The Tineghir palmery is the largest oasis in the Moroccan south — a lush corridor of date palms, fig trees, vegetable gardens, and traditional mud-brick villages stretching for about 30 kilometres along the Todra River. It is one of the most beautiful stretches of green in the entire pre-Saharan zone.
Exploring the palmery on foot or by bicycle is the best thing you can do in Tineghir. Hire a mule and guide in town and spend half a day wandering through the crumbling ksour (mud-brick family compounds), past channels of brown water threading between the palms, and through small Berber settlements where life moves at a pre-industrial pace. In date season (late autumn), the trees hang heavy with clusters of amber fruit. The air is cool under the canopy even in high summer.