3-Day Desert Tour to Fez: Ouarzazate and Berber Village from Marrakech
Day 1: Marrakech – Ait Ben Haddou - Tinghir:
Your Marrakech to Fes Morocco Desert Trip depart at 07:30 AM towards Kasbah Ait Ben Hadou through Tizi-N-Tichka pass and the high Atlas Mountains. Numerous stops will be made along the way. Visit the UNESCO world heritage Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou, which was also served as a set for various Hollywood blockbusters. Lunch at leisure, then continue to Ouarzazate and visit Kasbah Taourirte, before head towards Tinghir Via Skoura and Boumalne dades along the road of 1001 Kasbah. Dinner and Overnight.
Day 2: Tinghir – Todgha Gorge - Merzouga:
After breakfast, leave Tinghir, which was a military post during the French occupation, we will deviate into a secondary road to the oasis. Feel free to walk next to the stream and watch the locals farming and herding their cattle. Your walk will end at one of the magnificent scenes of your tour: Todgha Gorge. After lunch at one of the local cafés, we continue to Rissani, which is one of the holiest towns in Morocco as the actual dynasty ruling Morocco -The Alaouites- is originated here, and its founder is buried locally.
Rissani is also famous as a starting point of the ancient caravan roads crossing the Sahara desert all the way to Tombouctou. From here, we will cross some rocky terrain all the way to Merzouga, where our camel caravan will be waiting for us. Enjoy a camel ride over Erg Chebbi dunes to watch an amazing sunset, before we return to our Sahara desert Bedouin camp, nestled in the middle of nowhere. Enjoy dinner under the stars while entertains by our local nomads hosts playing their drums all night.
Day 3: Merzouga – Midlet - Fes:
After an hour sunrise camel trek, enjoy your breakfast at the camp operator’s lodge I’m Merzouga, then you will have some time to freshen up before you say good bye to the rest of the group driving back to Marrakech and meet your new driver to Fes. After you’ve installed in your new van (max of 6 passengers), depart on a long drive to Fes crossing the Ziz Valley through Er-rachidia which is the capital of Tafilalt region, and we continue to Midelt where we will have lunch at leisure before we keep driving across the Middle Atlas Mountains with its Cedar Forests and Berber towns of Imouzzar and Ifran. We arrive at Fez late in the afternoon, your shared Marrakech to Fez desert tour will end with a drop off at you fez hotel accommodation
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