Tizi-n-Test pass

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Location

The Tizi n'Test Pass is located in the province of Taroudant in the Souss -Massa- Draâ and forms the highest point of the connecting road R203 between Marrakech (height 450 meters) and Taroudant (height 250 m). The street is traffic- not very significant and is always repaired only makeshift. Trucks and buses comparatively rare.

Practicability

The single-lane and very curvy route passes through scenic and touristy hardly developed areas. Especially in summer, is expected to rock falls; during the winter months (November to March), the road is after heavy or prolonged snowfalls completely or partially blocked. As the daytime temperatures during the day almost always reach plus degrees also at altitudes of over 2,000 m in the south of Morocco, the locks are also repealed usually after a few hours, in rare cases only after days. Has The section of the N10 up to pass short pitch or Gefällabschnitte of 10 % and more.

Infrastructure

When you give a few lay-bys smaller souvenir stalls ( rock crystals, fossils, ceramics, Berber jewelry, etc. ); Tea or coffee can be had only in the deeper rest places along the road. From the pass of Tizi n'Test way to Taroudant there are hardly any villages.

History

The track was already known to the Berber tribes of earlier centuries, which were grazing on the rocky, but grassy hillsides in the summer of their livestock (sheep, goats). During the French colonial rule of the old trade route was expanded in the years 1926 to 1932 to a runway. In the 1960s, the route was first paved.

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