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3 Days 2 Nights Desert Trip from Marrakech to Fes
3 Days 2 Nights Desert Trip from Marrakech to Fes
Overview
Our most popular 3-day, 2-night desert trip starts in Marrakech and ends in Fez. For those who prefer long journeys and are eager to have a close-up look at the Moroccan Sahara desert, this route has been designed for you. You won’t experience even the slightest bit of boredom when touring the Desert and Merzouga. The environment changes significantly. Beginning with the Atlas Mountains, oases, valleys, rocky plateaus, and the amazing Erg Chebbi sand dunes.
You’ll also pass by the middle Atlas regions including Midelt, Ifrane, Azrou and Immouzer.
You’ll see views that you’ve never seen before, scenes that are just beyond anything your wildest dreams could imagine, so make sure to bring your camera!
Day1: Marrakech – the High Atlas Mountains – Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah – Ouarzazate – Boumalne Dades
Early in the morning you will be picked up from your Marrakech lodging and taken to the High Atlas, a chain of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains.
On route, you will pause for panoramic views and to take pictures of the Berber tiny settlements that are dotted in the mountains.
After that, we travel farther south to the famed Kasbah (fortified village) of At Ben Haddou (declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986).
This magnificent set has been used to film well-known movies like Gladiator, Obelix, The Mummy, The Jewel of the Nile, and Sahara with Penelope Cruz, among others.
Lunchtime in the town at your own expense. Then we proceed to Ouarzazate, also referred to as “The Gate of the Desert”.
The Taourirt Kasbah, one of Morocco’s most impressive ksars, can be found here.
The Rose Valley, which passes through the expansive Skoura palm grove, is the next destination to see.
It’s a lovely place to admire more than 700.000 palm trees there as well as the numerous kasbahs that have been constructed nearby.
Roses are grown in this valley damascenes for the use in beauty products like the highly recommended rosewater.
Every year in May, this city hosts the Rose Festival, a significant event in Moroccan culture.
Our destination for the night is the Dades valley, where we finally arrive to check in at the hotel for dinner and night.
Day 2: Marrakech Sightseeing
Drive into the valley again after breakfast to view “the monkey toes,” an incredible rock formation, and the 19th-century Kasbah of Ait Yul, which is still standing.
We will arrive in the Todra Gorges after leaving the Dades valley and traveling toward Tinghir. The views are breathtaking along this road.
You will pass by the 300-meter-high red cliff at the Gorge, where many rock climbers come to practice their favorite sport.
Local residents can be observed in their adobe villages, where they reside.
After a brief stroll through the Todra gorges, we’ll continue on to Erfoud and Rissani, where we’ll stop for lunch before heading to Merzouga.
You will ride a camel in the afternoon under the guidance of a knowledgeable camel man to discover the mystical Erg-Chebbi sand sea.
Here, you’ll spend your first night sleeping beneath the stars. Dinner will be provided in the tent.
Also before heading to bed you will sit around the campfire and the nomads will play their favourite music with the drums, it is going to be an unforgettable experience.
Day 3: Marrakech – the High Atlas Mountains – Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah – Ouarzazate – Boumalne Dades
A must-do is to get up early in order to watch the most magnificent sunrise of your life from the top of a nearby dune.
After breakfast, we take the camels back to Merzouga and begin our journey to the north through the largest palm grove in the world, Tafilalet.
Along the 20km of route, you’ll observe a lot of palm trees. This route takes us to the Ziz valley, where a river flows into a palm grove after flowing down from the high Atlas.
Here, we pause and take in the breathtaking view of the valley and the village of Aoufous from this elevated vantage point.
We stop next in Midelt, in the middle of the Atlas Mountains. Here, you’ll have some free time to have lunch and take a break.
We proceed into the Cedar forest in the afternoon, to see some monkeys there.
Our next stop is the city of Ifrane, which is 1630 meters above sea level and located on the Middle Atlas’ northwest slope.
This city resembles a Swiss town because of its wide avenues, immaculate urban development, gardens, green spaces, and architectural style. Finally we will pass by Immouzer and arrive to Fez.
The end of our service is when we drop you off at your lodging in Fez around 7 o’clock.
