Tata

Sleepy oasis village in the Anti-Atlas near the Algerian border, set among date palm groves and surrounded by cliff walls covered with 10,000-year-old Neolithic rock carvings

Highlights

• Neolithic Rock Carvings: The cliffs around Tata and nearby Akka hold thousands of prehistoric carvings — elephants, rhinos and human figures from the time when the Sahara was green
• Tata Oasis: A lush palm oasis fed by ancient foggara irrigation channels — walk beneath date palms with ripening fruit in complete tranquillity
• Anti-Atlas Isolation: Tata sits at the crossroads of Anti-Atlas and pre-Sahara routes — the scale of the empty landscape and the red mountain silence are deeply restorative

Top places

• Rock Carving Sites
• Tata Palm Oasis Walk
• Akka Rock Art (Neolithic)
• Tata Market