Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
This 6-day tour from Marrakech takes you through Morocco’s stunning landscapes, starting with the Atlas Mountains and Ait Ben Haddou. Enjoy the first night in the Dades Gorges, then travel to the Sahara Desert’s Erg Chebbi dunes for camel rides, sandboarding, and a night in a desert camp.
The tour includes a visit to Fes, with highlights like the Tanneries and Attarine Museum, before concluding with a visit to the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and returning to Marrakech.
Enjoy stunning views of the Atlas Mountains
Visit the UNESCO-listed Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah
Spend a night in the scenic Dades Gorges
See the breathtaking Erg Chebbi dunes
Watch a sunset over the desert sands
Take a camel ride in the Merzouga Sahara
Try sandboarding on the dunes
Camp overnight in the Merzouga Desert
Experience a traditional Berber dinner and campfire
Explore Fes with a local guide
Tour the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca
Your private 6-day tour starts with a scene of the Atlas Mountains while we snake through the 2260m high Tizi N’Tichka pass to the Unesco World Heritage site of Ait Ben Haddou, it was added to the UNESCO list since 1987, famous on the big screen for movies like Gladiator (2000) and the famous HBO series Game of Thrones (2013).
We’ll then continue to Ouarzazate known as “The Gate to Desert” to visit Atlas Film Studios and the Taourirt Kasbah located in the city and later towards the Valley of Roses, well-known for its yearly festival of roses.
Then, we’ll drive to Dades Gorges and its gorgeous canyons where we spend the first night in a traditional riad or hotel with a complimentary dinner and breakfast.
Here, we’ll visit Todra Gorge, a colorful tight canyon popular with outdoor enthusiasts. Then we’ll drive through The Ziz Valley to reach Erfoud via Tinjdad, an oasis town famous as the gate to the impressive Erg Chebbi dunes and recognized for its unique fossils and their manufacturers.
While there, we can visit a local fossils factory that produces artisans and home furniture fabricated from fossils. Then drive to the Sahara desert to reach Merzouga.
Arriving at the edge of the golden sand dunes you change the vehicle by the Desert ships, camels, to sail into the wavy desert dunes, guided by experienced guides, a date with a stop to admire one of the best sunset sceneries, as daylight decreases the sand changes color, while you enjoy sandboarding.
Arriving at well-equipped Merzouga Desert Camp where we’ll stay overnight in Berber-style tents.
This spectacular night will be rendered memorable with a unique and traditional starlit Berbere dinner topped off by tribal music (Drums) around a desert campfire.
Today will be spent exploring the Merzouga desert. You’ll get a chance to “do your own thing”, with the option of camel trekking, or exploring via the comfort of a 4×4. We’ll also visit the Khamlia village famous for its traditional music.
We will continue our 4×4 excursion to an abandoned small town called Mefes and its lead mines, this town was and still is a source of different minerals since the French colonizer.
We simply can’t miss the opportunity of appreciating a visit to a generous nomad family living behind the dunes of the Merzouga Sahara desert. Our night will be topped off in the Riad/Hotel in the Merzouga area.
After breakfast, at the hotel, we’ll drive through Rissani, and its local souk, the biggest market in the region, until we reach Midelt in the Atlas Mountains via Ziz Valley and palm groves.
There, we can stop for lunch in a local restaurant before driving to Azrou cedar forest and its Barbary Apes, before continuing to Fes where we’ll stay overnight in a local hotel.
We will visit Ifrane city, the stunning architecture, green gardens, very clean town, and perfect destination for Ski lovers due to its big Ski resort of Mishlifen. Because of its magnificent characteristics and location, Ifrane is known as the “Switzerland of Morocco”.
We’ll start the sightseeing tour with a local guide exploring the oldest city in Morocco, twisting through its roads and narrow alleys.
Fes is known as a Scientific city, and home to the oldest university in the world and consists of three distinct parts; Fes el Bali (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981).
Fes-Jdid “new Fez” is the oldest of the three with more than 8500 narrow alleys and streets supported by a high wall (home of the Jewish quarter), and the “Ville Nouvelle”, the most modern quarter of Fez built during the French occupation.
The guided sightseeing tour includes a visit to the Tanneries, the Attarine museum, and the Moulay Idriss mausoleum. You’ll visit many different cooperatives and then, experience an enjoyable picturesque scene over the entire Medina of Fes.
After finishing the tour and having lunch, we’ll drive to Casablanca. Dinner and overnight in the biggest city in Morocco in terms of population, recognized as the economical city.
Today, we visit the main attraction and monuments of Casablanca, including the Hassan II Mosque, before driving toward the red city of Marrakech where our 6-day trip from Marrakech ends by dropping you at your accommodation or airport.