3-day tour from Fes to Marrakech with a journey through the Merzouga desert
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3-day tour from Fez to Marrakech including a desert excursion, camel ride, and overnight stay in a nomad camp in the Merzouga desert.
Main information:
- Duration: 3 days / 2 nights
- Departure: 08:00 am
- Departure location: Fez
- End location: Marrakech
Highlights of our trip:
- DAY 1: FEZ – IFRANE – AZROU – MIDELT – MERZOUGA
- DAY 2: MERZOUGA – DADES VALLEY
- DAY 3: DADES VALLEY – ROSE VALLEY – SKOURA – OUARZAZATE – AIT BEN HADDOU –
- MARRAKECH – AIRPORT
Included
- Arrival and departure transfers from the airport.
- Private tour.
- Private vehicle with a Spanish-speaking driver.
- Fuel, tolls, and all transportation-related expenses.
- Accommodation with half board.
- Camel ride to the camp (one per person).
- Guided tour of Merzouga.
Not Included
- Flights.
- Beverages.
- Lunches.
- Entrance fees to museums and monuments.
- Dinner and accommodation in Marrakech.
Travel plan
After breakfast, we will leave for Midelt, passing through the mountains and cedar forests of the Middle Atlas. We will pass through Ifrane, a city known as the Swiss of Morocco with a charming ski resort, and Azrou, an important craft center specialized in cedar wood work. After the Zad Pass (2178m / 7146ft), we will arrive at Midelt where we will make a short stop for lunch.
In the afternoon, we will descend towards Erfoud and Errachidia through the Ziz Valley, full of palm trees and we will follow the course of the palm grove with the best dates in Morocco. In Erfoud, the city of fossils, you can see how they are extracted from the quarries and worked into the most varied shapes.
We will continue to the sand dunes of Erg Chebbi where you can have dinner, listen to the sound of drums in the desert night and sleep in a tent in a nomadic camp.
in the morning, after a good shower and a good breakfast, we will head to Dades, passing through Rissani, an important city of food, animals and crafts.
Passing through Erfoud (the capital of fossil marble), the next stop is in Tinejdad, where we will have a delicious meal. After that, we will have the opportunity to stop to enjoy a stunning panoramic view of the river.
We will continue to the Todra Gorges, through the large palm grove of Tinghir, where agriculture, dates, palm trees, etc. stand out.
Later, we will enter the Dades Valley and admire the hundreds of kasbahs scattered along the way. We will continue along the path towards the river and make a stop to enjoy it. Here you will have dinner and spend the night.
After breakfast, we will go to the oasis of Skoura and its Amridil kasbah, crossing the Valley of Roses first. Here you can see beautiful landscapes. Later, we will visit Ouarzazate, its magnificent film studios and its Taourirt kasbah.
We will continue to a walled city called Ait Ben Haddou, a World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO; where we will discover its most famous kasbah where films such as Gladiator, The Mummy and Babel among many others were filmed.
We will continue to the top of the Atlas, crossing the 2260 meter T'ichka pass. We will make stops to take photographs until our arrival at a Riad in Marrakech where we will stay.
Free afternoon until the indicated time of your flight and transfer to the airport.
Completion of the tour and the service provided.
