Maryam Al-Taidi-Rabat
Mustafa spends most of the week in Casablanca, but turns into a weekend adventurer. He has been in love with the Badia and jungle love since childhood, and when he gets tired of the city's busy life he finds travel a haven.
Mustafa climbed Mount Topakal (the highest peak in North Africa) more than 18 times. He did not take his pleasure, so he shared it with the public via Facebook. He called for "companionship." He traveled from a group trip once a month to three trips in small groups Up to 14 people.
| Mustafa love adventure and challenge since childhood (Al Jazeera) |
"I wanted to share this fun and I know the life of the Badia and the life of the bush," Mustafa told Al Jazeera.net, stressing that it has revived tourism, created jobs and helped define isolated areas.
Mustafa is one of a group of young people in Morocco who have turned their passion for adventure and mountain climbing into organized tourism. They organized in clubs and groups and organized trips to peaks and parks. Through social networking platforms, they launched offers and proposals to visit places that until recently were confined to foreigners and amateurs.
A movement contributed significantly by the guides of mountain tourism, and contributed to its recovery sharing images through Facebook.
| Good during one of his daily trips to Tuzkal (island) |
a source of income
Mountain climbing leader Hassan Bad Busalam says to Al Jazeera Net that climbing Mount Toubkal for him is almost daily, as he climbs to the top three times a week.
Hassan worked with his father, worked with major travel agencies, and helped cook at the shelter in Imlil (the starting point for those wishing to climb Tallakal, on the outskirts of Marrakech) and transport the baggage of the mules with mules to a tourist unit that provides all services from the beginning of the journey to its end.
Hassan skillfully manages to reconcile many tasks at the same time, and runs a team of guides, porters, cooks and assistants in the shelter, without breaking his smile.
He stressed that the youth groups that come through Facebook have become a source of livelihood in recent years, and caused a real revival of services provided in this area.
| Rachida above the top of Mount Toubkal (Al Jazeera) |
The story of Rachida
As for Rachida, the lover of travel, adventure and challenge, Fathki told Al Jazeera Net about her story with Toubkal in the winter and summer, and the taste of winning and triumphing in her voice, "I used to do simple trips with the family, but my ambition was to reach rough places."
The tone of victory in her voice has added that "going up to Topkala school learn to insist on goal, patience, learn solidarity, cooperate and engage in the team."
Rachida discovered the hardness experienced by the people, the difficulties of the work of the guides, how they climb to the top of the mountain and get out of it, and how they are devoted to service, guidance and guidance in order to reach everyone in peace, and says that "the guide helped me .. He knows the way, carries water and provides aid. , And provides all services. "
"The challenge of climbing the mountains in the snow is very difficult, but at the same time a challenge to the self, going to the most endurance point, mixing feelings and mingling between pleasure and tiredness."
| Baggage campaign during participation in Topkala Challenge on Mules (Al Jazeera) |
A unified message
A unified message directed by all clubs, and all those who spoke with them Al Jazeera Net, calling for travel and the discovery of places and self, and through it to contribute to the separation of isolation from remote areas, and contribute to their development.
"I advise everyone to set a goal, and to visit the remote and rugged areas, you will feel happy when he achieves victory," says Rachida, while Mustafa emphasizes that the aesthetic of the experience prompts the owner to share the idea and introduce it.
Hassan said, "We did not see Moroccans in Toubkal, today, thanks to clubs, social media and sharing, we work with Moroccans, and with them we live and practice the profession."