Morocco’s Mount Toubkal Ranked 3rd Best Global Hiking Destination by CNN

28 April 2019 – bySaid@Bladi · 1 min read

The country of a thousand faces. Once again, Morocco has been ranked among the best destinations in the world, specifically for Mount Toubkal, the highest peak in the country and North Africa.

Reaching over 4,160 meters in altitude, Mount Toubkal has just been ranked 3rd by the CNN channel among the best global destinations for hiking enthusiasts. "The summit of Mount Toubkal offers climbers an incomparable view of the Atlas Mountains," writes the news channel.

For CNN, Mount Toubkal is "a peaceful world away from the hustle and bustle of the nearby city of Marrakech," located some 80 kilometers away.

Here are the top 12 in this ranking:

• Bwindi Impenetrable Forest - Uganda
• Samburu - Kenya
• Mount Toubkal - Morocco
• Zhangjiajie National Forest Park - China
• Ha Long Bay - Vietnam
• El Nido - Philippines
• Rotorua - New Zealand
• Kata Tjuta - Australia
• The Maldives
• Petra - Jordan
• The Atacama Desert - Chile
• Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve - Costa Rica

A video on Mount Toubkal