3-day tour from Marrakech to Fes with a journey through the Merzouga desert
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3-day tour from Marrakech to Fez 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: Marrakech
- End location: Fes
Highlights of our trip:
- DAY 1: MARRAKECH – AIT BEN HADDOU – OUARZAZATE – SKOURA – ROSE VALLEY – DADES GORGES
- DAY 2: DADES GORGES – TODRA GORGES – ERFOUD – MERZOUGA
- Day 3: MERZOUGA – MIDELT – AZROU – IFRANE – FES
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 except in Fez (breakfast included).
- Camel ride to the camp (one per person).
Not Included
- Flights.
- Beverages.
- Lunches.
- Entrance fees to museums and monuments.
- Dinner in Fez.
Travel plan
After breakfast at the Riad, we will leave for Telouet through the High Atlas mountains passing through the Tizi Ntichka pass reaching 2,260 m., we will visit the Kasbah of Pacha Glaoui and have lunch there.
In the afternoon, walk to a walled city called Ait Ben Haddou through the Ounila Valley with its Berber villages. 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 towards Ouarzazate with its magnificent film studios and its Taourirt kasbah. Afterwards, we will go to the oasis of Skoura and its Amridil kasbah. Later, the trip will continue through the Valley of Roses and then visit the family of nomads who live in caves.
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.
Después del desayuno, continuaremos hasta las Gargantas del Todra, a través del gran palmeral de Tinghir, donde destaca la agricultura, los dátiles, palmeras, etc, donde tendráa tiempo libre para pasear por los cañones de unos 300 metros de altura, el lugar favorito de los alpinistas.
Seguiremos hacia Erfoud, la ciudad de los fósiles donde podréis ver como se extraen de las canteras y se trabajan hasta darles las más variadas formas. Pararemos para almorzar y luego continuaremos hacia las dunas de arena de Erg Chebbi. Tarde libre para disfrutar del pueblo bereber, su gente y las dunas.
Al final del día, podrás cenar, escuchar el resonar de los tambores en la noche del desierto y dormir en una Jaima de un campamento nómada totalmente equipada al que llegarás mediante un paseo en camello por la dunas de Erg Chebbi, las dunas más altas del Norte África en el Sáhara.
After a shower and breakfast, we will head to Rissani, an important city of food, animals and crafts. We will visit its market, stop to take photographs and have a quiet tea.
We will continue through 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.
We will enter Midelt where we will make a short stop for lunch and continue through Azrou, a wonderful cedar forest with monkeys in freedom where there is an important craft center specialized in cedar wood work.
Finally, we will pass through Ifrane, a city known as the Swiss of Morocco with a charming ski resort until we reach our accommodation in Fez.
Free afternoon until the indicated time of your flight and transfer to the airport.
Completion of the tour and the service provided.
