This 5 Days tour from Marrakech to sahara and back to Marrakesh. Departure in the morning, heading east toward Ouarzazate via Tizi n’Tichka Pass up through the High Atlas Mountains, stopping to take some pictures along the way. You will visit the Ait Ben Haddou village to see an ancient Kasbah ranked by the UNESCO organization; it is one of the world’s top tourist attractions. Many famous movies were filmed there.
We'll keep on to Ouarzazate, where there are the largest movie studios, known as the "Hollywood of Africa." Here you can stop to have lunch (optional). Set off through Skoura, which is an extensive oasis of palm groves where a beautiful Kasbah is located called Kasbah Amridil.
Then, via Roses Valley, where the annual rose festival is held every May, in this town you’ll change directions as you take an off-the-beaten track through which you’ll appreciate the tranquility of the mountains populated by the nomads of the Atlas. On the way, you’ll keep your eyes open to see a host of mud- and brick constructed Berber villages. Overnight, I will be in the hotel.
After breakfast at your hotel, we will drive to another beautiful Gorges, It is the Todra Canyons (300 m up in the narrowest point), it´s an ideal place for walking and exploring on your own. Then go to the desert of Merzouga in our way, we will visit berber villages before we reach Merzouga Dunes . Dinner and overnight in the Kasbah hotel in Merzouga Erg Chebbi.
After your breakfast at the hotel you will take an adventure (Tour of the dunes), visiting a village where the descendants of sub-Saharan Berber slaves will entertain you with their authentic music. You will then have an opportunity to have some tea with a nomad family before moving to Rissani. Here you will taste a Berber pizza, a speciality of this town known as Medfouna. Subsequently you will go back to Merzouga to saddle up the camels and cross the ocean of the dunes. You will then get a chance to climb the dunes after sunset, then, view the bright stars above as you fall asleep in your Beber Desert camp in the middle of the famous dunes of Erg Chebbi.
You’ll wake up early to see the sunrise over the dunes then ride back by camels to the hotel where you’ll have breakfast and shower. We then keep on the trip towards the vast palm of Tafilalet through the town of Rissani (the root of the Alaouite dynasty and the ancient capital of Sultans Alaouite) Continue the way to Alnif, where you will have lunch. Keep on the road via Tazarine, N’kob and Tansihkt, from here we will go offroad on a track which crosses the Draa Valley, it would be your chance again to see the Ksours and Kasbahs, you’ll cross again another Atlas range which is the Anti Atlas. Dinner and overnight at a hotel in Ouarzazate.
After breakfast and before returning to Marrakech, you’ll visit the architectural wonder of Taourirt Kasbah in Ouarzazate. Keep on to Marrakech through the high Atlas Mountains, as on the first day. Late in the afternoon, we reach Marrakech, where the tour will come to an end.
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