Berkane

It is a city in the northeastern Morocco in the area of Trifa, limited by the Mediterranean in the north, the Kiss river (Moroccan-Algerian border) and the wilaya of Oujda in the east, the wilaya of Nador in the west and the wilaya of Taourirt in the south with an estimate population of 80,012.

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The history of Berkane

It was crossing since centuries by different people (Arabs, Romains, and all the Arabic dynasties).But the primitive people of this wonderful region, who are the Amazigh, are always present.

Its name is related to the Marabout Sidi Ahmed Abou Abed Allah Ibnou El Hassane Ibnou Makhlouf.

Because of his skin colour, he was named Aberkan (meaning in Tamazight: black) and he was death in 1696.

The history and archaeology confirm that the human settlement of the mountains of Beni-Snassen goes up at prehistoric time. Archaeological research had showed in connection with the cave of the pigeons, located in the surroundings of Tafoughalt that there was a human presence in the mountains of Beni-Snassen (40 000 to 100 000 years).

The tribes of Beni-Snassen, sedentary of the mountains, of various origins; Beni Khaled, Beni Mengouch, Beni Attigue; Beni Ourimeche; Beni Mahiou;

, mixed and acquired a social structure and a common language, even if the linguistic unit is still not total .Their integration in a unit, justified their claim of a common identity: identity of BENI SNASSEN.

The Arab nomadic populations settled in the plain of Triffa about 1830, are called: "Arab Triffa" according to the name of the plain where they live. They belong to the three fractions: Ouled-Sghir, Athamna and Houara .They formerly formed part of the confederation of Angad. About 1830, they occurred in the plain of Triffa after being fought by adversaries in Angad.

In short, the division of space in the form of a dichotomy: Plains/mountains express at the same time a relative ethnic division: Arabic in the plains and the Amazigh ones in the mountains.

Figuig

It is an amazigh town in southeastern Morocco in the Atlas Mountains, on the border with Algeria.

The town is built around an oasis of date palms, called “tazdayt” in the amazigh, surrounded by rugged, mountainous wilderness. Modernization has both raised the standard of living, and drawn much of the town's population away, so that it is now struggling to reach stability.

Precise estimates of Figuig's population are difficult to calculate because of the continuous exodus towards opportunities abroad, though the number is assumed to be some tens of thousands.

Figuig

The history of Figuig

Figuig is among the oldest oases of the “septentrional” (northern) fringe of the Sahara. It is made up of seven qsours: Znaga, Loudaghir, El Maïz, Oulad Slimane, El Hammam Tahtani, El Hammam Fouqani and Laâbidate, to which the small maraboutic agglomeration of Sidi Abdelkader Mohamed is joined. These qsours are all dependent between them by the recent extension of built space, if not by the more or less green gardens of the palm plantation itself extended on a total surface of approximately 650 hectares.

Drawing from the past until prehistory, as many thousand-year-old rupestral engravings testify some, the area of Figuig also knew the civilization known as Pharaonic which one brings back exhibits such as the stone carved in "Ram of Znaga". Recent research goes even until arguing of the events whose consequences would have made unload travellers on the North-American coasts since 15 centuries.

Figuig forms part of the vast North-African and sub-Saharan territory whose remote past was marked by the rupestral engravings usually allotted to the hunter-pastors of the Neolithic era, in spite of the importance of certain aspects which also let think of a rather early sedentary life. Figuig always seems to have been a relatively autonomous territory with respect to the various authorities, without however, having distance of the various dynasties, knowing well that certain representatives of the central capacity were there sometimes without authority.

since the 12^th century, the name of Figuig had appeared in the medieval literature, evoking the importance of the Znata Amazighen tribes in the area compared to the other elements Sanhaja and Arabic who had settled there of long date. Later, to the 14^th century one announces the sovereignty of Metghara on the oasis. With the 13^th century, Jaber represented the authority Almohad there.

Figuig was controlled by the Saâdies in 1583, then by the Turks into 1593 before being held to ransom to leave. Alaouits’ expeditions had followed one another since 1641 with the aim of establishment or reestablishment of their authority so as to move away the Turkish danger reappeared with the attempt from 1806.

It is only into 1903 that the French authority was inaugurated by the bombardment of Znaga, after several expeditions of the French troops already installed for a long time on the Algerian territory and obstructed by the support brought by Figuig for the Algerian rebels. Figuig was thus brought back to obedience with the capacity of the Makhzen. The heritage of the phase colonization-decolonization weighed heavy on the fate of the oasis, not only on the level of its regional place which become marginalized, but also on the level of the resources usually exploited by the inhabitant of Qsour.

Population and settlement:

The settlement of Figuig whose date is badly defined, would have known waves which would have followed one another with populations of very diverse geographical and ethnico-cultural origins.

After the installation of Amazih Znata initially wandering, a wave of Amazih Senhaja invades the oasis to settle especially with the qsar Zenaga to which they were even used as eponyms (Isenhajen; Iznayen; Iznaguen). Many families of Arab origin joined the oasis at various periods, in particular the chorfa, the transhumant nomads, even the Andalusian Morisqs; other elements are of negro-African origin (Harratin) and remained without notable interbreeding because of a constraint hardly abolished very recently.

A Jewish community lived also in different qsours of the oasis until the middle of the 20th century.

