Our 5 Days Desert Tour from Marrakech will allow you to travel through beautiful Berber villages, Atlas mountains, 1001 Kasbahs, atlas gorges, valleys, and the breathtaking Sahara desert where you will ride camels, visit nomad families, and adventure into the golden sand dunes of Merzouga, enjoying the beautiful sunset as you’re heading towards your luxury Berber camp where you will sleep under a blanket of thousands of stars.
Marrakech Airport /Hotels
We’ll meet at 08:00 a.m. at our hotel in Marrakech and start our journey from Marrakech to Dades Valley. Across the Tizi-n-Tichka Atlas pass, with far-reaching views across the mountains, to the traditional High Atlas Berber village of Telouet and we continue to Ait Benhaddou to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ait Benhaddou, a spectacular fortified village (Ksar).
We will have lunch at Ait Benhaddou or Ouarzazate and continue to Dades valley, we will spend the night in a riad in the Dades Valley
After Breakfast at the riad. Our morning drive takes us to the Todra Gorge one of the most spectacular canyons in the world and the most popular rock climbing destination in Morocco and rising to 300 m in a narrow valley thick studded with palmers and Berber Villages.
After lunch in the gorge, get transported further into the desert to Merzouga, stops along the great sand dunes of Erg Chebbi where you will take a camel ride (about one hour ) in order to get to your desert camp. You will spend the evening in a bivouac (camp), enjoy a Berber dinner, and sleep in a traditional desert camp while watching the stars and the rising moon in the amazing Sahara desert.
After breakfast, we will go on a desert tour around the dunes. We will visit both Merzouga oasis, the nomads in tents. the village of Khamlia (black’s village), Mifiss mines, the desert plateau, and Begaa oasis. We will be back to our lodging by 3 o’clock, later back to our Desert Camp having a glass of mint tea and see the sunset on the dunes and we will spend the night in the heart of the dunes. We will sleep in a “desert camp ”. A magical night!
The morning after enjoying your breakfast we drive through Rissani market (donkeys market Rissani) and the immense Bougafer mountain. Lunch in N’Kob (first village on the way). Afternoon excursion on the one-thousand- kasbahs road (alongside the trail to enjoy the best part of Draa valley). Arriving in Ouarzazate in the late evening. Dinner and overnight stay in kasbah hotel.
After your breakfast, we will visit atlas studio Ouarzazate where they filmed various movies remaining in place, because of this, the studio also operates with guided tours and has become a popular tourist destination. then we cross the High Atlas Mountains via the highest road pass in Morocco – Tizi Tichka 2260m high, offering impressive views of valleys, mountains, and many Berber villages nearby. Arrive in Marrakech in the afternoon.
