Marrakech Trip Overview
If you’re thinking only about money you can find two exhausted and meaningless days’ journey to the desert but if you want to escape, indulge and explore the real desert and real local experience join our MSITravels Morocco cultural excursion to see the extraordinary hidden aspect of to the largest Sahara in Morocco
Through this excursion you’ll experience one of the most amazing adventure. you’ll be driven via the Atlas Mountains the North Africa’s greatest mountain range, and on the other side of it you plunge south east into the 125km belt of date-palm oasis that eventually merges into the Sahara near M’hamid, worm where you’re going to drive 60km on the dunes to get to Erg Chigaga where you’ll surely choose to drift off to sleep while watching the twinkling stars in mid of an awesome stretch of golden sand sea after dinner. 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
Additional Info
* Duration: 4 days
* Starts: Marrakech, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
If you’re thinking only about money you can find two exhausted and meaningless days’ journey to the desert but if you want to escape, indulge and explore the real desert and real local experience join our MSITravels Morocco cultural excursion to see the extraordinary hidden aspect of to the largest Sahara in Morocco
Through this excursion you’ll experience one of the most amazing adventure. you’ll be driven via the Atlas Mountains the North Africa’s greatest mountain range, and on the other side of it you plunge south east into the 125km belt of date-palm oasis that eventually merges into the Sahara near M’hamid, worm where you’re going to drive 60km on the dunes to get to Erg Chigaga where you’ll surely choose to drift off to sleep while watching the twinkling stars in mid of an awesome stretch of golden sand sea after dinner. 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
Itinerary
Day 1: Marrakech – Talouate – Ait Benhaddou – Ouarzazate – Agdez – Zagora
Stop At: Atlas Mountains
From Marrakech we jump-off to some of Morocco’s most stunning landscapes, set against the soaring peaks of the Atlas Mountains. We drive along craggy cliff tops to tiny Berber villages in the North Africa’s highest mountain range. As long as we drive towards Ait Benhadou we drive over the Tizi n’Tichka pass (2260m/7400ft) to the splendid Glaoui Kasbah in Talouat and the lush green Ounilla Valley all the way to Ait Benhadou, the UNESCO-protected red mud-brick Ksar from the 11th century, where we offer a home-cooked meal experience with a local family.
Duration: 2 minutes
Pass By: Draa Valley, Zagora 45600 Morocco
While the more scenic route takes you to « Ouallywood » movie studio and the sprawling Taourirt Kasbah. You descend into the Drâa Valley, a 125km belt of palm trees oasis that eventually merges into the Sahara near M’hamid, At Agdez, a classic caravanserai oasis with a still-pristine palmeraie, 17th century ancient mud-brick Kasbah and a secret desert prison then you get to a star attraction of the Drâa valley, Tamnougalt a 16th century fortified Ksar that perched on a hill 6km south of Agdez. Arriving to Zagora.
Meals included:
• Lunch: Today MSITravels offers a local healthy home-cooked meal, prepared for hours with love and spices with a local family
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at an authentic Kasbah-style hotel, cleverly combining traditional Moroccan color, textures and fabrics.
Day 2: Zagora – Tamegroute – M’hamid El Ghizlane -Erg Chigaga Desert
Stop At: Tamegroute, Morocco
Today, we head to Morocco’s wildest desert via Tamegroute, an unusual place that was once the most important settlement in the Valley of Draa with its green pottery. 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: 1 hour
Stop At: Atmospher Erg Chigaga, M’Hamid El Ghizlane, M’Hamid Morocco
Leave Temegroute through a dauntingly bleak landscape of sun-scorched rubble to the end of paved road of M’hamid El-Ghizlane to begin you off-road journey to Erg Chigaga where you’ll surely choose to drift off to sleep while watching the twinkling stars in mid of an awesome stretch of golden sand sea after dinner.
Duration: 12 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: Today MSITravels offers a local healthy home-cooked meal, prepared for hours with love and spices with a local family.
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a Bedouin style tent under the twinkling stars in the heart of the Sahara
Day 3: Erg Chigaga – Foum Zguid – Taznakht – Taliouine
Pass By: Foum Zguid, Foum Zguid, Guelmim-Oued Noun
just before becoming a glowing ball of fire. You exit Erg Chigaga heading north to Taliouine 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. Then we head to the struggling village of Taliouine and the African Centre of l’orrouge (red gold) or saffron, the most expensive spice
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at an authentic Kasbah-style hotel, cleverly combining traditional Moroccan color, textures and fabrics.
Day 4: Taliouine – Taroudant- Tizi n’Test – Marrakech
Stop At: Taroudant, Taroudant, Souss-Massa
From Taliouine to Marrakech via Taroudant that is considered to be one of the most elegant purely Berber towns of Morocco with its majestic, tawny-brown and honey-gold circuit of 7km walls. While you stroll and linger around, note the distinctive, highly beautiful blue veils that many of older local ladies put on.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Atlas Mountains
Later on you will be driven via the road that blasted through the high Atlas Mountain by the French in the late 1920s and famed by Tizi n’Test that offer one of the best panoramic drives in morocco. Heading north to Marrakech we will stop over for Tinmal village to visit the 1156-year mosque.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
