Best Wellness Retreats in Morocco

Morocco's Atlas Mountains have sustained a Berber culture whose relationship with the land — its plants, its waters, its seasonal rhythms — has produced a deep and practical wellness tradition largely unknown to the wider world. Kasbah Tamadot, Sir Richard Branson's kasbah in the High Atlas foothills above Marrakech, provides access to that tradition in its own environment: hammam rituals using locally sourced botanicals, guided trekking into the surrounding mountain villages, and a spa programme rooted in the Berber pharmacopoeia of the Atlas. The altitude, the silence of the mountain evenings, and the warmth of Berber hospitality do significant work before the formal programme begins.