Pasha Hida

Pasha Hida controlled the Sousse Valley during the later half of the 19C and early 20C. He allied with the Glaoui to control the Tizi n' Test at the commencement of the Protectorate but was killed, at an advanced age, in 1917 in a war down in Sidi Ifni. 

He had three main palaces in the valley. The one at Taroudant now being the Palais Salaam Hotel. We went 40 km east to Ouled Berhil where on the outskirts of town , next to the Lycee, 

we turned round and found

Riad Hida was built by the Pasha in 1860 and he occupied it till his death. In 1960 it was bought from the family by a danish millionaire who lived there until his death in 2001 when he left it to a Moroccan man who had served him for a long time and operated it as a restaurant and tea room until it opened as a hotel in 2014. 

It has beautiful gardens and we had been brought here previously by the teacher. when he first qualified he taught for 3 years at the lycee befor moving to Mohammed V in Taroudant. At the end of the day he liked to take a cup of tea in the gardens to de-stress.