A small proportion of the population is alien and is made up civil servants, employees or of sedentarized nomads. These migrants of various origins had very recently settled in the oasis. The various origins intermingle without any particular distribution. The quartering of the Harratins in certain neighbourhoods as the Kasbah of Zénaga relieves the past, just like the Jewish community having completely left the oasis after a remarkable presence in the Mellah, in particular the ones of Znaga and Loudaghir.

The waves of immigration interfered with flows of emigration which is especially intensified at the contemporary time. For approximately one century, the population of the whole of the oasis has oscillated between 8000 and 15000 inhabitants, whereas the manpower of the population of Morocco has triplet between the beginning of the 20th century and 1982. The population increase in three last decades, though weak, is more related to the external surge of origin that to a natural increase.

Jerada

Is a town in the northeast of Morocco, in the Atlas Mountains. It is located close to the border with Algeria. It has an estimated population of 30,000 inhabitants.

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Nador

It is a city located in the northeastern Morocco in the Rif. The city is a Mediterranean port on the Bhar Amezzyan (Chica Mar) Lagoon and a trading centre for fish, fruits, and livestock. It is linked to the Spanish plaza (North African enclave) of Melilla, 10 kilometers north, by a semi-motorway. The city is populated by Tarifit-Berber (Thamazight n Arif) population estimated at about 180,000 inhabitants.

mechraa homadi Mountains in area Nador

The history of Nador

During its history, Nador and its area were been a host land for several Moroccan Kings. It is the case in particular of King Omar Ibn Idriss 2^nd and the Almoravid Sovereign Youssef Ibn Ali Ibn Tachfine who was installed with its troops on the Mount of Temsamane in Riff.

For their part, the Sovereigns of the Alaouite dynasty granted to the area of Nador a particular interest because of its privileged strategic position. Indeed, the Sultan Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah had chosen the site of Nador like gathering point of his troops during the head office of Melilla.

Mohammed Ibn Abderrahmane lengthily had been settled for a long time in the Kasbah of Selouane as a representative of his father in the area.

It is also the case of the Sultans Moulay Slimane, Moulay Ismaïl and Hassan 1st who had equipped the area with various fortifications to face covetousnesses of the colonial empires.

to the great epics lead by the inhabitants of the region against the Spanish occupation. The most well known memorable fights delivered by the Nadories, under the direction of Charif Mohamed Ameziane, with the Spanish troops, especially the famous battle of Anoual, carried out by Mohammed Ben Abdelkarim El Khattabi in 1921.

FOLKLORE:

Music of the region

GHARNATI:

The name of Gharanti is derived from the Arabic name of the Spanish city of Granada. This beautiful heritage goes back to the Moslem Andalusia of 1232 to 1492 at the time of the dynasty Beni Al Ahmar in Grenade .This music which is an almost thousand-year-old is a symbiosis between various Arabo-Hispanic contributions. Today, the music Gharnati forms part of the Maghrebian music heritage.

Lalawi:

Lalawi is the folklore of the eastern of Morocco it also is a very nice music, it combines music and poems. During summer time the demand for this type of music increases for weddings and shows especially among the Elderly. The dance of Lalawi is rich melodies thanks to the mixture of the various types of percussions which must be known by dancers such as:

Sbaïssya, Laarachia, dokhla...

The RAI:

The word of “Raï” means «point of view», or "opinion" this musical kind was born in Oran (Algeria), appeared in the beginning of the XX century and quickly crossed the Moroccan borders. We can say that Oujda, is the cradle of Moroccan Raï where the first groups were welcomed among the youth.

INDOOR ACTIVITIES:

Once in Oujda don’t miss the opportunity of visiting these sites:

Lycée Omar

Lycée Omar the first French secondary school of the city, formerly college of boys, lycée Omar was built under the French protectorate, its néo-Arabic architecture distinguishes this space of knowledge from any other building in the city.

Bab Sidi Aissa

"Sidi Aissa" also known as "Bab Al Gharbi", offers to its visitors a splendid view over the city.

Al Halqua

Halqua “a sort of popular gathering) at the olive-trees place caravans used to meet there and storytellers used to entertain their audience by telling stories, or performing.

Darb Sania

Darb Sania before speaking about Darb Sania it is important to initially quote the old districts of the town of Oujda which are: Oulad Amran, Oulad Aissa, Ahl Oujda, Ahl Jamal, oulad lgadi and among its districts it’s Darb Sania which was very important known by Darb "AlOu lama" “scholars district” also "talibat or arrifat" “female scholars”. In "Darb Sania" a traditional house known as "lhaj Al arbi si nasser" who died in 1952, who dedicated his time and house to teaching and dissemination of knowledge.

The Jewish district

What is interesting about the city of Oujda is that it never imposed the ghetto ”mellah” on its jewish population. The jews were able to live wherever they wanted with no restriction whatsoever. Among the jewish families natives of the region :"azoulay" family"bendri" family"marsiana" family "tboul".

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES:

Agrotourism in Berkane:

Presentation of the town of Berkane:

The river of Moulouya The embouchure

Embouchure de la Moulouya

Climate:

The climate dominating in the area is of Mediterranean type semi-arid with weak and irregular annual pluviometry average (300 m); precipitations are concentrated over January, December and April; average temperatures varying between: 5,2 °C and 18,7 °C the winter 18,5 °C and 31 °C the summer.

