Plan Your Trip Trekking in Morocco - Morocco - page 72

INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIST TRAVEL MAP & BOOKSHOPS
Australia
Melbourne Map Centre ( www.melbmap.com.au ; Malvern East, Victoria) Australia's largest map
shop stocks half-a-dozen Morocco maps.
France
Au Vieux Campeur ( www.au-vieux-campeur.fr )
UK
Stanfords ( www.stanfords.co.uk ; London & Bristol) It sells maps including Editorial Piolet's
1:40,000 map of the Jebel Toubkal area; and West Col's series of 1:160,000 maps of the Atlas, based
on the Soviet military survey maps.
The Map Shop ( www.themapshop.co.uk ; Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire)
USA
East View Map Link ( http://store.maplink.com ) Has a list of other map shops in the United States
and elsewhere.
Omnimap ( www.omnimap.com ; Burlington, North Carolina) Sells an excellent range of maps, in-
cluding the West Col and Soviet military survey maps, some available digitally.
Rand McNally ( http://store.randmcnally.com )
Books
The booklet Morocco: Mountain and Desert Tourism (2005), published by Office Nation-
al Marocain du Tourisme (ONMT), the Moroccan tourist office, has a good introduction
to trekking in Morocco, plus lists of car-hire companies, bureaux des guides (guide of-
fices), tourist offices, gîtes d'étape (trekkers' hostels), huts, refuges (huts), campsites,
souq (market) days and other information.
You should be able to pick it up in ONMT offices overseas and in Marrakesh and other
major cities, or at Imlil's bureau des guides .
Edisud/Belvisi publishes Gravures Rupestres du Haut Atlas, which looks at the rock art
of Plateau du Yagour, northeast of Setti Fatma, and Randonnées Pédestres Dans le Massif
du Mgoun . These are available online, and sporadically at tourist offices, in bookshops in
Rabat and Marrakesh, from the Club Alpin Français (CAF) and in the CAF's Oukaïmeden
refuge .