5 Days journey from Fez to the Sahara Desert 

Day 1: Fez – Midelt – Toudra Gorge

You start your tour with the Morocco4X4 team, depart Fez for the Todra Gorge via Ifrane and the cedar forests of Azrou, home to wild monkeys. This will be an excellent opportunity to take pictures for souvenirs. Lunch in Zaida, a small Berber village. Continue your journey through the Atlas Mountains, enjoying the Midelt landscape, until you reach the small town of Rich. Here you turn right and pass through the famous village of Imilchil before arriving at the Toudra Gorge around the afternoon.

Day 2: Todra Gorge – Merzouga (desert)

The next day of your tour, you depart Todra Gorge for the Merzouga desert. The road is dotted with Berber villages along the way. We can have many stops. After passing through Tinajdad, Jorf, and Erfoud and hearing the beginning of the Tafilalet Oasis in the Sahara Desert, we will continue to Merzouga, where we will spend the night in a traditional Merzouga hotel.

Day 3: Merzouga – visit nomadic villages – camel rides and overnight camping in the Erg Chebbi Desert

After breakfast and shower at the hotel, hike to Erg Chebbi, visit a Berber family and listen to Gunawa music from Ghana and Sudan. Visit an abandoned mine, Berber nomads, and a palm tree oasis. Return to Merzouga around midday. After lunch and a rest, we head to the camels waiting for 1h3omin in the dunes. We spend the night at camp with music drums in the middle of the Sahara. Once you arrive at camp, you will have the perfect opportunity to take panoramic sunset and sunrise pictures. We will go to the high dunes to watch the sunset and spend the night under the starry sky.

Day 4: Merzouga – Midelt

After watching the sunrise on camels in Merzouga, we take a shower and have breakfast before setting off on our journey to Midelt. Visit the bazaar of Rissani (big souk) and cross the Ziz Valley and the Middle Atlas Mountains to reach Midelt. Spend the night at one of the hotels.

Day 5: Midelt – Azrou (Cedar forest) – Fez

After breakfast in the morning, depart Middelt and cross the cedar forests of Azrou, stopping to feed the monkeys and take pictures. Passing through Ifrane, the ‘Switzerland of Morocco’, you will arrive in Fez in the early afternoon.