Agriculture in Berkane:

It’s the first economic activity in the area, since 94% of the population exerts the profession of Fellah, it is directed towards 5 types of speculations: cultivation of cereals, truck farming, Fodder, and starchy foods, the plantation fruit-lofts: citrus fruits, vine, olive-tree, industrial crops: Beets, Canes with sugar and sunflower.

The agriculture irrigated in the area concentrates in the following zones: Triffa, Sebra, Bouârg and Lkart.

The river of Moulouya and his stoppings constitute the principal sources of irrigation.

The river of Moulouya:

It serves a part of Eastern Morocco and is thrown in the Mediterranean close to the town of Saïdia. The mouth is stretched on 2700 hectares with 20 kilometers of the town of Berkane, Its hydraulic basin is of a total surface of 74 000 km² and its principal function is to drain water of Rif Eastern and the Average Atlas in the west as well as the High Atlas in the south. This basin counts the stoppings (Mohammed V and Machraâ Hammadi).

Dam Mohamed V:

Dam Mohamed V, located at the place says Machraâ Klila, established with the upstream of the throats by which Moulouya crosses the last rock chain to 70 km of its mouth, allowed to constitute a reserve able to store 730 mm3 and regularizing 690 mm3 including 530 mm3 usable for the irrigation of the perimeter of Low-Moulouya which constitutes one of the essential poles of the agricultural development of Morocco.

Technical card-index:

Année de mise en service	1967
Cours d’eau	Moulouya
Ville la plus proche	Taourirt
Province	Oujda
Fonction	AEPI ; Irrigation ; énergie
Hauteur sur fondation	64 m
Langueur en crête	280 m
Volume de barrage	250.000 m3
Capacité utile de la retenue	410 millions de m3
Surface du bassin versant	50.000 km2

Machraâ Hammadi:

The dam Machraâ Hammadi on Moulouya, is located on a tightening of the throats in the bars limestone’s of leas at 10 km downstream from the stopping Mohamed V Associate to the stopping tank upstream, it makes it possible to derive the water thus regularized towards the network from irrigation of Low Moulouya which develops on two banks of the river.

Technical card-index:

Année de mise en service	1955
Cours d’eau	Moulouya
Ville la plus proche	Berkane
Province	Oujda
Fonction	Energie, barrage de compensation
Hauteur sur fondation	57 m
Langueur en crête	215 m
Volume de barrage	125.000 m3
Capacité utile de la retenue	12 millions de m3
Surface du bassin versant	5.200 km2

Plain of Triffa

Surface area 5.200 km2 the plain of Triffa whose average altitude is 200 meters, extends on a surface from 61. 060 hectares out of right bank of the river of Moulouya which constitutes the principal drain of the hydrographic network of the area; it fits between the mounts of Beni-Snassen into the south and the hills of Ouled Manssour into the north which separate it from the small coastal plain of Saidia.

The plain of Triffa which separates the solid mass from the Mediterranean is very fertile. It is characterized by a varied production of citrus fruits, grapes and vegetables.

Ecotourism in the Eastern part of Morocco:

The Moulouya river:

Is the only and important river Moroccan flowing in the Mediterranean last includes/understands the marshes of Chrarba which constitute the superb stretch of water soft coming from the accumulation of precipitation rain and of the resurgences and encircled by a dense paludous vegetation which makes them almost inaccessible the mouth of

The site of Moulouya (35°06 ' N - 2°22 ' W), of a surface of approximately 2.700 hectares is classified SIBE (Site of biological and ecological interest), it thus acts of a zone of important, rich in watery vegetation, then as a site RAMSAR in 2005 Five systems of habitats were listed: sailor, estuarien, of running water, paludous and finally lake.

How to get there?

There are three access points (entered) major:

- Southern Entry: located at the immediate south of the junction of the road Berkane Saidia on the Mediterranean by-pass Nador Saidia.

- Entry is located on the by-pass above mentioned, in extreme cases enters the site and the allotment of FADESA.

- Western Entry: also located on the by-pass, with a few kilometers of the east of Short-nap Ras El Ma

Points of stops suggested:

Two stops are selected in the center of site:

◊ Dunes in the East of the mouth: this stops on the level of the buildings of the guards dimensions; it allows sights on the beach, the mouth and the marshes of Chrarba.

◊ Southern Edge of the old mouth; sights of the estuary and marsh;

The other stops are on the relief (hills and cliff):

◊ Hill of Ouled Manssour: sights on North and the North-West on the plain of Chrarba;

◊ Cliff of Qamkoum El Baz: the sight towards the East gives a mosaic landscape: Chaffarines islands, sea, dimension, dunes raised, depressions, cliffs, but during the morning the sight towards the West includes the wearing of Short-nap of Ras El Ma and the high cliff which overhangs it.

◊ Cliff of Kerbacha Is overhanging the marsh of Boudia: paronamic sight of the Boudia marshes, since the top one can have a paronama of all the site.

Means of displacement:

◊ By feet: applicable to all the types of excursions inside the site out of water and the length of the river can be done with feet.

◊ By boat: this means is possible throughout the river and of its mouth, but with boat without engine well on.

◊ By bicycle: This means is very practical in the zone estuarienne but it is advisable to avoid practising it in group.

