Tour from Marrakech to Merzouga Desert
Day 1: Marrakech - Tizi N'tichka - Ouarzazate - Dades Valley
We'll pick up from your place (hotel, riad, bus station or airport), then we will start our journey from Marrakech heading south to Dades Gorges across the Tizi-n-Tichka Atlas pass, with far-reaching views across the mountains, to the traditional High Atlas Berber villages. Stop for having a tour in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ait Ben Haddou. We will have lunch at Ait Ben Haddou or Ouarzazate, where we will visit Kasbah Taourirt and the Atlas studios. Then, we continue to Dades Gorges though Roses and Dades Valley. We will spend the night in a riad or hotel in Dades Gorges.
Day 2: Dades Gorges - Tinjdad - Merzouga (camel trek & overnight)
After breakfast, we go from Dades gorges to Erg Chebbi Sahara desert in Merzouga. Berber villages are scattered along the way, we'll pass through Todra Gorges, Tenghir, Tinjdad, Jorf and Erfoud in which we'll feel the beginning of the Saharan oasis of Tafilalet, and then we continue to arrive in Merzouga town. Thre, your guide and camels will be waiting to carry you across the great sand dunes of Erg Chebbi, where you will take a camel ride for about one hour and a half in order to get to your bivouac tent. This is a great opportunity to take lovely pictures of the sunset and sunrise. When we reach the camp, we will leave the camels and we walk to the highest sand dunes for sandboarding and to watch the sunset. We'll spend the night in a camp (Berber nomad tents) with drums music of nomad people of Sahara.
Day 3: Merzouga - Ziz valley - Atlas Mountains - Marrakech
We will wake up you early morning to watch the sunrise in dunes, then we ride the camels back to Merzouga. After a typical breakfast and take shower in the hotel, we start our journey back to Marrakech through different areas and different Berber villages ( Alnif , Tazarine , N'kob ). In Ouarzazate we will have free time for lunch before we continue to Marrakech crossing again the Tizi N'Tichka pass and the Berber villages. Drop off at your riad/hotel in Marrakech.
