6 Days desert Tour from Marrakech To The South
6 Day Tour from Marrakech to The South & Desert, Presented to you by Prime Morocco Tours.
6 Days Desert Tour from Marrakech to Merzouga
Introduction:
Morocco is one of the best tourist destinations in the World which offer various beautiful landscapes. It has several ways to discover it but the best one is through a 6 days tour from Marrakech to the desert of Merzouga in the southeast of the kingdom. Prime Morocco Tours thinks of its customers who may love to mix culture, history, enjoyment, and adventure through tailoring a proper desert tour from Marrakech in 6 days regarding all these interests.
Overview:
Adventure, entertainment, discovery, comfort… All are offered in this 6-day tour from Marrakech to Merzouga desert. You will explore most of what Morocco offers as breathtaking landscapes and historical cities on this tour.
Prime Morocco Tours will help you customize a wonderful holiday in Morocco through our tours. The 6-day desert tour from Marrakech will allow you to deep into the Moroccan culture, taste the most delicious traditional recipes, discover its beauty, and know the generous Berber people and their respective hospitality. Visitors always had a positive reaction because what Morocco offers them exceeds all their expectations.
You will explore the most visited city in the world ‘Marrakech’, enjoy the beautiful natural view on the way of the High Atlas Mountains, and visit the UNESCO Kasbah ‘Ait Ben Haddou’ to travel back in history. Also, visit the Ouarzazate studios, and on your way to the desert of Merzouga, you will learn about the Nomad’s life.
Note: the itinerary can be edited or completely changed to suit your needs and interests.
Highlights of the 6-day tour from Marrakech to Merzouga desert
- Deep into the beauty of landscapes between Marrakech and the desert of Merzouga.
- Enjoy your time in the desert of Merzouga by hiking the high dunes of Erg Chebbi
- Let the panoramic sunset and sunrise take your heart
- Go through an adventurous experience by riding a camel
- Visit the Nomad family to know about life in the desert
- Plan a camp in the heart of the desert to spend one of the romantics moments in life under the starry sky
- Visit the big Souk of Errissani
- Go back in history by visiting the UNESCO Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddo and other Kasbahs
- Walk along the high Gorges of Tinghir
- Visit the Hollywood of Africa and its studios ‘Ouarzazate’
Itinerary:
Day 1: Marrakech – Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou – Ouarzazate – Dades
Day 2: Dades – Todgha Gorges – Erfoud – Merzouga
Day 3: Merzouga desert
Day 4: Second day in the Desert of Merzouga
Day 5: Merzouga – Errissani – Alnif – Ouarzazate
Day 6: Ouarzazate – Marrakech
Details of the Six-day desert tour from Marrakech
Day 1: Marrakech – High Atlas Mountains – Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou – Ouarzazate – Dades
We will start our 6 days desert tour from Marrakesh where we will meet for the first time; this city was an old capital of Morocco’s ancient monarchs, and it is named to be the capital of the Maghreb Union. At 8 am we will drive through the High Atlas Mountains which is known as the highest top in Morocco 4,167m named Toubkal go Through the Tizi N’Tichka passage on the mountain and enjoy the various landscape views. On the route, we will have a break for tea with mint or coffee at one of the Amazigh Hamlets. The next break will be at Ait Ben Hadou village to visit the Kasbah of Ait Ben Hadou; an old building that is for collective living, this Kasbah was nominated as a UNESCO Heritage in 1987. This Kasbah and the region, in general, are very important for the industry of filmmaking (famous movies like The Man Who Would Be King in 1975 and many others) it is also a fortress on the Salt Road where caravans from different regions came to buy slaves, gold, ivory, and salt. Here we will enjoy the lunchtime special food of the region. Then we will continue the path towards the Dades Valley, through the Kalaat Magouna; a town known for its thousands of hectares of roses you can admire on May, Skoura Amazigh villages surrounding the valley of Dades; this valley which is shaped in a form of gorges long time ago, here we can spend the first night.
