Sahara Desert Tour Fez to Marrakech (3 Days 2 Nights)

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Fez – Ifran – Azrou – Ziz Valley – Sahara Desert of Merzouga.
5 stops
1
Ifrane
After breakfast, you will leave Fes travelling towards Merzouga via Midelt and the Ziz valley. Today you will travel via the Ifrane city, a beautiful mountain village, named the Switzerland of Morocco.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
2
Azrou Cedar Forest
Here you will also stop at the cedar forest on the middle Atlas Mountains. During this journey you’ll experience glimpses of the Middle Atlas and Higher Atlas mountains and stopping at Azrou, a Berber village in the middle of the famous cedar forest – the largest one in Morocco – where you will have the opportunity to see the Barbary apes.
30 minutes • Admission ticket included
3
Midelt
Lunch time in Midelt. After that, your journey continues to Midelt along the magnificent hills and mountains of the Atlas. After lunch in Midelt, you’ll be travelling through the fascinating Tiz Ntalghamt pass and the spectacular Ziz Gorge, taking in views of the High Atlas plateau, seeing how the scenery changes to reveal hints of the desert as you approach the province of the south-east Errachidia city.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
4
Merzouga Desert
Afterwards, you’ll travel along the fantastic Ziz Valley, stopping for panoramic views along the way to Erfoud and Rissani. Arriving in Merzouga in the afternoon you’ll be welcomed with a glass of mint tea. Then take camel ride in the dunes of Sahara Desert of Merzouga to reach the camp where you will have the night.
12 hours • Admission ticket included
5
Erg Chebbi
Camel ride from Merzouga village to the camp (Tente) where you will have the night inside Sahara Dunes
12 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 2
Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Valley.
3 stops
6
Merzouga Desert
Today you will have to wake up very early in the morning to see what will may be the best sunrise of your life. You will set over the Sand Dunes of Sahara of Erg Chebbi to watch wonderful sunrise. After watching the sunrise you will go down to the Camp for breakfast. Then you’ll peacefully camel-trek back to the village of Merzouga. While enjoying morning camel ride you couldn’t fail to appreciate the unique beauty of the spectacular Erg Chebbi sand dunes – changing with the light as the day progresses.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
7
Todra Gorge
Once you arrive the village of Merzouga, you will meet the driver again to continue the tour to Dades. You will have optional stop in Rissani to visit the Mausoleum of Moulay Ali chref, the founder of the Alaouit dynasty, and then you will continue to Arfoud to visit the fossilized marble factory before continuing to the Todra valley, where you will have lunch.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
8
Dades Gorges
Once in Todra you can highlight a half-hour walk to see the gorges calmly and you will be guided through the palm grove and the Jewish quarter. Todra gorges is the highest, narrowest gorges in Morocco. The Todra River has formed a gorge of enormous vertical walls of great beauty; it is a climber’s paradise and a unique place. In the evening we will drive through the Dades Valley, where you’ll see the majestic sand castles and the amazing rock formations known as “monkey toes”. Overnight accommodation will be in a fancy guest house overlooking the Dades Valley.
12 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 3
Dades Valley- Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Hadou – Marrakech.
3 stops
9
Boumalne Dades
After breakfast in your accommodation, you will start travelling through the Dades Valley towards Ouarzazate and then to Marrakech. The road through Dades Valley is called the way of the thousand Kasbahs – providing numerous opportunities to take some of your best photographic shots of the trip. You will stop at Kalaat M’Gouna -the centre of rose’s valley-, where you will have the option to visit the cooperative for the roses, to purchase the rosewater, which will make your linen smell good a long time after your trip is over.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
10
Ouarzazate
Ouarzazate better know as Hollywood of Morocco is a small city famous by Morocco Cenima where you can visit Kasbah Tourirte, Cenima Musem and Cenima studios like Cla Atlas Studio.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
11
Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
Continue to Marrakech via the Ait Benhaddou Kasbah. Built by Et Hami El Glaoui, one of the last Berber chieftains during the 19th century, now the Kasbah is a house of many Glaoui people. Your journey will continue through the majestic Tizi n’Tichka Pass (2260 m) over the High Atlas Mountains, where you will have the opportunity to explore the process of producing the Argan oil- existing only in morocco – by Berber women in their cooperative, before arriving at your overnight accommodation in Marrakech.
2 hours • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
• May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
• Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required

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