meals, everything was fresh, healthy and really tasty, I haven't eaten so well since I came back! Overall a very, very good three days. It was by far the best part of our stay in Morocco, all our friends love the pictures we took back and we have recommended you to all of them! I am sure we'll go back to go to Toubkal and the Sahara and we'll contact you to organise this for us.
Many thanks again for everything and pass our regards to Lahcen and Ali.
Warmest regards,
Ana & Aby

 

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Bob & Jo

we organized our trip at 10 days notice using Mohamed Aztat. we based our choice on two personal reviews on the internet & the entry in the Lonely Planet guide book.

We were not diapointed Mohamed arranged a 4 day trek with mule, guide, cook...

the organisation was very good. Every stop was planned and we were expected in every gite. There were plenty supplies and the route was not so long.

I would recommend Mr Aztat to any one who wanted a tour in Toubkal.

In Summary, he is efficient & effective tour organiser. he was previously a guide, so his experience shows. Every one in Toubkal seems to know him. his prices were reasonable.

This my first time in Morocco. I did not know Mohamed, Hassan (guide), Samir (cook), but I am so impressed on my first trip, that when I return, they are top of my list to use again.


 

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Theonie Alicandro

Hi Mohamed-

Back in America and unfortunately, back at work!

Our trekking trip with Lahcen was fantastic. He was a terrific guide. His
English language skills were great and we enjoyed his sense of humor. I
would be surprised if you had a better guide working with you!!

Ali was also fantastic. The more we traveled through Morocco, the more we
realized just how good his food was! Again, I can't say enough about them
both.

I will certainly refer your company to anyone I know looking to travel in
Morocco.

Best regards-
Theonie


 

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Carlos

We have just returned from a very successful trek to Morocco. We were very impressed with all the organisation: from being collected in Marrakech to the final pick up in Imlil. During the trek our guide, muleteer and cook were all charming and helpful. They fed us extremely well. All in all, we thoroughly enjoyed this holiday which has given us insight into the lives of the Berber people and some wonderful memories.


 

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Jennie Meadway

Hi Mohamed

We had a great day, thanks. The guide (whose name I can't remember) was lovely, very friendly and informative, and the lunch was much more than we were expecting. Very nice!

Thanks.

Jennie


 

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juliet dick

Hi Mohamed,

It was absolutely fantastic, they were both above and beyond my expectations. They were so understanding when Renee couldn't do the original trek. Apart from me accidently calling Ali, Allah all the time which they thought was very funny, how silly of me.

I have already told my friends about Ousaine and how much fun he is so they will probably get in contact with you to use him again next year when they go.

Thank you once again we had such a wonderful time in Morocco and found the Berber people very charming and I will always remember my trek fondly.

Regards

Juliet


 

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Jennifer & Richard

Thanks for arranging a beautiful trip. Brahim was a lovely man: kind, generous& he knew everything about the valley. Thanks again, we'll never forget it. Shukran bezzef !


 

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Nelly

Dear Mohamed , this nelly. I wanted to tell you that the trip was great! Lahcen as a guide was fantastic. Tell him it was so sad to say bye at the end.


 

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Charlie Marshal & Jennifer jones

Thank you so much for your expert guidance this week! we very much enjoyed our hike with you.

if you ever come to London, please let us know we will show you the sights ( including a football match at chesea!).

All the best.


 

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Davor from slovenie

Dear Mohamed,
I am very satisfied with everything during my Toubkal trekking. That was my first experience of high mountaines, everything was great and I am happy that I success to climb to the top ( with all my health problems).
I think that your price is normal for everything what your service include and for such a serious thing like 4000 m climbing.
Brahim and Ali were great company during the travel. I am very satisfied with both of them. Brahim explained me many things about mountain and he was with me all the time during trekking. I had altitude problems, (strong headache and weakness) and it was very difficult to me to go to the top. Brahim was going with me slowly, helped me and near the end he adviced me to go back if I can't climb more. I am very thankful to him because of all his help.

Ali was great too. I am sorry becuse I couldn't speak with him more because of language problems but he came to me many times and asked me about my health problems. His food was very good and tasty , much more better then in Marrakesh restorants.

After trek I tipped them both and I gave them something of my winter clothes.

All in all, everything was great and I am very glad that I was your client.

I will recommend you to my friends in future .
Thank you very much and I hope to see you again one day.

Best regards, Davor

Mohamed Aztat

Mountain & desert tour Guide

Imlil - Atlas Mountains - Morocco

E-mail : info@atlastrekshop.com      Tel : 00212 6 68 76 01 65