Overview
This trip offers a lot of sights and avtivities to do starting from Marrakech passing by the Atlas Mountains, enjoying the valleys and gorges and ending in the golden Sand dunes of “Erg Chabbi” in Merzouga
Included/Excluded
- Transportation A/C Van
- English Speaking Tour guide
- First Night in hotel with diner & breakfast
- Second Night in luxury camp with diner & breakfast
- Third Night in a hotel whith dinner & breakfast
- Camel Ride
- Lunchs & Drinks
- Personal expenses
- Tips
Tour Plan
Day 1 : Marrakech - Atlas Mountains - Ouarzazate
Our desert trip starts from Marrakech at 08.00 AM we travel towards Ouarzazat, driving 200 km through the high Atlas Mountains where you will see beautiful landscapes and many authentic Berber villages. Our first big stop will be in ‘Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah’ a 16th century fortified village and a UNESCO world heritage site. Many big movies have been shot there, (Lawrence of Arabia, The Mummy, Gladiator, and Prince of Persia… Game of thrones). We visit the fortress and have lunch there before travelling on to Ouarzazat, the capital city of cinéma in Africa, sightseeing to the city; we stop for the night in nice hotel there.
Day 2 : Ouarzazate - Rissani - Sahara Desert
After Breakfast we drive Through Anti-Atlas towards Agdez, A visit to Draa valley (the oasis of palm trees) then we travel toward N’Kob, Tazarine then to Alnif where we will stop for lunch.
We arrive in the afternoon to Merzouga where the dunes of “Erg Echabbi” are, we take a break for an hour in a pleasant hotel and if you want you can take a swim in the swimming pool. Just two hours before sunset we ride camels for one hour and half to watch the amazing sunset over sand dunes and we stop for the night in the nomad camp where we will have dinner and then the nomads will play Berber music for us around the camp fire after that we will enjoy the majestic sky full of stars
Day 3 : Sahara Desert - Toudgha Gorges - Dades Gorges
we awake early to watch the sunrise and have breakfast at the camp, then we ride camel back to the hotel in Merzouga to meet our guide and driver; get ready to travel to visit toudgha valley and its gorges, crossing Rissani and Erfoud, we arrive to dades gorges around 5 pm to visit the gorges. Afterwards, we stop for the night in a delightful hotel near the gorges.
Day 4 : Dades Gorges - Roses Valley - Marrakech
the departure will be after breakfast we drive towards the roses valley and the road of the Kasbahs a visit to the famous Glaoui Kasbah in Taourirt and Cénima studios, we have lunch there. after lunch we take our way to Marrakech crossing back to high atlas mountains we arrive there around the evening.