Ouarzazate Marrakech Desert Tour

Overview:

Spent your time in Morocco and take a 4-day sightseeing tour from Ouarzazate to Marrakech with a visit in the Merzouga Desert. Enjoy camel rides, sandboarding, and Berber music while witnessing stunning sunsets and sunrises.

Travel in a comfortable transport, staying in two hotels and one luxury camp with most meals included. Take a 4-day trip from Ouarzazate to Marrakech via Merzouga. Explore Berber villages, Sahara Desert, Dades Gorges. Accommodations, most meals, and a camel trekking are included.

A family or friend trip means a more intimate experience.

Ouarzazate Marrakech Desert Tour

Day 1: Ouarzazate – Agdz – Merzouga.

Private trip to Merzouga desert from Ouazazate for 4 days 3 night.

This will start and ends in Ouarzazate.

The trip will start at 09:00 AM with private 4×4 vehicle transport, or minibus or minivan, depending on how many people are sharing the reservation.

Our driver guide will pick you up from your accommodation, then toward Merzouga desert to spent two nights in Merzouga desert and one in Dades gorges.

Overnight in Hotel Dar Morocco or similar. with dinner and breakfast.

Day 2: Merzouga – Tour Around – Visit Nomads – Gnawa Music – Camel Trekking – Luxury Camp.

After your breakfast and well sleep, our trip start at 10:00AM the transport will be with a private 4WD vehicle, to visit the nomads behind sand dunes of Erg Chebbi, drink tea there under nomad tents, and explore how they live.

We will do some rally over sand dunes for little time, later driver to the MiFi’s mountains where they still work mineral extraction.

Then to Khamlia village where black people live, playing Gnawa music it’s an African rhythm. after listen to the African music.

We will move to the restaurant for lunch with Berber pizza. after the lunch we will be back to the starting point of the trip, then relax a bit to start your Camel ride into the desert dunes, 1 hour riding to reach the luxury camp, Sandboard, Sunset, Dinner, Berber Music.

Day 3: Merzouga Desert – Ziz Valley – Todra Gorges – Dades Valley.

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 vilage.

Then we go to Rissani where we’ll visit the marketplace (market days: tuesday, thursday and saturday), we continue then to Erfoud then via Ziz Valley, with a stop for pictures, 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. Dinner. Hotel Ksar Sultan Dades or similar hotel of the same category.

Day 4: Dades Valley – Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Haddou – High Atlas – 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.

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, transfer to your hotel in Marrakech, End.

What’s Included:

Private Transport with Driver Guide, 2 hotels 1 Luxury Camp, Camel Ride, Sandboarding Sunset, Sunrise, Berber Music, Pick-up and drop-off, Local guide in Ait Ben Haddou, Desert Scarf, Tent with private bathroom 3 Dinners, 3 Breakfast, 1 lunch in Merzouga Desert.

Not included:
Lunches, Drinks, Extra Things.

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