Casablanca Trip Overview
This is unique desert tour from Casablanca via Fes and Sahara Desert of Merzouga. 4 days 3 Nights tour starts from Casablanca and ends in Marrakech. Make the right choice to book this unique tour, and you’ll discover Morocco with the locals. We designed this tour to show you the best of our region! including Fes, Ifran City, Ziz Valley, Big Sahara Desert of Merzouga Erg Chebbi Dunes, Todgha Gorges, Dades Gorges, Ouarzazate, Ait Ben Hadou and Ouarzazate.
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* Duration: 4 days
* Starts: Casablanca, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
This is unique desert tour from Casablanca via Fes and Sahara Desert of Merzouga. 4 days 3 Nights tour starts from Casablanca and ends in Marrakech. Make the right choice to book this unique tour, and you’ll discover Morocco with the locals. We designed this tour to show you the best of our region! including Fes, Ifran City, Ziz Valley, Big Sahara Desert of Merzouga Erg Chebbi Dunes, Todgha Gorges, Dades Gorges, Ouarzazate, Ait Ben Hadou and Ouarzazate.
Itinerary
Day 1: Casablanca – Fes
Pass By: Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat
You will be welcomed by your Driver in your Hotel in Casablanca and transfer you directly to Fes. After 3 hours driving you will arrive fes.
Stop At: Fes, Fes, Fes-Meknes
Once you arrive Fes you will meet your Guide to explore the oldest city in Morocco, walking in its alleys and small streets. Our visit starts by visiting the Royal Palace gate, the Jewish quarter, the first Mellah ever built in Morocco, built during the 14th century. We will ensure that you visit all sites with cultural and historical interest including the famous Al Qaraouine University, the oldest one in the world, the Tanneries and Moulay Idriss mausoleum. After lunch, you will visit the tiles cooperative and then experience a wonderful panoramic view over the whole Medina of Fes. Overnight at the same Riad.
Duration: 20 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight at the Hotel 3 Stars in Fes.
Day 2: Fez – Ifran – Azrou – Ziz Valley – Sahara Desert of Merzouga.
Stop At: Ifrane, Ifrane, Fes-Meknes
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. 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
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Midelt, Morocco
After that, your journey continues to Midelt along the magnificent hills and mountains of the Atlas. Lunch time in Midelt.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Merzouga Desert, Merzouga Morocco
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. 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.
Duration: 16 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Berber Camp in Sahara Desert, Erg Chebbi Dunes.
Day 3: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Valley.
Stop At: Merzouga Desert, Merzouga Morocco
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.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Todgha Gorge, R 703 near the town of Tinerhir, Tinerhir 45520 Morocco
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. 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.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Dades Gorges, R704 Atlas Mountains, Boumalne Dades 45350 Morocco
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.
Duration: 12 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at the Hotel in Dades
Day 4: Dades Valley- Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Hadou – Marrakech.
Stop At: Ouarzazate, Ouarzazate, Draa-Tafilalet
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. In Ouarzazate you will have the opportunity to visit Cenima Museum and Kasbah Tourirte as well as Cenima Studio as a third option.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou, Douar Ait Ben Haddou, Ait Ben Haddou 45000 Morocco
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.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Tizi n Tichka, Imlil Village, Ouarzazate 45000 Morocco
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.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Accommodation in Marrakech not included
