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5 Days / 4 Nights
17 People
Hotel / Airport
12+ Years
Cultural, Wildlife, Adventure
Hotel / Airport
Overview:
The 5 days desert trip from Fes to Marrakech offers you the chance to visit a significant portion in the Sahara Desert via Atlas mountains, Valleys, Kasbahs. Take a camel ride and enjoy camping at night within the Sahara. The tour is comprised of two night’s stay at the Merzouga desert One located in Dades Valley and the last one in Ouarzazate.
NOTE: At Morocco Packages Holidays We offer luxurious, private as well as mixed (Medium) choices. Prices are very competitive and depend on the number travellers and the kind of accommodations.
Take the car from your Fes Hotel or Riad at around 8:30 am by your driver. Then, you begin your five-day desert adventure. Fes up to Marrakech via Merzouga and departure to Sahara desert, where the sand and dunes in Erg Chebbi are located.
A journey of 8 hours that traverses through the Atlas Mountains to southern Morocco's largest oasis, Tafilalet comprised of numerous villages, palmers and two main Saharan towns: Erfoud as well as Rissani.
There will be many stops along the route, including the town in the mountains in Ifrane, Azrou cedar forest in which the monkeys are found, Midelt for lunch, and Ziz valley, with its amazing and panoramic views over those palm trees and and the green valley that lies in the Sahara. Then we'll travel to The Erg Chebbi sand dunes.
We move deeper into the desert until dunes appear in nothing. Dinner and overnight in an hotel with a pool on the dune line in Erg Chebbi to relax for the first night of your five days desert adventure from Fes from Marrakech.
Today, we will take a look at the desert region as well as the wonder that is Erg Chebbi desert dunes. We will take a tour of the dunes in the desert where you'll have the chance to witness the nomadic way of life as well as the incredible changing contrasts of the desert.
Visit Then, visit the "black village" of Khamlia for a visit to Gnawa musicians. Gnawa musicians. Additionally, you can enjoy a traditional Berber pizza lunch is served in the old capital of Rissani. After lunch, we'll ride camels in order to watch the sun setting over the dunes. We will stay the night in the camp in the desert.
We will have a typical tagine meal, sip delicious mint tea and listen to the traditional Berber music, and watch the moon rise and stars in the stunning Sahara desert.
We'll get rise early in the morning, to catch the most stunning sunrise of your lifetime and creating different colors and shadows over the vast dunes of sand, the most impressive in Morocco and then return to our hotel in the desert.
After breakfast, we will proceed towards Tinghir and the magnificent Todra Gorge, the largest and narrowest gorge in Morocco. The gorge is an ideal place to hike and relax at the edge of the river, or tasting some local Berber delicious dishes.
Lunch in the middle of the gorge. We'll travel across Dades Valley. Dades Valley where we will conclude our trip by staying in a comfortable hotel situated at the summit on the mountains.
After Breakfast at the hotel we start our journey on the highway of 1000 Thousand Kasbahs because there are massive kasbahs across both roads. A few of the fortified homes are being restored, but, unfortunately, many of them are in ruin.
We travel through Dades valley and then ascend into the mountainous region via an off-road route that has many Berber villages and cave dwellers live. in this area we'll get the opportunity go to see one the families and look at their everyday lives and the main task they perform, caring for flocks of sheep and goats.
We'll be amazed by the stunning landscapes of the beautiful rose valley before reaching the Skoura palm grove. 45km further, we arrive at Ouarzazate for dinner and stay overnight in the hotel.
After breakfast, we'll go to Taourirt Kasbah before heading for Ait Benhaddou to visit the World Heritage Site. The tour will conclude by visiting Telouet, the traditional High Atlas Berber village of Telouet and the Kasbah El Glaoui.
We will eat lunch at an eatery in Telouet before heading down the Tizi-n'Tichka to Marrakech where our five-day desert trip from Fes up to Marrakech by Merzouga Sahara ends.
A luxury private tent has private ensuite bathroom and shower with shower condiments and towels. A comfortable tent has shared bathrooms and hot showers outside the tent. You have to bring your own towel and shower accessories.
All tents on the private tour are private.
If you choose a luxury tent, it has a private ensuite shower with accessories and towels. Comfortable tent has shared hot showers outside the tent and you have to bring your own towel and shower condiments with you.
Unfortunately not, you cannot join any other group on the private tour.
If you choose to stay in the comfortable tent, you have to bring your own towel. In a luxury tent towels and shower accessories are provided.
Depending on the traffic and weather conditions the expected arrival time back to Marrakech is around 6.00 or 7.00 p.m.
Yes, you can safely store the big luggage in the minivan.
There is no sandboarding offered in Zagora, but in Merzouga there is.
There are no quad bikes in Zagora, but they are in Merzouga.
A small backpack with things you might need for the camel ride and an overnight stay in the desert camp. A scarf, a hat, sunglasses, good walking shoes and wet napkins can be useful. If staying at the Comfortable desert camp, you will need to bring your own shower accessories and a towel. To have a comfortable camel trek, we advise to wear jeans, trousers or long shorts.
The sunset camel ride is about 1 hour and sunrise trek is 40 minutes.
It is possible to skip the camel ride. But to get to the desert camp you will need either to walk with the guide (about 1 hour at sunset and 40 minutes at sunrise) or take 4×4 which.
In winter temperatures fall dramatically and it can be freezing at night, please bring warm sleeping clothes with you.
At least one person is required to run the private tour.
Merzouga is approximately 500 kilometers from Fes, and the journey typically takes around 8 to 9 hours by car.
The distance between Marrakech and Merzouga is 564 km.
Yes, on the private tour all the rooms are private AC at the hotel in Dades Valley.
5 days/ 4 nights Fes to Marrakech This whole tour was an unforgettable experience! We traveled in comfort in an air-conditioned 4x4 through the ever-changing landscape of Morocco. Our excellent Berber guide had an intimate knowledge of the desert and its people and richly explained the culture and traditions of the area. Ali (our guide) really looked after us, crucially insisting we take extra water on an overnight camel trek over the desert and setting our mind at ease about every stage of the tour with his professionalism and affable personality. All the accommodation of the tour was top class all with swimming pools to cool down after a hot day in the desert and great breakfasts and evening meals. We would have never had seen or experienced this part of Morocco traveling independently.
Amazing 5 days desert tour Fes to marrakech via sahara desert We had the pleasure to book 5 days trip with Morocco Packages Holidays Company and it worth it from the beginning until the end Said the owner was very quick responding to our messages and he gives us a wonderful itinerary including 2 nights in Merzouga Sahara desert one at the hotel and the other one in Berber camp which we loved staying around the fire and play drums and Berber songs after the best sunset in my life and then a spectacular sunrise, going back with camels again was soo fantastic. The hotels in Dades and Ouarzazate were soo nice and clean the whole staff were very welcoming and professional, if you would book your trip don't miss Morocco Packages Holidays. Thank you Said for the amazing trip.
A trip of lifetime!!! Highly recommend this tour! We had an amazing trip, the desert was definitely a highlight and must-see. Mohamed was an awesome guide and took care of everything.
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