- 7 weeks ago
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00Marrakesh, a whirlwind of lights, sounds and spicy scents which overwhelm the traveler,
00:16provoking the urge to go beyond and see further.
00:19The southern gate allows us to escape the city towards the mountains of the Moroccan High Atlas.
00:34Over the miles, the chromatic palette of the landscape evolves.
00:38The varied and shimmering colors of the big city give way to shades of brown ochre.
00:49Below the road, a tongue-like green path unrolls, following the river as it meanders along the Imlil Valley.
01:06To reach the Casbah of Tubgal, you can simply close your eyes and trust the murmur of the river.
01:19.
01:26.
01:34.
02:38That helps.
02:39Yeah, sure.
02:43Merci.
02:56Every morning, the two associates and friends like to take the pulse of the citadel they
03:00have patiently built over the years.
03:03Yes, of course.
03:04Yes, of course.
03:05Yes, but you have the chance that the snow has arrived quite soon.
03:10It's not always that you look at the snow in October.
03:15It's not always that you look at the summer of October, but it's coming.
03:24In the mid-1990s, the two men joined forces to transform the remains of an old Berber fort
03:37overlooking the village of Imlil into a hotel of international reputation without sacrificing
03:43the soul of the place or the tradition of Berber hospitality.
03:50I believe we offer some form of authenticity.
03:56We wanted to allow people to stay in comfort whilst experiencing the majesty of the Atlas Mountains,
04:04the nature.
04:05I'd like to think we're almost like a church, open to anyone who wants to come in the door.
04:13Particularly in the early days, we could have been confused with a four-, five-star hotel
04:18and we wanted to differentiate ourselves to say that it was very much part of the local
04:24community and also that it was run by the Berbers.
04:36I would say we don't manage the hotel.
04:38We influence the hotel and it's the local population under Haj Moris who ultimately manage the hotel.
04:54I aming to clash between the past and the centuries.
05:06Now what happens underneath those who don't care?
05:08Yes, indeed.
05:10Next day you take care.
05:11Please come.
05:12OK.
05:14Carlos May.
05:15Yes you are old.
05:16Yes you are old.
05:17As Pani wanted as a woman.
05:19With the respect you are used to join it,
05:20the divine Content Humming here.
05:21Yes, of course.
05:22Without ever raising his voice, he gives orders and gives advice to a staff who recognize
05:32his pilgrimage to Mecca with the honorary name of Hajj, which confers prestige and authority.
05:52It's about 50% of the people who live with the Kasbah.
05:56There are guides, there are milliers, there are cuisiniers.
05:59Normally, the workers who work at Kasbah are now 39 people.
06:22All the houses, until relatively recently, baked their bread.
06:51And cut down the forest, so now they've stopped, more or less stopped over grazing.
07:05So we have a load of, at night we'll open fire, well in stoves, and that will be olive wood,
07:12which is reasonably, well it's very expensive in Europe, but it's reasonably sustainable
07:17because they'll only cut down, they'll only cut down the trees that have stopped bearing
07:21olives, and obviously replant the younger trees.
07:24So if you want to get your own water, and be super cautious, you get it from here.
07:36Okay.
07:37If not, I drink it from all the taps.
07:43We have a tree that has 70 years old, so it has a lot of roots, so it's like the Kasbah.
08:06There's the Kasbah, but there are some roots that come out of the Kasbah, that's to
08:11improve other things.
08:13I believe only things that work long term and are sustainable are things that work for
08:21everybody.
08:22So we had to come up with a means whereby the local population, not just people who work
08:29work for us, but we wanted to come up with a way by people who aren't involved in tourism,
08:35directly with us, could also gain.
08:37And we came up with the idea of charging our clients a 5% levy that goes to the Village Association.
08:44And later on, I formed a charity called Education for All, and some funds from the 5% can also
08:51go to Education for All.
08:53One of the roots of the Kasbah runs to Asni, into the girls' boarding houses that are managed
09:14by the Education for All Association.
09:16Sister Latifa reigns there as caring director, and today she's receiving guests.
09:27On the initiative of the team and Mike, a group of English donors made their first visit
09:32to the historic House of the Association, which now has six houses hosting more than 200
09:37young girls.
09:39The philosophy for this house that it's a second house for girls.
