Morocco desert travel: 5 days from Marrakech to Desert 2024

Morocco Desert Travel  5 days from Marrakech to desert departure at 08:30 in a 4×4
Leaving Marrakech we take the road for Ouarzazate via the Tizi NTichka high mountain pass. We will see varied landscapes, pass through many small villages and terraced fields and eventually leave the main road for the track into the Ounila Valley. This fertile valley hides some wonderful secrets.

We will make a stop to visit the Kasbah Telouet, former residence of the Pasha Glaoui.

Many years of artisan craftsmanship went into this building, and even though some parts are in complete ruin, there are still other parts complete and quite beautiful.

After Telouet we visit another exceptional Kasbah, best known for its use in many movies like The Gladiator. Aït Benhaddou, still inhabited by a few Berber families is a fortified ksar and well worth exploring.We continue on to Ouarzazate,the Hollywood of Morocco, and from there we take the route of a thousand kasbahs to Kelaat M’gouna (Valley of Roses) than Dades valley ,Overnight at Hotel in dades .

Another day and lots more to discover, we leave the Dades gorges to cross the Saghro Mountains to the Draa Valley, through N’kob Oasis with beautiful barns and kasbahs and continue by an off road track to Zagora.Overnight at Hotel.

From Zagora we continue south to the Sahara Desert by the former Paris-Dakar rally route. We will stop at the foot of the highest dune Erg Chegaga. Enjoy the silence of the desert, and the beauty of nature. Watch the sunset. The night will be spent in a private bivouac tent.

After breakfast,we leave the Chegaga desert in the direction of the oasis of Foum Zguid and Imiouasif, passing very beautiful villages in Jbeln’Zourk and oases and desert landscapes on the route towards Taznakht through the pass at Tizi n Timlane. Our way back to Marrakech takes us back over the high pass at Tizi N Tichka. Overnight in a hotel./ riad.

Departure and transfer to the airport. End of our services.