Marrakech Trip Overview
Sahara desert trips to Merzouga and Fes are available everyday with hotel pick up.
Marrakech to Merzouga and Fes Tour Highlights:
• Exploring Atlas mountains
• Amazing view of Ait Benhaddou kasbah
• Family friendly tour, visit Ouarzazate
• Explore Dades and Todra Gorges
• Camel trek in Sahara desert
• Desert camp Merzouga for your family
• Explore Erfoud fossils
• Visit Midelt and Ifrane ski resort
Additional Info
* Duration: 3 days
* Starts: Marrakech, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
Sahara desert trips to Merzouga and Fes are available everyday with hotel pick up.
Marrakech to Merzouga and Fes Tour Highlights:
• Exploring Atlas mountains
• Amazing view of Ait Benhaddou kasbah
• Family friendly tour, visit Ouarzazate
• Explore Dades and Todra Gorges
• Camel trek in Sahara desert
• Desert camp Merzouga for your family
• Explore Erfoud fossils
• Visit Midelt and Ifrane ski resort
Itinerary
Day 1: Marrakech – Ait Benhaddou – Ouarzazate – Skoura – Dades
Stop At: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
We are trusted Morocco travel company and we organise private travel from Marrakech. We drive towards the High Atlas Mountains. We pass “the Tizi n’Tichka” highest mountain road pass in Morocco. We will stop to enjoy beautiful view of landscape scenery. After that we will visit an Argan oil area where we learn a little about the production process. Argan oil is famous Moroccan product for body use and also for cooking. More about Moroccan Argan oil here.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Ait Ben Haddou, Ait Ben Haddou, Souss-Massa
We continue our private Morocco tour to village of Ait Benhaddou. Here we will find famous UNESCO World Heritage kasbah. Several movies were filmed here ,such as Lawrence Of Arabia , Gladiator, Prince of Persia , Alexander, Marco Polo , The Mummy , Son of God , and many others.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Ouarzazate, Ouarzazate, Draa-Tafilalet
After we enjoy traditional Berber lunch we continue our Morocco trip to the city of Ouarzazate – inhabited by Berber-speakers. We may visit here local movie studio – Atlas Studios is one of the largest movie studios in the world. One of the city main sightseeing is also kasbah of Taourirt, in city centre of Ouarzazate.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Valley of the Roses, Dades Valley near Bouteghrar, El Kelaa M’gouna 43000 Morocco
We will explore valley of Roses.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Dades Gorges, R704 Atlas Mountains, Boumalne Dades 45350 Morocco
Then we reach Dades , we will watch the sunset view and the beautiful landscape of the Dades throat. Then we reach the local hotel for having dinner and passing night.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Dinner: Traditional dinner in comfortable hotel in Dades.
Accommodation included: Comfortable accommodation in comfortable hotel or riad in valley of Dades.
Day 2: Dades – Todgha gorge – Erfoud – Camel trek Merzouga and Night in camp
Stop At: Gargantas del Todra, Tinerhir 45800 Morocco
The second day of private Morocco tour we starts exploring Dadès Gorges and the valley. We will enjoy amazing rock formation called “The monkey fingers”. Then we drive to explore Todgha Gorge , famous and popular place for hikers.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Erfoud, Erfoud, Meknes-Tafilalet Region
Then we continue towards Tinijdad, Erfoud and Rissani. In Erfoud we may visit local fossil shop and factory as city is very famous for fossil products. We may stop in Rissani to visit local traditional souk. We continue to Sahara desert in Merzouga.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Merzouga, Merzouga, Draa-Tafilalet
Once we reach Merzouga we prepare for camel ride into the dunes. Our experienced camel guides will take us into the deep of Sahara desert and after 1 hour camel ride and enjoying sunset in desert we reach Sahara desert camp in Merzouga. You may climb to high dune to enjoy the beautiful scenery in Sahara desert and then we will have traditional Berber dinner. We will enjoy Berber music around campfire and experience our stay in Sahara desert. This is unique experience and you will be happy to take amazing desert pictures. This night we stay overnight in desert tents.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner: Dinner in Sahara desert camp , best choice.
Accommodation included: Comfortable accommodation in Sahara desert camp in Merzouga.
Day 3: Merzouga camel tour – Erfoud – Midelt – Azrou – Ifrane – Fes (end of the tour)
Stop At: Merzouga, Merzouga, Draa-Tafilalet
Our private desert tour continues and we ride camels back to Merzouga village and we enjoy amazing sunrise in Sahara desert.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Erfoud, Erfoud, Meknes-Tafilalet Region
On this day, after having attended the sunrise and had breakfast, we drive to Erfoud to explore fossils.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Midelt, Midelt, Meknes-Tafilalet Region
We cross the famous sculpted throat Ziz in volcanic rocks, continuing to Midelt, famous for minerals and apples.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Ifrane, Ifrane, Fes-Meknes
We continue to Azrou ( a Berber village in the Middle Atlas Mountains), where we will stop to see the Berber monkeys in the cedar forest. Then we continue to Ifrane where we stop to take photos.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Fes, Fes, Fes-Meknes
We arriving at your accommodation in Fez. End of the private tour.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast: Breakfast in desert camp or hotel.
Accommodation included: Optional: Contact us if you require comfortable accommodation in traditional hotel or riad. This is optional option.
