Marrakech Trip Overview
Merzouga is a small town out on the edge of the Sahara Desert of Erg Chebbi,. Merzouga desert is the most common destination in Morocco for Camel treks and desert camps. To experience the Sahara desert dunes it is a must to take a camel trip and stay overnight in a berber tent or in a luxury camp. The camel trip takes approximately 2 hours through amazing red-orange sand dunes at sunset to reach the sahara desert camp where you will be served wonderful and rich dinner, enjoy a musical play with the staff around blazing fire.This 3 days sahara trip from marrakech to merzouga dunes ( Erg Chebbi) is Available Daily from Marrakech
Additional Info
* Duration: 3 days
* Starts: Marrakech, Morocco
* Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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Merzouga is a small town out on the edge of the Sahara Desert of Erg Chebbi,. Merzouga desert is the most common destination in Morocco for Camel treks and desert camps. To experience the Sahara desert dunes it is a must to take a camel trip and stay overnight in a berber tent or in a luxury camp. The camel trip takes approximately 2 hours through amazing red-orange sand dunes at sunset to reach the sahara desert camp where you will be served wonderful and rich dinner, enjoy a musical play with the staff around blazing fire.This 3 days sahara trip from marrakech to merzouga dunes ( Erg Chebbi) is Available Daily from Marrakech
Itinerary
Day 1: Marrakech – Ait Benhaddou – Ouarzazate – Dades Valley
Stop At: Dades Gorges, R704 Atlas Mountains, Boumalne Dades 45350 Morocco
Your 3 days Marrakech to Merzouga desert tour departure takes place in front of your hotel or riad in Marrakech towards Ouarzazate and Dades gorges, through the Tizi- N-Tichka pass (2260m) in the High Atlas Mountains. From Marrakech to Ouarzazate, you will enjoy a scenic drive, beautiful landscapes with different colours and the Berber villages along the way between Marrakech and Ouarzazate, the doorway to the Sahara desert. You will visit the UNESCO world heritage site called Ksar of “Ait Benhaddou” since 1987. This fortified village is an attractive site for tours and excursions departing from Marrakech, Ait Benhaddou Kasbah is one of many locations served as a natural sets for many movies which were shot in the area such as “Lawrence of Arabia and Jesus of Nazareth” Take a walk and cross the dried river with your guide to discover Ait Benhaddou and dominate the Kasbahs once you get to the top of the hill. Afterwards, you will head directly to Ouarzazate, another destination for tours from Marrakech to Merzouga. You will continue via the rose valley and Skoura palm grove to Dades valley and gorges where you spend the first night in a Moroccan typical hotel, located in the heart of Dades gorges in the south of Morocco. Dinner and overnight in Dades gorges hotel.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Dinner
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Kasbah Tizzarouine or similar – depending the package chosen
Day 2: Dades Gorges – Todra Gorges – Merzouga Dunes (Erg Chebbi)
Stop At: Merzouga Desert, Merzouga Morocco
After a typical Moroccan breakfast, departure from your hotel in Dades gorges at 8 a.m., taking the road of 1000 kasbahs drive around the colourful Berber villages of the Dades valley,. 45 km further, you will get to Tineghir with it’s beautiful palm grove and Jewish quarter. You continue to the gorges of Todra (Todgha), free time to go on trek along the canyons of about 300 m high, a preferred place by mountain climbers. Afterwards you will leave to Erg Chebbi dunes in Merzouga Sahara desert and you will have time for lunch on the way before you arrive to Erfoud. Once you arrive to the dunes of Erg Chebbi, you will take a camel ride for 1h30 at the sunset to get to the oasis where the camp is located. Spend the night in the bivouac in Merzouga Sahara dunes under nomadic tents or outside under shooting stars. Play drums with the camel drivers. Dinner and overnight in Merzouga Sahara desert camp
Duration: 5 hours
Meals included:
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Night In the Desert : Private Tent – Camel Ride with sunset & sunrise – Entertainment with Local
Day 3: Erg Chebbi – Tazarine – Agdez – Marrakech
Stop At: Medina of Marrakesh, Derb Fhal Zefriti n06 Derb Fhal Zefriti, Marrakech 40000 Morocco
Around 5h30 a.m, you will wake up to enjoy the sunrise over the dunes of Erg Chebbi, possibly the best moment of Merzouga desert, followed by a typical breakfast in the bivouac of Merzouga, then you will ride back the camels, to meet you driver and travel from Merzouga dunes to Marrakech via Tazarine and the Draa valley, Agdez and Ouarzazate. You will have free time for lunch on the way before you will continue to Marrakech,we will cross again the Tizi N’Tichka pass and the Berber villages between Ouarzazate and Marrakech
Duration: 9 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: In the last day during your tour we will drop you at your Hotel in Marrakech,and end our service