09:48It's difficult to build school on each village for these girls, but we can bring these girls
09:56near the school.
09:57And our boarding school and our boarding house, it's not an internat, but these girls live
10:01like a big family.
10:03Like, they call me my sister.
10:06There are the sisters that we did all of this work.
10:09We are a father.
10:10We need that time to be a father, a mother, a sister, a teacher.
10:14Because we are the first contact for this girl to contact with any happens for her, she
10:20contact the house mother.
10:25For some parents' education, it's not important for girls, but for girls to be housewife, it's
10:30better than without these boarding houses, these girls, they never go to school.
10:35They call me my other brother, I'm black.
10:39And lots of people can go to school, they gave the baby lunch.
10:44And some people can help you.
10:46You see everybody.
10:47You're just fat.
10:50When I really open you up.
10:53Everyone they say, if you give food for people, this food can finish.
10:56If you give them clothes, this clothes.
10:58But if you give them education, they're never missing that education.
11:01It's never missing the education, the people, they can take them all their life.
11:05That's why I say, why you help education?
11:08And they say, because only things we can give for people, and they keep it for their life.
11:13A few hundred meters from the Azni boarding house, Amid, one of the members of the Casbah team, goes to the souk.
11:37On the shopping list given to him by the kitchen manager are fresh mint and seasonal vegetables.
12:07Stop!
12:10Stop!
12:11Stop!
12:13Stop, stop!
12:22Let's find another 3?
12:26Hi.
12:27Hello?
12:28How are you?
12:29This is the C cream.
12:31This is the C cream.
12:32Yes.
12:33The C cream is in Boara.
12:35Yes.
12:36How do you do this?
12:3834.
12:3934?
12:40Yes.
12:41Yes.
12:42Do you want to eat?
12:44Yes, I want to eat.
12:45Yes, I want to eat.
12:50The oil is on the side.
12:51Yes?
12:52The oil is on the side.
12:54Yes.
12:55Yes, I want to eat.
13:07This is the same as the oil.
13:12It is clean.
13:17The oil is on the side, it is a long time to cook it.
13:20Our food is still using the milk.
13:22If we're using the milk, the milk is still available.
13:26We'll find the milk is still in the middle of the day.
13:36We'll make some milk.
13:39We'll add a little bit of the milk.
13:44We'll add a little bit.
13:46I want to thank you very much.
13:48Thank you very much.
13:50Thank you very much.
13:52Thank you very much.
14:16I came up here and I had the good fortune to fall upon Haj Maurice,
14:21known in those days as Omar Eidh Barmed,
14:24who became our guide and I worked with him for probably ten years,
14:28running trekking holidays.
14:30And then in 1986 we became more of a serious business
14:35that allowed us to begin purchasing the Casbah in 1990
14:40and all that you see at the Casbah now was mainly built between 1995
14:45and 2003.
15:15It's important.
15:16It's important.
15:17It's important.
15:18It's important.
15:19It's important.
15:20It's important.
15:21It's important.
15:22It's important.
15:24It's important to you.
15:25It's important.
15:26It's important to you.
15:27Anyway, that was just a little bit of a picture to you.
15:29There's nothing here.
15:39Nothing.
15:40That's the real Casbah.
15:43Yes.
15:44It's like that.
15:45Yes.
15:46Look, this is our old house in the village.
15:50We talked about it the first time.
15:52When you're still young.
15:54Yes, it's true.
15:55And now you're young.
15:57Now you're young.
15:59But you're still young.
16:01It starts with the white.
16:05Yes.
16:06But it's true.
16:07It's a bit of our life here.
16:09It's not easy.
16:10When we started, with a lot of people,
16:13to look for the people who do the menuisier,
16:17the maçons who do the construction.
16:2040 people.
16:21For who do the simon?
16:23The simon.
16:24For the Dawa.
16:25For the Dawa.
16:26For the village.
16:27For the village.
16:28For the village.
16:29For the village.
16:30For the village.
16:31For the village.
16:32Yes.
16:33It's true?
16:34Yes.
16:35They helped you to start?
16:36Yes, they helped you.
16:37Because they told us that we can help you.
16:40Because it's something that comes to the village.
16:42It's going to help people to work well.
16:47Yes.
16:48Yes.
16:49Yes.
16:50It's going to work well.
16:51It's going to work well.
