Marrakech Trip Overview
This 3-day Sahara Desert tour to Erg Chegaga from Marrakech is the most exciting tour for travellers with just three days available and who wish to have a unique, full desert experience. On this trip you are far out in the dunes, away from any impression of civilization.It starts with your being fetched from your hotel or Riad in Marrakech at 08.00 to head south for the magnificent High Atlas Mountains. You cross the Tizi-n-Tichka pass, (2660m) the highest pass in North Africa. You will be astounded by the panoramas and will wish to take memorable photos. Just let your driver know where you would like to stop.
Additional Info
* Duration: 3 days
* Starts: Marrakech, Morocco
* Trip Category: Outdoor Activities >> 4WD, ATV & Off-Road Tours
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This 3-day Sahara Desert tour to Erg Chegaga from Marrakech is the most exciting tour for travellers with just three days available and who wish to have a unique, full desert experience. On this trip you are far out in the dunes, away from any impression of civilization.It starts with your being fetched from your hotel or Riad in Marrakech at 08.00 to head south for the magnificent High Atlas Mountains. You cross the Tizi-n-Tichka pass, (2660m) the highest pass in North Africa. You will be astounded by the panoramas and will wish to take memorable photos. Just let your driver know where you would like to stop.
Itinerary
Day 1: Marrakech – Tizi N Tichka – Telouet – Ait Ben Hadou – Ouarzazate – Agdez
Pass By: Tizi n Tichka, Imlil Village, Ouarzazate 45000 Morocco
cross the High Atlas Mountains we sill do several Stops to take a photos
Stop At: Telouet, Telouet, Souss-Massa
we will visite the Telouet Kasbah, which belonged to the Lords of the Atlas, the Glaoui family.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou, Douar Ait Ben Haddou, Ait Ben Haddou 45000 Morocco
Here you stop for a tasty lunch.This is the most famous Kasbah in Morocco, one of Morocco’s seven UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Ouarzazate, Ouarzazate, Draa-Tafilalet
Crossing Ouarzazte, and continue south over the Tizi-n-Tinfifte pass to Agdez.
Stop At: Agdz, Agdz, Souss-Massa
Descending from the pass you will be amazed at the view of the extensive oasis and the number of palm trees, all indicating the beginning of the Dra’a Valley with its thousands of date palms, producing an amazing 44 varieties of dates. The date harvest starts in September and lasts a couple of months, so that is the best time to stop in Agdez for the freshest ones. We spend the night in a guest house.
Duration: 10 hours
Meals included:
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Guest House
Day 2: Agdez –Zagora – Mehamid El Ghazlan – Chegaga Dunes
Pass By: Agdz, Agdz, Souss-Massa
After breakfast, there is time to visit Kasbah Tamnougalte, the oldest kasbah in the Dra’a Valley. Some of it is still inhabited but the Jewish area has been crumbling since the departure of its inhabitants to Israel, the last woman having left in 1963.
Stop At: Zagora, Zagora, Souss-Massa
Zagora is the largest town in the whole area and here we shall stop for lunch. Later we pass through Tamgroute, where a stop for the potteries famous for the green glaze, which you may have already seen in Marrakech. You can also visit the ancient Quranic library with exquisite hand-written Arabic texts.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Tamegroute, Morocco
Tamegroute : where a stop for the potteries famous for the green glaze, which you may have already seen in Marrakech. You can also visit the ancient Quranic library with exquisite hand-written Arabic texts.
Duration: 50 minutes
Stop At: M’Hamid, M’Hamid, Souss-Massa
In the afternoon we drive further south still, to M’hamid, the very gate to the desert and the end of the paved road. In the Erg Lihoudi dunes, we stop for lunch. Alternatively, lunch will be in the Ksar Bounou.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Atmospher Erg Chigaga, M’Hamid El Ghizlane, M’Hamid Morocco
Erg Chegaga dunes (300m) with 60km of off-road driving. This route passes different features of the desert; ‘erg’ (dunes), ‘hammada’ (stony desert) and oases. These dunes are far away from civilization, in the desert proper ……. and the silence and the expanse of the sand are overwhelming. Once there you can take a camel ride of about an hour and a half.
Duration: 10 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Affordable desert Camp
Day 3: Erg Chegaga Dunes – Taznakht – Hight Atlas – Marrakech
Pass By: Atmospher Erg Chigaga, M’Hamid El Ghizlane, M’Hamid Morocco
After breakfast our last day desert Tour start from Here
Stop At: Nationalpark D’Iriqui, Tata Morocco
our desert trip takes us west through another 90km of the desert with varying scenery: Lake Iriqui, where you are likely to experience a wide mirage in the heat, the mountains, and fossils.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Foum Zguid, Foum Zguid, Guelmim-Oued Noun
Lunch will be in Foum Zguid, the first village after the desert. “Foum” means “mouth” so the name is the “mouth/source” of the Zguid River.
Pass By: Shop Espace Taznakht, Old Taznakht Front Mosque Neighborhood, Tazenakht 45750 Morocco
From Foum Zgide our drive goes north along paved roads and past amazing rock formations to the small town of Taznakht, famous for its Berber carpets and rugs.
Pass By: High Atlas Mountains, 40020 Morocco
From there we cross the High Atlas again to reach Marrakech at the end of the afternoon having had the best possible Saharan desert trip in Morocco.
Stop At: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
Your tour ends where you stay in Marrakech
Duration: 15 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
