Marrakech Trip Overview
Via this off-roads and Erg Chigaga Morocco Cultural Tour we’ll help you discover and experience the best of our desert and off-roads. You will be able to see the picturesque gorges of Imi n’Ifri and the Amridil Kasbah the Morocco’s 17th century most coveted Kasbah. Later on along the tour we will drive via a Thousands Kasbahs route to the wildest desert Erg Chigaga the splendid stretch towering dunes and golden sand sea as well as the largest sand sea in Morocco. Also Tizi n’Tichka and its pulse-racing series of switchbacks providing over more jaw-dropping views.
Moreover, MSITravels exists to make you taste the good flavor of our local families’ home-made foods. In addition to have the opportunity to give back, to support vulnerable families in meaningful ways. To build authentic connections and know that your visit matters. That when you leave, you’ll take carpets and Argan oil and lanterns and photographs and memories, but you’ll also leave a mark that made a difference.
Additional Info
* Duration: 10 days
* Starts: Marrakech, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
Via this off-roads and Erg Chigaga Morocco Cultural Tour we’ll help you discover and experience the best of our desert and off-roads. You will be able to see the picturesque gorges of Imi n’Ifri and the Amridil Kasbah the Morocco’s 17th century most coveted Kasbah. Later on along the tour we will drive via a Thousands Kasbahs route to the wildest desert Erg Chigaga the splendid stretch towering dunes and golden sand sea as well as the largest sand sea in Morocco. Also Tizi n’Tichka and its pulse-racing series of switchbacks providing over more jaw-dropping views.
Moreover, MSITravels exists to make you taste the good flavor of our local families’ home-made foods. In addition to have the opportunity to give back, to support vulnerable families in meaningful ways. To build authentic connections and know that your visit matters. That when you leave, you’ll take carpets and Argan oil and lanterns and photographs and memories, but you’ll also leave a mark that made a difference.
Itinerary
Day 1: Marrakech visit
Stop At: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
Welcome to the Capital of tourism and people’s first taste of Morocco.
Today is your first touch of Morocco with your private Marrakech born and bred guide.
You embark exploring the Red City from its old part with its Medina’s skinny lanes that leads to lavish sites, tombs and religious monuments decked out in marble. Bahia and El-Badii Palace and Saadien’s Tombs will be your targets. Afterward, you driver/Tour Guide will pick you up for the outside medina visit to explore the Majorelle garden, Museum Saint Laurent, Berber Museum. While in Marrakech you will surely encounter thousands of motorcyclists and horse-carts roaming in the city and some of them pull over next the vast square of Jemaa El-Fnaa where it’s carnival night every night and musicians, snaks Charmers acrobats, storytellers and slapstick acting troupes tap into the Medina frenetic pulse.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight at a Riad in the heart of the Medina of Marrakech (the old walled part of the city).
Day 2: Marrakech – Demnate – Skoura
Stop At: Imi-n-Ifri Natural Bridge, Demnate 22300 Morocco
Your adventure Culatural tour in Morocco truly begins with a jump start today, you will picked up by your drive/tour guide east of Marrakech in the central high Atlas accessible through the regional hub of Demnate, a lively town to explore. 6km east of Demnate you encounter the route to the picturesque gorges of Imi n’Ifri, a nature travertine bridge that formed over gorges 1.8 million years ago. The paths are clearly marked by the bridge so that you can walk down into the gorges and through the toothy maw by yourself.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Kasbah Amridil, Ouled Bourasse, Skoura Ahl El Oust 45502 Morocco
Follow the road to Skoura, a startling range of imposing Kasbahs. Besides, the Ameridil Oued is an extraordinary sight even from the road and the grandest and most extravagantly decorated Ameridil Kasbah, which was once owned by the Glaoui family and which dominates the wadi. the restored interior is now open to visitors.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Dinner
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight at one of the old Kasbahs that become a hotel for visitors
Day 3: Skoura – Dades – Todgha
Stop At: Dades Gorges, R704 Atlas Mountains, Boumalne Dades 45350 Morocco
Via the valley of a thousand Kasbahs and 50km away of Skoura we cannot miss the bottles of local rosewater for sale in Kelaa M’gouna a small town that is famous for roses and daggers. After that we take off-road onto the Atlas and the M’goun Mountain to glimpse some best views along hidden livestock to the ancient rust-red and a series of crumbling Kasbahs & Ksour line the valley of Dades. While you are there you should not miss the Monkey toes, one of nature’s wonder.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Todgha Gorge, R 703 near the town of Tinerhir, Tinerhir 45520 Morocco
Head to not-to-miss Todgha gorges, where you’ll be stuck between gigantic rock walls and a hard place is a sublime experience. Sheer cliffs 300m (985ft) high rise up dramatically each side of the narrow corridor that form the gorge, and Wadi Todgha flows through this great geological fault and on into the Tinghir palm grove.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: A home-cooked meal, prepared for hours with love and spices.
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night will be in a typical Moroccan Hotel in the middle of the gorges.
