3-Day Desert Tour Through Dades Valley & Merzouga Desert From Marrakech
Highlights
Aït Benhaddou, Dadès Gorges, Erg Chebbi, Marrakech, Merzouga, Ouarzazate, Todgha Gorge
Locations Covered
Aït Benhaddou, Dadès Gorges, Erg Chebbi, Marrakech, Merzouga, Ouarzazate, Todgha Gorge
gastronomical, camping, Desert
Group Tour
3 Days
Easy
English
Description
Embark on this tour to spend the night in nomadic styled camps after a full day of exploring the desert for Kasbahs and Berber villages. Visit the Kasbah Ait Benhaddou, a Human heritage famous site for making: Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, the kingdom of heaven. Enjoy a camel caravan ride to cross the desert and meet with nomads of the Sahara.
Itinerary
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Day 1: Marrakech-Ait ben haddou - Ouarzazate - Dades Gorges
- Embark on the four × 4 Marrakech Desert Excursions and Trips, from Marrakech to Dades Valley, across the Tizi- N-Tichka pass (2260m high) in the High Atlas Mountains. From Marrakech to Ouarzazate, you will enjoy beautiful landscapes with different colours and Berber villages along the way.
- Visit the Kasbah Ait Benhaddou, a Human heritage famous site for making: Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, the kingdom of heaven. Eat lunch near the site in a typical restaurant.
- Go further south to Ouarzazate, the gate to Sahara.
- Explore the cinema studios and Kasbah Taourirt.
- Drive eastwards to the green Dades valley and the city of roses via the fascinating Skourapalmery.
Dinner and overnight stay in Dades valley.
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Day 2: Dades Valley - Todra Gorges - Merzouga desert
- Drive through the road of 1000 kasbahs. Drive around the colourful mud Berber villages of the Dades valley for 40 minutes.
- Drive beside the volcanic range of the Sghro Anti Atlas Mountains, and we get to Todra with its beautiful palm grove and Jewish mud villages. Follow the beautiful windy road that takes us to the gorges of Todgha, walk along with the gardens into the canyons of about 400m high, rock climbers' place.
- Afterwards, drive through the stone dessert across palm valleys to Erg Chebbi dunes in the Merzouga Sahara desert.
- Have a lunch break in the middle of empty Saharan space in a restaurant and head to the Erg Chebbi, the highest Morocco dunes.
- Have afternoon tea in the middle of the dunes and enjoy the most beautiful sunset in the world of the dune in the middle of nowhere.
- Spend the night in Sahara dunes camp under nomadic tents or outside under the shooting stars. Play drums with the nomads.
Dinner and overnight in Merzouga Sahara desert.
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Day 3: Merzouga- Tazarine- Draa valley-Agdez-Marrakech
- Enjoy the dunes of Erg Chebbi at 20 km away from Algeria.
- Eat breakfast in the camp and ride back to the dunes.
- Afterwards, drive across acacia tree savannas along the black stone desert, with toilet and drinks break in Alnifa small Saharan town in the southeast of Morocco.
- Drive to Draa valley, the longest and most preserved palm valley of Morocco, famous for being the Jewish center for 1000 years.
- Reach Agdez dates market used for the caravan Crossroads for nomadic Berber tribes, and then we head north to Ouarzazate after crossing the Anti-Atlas Mountains.
- Continue to Marrakech by Tizi n Tichka pass.
Overnight in Marrakech after a long day's drive.
What's Included
What's Excluded
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Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
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This is a group tour |