◊ By light vehicle or all ground: several ornithological stops are accessible since the track which goes up along right bank of the river, like on left bank of the mouth, but in rainy weathers the cross-country vehicle seem necessary. However the visitors can take the gadrooned road which carries out of Ain Zebda to Kerbacha.

2 The site of Beni Snassen:

Close to the border algéro-Morrocan woman, to a hundred kilometers of the Mediterranean coast, begins a mountainous alignment which starts with the solid mass of Blessed-Snasssen and is prolonged beyond Oranie. Beni-Snassen form a unit which points out Algerian Tell, weak pleating of the relief skirting the littoral, relatively low (800 meters on average) with for climax the Short-nap Ras Foughal (1420 Mr.). From share and others of the solid mass the plains extend from Triffa in north and with Angads in the south where we find the town of Oujda, capital of Morocco Oriental On a surface of 6750 ha, Site of the biological and ecological interest covers the most beautiful landscapes of the mountains of Beni Snassen, the caves, cliffs and the ecological.

Escarpments values: (some values among others)

- High patrimonial and strategic value regional for the water resource, and exceptional biogeographic crossroads: true biogeographic inheritance located at the crossroads of the valley of Moulouya, Algerian Tell, Rif, the Average atlas and the high plateaus of Eastern region,

- Paramount and single Forest belt on the level of Eastern Morocco: the tétraclinaie is most beautiful of Morocco and the silicate of Short-nap cloth-Foughal (1420 M.), shows a richness endemic in cash and rare particularly high compared to the other vegetable formations of Eastern Morocco

- Station of existing and operational purification for the village of Tafoghalt,

Landscape and patrimonial values:

Landscape qualities of Zegzel are not any more to show, considering the strong tourist frequentation whose it is already the object All these qualities rest on the presence of a very boxed valley whose slopes often correspond to very high and brought closer cliffs. The solid mass of Beni Snassen contains great prehistoric richness.

The caves of the camel and the pigeons, very little exploited in current tourism, constitute cultural monuments, curiosities natural to explore and especially, an eco-tourism potential.

Zegzel:

The valley of Zegzel is in the mountains of Beni Snassen. It is skirted partly by the road which connects the town of Berkane to the village of Tafoughalt while passing by the Tazaghine village. It is a picturesque valley clearing by orchards of medlar trees and orange trees which are located bed of the Zegzel wadi on both sides. In more of these orchards, it is also surrounded of forest solid masses relatively well preserved and composed primarily of thuja, holm oak and pine of Alep.

This valley includes two prehistoric sites, the cave of pigeons and its immediate surroundings, and the cave of the camel and its vicinities. Very little exploited in current tourism, these caves constitute cultural monuments, curiosities natural to explore and especially an eco touristic potential.

Cave of the camel:

The cave of the camel is a historic site and archaeological which forms part of this beauty, havens of peace and of calms where one can take refuge far from the pollution and the stress of the large cities. It is also a high place of speleology where the stalagmites and the stalactites form a rampart of multiple columns patiently carved in limestone by seepage waters lasting of the millenia.

The cave opens in the valley of the Oued Farrouj, tributary of the Oued Zegzel, in the heart of the solid mass of Beni-Snassen; it is a cave on three floors of galleries, of which the lower part is always in activity after strong rains. One reaches the cave by a higher entry; a concretion in the shape of camel which gave its name to the cave.

Tafoghalt:

Tafoghalt is a small village between the mountains of Beni Snassen, it offers a true framework of relaxation and rest, its source of water which is close to Tafoghalt complex and which runs out without stop for a long time.

Located at the south of Berkane to 20 km and at the Western north of Oujda to 56 km, it offers a pleasant framework of relaxation, walk and climbing.

Cave of the pigeons:

Prehistoric site of the paleolithic period of fame international, It acts of a gallery of approximately 55 meters of depth characterized by a stratigraphic filling reporting all the history of paleolithic higher of North Africa

After discovering the cave in 1932, excavations carried out between 1945 and 1955 have permitted the archaeological discovery of 35 levels laminates including 180 complete human skeletons associated a lithic industry rich and varied and with a very abundant fauna. Among many discovered craniums, one presents a successful trepanation. The sufficiently survived patient so that the cranium heals, which proves that Morocco, thanks to the man of Tafoghalt, had a medical tradition, oldest in the world, tonic at 10 000 years before J-C.

The cave known as `' cave of the pigeons' ' because of the many pigeons which live there, is with the entry of the valley of Zegzel, to 2 km in the East of the rustic village of Tafoghalt.

The excavations undertaken into 1959 updated several archaeological levels containing of the remainders of animals and the cut stone tools dating from Paleolithic (between 40000 and 100000 years). All these results make cave of Tafoghalt a single layer in the Maghreb which has of equivalent only in Egypt or to the Close East.

Hunting:

General information :

◊ The hunting rights belongs to the State on the whole of territory of kingdom

◊ The exercise of hunting is subordinated to the detention of the following documents:

- Gun license;

- Hunting permit;

- Licence of hunting specific to each type of game (sedentary, migrating and of water);

- Affiliation with an association of hunting,

- Certificate of insurance.

◊ The leasing of hunting rights on the forest field is subordinated to the deliberation of the communal council concerned.

