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The site, and the trips, and what to say

Say what a day has to allow for before you arrange a trip with a DC travel agent and reserve it

Two separate things: how this website behaves, and how to tell the office what a travelling day actually has to allow for. The second matters more and is the one people leave until too late.

Reserve this with the officeNothing is charged here. The form stays open at any hour and a person writes back inside one working day.

Old cedar standing on an upland plateau with snow still lying in the shade
Above: The cedar plateau above Ifrane, on Middle Atlas descent.

Reading this site on any machine

Text sits on the page rather than inside pictures, and every picture carries a description of what it shows. Headings run in order without skipping a level. The site works at any window width and reflows rather than scrolling sideways. Nothing moves, flashes or plays on its own, there are no pop ups, and nothing depends on hovering. Colour is never the only thing carrying a meaning: the move mark has a written label beside it everywhere it appears.

What to tell the office, and when

In the first note, not later. A knee that will not take a long descent. Altitude that has been a problem before. A wish to avoid moving at night. Steps you would rather not climb. Anything a room has to have. It is easier to build a line around a constraint at the start than to unpick a confirmed arrangement, and no operating company thinks worse of a request for saying it plainly.

What this office will not pretend

Some of these segments are difficult. A stairway of two thousand cedar steps is a stairway of two thousand steps, a plateau at two and a half thousand metres is thin air, and a gorge path is a gorge path. Where a segment cannot be adapted the office will say so rather than sell it and hope, and where it can, it will say exactly what changes and what that costs.

If something here does not work

Write to the reservations address and say what failed and what you were using. Problems that stop somebody reading a page are fixed first and the answer says when. This site is not audited against any standard and does not claim to be; it is built carefully and corrected when it is wrong.