Morocco's surf capital — a Berber fishing village where the Atlantic delivers world-class right-handers
Taghazout is a small Berber village 20km north of Agadir that has transformed into one of the world's premier surf destinations. The Atlantic swells that wrap around Anchor Point, Hash Point, and Panoramas break over rocky points in long, peeling right-handers that draw surfers from October through April. The village itself retains much of its fishing-community character — painted blue-and-white houses stacked on a headland, fresh-catch cafes, and the smell of argan oil from the nearby valleys.
Taghazout has been a Berber fishing village for centuries, its residents the Chleuh (Tachelhit-speaking) Amazigh people of the Souss plain. The surf was discovered by Californian and Australian surfers in the late 1960s along with much of Morocco's Atlantic coast, but Taghazout remained a small hippie enclave until the 1990s surf tourism boom.