◊ Hunting is exerted in accordance with the provision of the decree cancels bearing opening of the shooting season, taken after held of the higher council of hunting.

Period and authorized days of hunting season 2006/2007

See table in appendix.

Tourist hunting

Article 9:

Exercise of hunting by the non-resident aliens in Morocco. Notwithstanding the provisions of the articles 1 and 2 of the present stops, the hunting of the game (except the wild boar) and that migrator is not allowed to the non-resident aliens in Morocco that in the territories at the companies drives out tourist and provided that they are carrying all the lawful parts relating to the exercise of hunting in Morocco aimed to the article 5 of the above mentioned dahir of the 6 hijja1341 (21 Jullay 1923) and by the present stops.

The hunting of sedentary game and that of water and passage is subjected to the provisions of the articles 2, 3, 5 this decree, except particular exemptions envisaged in the contracts of leasing. Moreover, the non-resident aliens in Morocco, dealt with tourist company of hunting can drive out wild boar, the grills the calandrelles ones and the thrushes apart from the territories amodiés at the companies of tourist hunting provided that they discharge a licence of hunting, delivery+ by the High commissioner with National Forestry Commission and the fight Against the turning into a desert, whose price is fixed at five hundred dirhams (500DH) L be hunters tourists must be framed on the spot of hunting by the guides indicated by the companies of hunting tourist and approved as a preliminary by the High Commissioner to National Forestry Commission and the fight against the turning into a desert.

The organizers of tourist hunting cannot in any case under treating hunting in the batches of which they are lessees without authorization of the high commissioner to National Forestry Commission and the fight against the turning into a desert. The foreign hunters of Spanish nationality residents with Ceuta and Millilia are regarded as tourists hunting are foreigners and must conform to the provisions of this article for the exercise of hunting in Morocco.

Fishing :

La région orientale bénéficie d’un ensemble de plage les plus vaste du Maroc : plus de 65 km au total.

Province	Plages	Langueur en m	Profondeur en m
Nador	Tazaghine	10.000	55
Nador	Ouad Kert	80.000	50
Nador	Point Negri	500	33
Nador	Melilia	6.500	20
Nador	Cordon Lagunaire	10.000	20
Nador	Kariat Arkmane	8.000	33
Nador	Cap de l’eau	9.000	33
Berkane	Saidia	14.000	33

Nomad tribes:

The wandering tribes in the Eastern region are in 3 cities

Debdou :

To 52 km in the South of Taourirt, Debdou is the locality furthest away from the town of Oujda (160 km). It is located at the south-western end of the wilaya, in a valley in the heart of a solid mass with pace mountainous and equipped with a very beautiful exuberant forest which is southernmost in its kind in Eastern Morocco. In more of the reputation of its high content in game (wild boars, hares, partridge...), it dreams a particular tourist interest by its sources (Ain Lakbira in Tafrent, Ain Sbilya...), his douars perched and its many sites

Jerada :

The town of Jerada, located at an about sixty kilometers in the south of Oujda, developed thanks to the coal mine. It currently counts 60000 inhabitants. The province of Jerada, created in 1994, extends on 8640 km2. It includes/understands two communes, three municipalities and two circles containing eleven rural communes. Jerada with the innumerable chimneys that spit their black smoke with length of day was born en1927.

Bouarfa:

Bouarfa is a city of Morocco, located at the East of Reduction and around fifty of kilometers of the Algerian border. It is an area strewn with oasis having kept all the vestiges of a past rich in history.

How to contact clubs in the region :

Club Equestre Lalla Amina : Parc Lalla Aicha - Oujda

Club S.T.C.O : Parc Lalla Aicha - Oujda

TEL. : 063 01 26 99
Email : sbili-sa@menara.ma

Club de l’O.N.E : Boudir, rue d’Algérie.- Oujda

Club Moulouya : Route d’Oujda – Berkane

Complexe de Tafoghalt : Tafoghalt – Province de Berkane

Complexe de Fezouane : Fezouane – Province de Berkane

Isly Golf : Oujda rue d’Ahfir

LODGING:

OUJDA

IBIS OUJDA :

How you can get there

n www.accorhotels.com

n MOUSSAFIR Hotels:

1. Address: Bd. Abdellah Chefchaouni Hay Al Mahatta.

2. Tel : 036688202

n Hotel Description:

n The Ibis Moussafir Oujda hotel is located in the city centre of Oujda, 5 min from the Medina, just 100 m away from the railway station and 12 km from the airport. The hotel has 74 air-conditioned rooms. You can also book 1 meeting room. A restaurant, a bar, snacks 24-24, a swimming pool, a terrace and public outdoor parking are at your disposal. You are 3 km from a golf course, 4 km from tennis courts and 45 min from the beach. Pets accepted.

