3 days Fes to Marrakech via Merzouga desert

OVERVIEW

3 days desert tour from Fes to Merrakech via Sahara desert offers you the chance to have a real desert experience, ride camels and spend the night in a beautiful desert camp and to discover the most interesting sites in Morocco such as Ifrane, Ceder forest in Azrou, Ziz valley, Gorges of todra and dades, Ait benhadou Kasbahs, Atlas mountains and so many more. This is the best solution to travel between the two imperial cities of Fes and Marrakech while discovering a big part of Morocco and enjoying a life time desert experience on the way.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Visit Midelt

• Visit Ifrane ski resort

• Explore cedar forest in Atlas mountains

• Explore Sahara desert in Merzouga

• Camel trek in desert

• A night in Merzouga desert camp

WHY OUR CUSTOMERS CHOOSE THIS TOUR?

This 3-day tour from Fes is ideal for intrepid travelers hoping to explore Morocco away from the hustle and bustle of busy fes. Visit UNESCO-listed sites and relax to traditional Moroccan music beneath star-lit Sahara Desert skies.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT?

This Trip from Fez to Marrakech Tours via Merzouga, Erg Chebbi dunes allows you to travel to the deep south of Morocco, to experience a camel trekking tour over the fabulous dunes of Erg Chebbi to reach the camp in the middle of desert; where you will spend the night in a nomad tents made of hair of camels and goats. In These 3 days you will enjoy the scenery of the middle Atlas, view the cedar forest and feed the monkeys (Barbary apes), see the nomads living in tents, explore the gorge of Ziz along with its Valley. Get to know how they work with fossils in Erfoud and more than that to taste the best quality of dates. Hurry up to book your seat in this short trip from Fez to Marrakech via Merzouga and Erg Chebbi Dunes

For a full run-down of the trip itinerary as well as more details about overnight accommodation choices, please read the details below.

ITINERARY

DAY 1: FES – MIDELT – ERFOUD – MERZOUGA – ERG CHEBBI

At 8:00 a.m we start our 3 days desert tour from Fez to Marrakech via Sahara. We leave for Midelt through the Atlas Mountains and the cedar forests of the middle Atlas. We pass by Ifrane, a charming ski resort and Azrou, an important handicraft centre specialised in the work of cedar wood. We arrive in Midelt for lunch. At the afternoon we will drive to Erfoud and into the desert. Once you arrive to the dunes of Erg Chebbi, a small offroad takes you to the edge of the golden dunes where camels are waiting for you, the luggage will be loaded in an 4×4 car and transported to the camp, and you can enjoy a beautiful camel ride over the sand dunes and watch a majestic sahara sunset on your way to the camp. After reaching your destination, you will be greated with tea and smiles. You will be shown to your beautiful comfortable private tents equipped with ensuite bathrooms and showers to relax and settle before dinner time. After a delicious meal, fire will be lit and a festive ambiance takes over with musical plays by the staff and cameleers under the starry night of the desert.

DAY 2: MERZOUGA – RISSANI – TODRA GORGES – DADES GORGES

Wake up for Sunrise lovely pictures, and Breakfast in open air, you will have breakfast in the camp, pack and go back either on camels or by 4×4 leaving the dunes behind. Back on the asphalt roads, we depart to Erfoud which is known by fossils’ making. Drive through palm-groves and Savanah like desert. We stop for lunch, then we take a short walk in Todra Gorges. We head to our stoping point Dades Gorge. Dinner and overnight in the hotel.

DAY 3: DADES GORGES- SKOURA – OUARZAZATE- AIT BEN HADDOU – MARRAKECH

After breakfast, we will take a short walk in the gorges before we continue our 3 days morocco desert tour from fes to Marrakech. We will follow the Dades Valley through El Kelaa Magona known as Valley of the Roses and the road of a thousand Kasbahs. We visit of Ouarzazate and stop for lunch in Ait Benhadou village. We will have time to explore the famous protected UNESCO site which is the nest of many films like the Gladiator, lawrance of Arabia and much more. We will drive via Tichka pass to arrive to Marrakech.