3 Days Sahara Desert Tour – From Fes to Marrakech
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3 Days
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3 Days Sahara Desert Tour – From Fes to Marrakech
A 3-days Sahara Desert tour from Fes to Marrakech typically follows a fascinating route through some of Morocco’s most iconic landscapes:
Overview:
- Departure from Fes: Your tour will starts early in the morning from Fes. Our driver will pick you up from your Hotel and start the tour.
- Merzouga: Arrive in Merzouga, a village on the edge of the Sahara Desert known for its towering sand dunes.
- Camel Trek: In the late afternoon or early evening. Enjoy a camel trek into the desert to reach your desert camp.
- Desert Camp: Spend the night in a traditional Berber desert camp. Enjoy a delicious dinner under the stars, and experience Berber music around a campfire.
- Sunrise: Wake up early to witness the mesmerizing sunrise over the dunes.
- Todgha Gorges: Drive through the stunning Todgha Gorges, known for their towering rock walls popular with climbers.
- Dades Gorges: Continue to Dades Gorges, famous for its breathtaking landscapes and winding roads.
- Ouarzazate: Visit Ouarzazate, known as the gateway to the Sahara Desert. And as a home to the famous Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou (a UNESCO World Heritage site).
- Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou: Explore the impressive Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou. A fortified village used as a backdrop for many Hollywood movies.
- High Atlas Mountains: Cross the High Atlas Mountains, enjoying stunning views and possibly stopping at Tizi n’Tichka pass.
Included/Excluded
- Hotel Pick up and drop off
- Air Conditioned private Transport
- Driver speaking English, French and Spanish
- Night in Berber Camp in Sahara
- 2 X Dinners
- 2 X breakfast
- Camel Ride in Sahara
- 1 X night accommodation in Dades
- Lunch, Drinks, Tips and Extras
- Entrance Fees
Tour Plan
Fez – Ifran – Ceder Forest – Ziz Valley – Sahara Desert of Merzouga.
After breakfast, you will leave Fes travelling towards Merzouga Desert via Midelt and the Ziz valley. Today you will travel via the Ifrane city, a beautiful mountain village, named the Switzerland of Morocco.
During this journey you’ll experience glimpses of the Middle Atlas and Higher Atlas mountains and stopping at the middle of the famous cedar forest – the largest one in Morocco – where you will have the opportunity to see the Barbary apes.
Your journey continues to Midelt along the magnificent hills and mountains of the Atlas. After lunch in Midelt, you’ll be travelling through the fascinating Tiz Ntalghamt pass and the spectacular Ziz Gorge, taking in views of the High Atlas plateau, seeing how the scenery changes to reveal hints of the desert as you approach the province of the south-east Errachidia city.
Afterwards, you’ll travel along the fantastic Ziz Valley, stopping for panoramic views along the way to Erfoud and Rissani. Arriving in Merzouga in the afternoon where you will take camel ride in the dunes of Sahara Desert of Merzouga to reach the camp where you will have the night.
Overnight at the camp inside Sahara Desert Sand Dunes.
Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Valley.
Today you will have to wake up very early in the morning to see what will may be the best sunrise of your life. You will set over the Sand Dunes of Sahara of Erg Chebbi to watch wonderful sunrise. After watching the sunrise you will go down to the Camp for breakfast. Then you’ll peacefully camel-trek back to the village of Merzouga. While enjoying morning camel ride you couldn’t fail to appreciate the unique beauty of the spectacular Erg Chebbi sand dunes – changing with the light as the day progresses.
Once you arrive the village of Merzouga, you will meet the driver again to continue the tour to Dades. You will have optional stop in Rissani to visit the Mausoleum of Moulay Ali chref, the founder of the Alaouit dynasty, and then you will continue to Arfoud to visit the fossilized marble factory before continuing to the Todra valley, where you will have lunch.
Once in Todra you can highlight a half-hour walk to see the gorges. Todra gorges is the highest, narrowest gorges in Morocco. The Todra River has formed a gorge of enormous vertical walls of great beauty; it is a climber’s paradise and a unique place.
In the evening we will drive through the Dades Valley, where you’ll see the majestic sand castles and the amazing rock formations known as “monkey toes”. Overnight accommodation will be in a fancy guest house overlooking the Dades Valley.
Dades Valley- Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Hadou – Marrakech.
After breakfast in your accommodation, you will start travelling through the Dades Valley towards Ouarzazate and then to Marrakech.
The road through Dades Valley is called the way of the thousand Kasbahs – providing numerous opportunities to take some of your best photographic shots of the trip.
You will stop at Kalaat M’Gouna -the centre of rose’s valley-, where you will have the option to visit the cooperative for the roses, to purchase the rosewater, which will make your linen smell good a long time after your trip is over.
Continue to Marrakech via the Ait Benhaddou Kasbah. Built by Et Hami El Glaoui, one of the last Berber chieftains during the 19th century, now the Kasbah is a house of many Glaoui people.
Your journey will continue through the majestic Tizi n’Tichka Pass (2260 m) over the High Atlas Mountains, where you will have the opportunity to explore the process of producing the Argan oil- existing only in morocco – by Berber women in their cooperative.
End of the tour in Marrakech.
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