6 days Marrakech Merzouga desert trip

Day 1: Arrive at Marrakech airport

6 days Marrakech Merzouga desert trip departure: Our driver will come to pick you up from the airport, then drive to your accommodation in Marrakech.

Marrakech to Merzouga desert tour

Day 2: Marrakech sightseeing (cultural tour with local guide)

After breakfast in the riad, you will start exploring Marrakech “the Red City of Morocco”. Your guide will ensure that you see most of the sites with historical and cultural interest – including the famous Jemaa El Fna square, the Koutoubia Mosque, the Saadian tombs; the Palace of Bahia and the Ben Youssef Coranic School. Lunch at a restaurant near the square, then in the afternoon visit the Majorelle Gardens, and have a short visit to the new city of Marrakech. Overnight accommodation will be at the same riad.

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DAY 3: Marrakech – Ait Benhaddou – Ouarzazate – Rose Valley – Dades Gorges

Excursion Desert Tours guide will pick you up from your Hotel/riad in Marrakech at 8:00 a.m, our 3 days Marrakesh Fes tour will take us over the heart of high Atlas Mountains and Tizi n’Tichka Pass (2260m). We’ll stop to enjoy the beautiful landscapes of the mountains and the special Berber Villages on the way. Once, we cross the mountains we get to the gate of desert, the oldest and famous Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou – A Unesco World Heritage Site used as a backdrop for more than 20 films (Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, Games of Thrones…We will stop for lunch, then visit this old mud kasbah. Then we will travel through the city of Ouarzazate (Hollywood of Africa) – with biggest cinema studios – after then, we continue south to the Valley of Roses where around 400 tons of rose petals are picked every year and sent to be processed into rose water,which we called it also as the distillation of roses in order to produce the creams and perfumes. Later, we will drive all along the road of thousand kasbahs before arriving at Dades Valley, overnight in a hotel /riad overlooking the Valley.

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DAY 4: Dades Gorges – Todra Gorges – Erfoud – Merzouga – Sahara Desert

Today after breakfast in the hotel/riad and we will set off to Todra valley: a green fertile valley surrounded by old mud villages, then we drive around 14 km, we get to Todra gorges: a canyon rising to 500m in a valley dotted with Palm trees and Berber Villages. After lunch in the gorge, we will drive to the Desert (Erg chebbi) passing by an old underground irrigation system (Khettarat), which is a system that help people to water their farms. We will continue towards south, We reach Sahara desert where your camels are waiting to give you a ride crossing the golden dunes. The final stop will be at the camel place where we are going to ride them and spend an overnight in the nomadic tent and enjoy the company of a band playing Berber music under the stars in the heart of the desert/ Sahara, This a beautiful experience that you might need to film. the desert/ Sahara.

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DAY 5: Dades Gorges – Todra Gorges – Erfoud – Merzouga – Sahara Desert

Your camel guides will weak you up in the early morning to experience the magic and best sunrise among the dunes which will be the fabulous one in your life. After that you will go back by camel to the riad/hotel in order to take shower and having a traditional breakfast. Later on, we will start our journey towards the city of Ouarzazat (the Hollywood of Africa) and have some stops on the unique panoramic views among the Anti-Atlas Mountains. We will pass through many villages of different Berber tribes. The main stop will take us place in daraa valley You will wake up early to experience an amazing sunrise in the top of the big sand dunes, then, which is the largest and longest valley full of the palm trees, it considered also as the main source of the date the county. After lunch in a traditional restaurant we will drive directly to Ouarzazat where our riad accommodation take place.

6 days Marrakech Merzouga desert trip

Day 6: Ouarzazate – High atlas- Marrakech

After breakfast in the riad, we will set off for Marrakech over the high Atlas Mountains. Arrival at Marrakech where our private tour comes to the end.

 

Note: Please contact us for any tour reservation, our team will get back in touch with you as soon as possible. Thank you.

Includes list:

Free pick up from Airport is “Optional”

Private 4×4 vehicle/minibus

Several languages speaking driver

Tour guide “Optional”

Accommodation including “Bed, dinner and breakfast”

Camel trekking in Merzouga dunes

1 night in a desert camp including “Bed, dinner and breakfast”

Free pick up to the airport “just if your departure is the same day as the tour finishes or the next day”

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