4-day Tour from Marrakech to the Chegaga desert

Información turística

Duration

4 days

Type of tour

Destination

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4-day tour from Marrakech to Chegaga including a desert excursion, camel ride, and overnight stay in a nomad camp in the Erg Chegaga desert.

 

Main information:

  • Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
  • Departure: 08:00 am
  • Departure location: Marrakech
  • End location: Marrakech

Highlights of our trip:

  • DAY 1: MARRAKECH – OUARZAZATE – AGDEZ
  • DAY 2: AGDEZ – DRÂA VALLEY – ZAGORA – ERG CHEGAGA
  • DAY 3: ERG CHEGAGA – IRIKI LAKE – FOUM ZGUID – OUARZAZATE
  • DAY 4: OUARZAZATE – AIT BEN HADDOU – HIGH ATLAS – MARRAKECH

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 Marrakech (breakfast included).
  • Camel ride to the camp (one per person).

Not Included

  • Flights.
  • Beverages.
  • Lunches.
  • Entrance fees to museums and monuments.
  • Dinner in Marrakech.

Travel plan

After breakfast, we will leave Marrakech towards Telouet through the High Atlas mountains passing through the Tizi Ntichka pass reaching 2,260 m., we will visit the Kasbah of Pacha Glaoui.

We will continue to Ouarzazate with its magnificent film studios and its Taourirt kasbah, where we will have lunch.

Finally, we will arrive at the town of Agdez where dinner and our accommodation await us.

In the morning, you can visit the Alakaid Ali kasbah in Tamnougalt and then we will begin our way to Zagora through the Draa Valley with its spectacular palm grove and the largest river in Morocco, until we reach our Zagora where we will have lunch.

In the afternoon we will continue the route to the Erg Chegaga desert where you can admire the sunset over the sea of ​​dunes while taking a camel ride.

At the end of the day, you can have dinner, listen to the sound of drums in the desert night and sleep in a fully equipped nomad camp tent that you will arrive on the camel.

After a good shower and a good breakfast, we will leave from the dunes of Chegaga towards Foum Zguid passing through the nomads who live in tents, the dry lake of Iriqui and a desert setting full of acacia trees, where you will enjoy a picnic in an oasis. We will continue our trip to Ouarzazate to have dinner and stay in this magnificent place.

We will leave in the morning to visit the Tifoultoute kasbah and the film studios. 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'll have lunch right here.

Then we will cross the High Atlas and make stops to take photographs until our arrival at a Riad in Marrakech where we will stay.