3-Day Tour from Marrakech to the Desert

Departure from Marrakech after breakfast, crossing the spectacular High Atlas mountains on the Tizi n’Tichka road. Stops at the most impressive viewpoints to admire the views and take photographs. Visit to the Ksar of Aït Benhaddou, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the setting of famous international films. Lunch at a local restaurant overlooking this impressive fortified town. We continue along the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs to the Dades Valley. Dinner and overnight at a hotel overlooking the gorge.

Breakfast at the hotel with stunning views over the valley. Departure for the Todra Gorge, an impressive canyon with vertical walls reaching 300 metres high. Time to walk beside the river and explore this natural wonder. Lunch at a traditional restaurant before heading on to Merzouga. Arrival in the desert in the late afternoon. Camel ride across the dunes of Erg Chebbi to witness an unforgettable Sahara sunset. Dinner and overnight at a Berber camp under a starry sky.

If there is one unmissable sight in the desert, it is sunrise. After enjoying this moment of calm, the tour returns to the camels to reach a hotel where we can shower and have breakfast (depending on the type of camp, breakfast and shower may take place before the camel ride). Passing through the Tafilalet palm grove and the town of Rissani (birthplace of Morocco's Alaouite dynasty), the tour reaches Alnif, where we take the road that crosses the Anti-Atlas range. Through these extraordinary mountain passes we reach Tazarine (an important Berber village), N’koband and finally the Draa Valley with its impressive palm grove. After crossing the range at the Tizi n-Tinifift pass (1,660 metres high), we arrive in Ouarzazate, where we stop for lunch before continuing our journey back to Marrakech, dropping you at your hotel in the evening