Rabat Desert Trip

The highlight: Of Your Private 6 Days Trip from Rabat to Merzouga Desert Via Marrakech,

Start in Rabat and end in Rabat. You will visit during your trip the places below and more…

Rabat: Pick up from your hotel or riad or airport in Rabat. Visit: Hassan Tower, Kasbah des Oudaias.

Meknes: Bab Mansour Gate, The Roman Ruins of Volubilis, Moulay Idriss.  

Fez: You have a tour with a local guide.  

To Merzouga: Cedar Forest, Ziz valley, Rissani Market.

In Merzouga Desert: Camel ride, Sand boarding, Berber Music, Sunset, Sunrise, Of course Overnight in Luxury Desert Camp,

To Dades Gorges: Erfoud Fossil Museum, Todra Gorges. 

To Marrakech: Ouarzazate, Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou, Cinema Studio in Ouarzazate, Taourirt Kasbah. 

Marrakech To Rabat Drop-off at Airport or hotel or riad end of our service.

6 Days Private Trip from Rabat to Merzouga Dunes, via several cities, a lot of interesting places and back to Rabat. Private transport, Driver guide, Hotels, 2 Dinners and 6 Breakfasts. Local guide in Fes.

Day 1: Rabat- Meknes – Fes.

Pick up from the airport or your accommodation in Rabat. Please send us your arrival information. So, our driver guide will find you with a sign with your name. Overnight at Riad Dilar or similar.  

Day 2: Fez – Fez.

You have a tour with a local guide. Overnight at Riad Dilar or similar.

Day 3: Fes – Merzouga.

Depart Fes for Merzouga over the Middle Atlas Mountains through the cedar forests of Ifrane (the Switzerland of Morocco), azrou, Midelt and crossing the Ziz Valley and its gorges towards Sahara. Merzouga.
relax a bit then ride the camels into the sand dunes of Erg Chebbi, 1 hour of riding you will reach the camp, Sand boarding, Sunset, Dinner, Berber Music.

Overnight at the Luxury Camp.

Day 4: Merzouga – Dades Gorges.

After Woke up for sunrise in dunes near the camp, you come back to the camp for breakfast then you ride back the camels to Merzouga village, Our Rabat Desert Trip will continue to the city of Rissani where we’ll visit the market place (market days: tuesday, thursday and saturday), we continue then to Erfoud where we can visit the manufactures of fossilized marble before starting our way to Touroug and Tinjdad palm groves.

One hour later we’ll reach one of the best places of the High Atlas, the Todra Gorges.

The course of the river has carved out cliff-sided canyon and it’s because of its beauty and the high rock sides that’s very popular among climbers. Free time to have lunch in this wonderful place.

A short walk through the gorges is very advisable to better appreciate the beauty of the landscape. In the afternoon we continue to Boumalne Dades. Overnight in Berber hotel with dinner and breakfast.

Day 5: Dades Gorges – Marrakech.

After breakfast we can enjoy one of the better views of the Dades valley from one strategic look out in the mountains, from there we can appreciate the great number of kasbahs and the scenic characteristics of each one. After some stops to enjoy the “One thousand kasbahs road”.

the Roses Valley and the big Skoura palm grove we’ll get to Ouarzazate to visit the Kasbah of Taourirt, old residence of the Glaoui or Marrakech pasha, then cinema studio in Ouarzazate.

Our Rabat Desert Trip we will stop at ksar (fortified village) of Ait Ben Haddou where we will visit the famous Kasbah (declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986). Famous films have been shot in this spectacular stage, including Gladiator, The Mummy, The Jewel of the Nile, Free time for lunch in town.

In the afternoon we start our way to Marrakech going through the mountain port of Tizi Ntichka. We’ll get to Marrakech about 6pm, arrive to a traditional riad in Marrakech. with breakfast included.

Day 6: Marrakech – Casablanca – Rabat. Pick up from your hotel after your breakfast toward Rabat Airport or your hotel, via Casablanca we will have a stop in Gran Mosque Hassan II for a visit. then we continue to Rabat.

The way will take with a Mosque stop around 5 hours and half. 

Rabat Desert Trip