8-day tour from Marrakech to the Merzouga desert

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 Haddoua 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 the 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.

After breakfast, 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 the 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 head towards N'kob for lunch and finally, we will cross the Draa Valley until we reach our accommodation in a hotel in Zagora.

Early departure to the Draa Valley, we will pass through the town of Agdez and stop by the Anti Atlas Mountains to take photographs and have lunch. We will cross Ouarzazate again until our arrival at a Riad in Marrakech where we will stay.

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.