3-day Tour from Fez to the Merzouga desert
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3-day tour from Fes to Merzouga, including a visit to the desert, a camel ride, and an overnight stay in a nomad camp in the Merzouga desert.
Main information:
- Duration: 3 days / 2 nights
- Departure: 08:00 am
- Departure location: Fes
- End location: Fes
Highlights of our trip:
- DAY 1: FEZ – IFRANE – AZROU – MIDELT – MERZOUGA
- DAY 2: MERZOUGA – KHAMLIA – NOMAD VILLAGES – ERG CHEBBI
- DAY 3: MERZOUGA – MIDDLE ATLAS – FES – 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 Fes.
Travel plan
Early departure from Fez to 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 towards the Erg Chebbi sand dunes. Free afternoon to enjoy the Berber town, its people and the dunes.
Once at the accommodation, you will have dinner and spend the night in a hotel at the foot of the dunes to recharge your batteries for the next day.
You will wake up early to see the sunrise. At noon we will visit a nomadic family. In the shade of a tree, you will see how Berber pizza is made and then you will taste it.
After lunch you will rest for a while and then we will take a tour through the desert. We will tour one of the tracks used in the Paris-Dakkar Rally in 4×4; and we will visit the town of Khamlia (town of the Blacks) where we will attend a Gnawa music concert performed by a group of black Berbers originally from Sudan and sub-Saharan Africa, the Mifiss mines and we will meet the Berber nomads of the desert.
At the end of the day, 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, we will return to different places in the Middle Atlas, visit the Berber landscapes and villages through the mountains and stop for lunch on the way until our arrival in Fez.
Free afternoon until the indicated time of your flight and transfer to the airport.
Completion of the tour and the service provided.
