The 3-Day Sahara Desert Tour from Marrakech to Fez is one of the most popular desert tours from Marrakech which connects the two imperial cities. The 3-day desert tour from Marrakech to Fez allows you to discover a large part of southern Morocco, you will ride a camel and go to the bottom of the desert to spend a night in a nomadic bivouac to enjoy a starry night under a clear and peaceful sky. The third day takes you through a different route towards Fez and crossing many villages and landscapes as well as the beautiful cedar forest with its playful monkeys before reaching the cultural capital of the country: Fez where your driver will drop you off at your hotel.
The start of our desert tour from Marrakech to Fez will be around 08:00 from Marrakech crossing the Atlas Mountains to the Dades Gorges via the Tizi n'Tichka pass through the Atlas Mountains. After a 4 hour drive in the mountains, we will arrive at the impressive landscapes and Berber villages, we will make a stop to visit the heritage site of Kasbah Ait Benhaddou. These ancient kasbahs were used as old caravan routes and it is a very important destination for international filmmakers for more than 20 films was also one of the most important fortresses of the old salt road where the caravans were brought slaves, gold, ivory, salt and silk from sub-Saharan countries to Marrakech and beyond. After Ait Ben Haddou we will continue to Ouarzazate (Hollywood of Africa) because it is also a city very well known for filmmakers, Gladiator, The Mummy and other films have been shot here. After Ouarzazate, we will continue our journey to the Dades Gorges, through the Berber villages of Mgouna, Skoura and serval around the valley.
After breakfast and shower, we will start the 2nd on our adventure from Dades to Sahara Desert Erg Chebbi. Many Berber villages are scattered along the way, we will pass through Tenghir, Tinjdad, Jorf and we will stop and walk on the Todra Gorge (one of the most spectacular canyons in the world). After the Todra gorges, we will continue to Erfoud in which we will feel the beginning of the oasis and the Saharan villages, then we will continue to drive towards the Merzouga desert, after having rested, we will go ride the camels that will take us to an adventure in the desert. in the sand dunes. We will spend the night at the desert camp (nomadic Berber tents) with drum music in the middle of the Sahara, this is a great opportunity to take amazing sunset and sunrise photos over the sand dunes. Dinner, Berber music at the camp.
Our guide at the camp will wake you up early in the morning to watch the sunrise then we will return by camel back to Merzouga, after having a shower and having breakfast, we will start our tour in Fes. We will make a few stops on the road for tea or photos in the Ziz Valley before crossing the Middle Atlas Mountains. We will stop at a Midelt where we will have lunch. Medilt is a very impressive mountain town at 1488m above sea level, located at the bottom of Jbel Ayachi (3737m). In the afternoon, we will continue to the legendary city of Fez stopping at Ifrane and Azrou (cedar forest).
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