Day 4: Todgha Gorges – Nkob
Stop At: Nkob, Nkob, Souss-Massa
This morning you’ll have the chance to see Todgha Gorges by day light with its gigantic rock walls changing color to magical effects as the day unfolds. Later on you leave Todgha gorges towards the rambling Ksar of N’kob with its prehistoric rock-carving sites and 45 mud-brick ksours make you stop by and stare. The name N’kob comes from a cave that once served as a lodging for nomads.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a Kasbah Hotel
Day 5: Nkob – Tamegroute – M’hamid El-Ghizlane
Stop At: Tamegroute, Valle du Daraa, Zagora Morocco
Today, we set the compass for southeast head to Morocco’s wildest desert via Draa valley, a 125km belt of palm trees oases that eventually merges into the Sahara near M’hamid. We’ll stop in an unusual place that was once the most important settlement in the Valley of Draa with its green potry. The Zawiya Naciria is still a site of pilgrimage and refuge for the mentally-ill and a working Quranic school with a library that was once the richest in Morocco of ancient illuminated texts containing 4000 books.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: M’Hamid, M’Hamid, Souss-Massa
Leave Temegroute through a dauntingly bleak landscape of sun-scorched rubble to the end of paved road of M’hamid El-Ghizlane, the climax of this tour and the gateway to the towering dunes of Erg Chigaga.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: A home-cooked meal, prepared for hours with love and spices.
• Dinner
Accommodation included: night will be in a typical mud-brick Moroccan hotel
Day 6: M’hamid El-Ghizlane – Erg Chigaga
Stop At: Atmospher Erg Chigaga, M’Hamid El Ghizlane, M’Hamid Morocco
Be prepared to begin your off-road journey to Erg Chigaga, which can be reached only by four-wheel-drive vehicle, stretch to the horizon. A splendid stretch towering dunes and golden sand sea, the largest sand sea in Morocco, where you’ll surely choose to drift off to sleep while watching the twinkling stars after dinner.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight will be in a Bedouin style tent in the middle of the desert.
Day 7: Erg Chigaga
Stop At: Atmospher Erg Chigaga, M’Hamid El Ghizlane, M’Hamid Morocco
Always, the best way to live the nomad life and explore the desert and hear its windy whisper is by riding the camel. So, today you will have a chance to fully live a real desert experience with your camel driver to discover the fauna, flora and history of the desert. Lunch will be served in the middle of nowhere in the 300 meter-high dunes.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight will be in a Bedouin style tent in the middle of the desert.
Day 8: Erg Chigaga – Foum Zguid – Taznakht – Ouarzazate
Stop At: Ouarzazate, Ouarzazate, Draa-Tafilalet
Wake by dawn to watch the sun starting its daily arc with a cool blue morning sky as it replaces the Sahara shadows just before becoming a glowing ball of fire. You exit Erg Chigaga head to north to Ouarzazate via a rough-road out of the desert through the 80s km long dry lake bed of Lac Iriki that made well-known by the Paris-Dakar rally and through the sahel and reg to Foum Zguid and then 85km north to Taznakht, a handy stop for a quick bite coffee, petrol and, yes, carpet. Arriving to the strategically located Ouarzazate.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight in a charming typical 3 stars Moroccan Hotel with private bath, hot water and good service.
Day 9: Ouarzazate – Ait Benhadou – Tizi n’Tichka – Marrakech
Stop At: Taourirt Kasbah, Avenue Mohammed V, Ouarzazate 45000 Morocco
This morning we will start by Ouarzazate only historic building, the Taourirt Kasbah that begun in the 18th century and renovated in the 19th, the Kasbah has been undergoing restoration from time to time since 1994. It was once housed the large Glaoui family who were the Lords of the south and controlled access to the High Atlas.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Atlas Film Studio, Km 5, road of Marrakech BP 28, Ouarzazate 45000 Morocco
We drive in about 6km northwest outside Ouarzazate, off the road to Marrakech, are the Atlas Film Studios, surrounded by high pisé walls that looks as if they are defended by giant hollywood style, pseudo Egyptian figures. hundreds of films have been shot inthis region including Prison Break, Game of Thrones and many others.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou, Douar Ait Ben Haddou, Ait Ben Haddou 45000 Morocco
later on, you leave « Ouallywood » and head to Marrakech through some of Morocco’s most stunning landscapes beginning by Ait Benhadou, the UNESCO-protected red mud-brick Ksar from the 11th century. built near water and arable land, in a place safe from foreign attack, it contains an impressive group of ochre pisé kasbahs.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Tizi n Tichka, Imlil Village, Ouarzazate 45000 Morocco
After lunch with a local family and the visit of the Ksar we drive along craggy cliff tops to tiny Berber villages in the North Africa’s highest mountain range via the splendid Glaoui Kasbah in Talouate and the lush green Ounilla Valley all the way through the Tizi n’Tichka pass (2260m).
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: with a local family we’ll have a home-cooked meal, prepared for hours with love and spices.
Accommodation included: Overnight at a charming Riad in the Medina with private bath, hot water and good service.
Day 10: Departure
Pass By: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
Today we drive you to the Airport of Marrakech. We do not say goodbye we both say take care and see you sooner than later for another adventure.
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
