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Setti Fatma is up the Ourika Valley from Marrakech, as far as you can reasonably go without a 4x4 or creature-pulled transport. Many visitors only see the delightful valley, the waterfalls walk and perhaps the carpet warehouse but, because I was considered [probably rightly] too decrepid to reach the waterfalls, i had what was tantamount to a private tour through the village itself.
It's a Berber village, where only those who come into contact with outsiders, have learned to speak Moroccan Arabic. The history of the Berbers is largely nomadic so that Berber permanent settlements do not go way back into history.
It's a beautiful situation but a very basic village and a hard life.
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