16:52It's going to work well.
16:53It's going to work well.
16:54It's going to work well.
16:55Yes.
16:56It's going to work well.
16:57It's going to work well.
16:58Yes.
16:59It's going to work well.
17:00Yes.
17:01It's going to work well.
17:02Yes.
17:03They have worked well for six weeks, for one day.
17:04For one day of filming.
17:05Yes.
17:06And then, it's going to end.
17:11This is the last work of Bothamley, our architect,
17:16who said that we should finish this project with a house with three rooms,
17:22with the big windows to the tubco.
17:25It's true, once we read to Daniel Craig, James Bond, who is staying there.
17:32Yes, he is staying there, yes.
17:36The Bond is locked.
17:38Yes, it's really the story.
17:39It's in our history, Maurice.
17:42Yes.
18:09The name is the name of the movie.
18:13My name is the name ofisseur.
18:14If you're a man 5,000.
18:16The name is the name of the movie.
18:18And that was the name of theκ.
18:20We have a building for 100 years from the city.
18:21We have a building for 100 years from the city.
18:23The name is Amr Da.
18:35He was born in the early days of the year.
18:40He was born in the early days of the year.
18:43He was born in the early days of the year.
18:46It's my father's father.
18:53I was so happy to be here.
19:00I was so happy to be able to get away from the family.
19:05I have never been able to get away from my family.
19:11I was so happy to be here.
19:16they do not carry the village.
19:19What happened to the village ?
19:23Well, the village was close to the village of Ibn.
19:26I had been close to the village of the village,
19:31since we were close to our families.
19:34So they did not carry the village,
19:36and we made it as a village,
19:38and people who came to Africa.
19:40Since the 1970s, the village of Imlil has been the base camp for hikers setting off to climb Mount Tubkal, the highest point in the Maghreb.
19:50Lodging and stores selling mountain items give the village the look of a small Swiss ski resort, but with mules as a ski lift.
20:10The
20:23Mules
20:28Key
20:30So now we will cross to Imnil Valley through two villages, Matat and Agassiwale in front
20:58of us. And as you see the colors change from the other valley, from Imnil Valley to here.
21:04We are in red, it's more red, more green, more than there, it's more rocky, more gray.
21:10So yeah, it's very different, very diverse. We are just close, but they're diverse.
21:16Still beautiful.
21:18Yeah, thank you. So let's continue.
21:22My name is Sarah, I'm 29 years old and now it's been two years that I'm doing my job
21:28as a mountain guide.
21:30I lived almost my whole life in a city and I felt that I was more comfortable and my
21:37elements was more being in the mountains.
21:40I live with such a beautiful community and we work as a community, we are living all our
21:47life as a community together and these human values are very impressive.
21:58I was raised with these values from my family, so it's more the lifestyle and the fact that
22:10they live and they grow in such hard conditions. That's how they improve these values.
22:16I was more impressed by the simplicity and how people are very happy and proud with the small
22:29things they have. So that's the main thing that keeps me in love with this culture.
22:35So here we have the right side of the massive Tubkal. It's all 4,000 peaks and it's the most
22:46technical peaks in the valley. How many times have you climbed it?
22:49About 200 times, yes.
22:53How many days does it take?
22:57The shortest way it's two days, but the best one is to make it in three days. So we climb
23:05to the refuge the first day at 3,200 meters. Then we sleep there. Then the second day we climb
23:12to Tubkal and back to the refuge and third day way back to the valley.
23:25So the hardest thing I think in tourism and sustainable tourism is to have a balance between enough and not too much.
23:52We decided some time ago that we didn't want to build any more rooms on the CASBAR site.
23:5915 en suite rooms is a small hotel, whereas 35, 40, 50 rooms isn't. When you begin losing what you've created,
24:09you will destroy what you've created.
24:16When you think about the
24:19Everybody thinks, you know what herself is.
24:22I was a little stressful to do.
24:23If you believe nothing, you will experience.
24:29Then a lot of Buff-up training does not actually have a problem.
24:34Speaking of bringing fire,
24:41The Kasbah of Tubkal is the incarnation of the slightly crazy dream of two independent
24:50personalities who are able to draw an inexhaustible strength from their cultural difference.
25:11The Kasbah of Tubkal
25:41The Kasbah of Tubkal
Comments