4 Days TOUR from MARRAKECH – Back to Marrakech
MARRAKECH
KASBAH-AIT-BEN-HADDOU
TOUDRA GORGES
Desert Morocco
DAY 1: MARRAKECH -ATLAS MOUNTAINS – AIT BEN HADDOU KASBAH – TO OUARZAZATE – DADES GORGES:
Around 8 am as agreed before. Our team will be waiting for you at the lobby of your hotel. They meet you there and pick you up to show you around some Southeast parts of our beautiful country. Crossing the highest road in Morocco, the Tizi n Ticha pass in the High Atlas mountains. We stop through the way for outstanding pictures of the muddy Berber villages, landscapes, nature.
In about 4 hours drive, we arrive at one of the famous sites in Morocco, the Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah, a fortified castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A place where popular movies have been filmed. Such as Gladiator, Game of Thrones, Lawrence of Arabia, and many more. Make a visit to this extraordinary site, then have lunch either there at the village of Ait Ben Haddou, or at our next stop Ouarzazate which is half an hour’s drive.
In Ouarzazate, the Hollywood of all Africa. You visit and discover the Atlas studio, the world’s largest film studio. Afterward, you drive through the road named the road of thousand of Kasbahs. To the city of roses in Morocco *Kelaat M’gouna. Here you can see the pinky flowers everywhere alongside the road during springtime, and see how people there make different products from roses.
Eventually, we arrive at Boumalne Dades, or Dades Valley, a calm town, with a beautiful green valley. You spend your first night here in a hotel or a riad with dinner included.
DAY 2: BOUMALNE DADES – TOUDRA GORGES – ERRFOUD – MERZOUGA DESERT:
After a restful night and a flavourful breakfast at your hotel. MCT team picks you up for your second day of the tour. It usually starts around 9 am. Leaving the town of Boumalne on the way to Tinghir, the city Toudra Gorge locates.
Here you visit the astonishing Canyons of Toudra Gorge, a place visited all-year-round by worldwide rock climbers for adventuring. You may be lucky to see them climbing during your visit. A place not far from where nomads still live in caves, they come with their animals “sheep, goats, donkeys” for water. Thet also take water with them for their home use. After a walk near the freshwater, you hit the road to Tinjdad town or near another village for lunch.
Next to Erfoud, a town famous for fossils, not to forget fresh dates from the large valley of Ziz crossing the town. After that, in an hour’s drive, you get to the beautiful Sahara desert of Merzouga, one of the most visited sites in Africa.
Your camel man awaits you next to dunes for lifting you by his camels to the desert camp. The camel ride takes around 1 hour and 20 minutes including an amazing stop for an incredible sunset at the top of a high dune in the middle of the desert. Your camel guide will take several memorable pictures for you along the ride.
Arriving at the well-equipped camp, you will be welcomed with Moroccan tea and some cookies by the camp workers. In an hour, the working staff serve you a delicious dinner, then they make a fire outside the camp under a sky full of stars, where they will be playing Berber and African music, while you enjoy and dance around the fire.
Overnight at the camp.
DAY 3: MERZOUGA – RISSANI – NKOUB – AIT SAOUEN PASS – OUARZAZATE :
Life is getting up an hour early to live an hour more, but only on this day in the desert. For witnessing one that may be the best sunrises in your whole life, we always advise you to wake up early. After a tasty breakfast at the camp. There are two optional ways to get back to the village of Merzouga for recommencing our trip. Either by camels or by a 4×4 vehicle.
We depart the pretty desert to Rissani town. The closest town to the Erg Chebbi. With the legendary history between the 14th and 18th centuries. You explore the largest Souk/market in the area, mainly sheep and cattle market.
Then, continue your way to Alnif, and Tazarin to N’Koub for lunch. Afterward to Ouarzazate city along the Anti-Atlas mountains. Here in Ouarzazate city, you spend your night in a hotel or riad with dinner included.
DAY 4: AIT BEN HADDOU/TELOUAT KASBAHS – HIGH ATLAS MOUNTAINS – MARRAKECH:
Today’s program is as the following: After a peaceful night at your hotel in Ouarzazate city, it’s time to leave it behind, and direct to our next target, which is Marrakech. On the way, we will pass via Ait Ben Haddou village before you get and explore the Telouat Kasbah or Glaoui Palace, an abandoned castle, built starting from 1860.
Lunch will be either in Telouat town or later on in the High Atlas mountains. You cross Tichka pass, with beautiful landscapes, nature, and muddy Berber small villages over the road.
Get to Marrakech in the late afternoon, then our driver/guide drops you off at your chosen accommodation. Your four-day trip comes to an end.
Included In This Tour:
✓ Private tour in a comfortable A/C vehicle
✓ Private driver/guide during the trip.
✓ Pick up / drop off from Hotel/Riad.
✓ Accommodation in Boumalne Dades and Ouarzazate hotels during the tour.
✓ Sleeping in the desert camp.
✓ Camel Trek in the desert.
✓ 3 Dinners and 3 breakfasts.
Not Included In This Tour:
✗ Plane ticket to and from Morocco.
✗ Lunches and drinks during the tour.
✗ Entrance fees to museums and attractions.
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