Morocco trip – 6 Days from Marrakech to Merzouga Desert 2024

Morocco trip to Sahara Morocco desert for 6 days Departure from Marrakech to Sahara desert via the Tizi n’Tichkahigh mountain pass(2260 m altitude). Visit the Kasbah Telouet, palace of the Glaoui, then off road to reach Kasbah Aït Benhaddou, World Heritage Site listed by UNESCO and location for the making of many films: The Mummy, Lawrence of Arabia, Asterix to name but a few. Continuation to Ouarzazate (visit film studios).Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Ouarzazate to Zagora through the Draa Valley visiting ancient kasbahs. After lunch in Zagora, we will make a visit to the village of Tamegroute where they make beautiful pottery with a distinctive green glaze. Zagora is known for its traditional and magnificent library founded in the 17th century, where manuscripts are preserved, Illuminated Koran written on gazelle skin and also books of history and medicine. The night will be at the hotel in the center Zagora.

Departure from Zagora via the off road tracks or pistes .Lunch in M´harech Oasis in the desert near the small village of Tafraoute.We continue to the oasis of Oubahallou to get Ouzaina by the end of the day. The night will be in a hostel in the Hamada which is a black desert.

From the village of Ouzina our destination is Merzouga, via Taouz to visit some rockengravings, lunch will be in Merzouga , than we will continue to Erg Chabbi dunes where start your camel riding to spend the night at the nomad camp in the middle of dunes under the desert stars

You will wake up to enjoy the sunrise over the dunes . Passing through the magnificent ZIZ palm valley, Rissani, Erfoud and Jorf, the journey continues through several kasbahs and oases until you arrive at the TodraGorge near Tinghir (lunch will be in a restaurant and we will make a local trip the gorge).

Afterwards we then continue to the Dades Gorge. Night in a hostel with Home stays (have an idea about the Berber traditions, its kitchen for example).

After breakfast, departure to the Dades Gorge on our return journey to Marrakech, passing through Kelaat M’gouna, the city known as the route of a thousand kasbahs and the Valley of the Roses. In this region products are made from the Damascus Rose for health and beauty. We make a stop in the palm grove of Skoura to visit the Kasbah AMRIDILE and the city of Ouarzazate (visit film studios in Ouarzazate).

We return via the high pass at Tizi n Tichka to reach Marrakech by the end of the day.