This four-days Sahara Desert Morocco from Fes to Marrakech via is highly recommended as it allows you to have enough time to explore the desert terrain. The tour includes 2 nights in the Sahara Desert, a camel trek, and short drives. The tour offers you the opportunity to see the best of Morocco in just 4 days: See the Barbary Macaque monkeys in Azrou’s cedar forest, take a sightseeing desert tour to visit the nomads of the Sahara, visit the donkey market in Rissani, wander with a local guide in palmary or hike in Dades valley or Todra gorges, spend more time exploring sites and less time driving, share a cup of tea with a Berber family…Etc
Fes-Marrakech
3 Hours Before Flight Time
Today is the start of your 4 days Sahara Desert tour from Fes to Marrakech, at 8:00 Are we start our 4 days Fez to Marrakech via Sahara Desert Morocco. We leave for Midelt through the Mountains and the cedar forests of the middle Atlas. We pass by Ifrane, also called “little Switzerland” for its European architecture, weather, and cleanliness. Then to Azrou, an important handicraft center specialized in the work of cedarwood. We arrive in Midelt, the capital of the apples for lunch. In the afternoon we will drive to Erfoud and into the desert.
Accommodation: Sahara Magic Camp
Meals: Dinner and Breakfast
After breakfast we head to Khamlia village to enjoy live Gnawa music, continue through an off-track road to have a tour of the sand dunes then stop to have tea with nomads in Berber tents, you will discover a new sense of life from there and also enjoy a Berber pizza for lunch. Back to the hotel to relax before starting your camel trip into the middle of the dunes in order to see the sunset, then after you will arrive at the camp, enjoy a mint tea and the beautiful sunset of the Sahara, you will be shown to your beautiful tents with ensuite bathroom and shower while dinner is being prepared. After dinner, you can enjoy a musical play by the staff around a fire and contemplate the starry night of the Sahara.
Accommodation: Sahara Magic Camp
Meals: Dinner and Breakfast
Wake up early to see the spectacular sunrise, where the colour of the dunes and the play of shadows are an awesome sight. Arriving at the hotel/riad to have breakfast and a shower. We will continue to Ouarzazate via Rissani and stop in Erfoud: famous for its fossilized marbles, where you will visit the workshop production of marble fossils. Continue to the Todra Gorges which is an ideal place for walking and exploring on your own. Have lunch then drive through the town of Roses, Kelaa Mgouna. We continue through the Road of a Thousand-Kasbahs passing the Skoura palm grove until we arrive at Ouarzazate named “Hollywood of Morocco” and check into the hotel/riad.
We head to Aït Benhaddou, a ‘fortified city’, situated along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech. It is situated on a hill along the Ouarzazate River and boasts some beautiful examples of kasbahs, some of which remain inhabited. Granted UNESCO World Heritage listing, the site had been the setting for many films including Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator. After stopping for lunch, we then continue to Marrakech over the High Atlas Mountains. end of your Sahara desert Morocco tour from Fes to Marrakech
