Over thousands of years, the unrelenting cascading waters of the Todra River have chiselled the Todra Gorge out of the eastern High Atlas Mountains. The result is spectacular. Towering, sentinel cliff-face walls line the last 600 meter section of the ever contracting gorge as the river seeks a path out of the mountains, until at last, the river squeezes through a gap of a little more than 10 meters and makes its way to the Sahara Desert. In the early morning and late afternoon the gorge’s 300 meter high rock walls seem to glow reddish orange when caught by the sun.
A road running in tandem with the river runs through the base of the gorge making it accessible to everyone. The gorge can be explored by an easy walk alongside the river. The road then continues along the Todra River disappearing deep into the reaches of this magnificent eastern section of the High Atlas Mountains.
The verdant, extensive Todra Oasis valley sprawls out on either side of the Todra River as it disgorges from the mountains southeastern passage to Todra Gorge on it meanders route through the Sahara Desert. A multitude of small Amazigh (Berber) villages lining either side of the oasis area. The principal town of this area is the Amazigh (Berber) town of Tinghir (Tingehir).