7-day tour from Marrakech to Tangier with a route through the Merzouga desert
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7-day tour from Marrakech to Tangier with a desert excursion, camel ride, and night in a nomad camp in the Merzouga desert.
Main information:
- Duration: 7 days / 6 nights
- Departure: 08:00 am
- Departure location: Marrakech
- End location: Tangier
Highlights of our trip:
- DAY 1: MARRAKECH
- DAY 2: MARRAKECH
- DAY 3: MARRAKECH – TELOUET – AIT BEN HADDOU – OUARZAZATE
- DAY 4: OUARZAZATE – VALLEY OF THE ROSES – TODRA GORGES – ERFOUD – MERZOUGA
- DAY 5: MERZOUGA – MIDELT – AZROU – IFRANE – FEZ
- DAY 6: FEZ – FEZ
- DAY 7: FEZ – CHEFCHAOUEN – TANGIER
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 Tangier and Fez (breakfast included).
- Camel ride to the camp (one per person).
- Guided tours of Marrakech and Fez.
Not Included
- Flights.
- Drinks.
- Lunches.
- Entrance fees to museums and monuments.
- Dinners in Tangier and Fes
Travel plan
Pick up at the airport and transfer to the Riad/Hotel. Rest of the day is free to visit this beautiful city.
After breakfast, you will have the opportunity to visit Marrakech with a local guide. A city full of life where there are great and interesting things to visit such as:
- Medina: with narrow streets, full of smells, feelings... leather and metal souks...
- Jamaa el Fna Square: you will find stalls selling juices, nuts... and at night, food stalls where you can enjoy typical Moroccan cuisine.
- Koutoubia Mosque: This is the most important mosque in this city.
- Bahia Palace: The construction of the palace took more than a decade, and its interior is full of majestically decorated rooms that you must see.
Finally, we will return to the Riad to stay.
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 to Ouarzazate where our accommodation at the hotel with dinner awaits us.
In the morning, we will leave from our hotel to see Ouarzazate, 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 continue to the Todra Gorges, through the large palm grove of Tinghir, where agriculture, dates, palm trees, etc. stand out, where you will have free time to walk through the canyons about 300 meters high, the favorite place of mountaineers.
We will continue towards Erfoud, the city of fossils where you can see how they are extracted from the quarries and worked into the most varied shapes. We will stop for lunch and then continue towards the Erg Chebbi sand dunes. Free afternoon to enjoy the Berber town, its people and the dunes.
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 reach by taking a camel ride through the dunes of Erg Chebbi, the highest dunes in the world. North Africa in the Sahara.
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 Fes.
After breakfast, you will visit the medina of Fez with a local guide, among other places of interest such as the universities of Bou Anania and Attarine, the Nejjarine fountain and the Karaouine mosque. The rest of the day, you can enjoy this beautiful city and try typical Moroccan dishes.
At the end of the day we will go to the Riad where you will spend the night.
In the morning, we will travel from Fez to the city of Meknes, the third imperial city of Morocco which is known as "The Versailles of Morocco" with its famous gate. You will explore Bab El Khamis and Bab El Mansour and the Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail. Later, we will go to the town of Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, which is a place of pilgrimage for Moroccans.
We will continue our way to Ouezzane through the Rif mountains, while enjoying the views and landscapes of the fertile olive plains. We will enjoy a magnificent view of Chefchaouen, a mountain town in the heart of the Rif, noted for its Andalusian architecture of whitewashed houses in white and indigo blue.
Finally, we will arrive in Tangier and you will have the day free to enjoy this wonderful international city full of movement with its beautiful coasts and the numerous markets located within the souks, until the indicated time of your flight and transfer to the airport.
Completion of the tour and the service provided.