6 days Marrakech desert trip
Duration
Tour Type
Unveiling the Wonders of Morocco on a 6-Day Marrakech Desert Trip – overview:
Tour Map
Included/Exclude
- Flights
- Lunches
- Drinks
- Admittance fees (for optional attractions such as museums and mosques)
- Transportation (4×4 SUV or minibus with air-conditioning)
- English-speaking driver/guide
- Hotel/riad overnight stays
- Breakfast & Dinner (except for breakfast on first day and dinner on last day)
- Camel trekking at Erg Chebbi
- Accommodation in traditional nomad tent
- Turbans for protection from sun and sand
- Sandboarding in The Dunes
Tour Plan
Marrakech desrt trip On this first day we Leaving Marrakech at 8:00 am and depart to Ouarzazate. We’ll cross the Atlas via the impressive Tizi n’Tichka pass, which stands at 2,260 meters.
Afterward, follow a path to explore the Pacha Glaoui Kasbah in Telouet shortly after crossing the Atlas. Passing through various berber villages we arrive to the Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou, an incredible fortified city of more than 800 years old. In her movies have been filmed as Gladiator or the Kingdom of Heaven.At the end of the visits we will go to Ouarzazate, where you can visit the movie studios.Dinner overnight at the hotel.
After breakfast we will visit the Taourirt Kasbah, we depart in the direction of Zagora crossing the mountains of the Anti Atlas and passing through the port of Tizi n Tinifift, to 1,600 meters in height.ushering in the Draa Valley by a track we will past by berbers towns and kasbahs in its interior.
Leaving behind the peoples N’kob, Tarazine and Alnif, we will take another track that crosses until you reach the Gorges of Mharech. Many of these sections are to be traversed during the Dakar Rally.Dinner and overnight in hotel.
Continuing our Marrakech desert trip along the track Cross more peoples solitary, epiphytic plants wadis (dry river beds), oasis and dunes of Ouzina.Following the route we will take the road in the direction to the Erg Chebbi, the highest dunes in Morocco .
He had lunch with nomad pizza . and we arrive at Merzouga, compared to the high dunes of Erg Chebbi. In the hotel we will leave what do not need and we expect the dromedaries for will dive into the desert, while the sun sets, until you reach the jaimas camp in the middle of the desert of high dunes, where we spend the night in the camp. Dinner and overnight in a desert camp.
Woke up early morning to see the sunrise. Shower and breakfast. and start the Erg Chebbi tour, extension of sand desert where is located the Great Dune of Morocco of more than 250 meters of altitude, connecting per track with part of the route followed by the old Paris-Dakar, with the mountains bordering Algeria of fund. Pause at the oasis of Tissardmin and proceed onward to a settlement where nomads hold the key to unlocking some secrets of her life and traditions.
Halt again at a panoramic point where visitors can take in the entirety of the Erg Chebbi desert. Take a break at Khamlia, a village founded by people originally from Mali, and unwind with a cup of tea while savoring a small concert of gnawa music. lunch and free afternoon overnight at the Hotel.
Print and take a standing shower. Afterward, we head to Rissani, the starting point of the Alawite dynasty and Morocco’s first imperial city. Then, we’ll drive towards Erfoud, known for black stone and marine fossils.
Optionally, we can visit a fossil factory. Continuing on, you’ll reach the Palmeral of Tafilalet. Explore the Roda Gorges before reaching the Dades Valley. Enjoy dinner and stay overnight at the hotel.
Last day of our Marrakech Desert trip Leaving the valley behind the activities by the route of the ‘Thousand Kasbahs’, passing through the stunning valley of the Roses and you will arrive to the palm grove of Skoura, where is the kasbah of the most famous area. From this point we will begin the path to return to Marrakesh arrival to your accommodation the end of our Marrakech desert trip services.
