Treks in Agoundis, Tin Jaguar, Tagoundafine, Ighir, Agerda, Ait Moussa, Annamer, Zoute or as near as agharghist villages that is exclusively Berber-speaking and very apparently rural.  It sits just under 5000 feet above sea level on the Agoundis River , which joins the Nfis down at Ijoukak and eventually flows out of the Western High Atlas in the general direction of Marrakech.  Fewer than two hundred people live here, depending on your criteria for being part of the village, but the Agoundis, and valleys like it, are chock full of villages. 

From this path, looking down, you see massive walnut trees crowd the Rocky River course. Fields of corn and barley grow in steep terraces above the spring flood level. Almonds are planted higher, on ledges the river water cannot reach.  Rock and mud houses are terraced above that, clustered in places which suffer rock slides less frequently.  Grapes, pomegranates, figs, blackberries, squash, mint, potatoes and tomatoes grow where space can be found.  Olives, carob trees and prickly pear mark the lower elevations.

The fields here are watered year round by snow melt that passes though seven main targas, or canals, and many hundreds of minor causeways and ditches, all of which, it seems, have their own names.  These are operated in rotation by the six main families of the village.  The women cut fodder for the cows down in the river bed, or up in the forests, and haul it along the steep paths in huge bundles.  The girls sing as they fetch water, collect wood, wash clothes, milk cows and lug babies around in slings on their backs.  Men and boys work the irrigation system, plow, harvest and plant, and care for the sheep and goats.