8 Days Tour From Marrakech Discover Desert

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Duration

8 Days

Tour Type

Daily Tour

Group Size

20 people

Languages

English, Espanol, Francais, Japanese

About this tour

Welcome to Morocco! We will discover all of the beauty southern Morocco has to offer as we learn the history of Marrakech, visit Berber villages and several prominent kasbahs and ksar, cross the Atlas mountains and sleep under the stars in the Sahara desert

Highlights

  • Travel From Marrakech
  • Cross Atlas Mountains
  • Visit Rose Valley
  • Visit Skoura and Kalaat M'gouna
  • Desert experience
  • Moroccan cooking Class
  • Desert Camel trekking

Included/Excluded

  • Accommodation
  • All dinners and breakfasts
  • Private transportation in a 4x4 vehicle
  • Safari excursion, including camel tour, sand boarding, evening with traditional dinner, music and campfire
  • Entrance fees for castles, ksars etc.
  • 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 itinerary

Itinerary

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 

We will start our adventure accompanied by your guide and two comfortable 4x4 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 4x4, 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

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

Durations

3 - 5 hours
5 - 7 hours
Fullday (+7hours)
Multi day

Languages

English
Espanol
Francais
Japanese

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8 Days Tour From Marrakech Discover Desert
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05/27/2022

Excellent, probably the best yet.

This was an amazing trip. Totally fell in love with Vietnam, We did so much in such in two weeks. The cycling, somehow. only felt like a small part of the experience as there were so many other things that we did. Each day was full on, exceptionally well organised, great food, etc Been on a few cycle trips, and I think this was the best one so far.
8 Days Tour From Marrakech Discover Desert
Customer
05/27/2022

A Brilliant Trip

We have been on a couple of cycling trips before and this one was probably the best. Tri our guide was outstanding and all our fellow cyclists were a great bunch of people. We got a real flavour of life in Vietnam. Lots of interesting food.The meals were good and plentiful. Thought we would lose weight but didn't! Good Hotels. Many highlights but a couple or so to point out,Whale Island and Hoi An, the 30km exhilarating downhill ride and cycling in city centre traffic...... great fun but leaves your heart racing. It is quite full on which leaves you wanting to spend more time in some of the places visited. The usual pattern is arrive at 5 - 6 pm, leave at 7.15 next morning. However we did find time to swim in the hotel pools. Overnight train was great fun ....all part of the adventure. To cover the length of the country there are some longish times in the bus but the bus was comfortable but great chance to talk with your fellow travellers. This also gives you time to see more of the country and people watch. Staggered us how much could be piled on a scooter!The bikes were ideal for the road conditions as well as being clean and very well maintained. At the frequent refreshment/rest stops there was lots of juice, water, fruit, nuts and biscuits. The driver and bike mechanic were very friendly and very competent. Great organization, things happened when Tri said they would.
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