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MajdoulineLaaouinaExperience the best in Morocco! From Marrakesh to the desert of Merzouga and from the desert to Imperial Fes. A four-day trip to see a good piece of Morocco will bring new adventures every day! On your way to Merzouga, you will visit the Berber village, Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou, Ouarzazate film studios, the serpentines between the Dades rocks, Gorges Todra Canyon, and spend the night amongst the sand dunes. From Merzouga, you will set out on a journey to Fes – the second largest city in Morocco with a UNESCO-protected medina.
Today morning is the first day of 4 days trip from Marrakech to Fes. After leaving the city of Marrakech behind, we head south over the Tizi n’Tichka Pass (2260m). In this pass, we enjoy superb views of the mountains and of the Berber Villages. We stop for lunch in a traditional restaurant and visit the Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou. It is a World Heritage site since 1987. This famous kasbah has been used as the backdrop for more than 20 films.
After lunch, we continue through Ouarzazate, which is the gateway to southern Morocco. Later continue towards the Skoura oasis, which is a fertile area lined with immense palm groves. Following on from Skoura we arrive at the Valley of Roses.
Roses are a very important crop booster to the local population. The rose season begins around 10 April and ends around 20 May, depending on climate conditions. The Rose Festival or Moussem of Roses takes place on the second weekend in May and lasts for two days. Many festivities take place, including performances by folk groups and the Miss Roses contest, whose winner then takes part in a procession on a decorated float. Traders from all over the region come to sell their specialties and handicraft products.
Finally, on this day we arrive at the spectacular Dades Gorge and this is where you will have dinner and spend the night in your hotel.
After breakfast at the hotel we depart Dades Gorge and head towards Todra Gorges: a massive fault, rising to 300m in a narrow valley. Thickly dotted with palm groves and Berber Villages. After lunch in the gorge, we go further into the Sahara to Merzouga which has the largest natural underground body of water in all of Morocco and stands on the edge of the great sand dunes of Erg Chebbi. Dinner and overnight in a hotel in Merzouga.
After a leisurely breakfast and after visiting the Merzouga oasis, you drive to the village of the Negroes, Khamlia. These people came from Sudan and were originally brought north as slaves. You will meet some families and enjoy mint tea with them and listen to traditional Gnaoua music.
Our next stop will be at Mfis, a small village to the southeast of the dunes, close to the coal and copper mines. It is where most of the people in Merzouga used to make their livings.
Then, after a further stop in Merdane village, we carry on to meet Berber families before driving back to Merzouga to check in at your hotel.
In the afternoon, you will mount your camel to cross the dunes and discover one of the secrets of the ‘sea of sand’. Our stop will be in a virgin oasis. Enjoy the silence of the desert, appreciate the natural beauty surrounding you, and watch the majestic sunset.
Spend the evening under a canopy of stars, twinkling with an intensity you may never have seen before. Sleep in traditional Berber tents.
After breakfast in the desert, we depart to Rissani where we visit the traditional Berber suq. Leaving Rissani we travel through the Ziz Valley and Errachidia. We will stop en route for lunch before reaching Azrou. There is a cedar forest that is home to a troupe of Barbary apes then heading to Ifrane which locals call the Switzerland of Morocco, we may have stopped or continued to Fes and drop you off in your Riad/Hotel. End of our 4 days trip from Marrakech to Fes.
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| Tour Price/person | 875 € | 495 € | 390 € | 340 € | 290 € | 265 € | 250 € | 230 € | 190 € |
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