Cities of the South of Morocco
Ouarzazate

  Ouarzazate  -   Telouet  -   Ait Ben Haddou  -   Zagora / Tamegroute -   M'hamid  

  Kelaat M'Gouna  -   Boumalne Dades  -   Aït Youl  -   Jbel Sargho / Imiter -   Tinghir / Todgha  

  Ziz valley  -   Erfoud  -   Rissani  -   Merzouga  

Ouarzazate

Ouarzazate, Its name comes from a Berber phrase meaning "without noise" or "without confusion". It is also featured by its closeness to the Atlas Mountains and Draa Valley.
Ouarzazate also called "The door of the desert", it is a city and capital Province in the Souss-Massa-Draâ of southern-central Morocco. Ouarzazate is located at an altitude of 1,160 m in the middle of a bare highland, south of the High Atlas Mountains. To the south of the town we find the desert land. The town is chiefly inhabited by Berbers, who constructed many of the prominent kasbahs and building for which the area is known for. Ouarzazate is one of the important holiday destinations in Morocco as a nodal point for excursions across the Draa Valley and the desert in the area. The fortified village (ksar) of Ait Ben haddou has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The town and surrounding area is also a noted film-making location, with Morocco's biggest studios inviting many international film companies to shoot their films. Films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Star Wars (1977), The Living Daylights (1987), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Mummy (1999), Gladiator (2000) and Martin Scorsese's Kundun (1997) were shot in the Ouarzazate area.