This 4-day adventure from Fes to Marrakech offers a perfect blend of mountains, deserts, and cultural heritage. You will travel through the Middle Atlas Mountains, cedar forests, Berber villages, and the spectacular Sahara Desert, enjoying breathtaking landscapes along the way.
The journey includes camel trekking in the golden dunes of Erg Chebbi, nights in traditional desert camps, visits to nomad villages, and exploration of the Todra and Dades Gorges. You will also discover the legendary Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, before arriving in Marrakech via the scenic Tizi n’Tichka Pass.
This tour is ideal for travelers seeking an authentic Moroccan experience combining adventure, culture, nature, and history.
We will pick you up at your Riad or your hotel around 8:00 a.m.
Then we depart for Midelt through the mountains and the cedar forests of the middle Atlas.
We pass by Ifrane, a charming ski resort and Azrou, an important handicraft centre specializing cedar woodwork.
We arrive in Midelt for lunch.
At the afternoon, we will drive through Errachidia, Erfoud, and Rissani to finally arrive in Merzouga at a hotel into the desert.
You will have a camel trek into the beautiful Erg Chebbi dunes, where you will spend the evening in a bivouac (camp).
There you will enjoy a Berber dinner and sleep in desert tent.
After an early sunrise, we will ride the camels back to Merzouga and then go to the hotel to take a shower and eat breakfast.
After we will drive to explore the tiny villages around Erg Chebbi dunes such as ( Hassi, Labied, Merdani, Khamlia, and Mfiss ) on our way to Khamlia where we expect to meet locals showing their desert foxes. We may also encounter desert reptiles and mammals along the way.
In Khamlia, known as the village of black people who were once slaves originating from Sudan, you will be welcomed with a cup of tea while enjoying their spiritual Gnawa music.
Leaving Khamlia our next stop is to enjoy the panoramic view of golden dunes near the Algerian border.
We may stop for picnic lunch under the shadow of a tree before continuing to visit a Nomad family, who are living in a Berber tent and taking care of their herds of cattle, goats and camels.
You will be introduced to family members and get to know about their way of life, while enjoying the taste of a nice cup of tea.
Next, we will visit the site of some black volcanic rocks.
Continuing on, we will stop for the panoramic view near Yasmina lake, where we will see the dunes and the nearby lake (springtime).
Afterwards, we will return back to Merzouga, for dinner and accommodation in a traditional hotel.
In the morning after seeing the sunrise in desert have breakfast and shower the we go back on camels to Merzouga village where we will start our journey to dadaes valley ,on the way we will visit the Berber villages containing, todra gorges then we drive to valley boumalne where we will spend the night in a beautiful hotel in the mountains with dinner and breakfast..
After breakfast, We will take a short walk in the gorges before departure for ouarzazate through the Ros Valley and the route of the Kasbahs.
On the way, you will have the chance to admire the magnificent architecture of the fortresses made of earth.
We will pause in the beautiful oasis of Skoura Kasbahs.
And We go visit Ouarzazate and stop for lunch in Ait Benhadou village. We will have time to explore the famous protected UNESCO site which is the nest of many films like the Gladiator, lawrance of Arabia and much more.
We will drive via Tichka pass to arrive to Marrakech.
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