3 Days Marrakech to Fes desert tour

3 Days Marrakech to Fes desert tour itinerary:

Day 1: Marrakech – Dades-Gorge
Departure from your hotel or riad at 08:30. to Kasbah AiT Ben Hadou via the Tizi Ntichka pass and the High Atlas mountains. Many stops will be made along the way. Visit Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which has also served as the setting for several Hollywood blockbusters. We continue to Ouarzazate and visit Kasbah Taourirte before lunch (available). In the afternoon, we will drive towards Boumalne Dadès through the Valley of Roses before arriving at our guesthouse located in the Dadès Valley.

Day 2: Dades-Gorge – Todra Gorges – Merzoua.
After breakfast, today’s trip will begin on the road of 1001 Kasbahs to the oasis of Tinghir. You will enjoy the amazing scenery along the way from the remaining fortified villages that housed the caravan routes until the early 20th century. Arrived at Tinghir, which was a military post during the French occupation, we will branch off along a secondary road towards the oasis. Feel free to take a walk along the creek and watch the locals tending and tending their livestock. Your walk will end in one of the magnificent scenes of your tour – Todgha Gorge. After lunch at one of the local cafes, we continue to Rissani, which is one of the holiest cities in Morocco, as Morocco’s ruling royal dynasty (the Alawites) was born here and its founder is buried locally. Rissani is also famous as the starting point of the old caravan routes that cross the Sahara Desert to Tomboctou.
From there, we will cross rocky terrain until we reach Merzouga, where our camel caravan will be waiting for us. Enjoy a camel ride over the Erg Chebbi dunes to admire an incredible sunset, before returning to our camp in the Sahara desert, located in the middle of nowhere.
Enjoy dining under the stars while being entertained by our local nomadic hosts who play drums at night.

Day 3: MERZOUGA – Ziz Valley – Midelt – Azrou – Ifran – Fez.
After breakfast at your camp, we will leave for a long drive to Fez crossing Ziz Valley via Errachidia which is the capital of the Tafilalt region, and continue to Midelt where we will have lunch before continuing to cross the mountains of the Middle Atlas with its cedar forests and the Berber villages of Imouzzar and Ifran. We arrive in Fez at the end of the afternoon.
Your desert tour from Marrakech to Fes will end with a drop-off back in Fes.