Day 2: Dades Valley – Todra Gorges – Jorf – Erfoud – Merzouga (Erg Chebbi Desert)
The following day after your breakfast meal. The caravan will continue the road through the valley admiring the amazing rock formation (the monkey toes) and the integration of the Kasbahs within the beautiful nature to name but a few of the amazing Kasbah of AitYul from the 19th century. Entering Tinrghir region and the Todra Valley and its panoramic landscape view and surrounding Amazigh villages. In the Todra valley, we will have a walk through the river with its amazing 300m high red cliff which is a favorite destination for many rock-limbers to practice this sport. Lunchtime will be served either in Rissani or Erfoud; two town oases in the Sahara, before leaving for Merzouga the village of the golden sand where you will be welcomed with tea with mint then go to spend the night in the camp in the desert.
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Day 3: Merzouga – Off-road – Nomad Families – Old Berber Villages – Merzouga
The morning in the desert will start very early to allow you to see the sunrise and the changing of color of the golden dunes with time. After that, you will ride back camels to Merzouga at a hotel where you can get a fresh shower and a tasty breakfast before going on a visit to the villages surrounding Erg Chebbi dunes such as Hassi Labied, Merdani, Khamlia andM’fis. We will meet locals on the way to Khamlia who will show you their desert fausses. On the sand, you will probably encounter desert reptiles and mammals. Arriving in Khamilia known as the Gnawi village, black people coming from southern countries of Africa as slaves in the past, get integrated into Moroccan society. The people there will welcome you very hospitably with a cup of tea made in the desert manner (Amazigh whiskey) and listening to their lovely spiritual Gnawa music. Leaving Khamilia we will go toward the Algerian borders to have a panoramic view of the golden dunes before having a picnic lunch under the shadow of a tree. The ride will continue visiting nomads of the region living under an Amazigh tent and taking care of their herds. On the way back to Merzouga to have dinner and sleep the night at the hotel, you will come across the volcanic rocks and the Yasmina Lake where you will be surprised by the natural postcard of the dunes surrounding the lake (in spring).
Remember: You can also plan your 6 day desert tour from Marrakech on your own; in the way that suits your needs.
Day 4: Merzouga – Nomads – Safsaf Desert Oasis – Erg Chebbi Sand Dunes – Merzouga
The next day of the 6th day’s desert tour from Marrakech you will start the trip at 8 am after having your breakfast at the khaima in the desert. This time you will cross the Black Desert to the Oasis of SafSaf. You will have many stops to admire the panoramic view of nature and visit nomadic people who are taking care of herds. There the people will share with you their traditional way of living and enjoy a cup of tea with them. We will continue our destination to the SafSaf Oasis where you will have your lunch at a very panoramic landscape in this heaven in the desert. Before sunset, we will go back to Merzouga where you will overnight through a large contrast of water, vegetation, and rocks. And sleep at a hotel next to the dunes.
Day 5: Merzouga – Errissani – Alnif – Nkob – Agdz – Ouarzazate
In the early morning, our guide will wake up you very early in the morning to enjoy the sunrise shining over the golden sand of Merzouga. A few minutes later you will ride back to the auberge in the village to take a fresh shower and a tasty breakfast. Then you will take the route towards Ouarzazate to overnight and visit this wonderful cinematographic place called Hollywood of Morocco, taking pictures of its monuments used for filming. Passing through many different landscapes and villages Errissani where the Mausoleum of the first sultan of the current Dynasty of Morocco the grandfather of Mohammed the 6th Moulay Ali Cherif. You may stop for lunch when it is time at one of those villages.
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Day 6: Ouarzazate – High Atlas Mountains – Marrakech
The next morning, you will have a breakfast meal. Then we will start the trip From Ouarzazate, meeting the valley of roses which is cultivated with hectares of roses; their beauty and smell could be seen in May. The drive will take us to the Inghram “the fortified village” of Ait ben Haddou; where we will have lunch, whose name is taken from the Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou, a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1987, where famous films were shot to name but a few as Lawrence of Arabia, Gladiator, The Mummy. Tizi Ntichka, is the next stop, a mountain wind road which we will climb to the top and take pictures of the amazing view. At the end of the road, Marrakech was known in Tamazight as Amour N Akouch or the land of GOD. Arriving in the evening our driver will pick you up at your last destination. End of our 6-day desert tour from Marrakech.
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