On this tour, you will visit the most amazing part of the desert of Morocco and you will be able to contemplate some of the most impressive and different landscapes of the country. In a comfortable 4×4 or Minivan, we will cross roads, dirt tracks, valleys, ports, gorges, dunes, and villages with history.
Visitors alongside their drivers start their trip by driving towards Kasbah Ait-Benhaddou via the highest pass in Africa Tizi N’ Tichka (Altitude 2260 m ). Ait-Benhaddou has been featured in many movies and TV shows. While enjoying the marvelous views of the giant High Atlas Mountains with the lovely Berber villages, the journey heads to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Aït Benhaddou. The latter is situated on a hill along the Ouarzazate River. Such a stunning example of southern Moroccan architecture has been used a lot as a backdrop for international famous movies. Visitors with their guide “s” pass by Ouarzazat one major Berber city in southern Morocco known as the Hollywood of Africa and by the rose valley and overnight would be spent in a hotel in the Dades Gorges.
After breakfast in the pre-stated hotel, visitors alongside drivers or guides leave the Dades gorges and head to Todra gorges Gorge via Tinghir and the lush valley of Todra where they could have a short hike along the narrow and high cliffs of Todra. Aftward, the journey continues its track to Merzouga via the dramatic stony desert and the numerous palm trees of Erfoud (capital of the fossils and best qualities of dates) and Rissani which is known for its traditional market in the south. In the afternoon visitors arrive at Merzouga desert where they get ready -accompanied of course by a camel guide - to go for an authentic camel trek experience of around 90 minutes where they could catch the sunset in the heart of the Erg Chebbi dunes and spend a memorable night with millions of shining stars, enjoy a Berber dinner, and ultimately sleeping in a traditional and well-prepared nomadic tent.
After having seen the sunrise, visitors would ride their camels going back to the point of start – hotel- for taking a shower and eat breakfast. Afterward, visitors alongside drivers take 4×4 to drive around the mystic Erg Chebbi dunes and stop for tea with a nomadic desert family and get to know their lifestyle, satisfaction and the simplest way of living. Then continue to visit “Khamlia” a small village inhabited by black people to listen to their traditional Gnawa music, then the next visit is to Rissani to bustle and bargain in its traditional Souk, visit some of the Kasbahs and Ksours – a range of fortified villages- in the area and have lunch with our family and friends. A free afternoon would take place in the desert and overnight would be spent in the hotel.
Following breakfast in the desert, the journey continues to the next pause to take photos of the colorful Ziz valley with the green palm trees, then driving is to keep on and pass by Midelt, the city that is located between the two range of the Atlas mountains and which is famous for its apples. After lunch, the journey resumes its way crossing the forest of the cedar trees in the Middle Atlas mountains where visitors could have a chance to feed the wild monkeys in their natural habitat. Afterward, visitors would continue to visit Ifran or Switzerland of Morocco as often called by Moroccans. Drop off in Fez at 6 pm approx where the tour ends.