Check In: 12:00
Check Out: 12:00
Native currency: Moroccan Dirham
Number of floors: 3
Number of rooms: 74
Time zone: GMT
Areas served: OUJDA, MOROCCO, OUJDA LES ANGADES 12.00 KM, PLAGE DE SAIDIA 60.00 KM

ATLAS ORIENT

n www.hotelsatlas.com/oujda

n ATLAS ORIENT:

n Address : Hotel MASSIRA Bd Maghreb Arabe hay BAB EL GHARBI

n Fax : 036690404 / 036700606

n PI Hay Bab El Gharbi : 036690878 / 03669202

Located into full hurt with the town of Oujda, capital of Eastern, the hotel Atlas the East invites you to discovered new feelings in an area in full evolution. Entirely renovated to offer a maximum comfort to its hosts, the Atlas the East enables you to pass a pleasant stay of leisures or businesses

Intimacy and Refinement:

The hotel has 98 rooms and 7 continuations (including 5 continuations junior, 1 continuation senior and 1 royal continuation) all equipped with all the equipment necessary: satellite television, air-conditioning, bathroom. All the rooms have a terrace with sight on the garden, the swimming pool or the medina.

To slacken:

You have at your disposal a center of re-arrangement with hamam, massage and care of the body for a complete expansion of the body and spirit. In order to make your stay more pleasant, the hotel has a swimming pool with a surrounded of a large garden for the pleasure of large and small. For the pleasure of the night birds, Alcazar our cabaret Eastern is open to the paddle.

Gourmets:

The Atlas the East invites you to discover its restaurants: The Eastern one, international restaurant where various specialities will be been useful to you in the form of dresser or menus with topic.

• Chiringuito, our snack bar swimming pool to taste grills sandwiches and meals light.

• The Pizzeria which proposes pizza pies to you and typed in a musical environment.

• The Living room Room Bar to take glass or a tea in a relaxed environment

The Atlas the East is equipped with an infrastructure favourable with the organization with your seminars and banquets:

• Isly, room of banquet of a flexible capacity of 80 pads in room of seminar with all the equipment necessary.

With the Atlas the East, all is designed to make you your passage to Oujda one pleasant moment.

HOTEL ISLY GOLF:

Hotel Golf Isly:

n Address: Bd Ahfir (Toba Inter.) hay Al Mohammadi

n Tel : 036520906

n Cité Golf Isly Isly : 03652469

n Activities and leisures:

n Golf

n swimming pool

n Admiration of the small horse

n Party

OTHER HOTELS :

n Hôtel concorde:

n Address: R. Driss Ben Bouchaiib Hay Bab El Gharbi

n Fax : 036687828

n Tel : 36682328

n Hôtel Oujda:

n Address: Bd Med V Hay Bab El Gharbi

n Fax : 036684093

n Tel : 036685064…..

BERKANE

Presentation note
Piece of information on the promoter
Name : YOUSSEF ZAKI.
Addresses: 27route principal of Oujda Berkane

Location of the hotel: the project is situated to the city center of Berkane on the principal road of Oujda it is opposite the municipality of the city has immediate proximity of kept parking lot and opposite a club of tennis

Designation of the project: the project consist in the construction of a classified hotel of 3etoiles a reception, restaurant. International and Moroccan restaurant, cafeteria, pizzeria room of conference for 170 place salts sports, terrace.
To the grand floor a direction

Comfort: calm hotel frequented by a matter clientele parlor, pizzeria restaurant and cafeteria his nicely decorated one in soft complexions and it self me lent the greens and harbours that it self refit in for imponderable mirrors of a big clean lines yellow of the bandeaux of painted, this beautiful good establishment bases to visit the region, the rooms are air e conditioned and doted of salts bath or soaks and television and telephones
Royal continuation satellite telephones, Moroccan pallor, pallor European , mini bar , two mini continuation equipped, air conditioned, cafeteria for the hotel customers .Moroccan air conditioned parlours pour 120 places
In the establishment is end owed with a loading with in the hotel for general director allowing hair air ebon management and presence on the spot in the establishment
-number of rooms 32
-while a waiting the achievement of the works of the annexes of rooms with tariffs preferences a reduction of 25% on the entry ticket to the club Zaki endow with swimming , pool and local situated restoration has 6km of Berkane on the road of the Moulouya to words Saidia beach .
And to benefit from all these offers of the hotels you contact the hotel 056613743/ 056613452
and the fax: 056619900

RESTAURANT:

Le dauphin: 2 Fork.

Number of table setting: 90

Adresse : 38, rue de Berkane

Tel. 036.68.61.45 / 036.68.25.51

Le comme chez soi : 2 Fork.

