Day 1: Marrakesh
Welcome to Morocco!
You will be picked up at Marrakech Menara Airport and transferred to the hotel to start your adventure.
Dinner and breakfast will be ready for you at the hotel.
Accommodation Riad Dar Alfarah (or similar)
Meals included: breakfast
Day 2: Marrakesh
After breakfast, we will start our journey at 10 AM to discover Marrakech’s palaces and gardens. You will be accompanied by a tour guide who will share the history of each place with you. Please note that your tour guide will speak English and is certified by the Ministry of Tourism.
- Bahia Palace
- Palace Badi
- El Koutoubia Mosque
- Jemaa El Fna Square
- Souks
- Majorelle Garden
Your guide will recommend one of the restaurants in the Marrakech medina for lunch.
After spending the day discovering Marrakech and learning its history, return to the hotel.
Dinner and breakfast at the hotel.
Accommodation Riad Dar Alfarah (or similar)
Meals included: breakfast
Day 3: Marrakech → Atlas Mountains → Ouarzazate
We will start our adventure accompanied by your guide and two comfortable 4×4 vehicles equipped with AC. We will cross the great Atlas mountain range while enjoying the beauty of nature and The Berber villages. There will be several panoramic stops along the way to take photos.
In 2.5 hours, we’ll arrive at the Castle of Telouet where you will visit with a local guide. We will break for lunch here.
Along the 1001 Caravan Road, we’ll take the famous salt road. We then have a 20 min drive to get to Ouarzazate where we will spend the night at the Berbere Palace Hotel and enjoy a leisurely evening in the city.
Total driving hours of 4h30.
Accommodation Dar chamaa (or similar)
Meals included: breakfast | dinner
Day 4: Ouarzazate → Skoura → Kalaat m’gouna → Valley dades
This morning, we will visit Kasbah Taourirt, one of the oldest kasbahs in the Draa valley. Today, we leave the national highway No. 9 and continue along the amridil road passing kasbahs and Berber villages.
We’ll continue crossing the valley of roses as well as the capital of roses Kalaat M’gouna with the possibility of visiting one of the cooperatives there. You’ll be able to enjoy the incredible views of the valley of dades, a place with many fossils and known by the name “monkey fingers’ ‘.
Total driving hours of 3h.
Accommodation Hotel xaluca (or similar)
Meals included: breakfast | dinner
Day 5: Tinghir → Draa valley → Jbal bani → Zagora
Walking 20 min we visit the Todra gorges. We will then drive across the Bani mountains where we will have the image of the Arizona desert throughout the Draa valley where there are millions of palm trees, we continue towards Zagora, the capital of watermelon and dates.
Total driving hours 5h30.
Dinner and breakfast at the camp.
Accommodation Riad Laman (or similar)
Meals included: breakfast | dinner
Day 6: Zagora → Mhamid el Ghizlan → Erg Chegaga
In the morning after breakfast we drive 20 min to get to Zaouia Nacirya where we stop to visit the school of the Qouran, and the furnaces of the ceramic crafts gilding one now accompanied by a local guide.
Let’s continue towards Mhamid El Ghizlane where the road ends and the desert begins. We will stop for lunch in Mhamid El Ghizlane.
With our 4×4, crossing dunes we will go to the oasis of Oum Laalag, where it is possible to find nomads also wild animals such as dromedaries and gazelles, in two hours we will reach the largest dunes in morocco of Erg Chigaga where you can choose to take a tour with camels through the evening or morning.
You will then enjoy the evening in the desert in a luxury camp around the fire listening to the music and the history of the nomadic people. Dinner and breakfast will be served at the luxury camp. Please note the camp is equipped with a full bathroom and electricity.
Total driving hours: 4h
Dinner and breakfast at the camp.
Accommodation: Luxury Beber Camp
Meals included: breakfast | dinner
*Note: the luxury camp will have electricity, cell phone service and full bathrooms.
Day 7: Erg Chigaga → Foum Zguid → Taznaght → Aït Benhaddou
Let’s continue our adventure towards Aït Benhaddou, the historic ksar, passing through Lack Iriki Foum Zguid and the capital of carpets, where we also stop for lunch. We will have the opportunity to visit one of the cooperatives and see how carpets are made. We will also visit Kasbah Komplex.
We’ll arrive at our hotel in Aït Benhaddou in 1 hour
Total driving hours: 3h30.
Dinner and breakfast at the hotel.
Accommodation: Riad Maktoub (or similar)
Meals included: breakfast | dinner
Day 8: Ouarzazate → Marrakech
Ouarzazate is also the city of cinema, so before leaving for Marrakech we will have a visit to the Museum of Cinema and the studios where several films have been made, such as the Game of Thrones, Gladiator, the Mummy and several more.
We’ll arrive in Marrakech at around 12:00 PM and this will conclude our service.
Total driving hours: 4h.
Accommodation Riad Dar alfarah (or similar)
Meals included: breakfast
What’s Included
- Accommodation
- All dinners and breakfasts
- Private transportation in a 4×4 vehicle
- Safari excursion, including camel tour, sand boarding, evening with traditional dinner, music and campfire
- Entrance fees for castles, ksars etc.
What’s Excluded
- Lunches and other meals not stated in the itinerary
- Tips
- Any additional activities (ex quad bike in the safari)
- Any flights not stated in the itinerary
- Travel insurance
- Items of a personal nature
- Visa fees
- Optional activities
- Other services not stated in the itinera
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