4 Days from Fes to Merzouga Desert

Overview

4 Days from Fes to Marrakech Via Merzouga Desert

This 4-day journey from Fes travels through the Middle Atlas mountains to the Sahara Desert at Merzouga, where you’ll experience camel trekking, a night in a Berber desert camp, and visits to traditional villages. The route continues through the Todra Gorges and Dades Valley before arriving in Ouarzazate and crossing the High Atlas Mountains to conclude in Marrakech.

4Days
Age 15+
from Fes

Destination:	Sahara desert
Departure:	From Fes
Departure Time	7:30
Arrive Time:	18:00 to Marrakech
Included:	Modern air-conditioned 4×4 or van driven by an English-speaking driver/guide. Pick up from your hotel in Fes. Overnights at Hotels During the Tour(private room with bathroom), dinner, and breakfast Sunset camel ride in Erg Chebbi. Overnight in a Sahara desert camp in Erg Chebbi (private tent) with shared bathroom – Showers available in the morning at the camp operator’s lodge – Dinner and breakfast are included. Upgrade to luxury camping with private tent available when booking the Marrakech to Fez desert excursion (€70 per person). Drop off at your hotel in Marrakech.
Excluded:	Drinks Flights Travel Insurance Possible entry fees Possible local guides Lunches along the way

Tour Plan

This condensed 4-day tour from Fes to Marrakech journeys through the Middle Atlas mountains to the Sahara Desert for a camel trek and overnight Berber camp experience, then continues through the dramatic Todra Gorges and Dades Valley before concluding with a scenic High Atlas crossing to Marrakech after visiting Ait Ben Haddou.

From 07:00 to 17:00

Day 1: Fez – Merzouga

Departure to Merzouga via Ifrane is also known as the Switzerland of Morocco, the forest of Azrou where dentenderamos to enjoy watching the monkeys escaladan cedars and then continue via the Middle Atlas Mountains and then you will continue via the Ziz Valley and its gorges and Errachidia , you will continue to the town of Erfoud, famous for being the capital of fossils. Lledaga Merzouga, the day will be devoted to appreciate the peace of the desert. Hostel accommodation near the dunes.

From 08:00 to 17:00

Day 2: Merzouga – Erg Chebbi

After breakfast you will start the grand tour of the dunes, passing through many villages in the desert one of them is the village where clapping Khamlia where to enjoy the music of Gnawa and then continue via the desert nomads in their Tent, discover a new meaning of life … In the afternoon you will take the camels for the night in the middle of the dunes under a nomadic Bedouin tent.

07:00 to 17:00

Day 3: Erg Chebbi – Todra Gorges

We get up early to watch the beautiful sunrise and climb the dunes, then mount a camel to go back to the lodge where we will have breakfast. Continue doing the throats via Rissani where we will stop to visit some traditional markets and then continue towards the Todra Gorge. Night in the middle of the Gorges.

07:00 to 17:00

Day 4: Toudra gorges - Marrakech

After breakfast and before going to Marrakech will visit the Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou where they had recorded many films including Sahara, The Kingdom of Heaven, Gladiator and Cleopatra. and Then continue Marrakesh High Atlas Mountains via the Tizi n’Tichka. on the side of the mountains you will see Berber villages and farms. Arrive in Marrakech in the afternoon and end of the route