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Kasbah Ennakhile Story / Hossaine Benaamer

Kasbah Ennakhile is a hotel located in Nkob village – south of Morocco, 360KM from Marrakesh. Kasbah Ennakhile is managed by Hossaine Benaamer, a young Berber man born in 1981.

Hossain history and his love for life is quite interesting and a perfect example of how everything in life can be achieved. After deeply suffering psychologically from his father death, and turned into the man of the family, Hossain quickly had to start working to support his mother, brothers and sisters.

Hossain father, Mr. Lahcen Benaamer, a Berber nomad that came to Nkob to build a small house, was known in the region as an artist, painting unique art work in ceilings and walls.

His excellent Fez type of decoration mixed with local Berber traditional colors and simplicity, made his father remarkably remembered around the region where he hand painted more than 100 living-rooms.

Hossain moved to Ouarzazate back in 1997 to work in Essalam restaurant, one of the first restaurants in town.

During this time, he shares his extra time do attend evening school of English and French at a local academy.

In 1999 he starts working at Hotel Amlal, a hotel located in center Ouarzazate, that belongs to Hossain family. He is now learning how to deal with tourist and how developing ideas and experience inside an hotel.

After several refused working proposals from a some Trekking & Tour agencies in Ouarzazate, Hossain came back to his village with ideas of opening an hotel, in order to receive the clients arriving to his family hotel in Ouarzazate.

In 2002 Hossain opens a 4 room Inn with a bigger project in mind – Kasbah Ennakhile, a better quality hotel where he could provide excellent accommodation and restaurant service to all travelers arriving to Nkob.

Hossain has a big experience as mountain / desert guide. his trekking proposals always astonish travelers and his personal routes inside the mountains are known as the best in the region.

Hossain is president of a local women aid association where he promotes local Berber women development in order to gather them to work producing traditional carpets, perfumes and different handicraft.

Women are payed fairly as this non-profit organization sells the merchandise.

Nkob Cooperative for Development is also responsible for trash removal from around the village, providing trucks and man power in order to improve local people human development and life conditions.