4 DAYS DESERT TOUR FROM MARRAKECH TO FES – TRAVEL

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Duration

4 days

Tour from

Marrakech

end in

Fes

Itinirary

Overview

This tour of 4 days from Marrakech will take you on an enjoyable experience in Morocco. You will travel from Fes to Marrakech. First, you will discover the Medina of Fes and make an excursion day to the blue city of Chefchaoune. Then, via the Atlas Mountains road, you will cross over the largest forest in North Africa, the Cedar forest in Azrou, and you will reach the famous sand dunes Erg Chebbi in the Merzouga desert. Also, you will spend one night in a camp before you leave for Ouarzazate the next day passing over the impressive gorges of Todgha. You will explore the fortified Kasbah of Ait ben Haddou before your tour end in the red city of Marrakech.

Highlights 

  • Admire the Koutoubia Minaret in Marrakech.
  • Take pictures in the beautiful cedar forest of Azrou.
  • Enjoy the sunrise, sunset, camel trek, and starry sky in the famous Erg Chebbi dunes in Merzouga.
  • Explore the Karouine Mosque in Fes.

DAY 1: MARRAKECH – HIGH ATLAS MOUNTAINS – DADES VALLEY:

Departure from Marrakech via the Tichka pass at 2260m altitude, visit the Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou, Lunch in Ouarzazate, and visit the film studios and the Kasbah (if there is still time to do so), you will cross the magnificent oasis of Skoura, Kalaat M’gouna then the valley of roses to reach the gorges of Dades, you will spend a night there at the hotel.

DAY 2: DADES VALLEY – TINJDAD – ERFOUD – MERZOUGA DESERT:

On that day of our tour from Marrakech to Fes, we will drive in the morning to go even further in the desert to Merzouga, on the road you will visit the valley of the thousand Kasbah, Tinghir, Gorges de Todra, Erfoud, Rissani, and the magnificent oasis of Tafilalte, to finally reach Erg Chebbi in Merzouga.
You will take a camel ride to admire the sunset and then join the bivouac where you will spend the night under the clear sky and full of stars.

DAY 3: EXPLORING THE SAHARA DESERT MERZOUGA:

After a shower and breakfast in the desert camp, you’ll start your camel trek back to the departure point to meet your driver and begin a discovery tour of the Merzouga area.
Not far off, there’s a village almost all of its habitant are dark skin people, originally from Sub-Saharian countries to experience their Gnawa music and lifestyle. On the way to a nomad family, we will stop in a small deserted town of Mefes and its lead mines and minerals. Dinner will be served in the hotel where you will spend the night.
Don’t hesitate to contact us to customize a 4 days tour from Marrakech to Fes.

DAY 4: MERZOUGA – ZIZ VALLEY – MIDELT – AZROU – IFRANE  – FES:

We will wake you up early in the morning to watch one of the top world-rated sunrise embedded in your mind.
After breakfast in the camp, we will make our way to Fes through Ziz valley, the first Erfoud known for its fossils. Then, the Ziz Gorges provide a rocky passage and the Oued Ziz brings Tafilalt oases. Passing by Errachidia (you’ll have lunch and enjoy Berber Hospitality beyond borders), Our trip continues alongside the trailing edge of the Cedar Forest to – Azrou – which in the local Berber means “rock,-located up a steep hill of cedar forests inhabited by endangered Barbary Apes.
The Next stop is Ifrane a Tidy, ordered, and modern city, that feels more like Switzerland relocated to the Middle Atlas. In the late afternoon, you will be driven to Fes, where we will end this 4-day tour from Marrakech to Fes via the Merzouga desert.

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INCLUDED

  • Transport in 4×4 or minibus
    Driver
  • Fuel
  • Transfers from the airport and back
  • Camel trekking
  • Night in a luxury camp with dinner and breakfast

NOT INCLUDED

  • Midday meal
  • Drinks
  • Entrance fees
  • Gratuities and what is not in the program
  • Flight tickets

 IMPORTANT NOTE

In all the routes of our site, you can modify the circuits and the category of the hotels. The price depends on the number of people and days of the tour.

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