Number of table setting: 120

Address : 8 rue Sijilmassa

Tel : 036.68.60.79

France : 1 Fork

Number of table setting: 110

Address : Bd Mohamed V

Tel : 036.68.59.87

Lagouste : 1 Fork

Number of table setting: 44

Adresse : 13m rue d'Alger

Tel : 061.36.00.46

Marbella : under ordering

Number of table setting: 100

Adresse : Rue El Mouatamid Ibn abbad

Tel : 036705799/ 036688433

Buffet

ELKABADOS

Rue Omar ibn Elkhatab

Tel : 061362338

AL HAMBRA

10, Bd Mohamed V

Tel: 036708852

RAMSES

2 BD Mohammed V, n°9

Tel: 036688879

OSLO

134, rue de Marrakech

Tel: 068374619

Sables d'or : 1 Fork

Number of table setting: 160

Adresse : Plage Kariat Arkmane

Tel : 036.60.29.72

Cabanon : 1 Fork

Number of table setting: 100

Adresse : Selouane/ Nador

Tel : 036.60.35.89.16

Rif : 1 Fork

Number of table setting: 50

Adresse : 35, rue Ibn Rochd

Tel : 062.31.15.80

Berkane/ Saidia

César Palace Le Pacio : 1 Fork

Number of table setting: 120

Adresse : commune laatamna

La Rocade : 1 Fork

Number of table setting: 140

Saidia

Tel : 036624424/ 061260684

NON CLASSIFIED RESTAURANTS

WAD DAHAB
Bd Idriss Elakbar

KRIPTOUNE
BD Idriss Elakbar

CHAFIK
Bd Bir Inzran n°12

CHON ELIZE
Bd Med Derfoufi

DAHRA
Bd med Zarktouni

SOUHAIL
Kisriat El Maghreb Elarabi

ISLI
BD Med Derfoufi n°6

ELBOUSTAN
Bd Allal Ben Abedallah n°100

ELKOUTOUBIA
Bd Med V

JENEVE
Bd Zerktouni n°44

ICE PALACE
Bd Med V

COLOMBO
Bd Med V

ELBAHIA
Bd Zerktouni

CAFE ELWIDADIA
Rue El omam el motahida n°11

SEBRAT
Sahat sebrat

CAFE ELWIDADIA
Rue El omam el motahida n°11

SEBRAT
Sahat sebrat

CAFE SALAM
Bd med V

RELAX
Bd med V n° 52

GALAXY
Bd med V n°66

CAFE RADAR
Bd med V n° 70

CAFE ELMOULOUDIA
Place 16 Aout

CAFE SIMON
Bd Idriss Ben Bouchaib n° 22

CAFE NASSIM
Rue abd rahman nagli n° 8

CAFE TELEMSAN
Rue ramdan elkadi n° 26

EDAKHNISSI EL BACHIR
Place 16 août

SNAK
Place 16 août

CAFE EL KASABAH
Place elkasabah n°114

LAFONTAINE
Hamat benkachour
Bd elchohadae n° 40

CAFE OPHEON
BD Hassan II

CAFE SAWRA
Bd med VI n° 10

VINISIA
Rue chafchawen n° 5

CAFE SALAM
Bd chohadae résidence salam

Restaurant El Nil
Bd Ehouil Hay Bab al Gharbi
Tel : 036683637

Restaurant le Dauphin
Rue Berkane rue alMhatta
Tel : 036682556

Restaurant Maghrib Al Arabi
Route Casa Hay Al Almal
Tel : 03670118

Restaurant Mic Mac
BD saadiyines Hay Al Mohammad
Tel : 036687004

ALAHRAM
Bd Zerktouni

AZOHOUR
Bd Zerktouni

WALILI
Bd EL Idriss El Akbar

KAMILIA
Bd Bir Inzran

MAAROUF
Kisariat el marghreb el arabi

BARADA
Place du Maroc

AKHLIFI
Kisariat El Maghreb el arabi

EL FOROUSSIA
Bd Med V

CAFE EL HANAE
Bd Med V, bloc 26 n°1

CAFE NAFOURA
Bd Med V, bloc 23 n°1

Laitière ELOUASIS
Bd Med V, bloc 30 n°2

CAFE CHABAB
Bd el Maghreb el arabi

CAFE CRISTAL
18 Bd el azhar

CAFE SAADA
8 Bd dabit belhassan

CAFE EL KARAWIYINE
Rue el kayrawane

CAFE ELBASSATIN
Bd dabit belhssin

CAFE LE PRINCE
Rue el wahda n° 18

BAB ELGHARBI
Rue el wahda n° 10

CAFE LA BELLE VUE
Bd hassan II résidence la belle vue

CHAWARMA
Rue yaakoub elmansour n°46

PIZZIRIA
Rue yaakoub elmansour n°42

CAFE LE PARC
Le parc Lalla aicha

CAFE EL QODS
Tayret lot talhaoui n°69

CAFE TAKADOUM
Route tayret lot laalaj 138/2

LAITIERE MOSQUE SABOUNI
Rue tayret lot talhaoui n°2

CAFE MOUZAR
BD allal elfassi bloc60 n°4

CAFE NIPTON
BD allal elfassi bloc 60 n°4

CAFE HILTON
BD allal elfassi bloc 58 n°4

CAFE SAHAR
BD allal elfassi bloc 55 n°4

CAFE NARJISS
BD allal elfassi bloc 54 n°4

CAFE LAPALMA
BD allal elfassi bloc 9 n°4

CAFE ITHRAN
BD allal elfassi bloc 55 n°1

CAFE WIAM
BD allal elfassi bloc 4 n°2

CAFE LACHOP
BD allal elfassi bloc 2 n°1

CAFE SAFIR
BD allal elfassi bloc 29 n°1
Complexe DAR Anassim
Rte Algérie Attana
Tel : 036712655/ 036712656

Restaurant Administratif :
Aireport Angad
Tel : 036681803

TRANSPORT :

I) Road transportation

· 1- Coach

Since the rail network covers only one weak part of the territory, the coach is essential like ideal means of transport. There is bus everywhere which furrows the country. They have the advantage of carrying out you even in the most moved back corners, for very moderate prices. The schedules are sometimes prone to variations.

CTM: a little everywhere in the country

Phone: 022 43 82 82

Fax : 022 76 54 28

Internet: www.ctm.co.ma

There are other less expensive companies but not offering same comfort: crammed, often old, and very slow vehicles. To present itself a long time advances some on the schedule of the bus, in certain cities. Indeed, the buses are quickly complete.

