Where does the tour start and end?

It starts with pickup from your Marrakech riad/hotel and ends with drop-off at your Fes hotel.

Is the desert experience included?

Yes. It includes a camel ride (around 1h20), sunset in Erg Chebbi, sandboarding, and 1 overnight in a luxury desert camp.

Where do we sleep during the tour?

1 night in Boumalne Dades (hotel/riad with dinner & breakfast) 1 night in Sahara desert camp (private tent with private bathroom)

What is not included?

Lunches, drinks, entrance fees to attractions/museums, and personal expenses.

3 days desert from Marrakech to fes

Arrival City
Marrakech
Departure City
Fes
Meals
Breakfast included
Transportation
Private minican / 4WD

OVERVIEW:

This is a fantastic 3-day Marrakech to Fes desert tour that includes a camel trek and overnight camping in the deep desert (at standard/luxury camp), visits to the Todra and Dades gorges, Rose Valley, Ouarzazate, and the World Heritage Sites of Ait Benhaddou and Azrou.

Real Morocco Tours provides personalized, standard, and luxury trips from Marrakech to Fes varying from 3 days or more.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS 3 DAYS TOUR FROM MARRAKECH TO MERZOUGA DESERT THEN TO FES:

  Traverse the High Atlas Mountains and Tizi N’tichka pass.
 Walk to Kasbah Ait Ben  Traverse the High Atlas Mountains and Tizi N’tichka pass. Haddou and explore the Berber village.
Visit Ouarzazate, the gate of the Sahara
Visit the film studios (Optional)
Take a promenade along the stream in Todra Oasis to the majestic gorges.
 Ride your camel and enjoy the views of Erg Chebbi dunes with its dramatic sunset.
Spending a night in the desert camp
 Enjoy a Berber dinner under the stars and spend the night at your Merzouga desert camp.
 Stop at Azrou cedar forest and see Barbary Apes

Day 01 :

MARRAKECH – HIGH ATLAS MOUNTAINS – AIT BEN HADDOU KASBAH – BOUMALNE DADES:

Around 8 am as agreed before. Real Morocco Tours team will be waiting for you at the your hotel. They meet you there and pick you up to show you around some Southeast parts of our beautiful country. Crossing the highest road in Morocco, the Tizi n Ticha pass in the High Atlas mountains. We stop through the way for outstanding pictures of the muddy Berber villages, landscapes, nature.

     In about 4 hours drive, we arrive at one of the famous sites in Morocco, the Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah, a fortified castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A place where popular movies have been filmed. Such as Gladiator, Game of Thrones, Lawrence of Arabia, and many more. Make a visit to this extraordinary site, then have lunch either there at the village of Ait Ben Haddou, or at our next stop Ouarzazate which is half an hour’s drive. 

    In Ouarzazate, the Hollywood of all Africa. You visit and discover the Atlas studio, the world’s largest film studio. Afterward, you drive through the road named the road of thousands of Kasbahs. To the city of roses in Morocco *Kelaat M’gouna. Here you can see the pinky flowers everywhere alongside the road during springtime, and see how people there make different products from roses. 

    Eventually, we arrive at Boumalne Dades, or Dades Valley, a calm town, with a beautiful green valley. You spend your first night here in a hotel or a riad with dinner included. 

Day 02 :

BOUMALNE DADES – TOUDRA GORGE – ERFOUD – SAHARA:

After a restful night and a flavourful breakfast at your hotel. RMT team picks you up for your second day of the tour. It usually starts around 9 am. Leaving the town of Boumalne on the way to Tinghir, the city Toudra Gorge locates. You visit the astonishing Canyons of Toudra Gorge, a place visited all-year-round by worldwide rock climbing for adventuring. You may be lucky to see them climbing during your visit. A place not far from where nomads still live in caves, they come with their animals “sheep, goats, donkeys” for water, also take water with them for their home use. After a walk near the freshwater, you hit the road to Tinjdad town or near another village for lunch. Next to Erfoud, a town famous for fossils, not to forget fresh dates from the large valley of Ziz crossing the town. After that, in an hour’s drive, you get to the beautiful Sahara desert of Merzouga, one of the most visited sites in Africa.

    Your camel man awaits you next to dunes for lifting you by his camels to the desert camp. The camel ride takes around 1 hour and 20 minutes including an amazing stop for an incredible sunset at the top of a high dune in the middle of the desert. Your camel guide will take several memorable pictures for you along the ride. Arriving at the well-equipped camp, you will be welcomed with Moroccan tea and some cookies by the camp workers. In an hour, the working staff serve you a delicious dinner, then they make a fire outside the camp under a sky full of stars, where they will be playing Berber and African music, while you enjoy and dance around the fire.    

   Overnight at the camp.

Day 03 :

MERZOUGA – MIDELT – IFRANE – FES:

It’s worth waking up early on this day, for one of the best sunrises ever. After having breakfast at the camp. You then ride camels or take a four-wheel-drive vehicle back to the village where camels have carried you from yesterday. Meet your driver and guide again and pick you up for a new destination, Fes. We will drive through Ziz Valley, Errachidia to Midelt, the mineral mining and apple town lying between the two Atlases: high and middle.

    After lunch in Midelt, we resume our drive through the cedar forests of Azrou, have a stop to meet the Barbary Apes. Following this, Ifrane, the Switzerland of Morocco, is known for its alpine-style architecture, forests, and a well-known landmark lion stone.

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