Marrakesh - Exotic Moroccan Marrakesh, Gorges, Dunes and Camel Trek, Fes - 5 days

Tours from marrakesh

Exotic Moroccan Marrakesh, Gorges, Dunes and Camel Trek, Fes - 5 days

Marrakesh, Ouarzazate, Dades Gorges, Merzouga, Fes

5 days and 4 nights

All meals, accommodation, 4WD, petrol, and camel rides included

Marrakesh to Fes via the High Atlas Mountains, the Dades & Todra gorges, two nights in the large dunes of Erg Chebbi including a day trek in the desert with camels.

Book Now

Itinerary

We pick you up from your hotel or riad in Marrakesh and depart at 8am to travel into and across the High Atlas Mountains. After a spectacular drive on the Tizi-n-Tichka pass, we take a side road to the Telouet Kasbah, a superb example of Moorish architecture, which belonged to the Lords of the Atlas, the Glaoui family, and which now stands in ruins after the last Pasha fled the country following the departure of the French from The Kingdom of Morocco. From there we continue on to lunch at Ait Ben Haddou. This is the most famous Kasbah in Morocco and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Many films have been shot in Ait Ben Haddou including Gladiator, Prince of Persia and parts of the series Game of Thrones. Later we continue to Ouarzazate where we spend the night.
Departing 8am we drive from Ouarzazate to the Todra gorges travelling beside the Dades River, which separates the High Atlas and Low Atlas mountains. Stopping at the picturesque Oasis of Skoura and visiting the stunning Kasbah Amridil. From here we travel through Kela’a M’gouna, the Valley of Roses, where the roses are distilled to produce oils, lotions and creams found on sale throughout the country. From there the next place to visit is the Dades Valley with its green gardens along the river and amazing rock formations where we stop for lunch and the afternoon of either relaxing or walking along the river valley. You will spend the night in a berber guesthouse.
After breakfast, continue to the next gorge of Todra where we will stop for some sight seeing of this narrow and steep sided gorge. We then continue onto Tinjdad, and the Oasis of Tafilalet where we stop to go down into the fascinating underground water channels deep below the earth, always cool and preventing the evaporation of this priceless source of irrigation. Lunch will be in a Berber village along the way. In Erfoud, famous for its Date Festival, you can stop to see the workings of thousands of fossils made into all sorts of artifacts. We then continue onto our bivouac at the Erg Chebbi dunes. In the afternoon after a welcoming glass of tea, watch the stunning sunset against the high dunes (250m) and afterwards there is dinner and the night in a nomad tent at the foot of the dunes.
After breakfast, you will have a days camel trekking tour into the sand dunes of Erg Chebbi. You will have an option of either riding or walking. Your camel guides will prepare and cook your lunch out in the dunes. After lunch is the return trek to the bivouac for dinner and the night.
After breakfast, we travel through Rissani, Erfoud and Er Rachidia a garrison town. Lunch is in Midelt, which is called “the apple capital”, in the high plains between the Middle Atlas and High Atlas mountain ranges. We then travel to Azrou, where you can see Barbary apes in the cedar forest of the Middle Atlas. We reach Fes in the early evening.