Agadir Trip Overview
Start in Agadir and end in Marrakesh! With the In-depth Cultural tour 4-Days tour from Agadir to Marrakech (Desert trip to Erg Chegaga), you have a 4 days tour package taking you through Agadir, Morocco, and 11 other destinations in Morocco. 4-Days tour from Agadir to Marrakech (a Desert trip to Erg Chegaga) includes accommodation, an expert guide, meals (2 Dinners & 3 Breakfasts), and comfortable transport.
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* Duration: 4 days
* Starts: Agadir, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Agadir, Souss-Massa, Morocco
Start in Agadir and end in Marrakesh! With the In-depth Cultural tour 4-Days tour from Agadir to Marrakech (Desert trip to Erg Chegaga), you have a 4 days tour package taking you through Agadir, Morocco, and 11 other destinations in Morocco. 4-Days tour from Agadir to Marrakech (a Desert trip to Erg Chegaga) includes accommodation, an expert guide, meals (2 Dinners & 3 Breakfasts), and comfortable transport.
Itinerary
Day 1: Agadir – Taroudant – Taliouine
Pass By: Agadir, Agadir, Souss-Massa
Morning pick up from your hotel in Agadir and start traveling East. On this road, we will pass many Argan trees typical of this region, where we might encounter goats on top of the trees looking for food. We will make a stop in Taroudant.
Stop At: Taroudant, Taroudant, Souss-Massa
Taroudant (also spelled Taroudannt) is sometimes called “Little Marrakesh,” but that description doesn’t do the Souss Valley trading center justice. Hidden by magnificent red-mud walls, and with the snowcapped peaks of the High Atlas beckoning beyond, Taroudant’s souqs and squares have a healthy sprinkling of Maghrebi mystique. Yet it is also a practical place, a market town where Berbers trade the produce of the rich and fertile Oued Souss plain.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Taliouine, Morocco
The village of Taliouine is dominated by hills and the Glaoui kasbah. Taliouine is the African center of l’or rouge (red gold) – saffron, the world’s most expensive spice. Numerous shops and boutiques sell it here for about Dh35 to Dh40 per gram. The purple crocus sativus flower, from which the spice comes, grows only above 1200m. It flowers between mid-October and mid-November, when you can see people picking the flowers around villages 12km east of Taliouine. A saffron festival takes place – around the first weekend of November – which usually incorporates nightly concerts from some of Berber music’s biggest names, and massed ahouach (celebratory) dancing to the beat of bendirs (traditional hand drums).
Overnight stay in Taliouine
Duration: 10 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight stay at Escale Rando Taliouine or similar
Day 2: Taliouine – Taznakht – Foum Zquid – Erg Chegaga
Pass By: Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
We depart this morning and travel Taliouin via the Anti Atlas Mountains.
The Anti Atlas remains one of the least-visited parts of Morocco’s mountainscape, which is surprising, as it is beautiful and close to Agadir. The mountains are the lands of the Chleuh people, who live in a loose confederation of villages strung across the barren peaks. Living in areas molded by the demanding landscape of granite boulders and red-lava flows, the Chleuh have always been devoted to their farms in the lush oasis valleys, now some of the country’s most beautiful palmeraies (palm groves).
Stop At: Tazenakht, Tazenakht, Souss-Massa
We will stop in Taznakht, A Berber town famous for handmade Berber carpets.
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: Foum Zguid, Foum Zguid, Guelmim-Oued Noun
We continue South passing lovely scenery to Foum Zquid. We continue South passing lovely scenery to Foum Zquid. There we take off-road of about 70km that will take us via rocky sandy areas.
Pass By: Iriqui National Park, Morocco
Morocco’s largest national park – covering a land mass of 123,000 hectares – and uniquely Saharan, Iriqui was created in 1994 to protect the biodiversity of this wild region of arid savanna, dunes and salt flats and, in particular, the ephemeral wetlands of Lake Iriqui which attracts migratory birds during the winter rainy season. It’s around 90km of off-road driving from Foum Zguid, but can be visited as part of a tour to or from Erg Chigaga.
Stop At: Erg Chigaga، Morocco
We arrive to the dunes of Erg Chigaga, just before the sun sets down. Spend the night with a company of local Nomads; listen to their drums and Sahara music. A night full of stars that you will not forget.
Overnight in Nomad tent, breakfast, and dinner.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Erg Chegaga: Desert camp Le Caravan Du Sud or similar
Day 3: Erg Chegaga – M’hamid – Zagora – Ouarzazate
Stop At: M’Hamid, M’Hamid, Souss-Massa
We recommend waking up early to watch the spectacular sunrise. Then after breakfast in the Sahara desert, we travel towards M’hamid, about 60kms off-road, making a stop at Oasis Sacre, a real water source in the desert. We reach M’hamid the first town after the desert. Here we meet with a paved road and Draa Valley
Duration: 15 minutes
Pass By: Draa Valley, Zagora 45600 Morocco
From Ouarzazate, the N9 plunges southeast into the Draa Valley, formed by a narrow ribbon of water from the High Atlas that occasionally emerges triumphantly in lush oases, particularly between Agdz and Zagora, a stretch of about 95km. The drive from Agdz to Zagora takes three to four hours, though the more scenic Circuits Touristiques route follows the piste through the oasis. Beyond that, a road takes you 96km further south to M’Hamid, a town 40km short of the Algerian border that marks the end of the road and the start of the desert proper.
Stop At: Tamegroute, Valle du Daraa, Zagora Morocco
We will visit the small town of Tamegroute where is a famous Koran library featuring books from the 13th century and an underground Kasbah.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Ouarzazate, Ouarzazate, Draa-Tafilalet
We continue our driver passing many small Sbu Saharan villages, houses made of mud dwellings. In the afternoon we reach Ouarzazate.
Overnight in Ouarzazate
Duration: 10 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Le Petit Riad Maison D’hote or similar
Day 4: Ouarzazate – AitBenhaddou – Telouet – Marrakech
Stop At: Ait Ben Haddou, Ait Ben Haddou, Souss-Massa
This morning we travel to the 16th century Kasbah of AitBenhaddou.
The Unesco protected kasbah seems suspiciously frozen in time: with Hollywood touch-ups, it still resembles its days in the 11th century as an Almoravid caravanserai. Movie buffs recognize this red mudbrick kasbah 32km from Ouarzazate from Lawrence of Arabia, Jesus of Nazareth (for which much of Ait Benhaddou was rebuilt), Jewel of the Nile, and Gladiator.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Telouet, Telouet, Souss-Massa
We continue via the Ounila road to visit another impressive Kasbah Telouet.
The once-glorious stronghold has been left to crumble, and the best indication of Telouet’s former position as the center of a trans-Saharan trading empire is the 2nd-floor receiving court. No less than 300 artisans were recruited to complete salons faceted with stucco, zellij, and painted cedar ceilings that make Marrakech’s royal Bahia Palace seem like a freshman artisan effort. But the Telouet kasbah was not destined to be the Pasha’s ultimate pleasure palace. After independence, Pasha Glaoui was ousted from the Bahia palace and died shortly thereafter of cancer in exile in Telouet.
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
We drive via the Tizi Tichka pass that will lead us to Marrakech. Route of impressive views of many Berber villages, valleys, and peak mountains. Drop off at your accommodation.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