The luggage handlers ask to be paid to charge and discharge your business. It is of habit to give a tip of 5 DH by parcel (neither more, nor less).

You can also contact the stations road:

Oujda :

Address: Place Trois Mars

Phone : 036 68 22 62

Nador:

Phone : 036 60 72 62

Bouarfa:

Address : Angle Al Massira and Agadir

Phone : 036 69 80 28

FOUGHAL BUS (Berkane):

Address : 32, road Anzanar Hay Al Massira

Phone : 036 61 03 57

· 2- Train

It would be imprudent to count too much on the punctuality of the ONCF (National office of the railroads). But this one has trains a little faster, clean and air-conditioned (express trains).

Only problem, the schedules change several times in the year.

The ONCF has a site on the Web for all the schedules and tariffs,

Internet: www.oncf.org.ma

National number of information set up: 090-20-30-40.

Oujda station: Office National des Chemins de Fer

Address: Hay Nahda (the station)

Phone : 036 69 90 14

· 3- Car rental:

It is the best solution, of course. A car makes it possible to penetrate truly inside the country and to benefit the maximum of the stay.

All the large hirers out have representatives in Morocco, but there are Moroccan companies practising of the prices much softer.

The oriental region disposes 13 attorney establishments in the transport sector:

Agency HERTZ:

Address: Bd Mohammed V, Imm El Baraka – Oujda-

Phone : 036 68 38 02

Agency EUROPE CAR:

Address: Bd Mohammed V –Oujda-

Phone : 036 68 25 20

Agency OROCAR:

Address: Bd Al Qorri

Phone : 036 68 24 36

® Control on road

The Moroccan interprets with their manner the Highway Code. Here, all is possible, are thus very attentive. To drive at night is misadvised. In the event of accident, telephone at once the consulate, then with the gendarmerie (19).

® Control on track

Rent one 4 X 4. Will know that the cross-country vehicles have a road behaviour good lower than a truck. It is essential to know to handle the machine before leaving, because the desert does not forgive. To leave as a recluse only equipped very well and with a long experiment.

® Fuel

The gasoline (super, without lead or ordinary) is hardly less expensive than in France. Attention, relatively little stations with gasoline in certain areas. The region has stations proposing of super without lead in an increasingly significant number. In the lost corners, we find more easily the gas oil than the gasoline.

If you need to supply your vehicle, don’t go far contact the gas stations below:

Oujda:

Station Gaz Rifaine Maroc SNC: R F1 Lot Lahlou Hay l Hadiqa

Phone : 036 74 23 41

Station Pétrolière Internationale du nord : Principal Oujda Al Alab

Phone : 036 65 07 80

® Taxis

*The “small taxis” do not have the right to leave the city. It has very moderate rates. It should be known that as from a certain hour at night there is a legal increase from approximately 50% compared to the price posted on the meter. Moreover, the catch load the night is a little more expensive than the day. In the event of important litigation with a driver, ask him to lead you to the police station. The problem is regulated immediately.

*The “large taxis” or hiring are indeed larger than the precedents (a kind of Mercedes). They ensure the interurban connections at prices slightly higher than those of the coaches. While piling up there to six, they are more quickly returned to destination.

*Minibuses: we see more and more these means of transport for 10-12 people, intermediaries between the large taxi and the bus.

II) Air transportation

For the air sector; the area lies out of an airport inheritance made up of 2 airports the first one of Oujda Angad it is an international airport and it has a take-off court of 3km and a surface of 444 hectares and the second one is the national airport of Al Aroui on the road connecting Nador to Hoceima.

Airport of Oujda:

Address: Les Angads, 12Km, Road of Saidia (Principal Road. 19).

Phone: 036 68 32 61.

Fax: 036 71 07 30

Internet: http://www.onda.org.ma/onda/autrea/oujda.asp

Airport of Nador:

Address: airport Nador Aroui, Km 27.

Phone: 036 70 60 15

Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is the single aerial company in all Morocco, which has 2 principal agencies in the oriental area:

RAM Oujda:

Address: Bd Mohammed V, rez-de-chaussée hotel Oujda

Phone: 036 68 39 09

Fax: 036 71 02 27

E-mail: hhrida@royalairmaroc.com

RAM Nador:

Address: 45, Bd Mohammed V

Phone: 036 60 63 37

Fax: 036 60 55 39

For more information, please contact the site:

Internet: www.royalairmaroc.com

III) Sea transportation

The harbour infrastructure counts two ports of extremely unequal importance: the port of Beni Ensar which appears among the large ports of the Kingdom as well by the importance of its installations as by the volume of its traffic. That of Ras El Ma is dedicated only to the fishing activities.

The import and the export of the goods are done using the port of Nador “Beni Ansar” in the presence of several maritime companies which ensure also the luxury and the comfort of their passenger during their voyage, and they are as follows:

Beni Ansar:

LIMADET-FERRY

Address: Port Zone Gare Maritime

Phone: 036 34 94 53

STE FERRY MAROC S.A

Address: Port Zone Gare Maritime

Fax: 036 34 81 07

Nador:

AQUAMAROC SA

Phone: 036 34 83 15

COMANAV