The verdant D’raa Valley is renowned for its many Kasbahs and its oases of dates, figs and henna. Originating in the Jbel Saghro Mountains extremity of the Anti-Atlas Mountains, south of Ouarzazate, the ancient D’raa River, the longest river in Morocco, has hewn the Valley out of the mountains and desert landscape.
Between Adgz and Zagora the beautiful date palm groves of the Draa Valley spill out like a verdant sea in the middle of the desert. During August and September, the thousands of date palms are laden with dates and the air heavy with the fragrant scent of henna flowers. The D’raa River continues over a thousand kilometres through the Moroccan desert until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean near Tan Tan in the southwest of Morocco.