Fes Trip Overview
4 days desert tour from Fes to Merrakech via Sahara desert offers you the chance to have a real desert experience, ride camels and spend the night in a beautiful desert camp and to discover the most interesting sites in Morocco such as Ifrane, Ceder forest in Azrou, Ziz valley, Gorges of todra and dades, Ait benhadou Kasbahs, Atlas mountains and so many more. This is the best solution to travel between the two imperial cities of Fes and Marrakech while discovering a big part of Morocco and enjoying a life time desert experience
Additional Info
* Duration: 4 days
* Starts: Fes, Morocco
* Trip Category: Multi-day & Extended Tours >> Multi-day Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Fes, Fes-Meknes, Morocco
4 days desert tour from Fes to Merrakech via Sahara desert offers you the chance to have a real desert experience, ride camels and spend the night in a beautiful desert camp and to discover the most interesting sites in Morocco such as Ifrane, Ceder forest in Azrou, Ziz valley, Gorges of todra and dades, Ait benhadou Kasbahs, Atlas mountains and so many more. This is the best solution to travel between the two imperial cities of Fes and Marrakech while discovering a big part of Morocco and enjoying a life time desert experience
Itinerary
Day 1: Fes ⇨ Ifran ⇨ Cedar Forest ⇨ Midelt ⇨ Ziz Valley ⇨ Sahara Desert
Stop At: Ifrane, Ifrane, Fes-Meknes
Around 8 AM we Meet You at a Starting Point, we will travel through the middle atlas mountains. On the way, we will stop at Ifran, a small charming, clean town, known as ” Switzerland of Morocco ” because of its similarity to a Swiss alpine resort. We continue south passing through the largest cedar forest in north Africa and home to barbary monkies, we will have a chance to take fascinating pictures and feed the monkies
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Merzouga Desert, Merzouga Morocco
After lunch in midelt, we head south via Talghomt pass admiring the beautiful views and landscapes that nature offers us. We arrive at the region of Ziz valley where we will stop for a breathtaking panoramic view for this hidden oases filled with palm goves. Within around one hour, we will arrive Sahara desert where your camels are waiting for you. After a rest, accompanied with a guide you will ride the camels and cross the high dunes of Erg Chebbi desert, see a magnificent sunset on top of a high dune, then continue trekking towards your camp where you will sleep ( tents like the nomads use). After dinner, you’ll enjoy berber music played by nomads around fire and under a starry sky.
Duration: 1 day
Meals included:
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight At Luxury Nomad Camp in Erg Chebbi Sahara Desert
Day 2: Tour of The Dunes ⇨ Visit Nomad Families ⇨ Merzouga
Stop At: Erg Chebbi, Erg Chebbi, Meknes-Tafilalet Region
Waking up early morning is ” a must to ” to see one that could be the most beautiful sunrise in your life. After breakfast, we will begin our desert excursion in the Sahara desert to explore the different parts of the desert. First, we will see the lake of Merzouga that is home to exotic birds, then head directly to the middle of Sahara desert where nomads whith their animals still live a traditional life, we will sip a cup of tea with them and see how they live. Afterward, we take the route where Ralley Paris Dakar used to race, then we get to Mifis mines that once used to be exploited by France, time to visit them. We continue our journey by heading directly to Khamlia village that is inhabited by black Berber people originally from Mali, Niger …We will have a chance to listen to their music and dance. Lunch in the village ( Berber Pizza). Then, we set off to visit an impressive oases on the edge of sand dunes before we end up our day in your hotel.
Duration: 1 day
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: We Choice Upon Availability Hotel
Day 3: Merzouga ⇨ Rissani ⇨ Arfoud ⇨ Todra Gorges ⇨ Dades Valley
Stop At: Rissani Market, Souk Rissani – Merzouga, Rissani 52450 Morocco
After breakfast at your hotel. We’ll leave the immense desert and travel towards the city of Rissani, once a major stopping place for saharan-caravans route; if it coincides the day markets which take place on : Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays we will have an opportunity to visit the souk — the largest one in the region
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Fossiles d’Erfoud, Avenue Molay Ismail Erfoud, Erfoud 52200 Morocco
We then set off to Erfoud — fossil town. Here, you will see stalls selling crystals and precious stones as well as fossils. The workshop using Marmar is open to visitors
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Gargantas del Todra, Tinerhir 45800 Morocco
We then continue our journey to Dades valley passing through villages such as: Millab, Tinjdad, Toroug to arrive later to Todra valley which is a green one surrounded by mud villages and mountains. Driving around 30 min we get to Todra gorges: a narrow vertical passage with vertical cliffs 300m high rising dramatically on each side, they are a popular destination for climbing lovers. Lunch in the town,
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Dades Gorges, R704 Atlas Mountains, Boumalne Dades 45350 Morocco
continue to Dades valley where you will see the fascinating rock formation known locally as “monkies fingers” as well as beautiful mud kasbahs.
Overnight in a hotel overlooking the valley.
Duration: 1 day
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: We Choice Upon Availability Hotel or Traditional Riad
Day 4: Dades Valley ⇨ Rose Town ⇨ Ouarzazate ⇨ Ait Benhaddou ⇨ Marrakech
Stop At: Kasbah Amridil, Ouled Bourasse, Skoura Ahl El Oust 45502 Morocco
Today, we travel to El Kalaa Mgou’na or Rose town where over 400 tonnes of rose petals are picked every spring to be processed into rosewater or exported to perfume Industries. The festival of roses is held here every May As we travel from Rose town to Skoura you will see so many kasbahs among the greenery of Dades valley. The small town of Skoura Is surrounded by thousands of palm groves and the most beautiful kasbahs in southern Morocco are to be found here
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou, Douar Ait Ben Haddou, Ait Ben Haddou 45000 Morocco
Continue our journey to Ouarzazate ” Hollywood of Africa ” -with the biggest cinema studios in Morocco- , then to the most famous, filmed and photographed kasbah of Ait Benhaddou — A Unesco World Heritage site — We’ll have free time to visit it and have lunch in the village . After, we head to Marrakesh via high atlas mountains (2260 ) , admiring the impressive mountainous views and speacial berber villages on the mountain’s sides . Arrive to Marrakesh in the evening.
Duration: 2 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
