Grand Tour from Marrakech to Sahara Desert
Day 1: Marrakech Airport
Meeting at the airport on arrival of your flight. Transfer to Golden Tulip Farah 4 stars hotel. Free day in which you will delve into one of the imperial cities and its famous Jemaa el Fna, where you'll find a wide variety of outdoor activities.
Day 2: Marrakech - Dades Valley
Cross the High Atlas mountains, we will stop for the obligatory photo in Tizi n’Tichka, and we'll open way through numerous Berber nomads villages. This road will take us to the Kasbah Telouet, one of the best preserved in Morocco. Along the visit, you'll appreciate many of its incredible places with beautiful crafts. Once this visit, we will go to the Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou, the scene of more than a dozen Hollywood films like Babel, Gladiator and Sahara. Continue to the Dades Valley, entering the canyons and where begins the route of 1000 Kasbahs. Along the road, you will have the opportunity to admire the magnificent mountain scenery. Accommodation and dinner at Dades Valley Hotel.
Day 3: Dades Gorges - Todra Gorges - Merzouga Desert
After a hearty breakfast, we will again turn to the road to Todra Gorge, to stroll through its imposing canyon with walls over 150 meters high. Basically, they are vertical rock formations caused by erosion from water and wind. We will open ourselves to the desert road, passing through the palm grove of Tafilalet.
Check in at the hotel on foot of dunes, where you'll can walk the fine sand of the Erg Chebbi Morocco and appreciate this breathtaking scenery. At night, you'll enjoy a delicious dinner. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 4: Erg Chebbi Desert
Breakfast at the hotel. Continue our journey around the dunes of Erg Chebbi. You will discover where and how live the nomadic families, see some Sahara spectacular landscapes and small desert towns.
It's time to dive into a typical Berber family. You will closely know their customs and way of life. After that, we will visit the small village of Khamlia, where its inhabitants - native people of Mali - will make us enjoy a nice concert of Gnawa music.
Back to the hotel, we'll leave the camels to start a route of almost half an hour to get to the heart of the desert and watch the beautiful sunset. You'll enjoy an exquisite dinner, Moroccan tea and drumming around the campfire, you will see the majestic canopy of stars that nature gives us. Accommodation in Haima.
Day 5: Merzouga - Ziz Valley - Middle Atlas - Fes
You will wake up early in the morning to see the great sunrise show in the dunes of the Sahara. Back to the hotel on camel. Take a good shower and have a hearty breakfast. We continue our walk towards Moroccan land Rissani, where we will visit what is considered the southern country’s largest and most authentic traditional souk in Morocco.
We'll continue our way via Erfoud, cross the impressive Ziz Valley, with its more than 18,000 palm trees to reach Midelt, a city with a major apple production. Stop for lunch and continue towards Fez, passing by a cedar forest where you can feed and photograph a community of friendly monkeys that inhabit this place and then, Ifrane, known as the Moroccan Switzerland. Arriving in Fez, another of the four Imperial cities. Overnight at hotel.
Day 6: Fes Guided Tour
The city of Fez is considered the cultural and religious center of Morocco. During your guided tour, you'll explore the Royal Palace and its districts such as Mellah, la Nouvelle Ville and Fes el Bali, an old area within the walls of medina. You will walk through its winding streets, where the only form of cargo transport are donkeys. You'll see up close the work of potters, smiths, tanners, and craftsmen loom, being transported to ancient times. Discover the considered oldest university in the world in which the study of Arabic and religion are its essence, as well as beautiful buildings have you ever thought.
Day 7: Fes - Volubilis - Meknes - Rabat
Breakfast. Departure to Meknes Imperial City for a visit to Volubilis, an ancient Roman city ruins, listed as World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1997. We'll make a brief stop in Meknes for lunch and continue the journey to Rabat, another Imperial City, administrative capital of Morocco and known as the City of Gardens. There, you will have the opportunity to visit the Mausoleum of Mohamed V, located in the courtyard of the Hassan Tower.
Day 8: Marrakech - Casablanca - Rabat
After breakfast at the riad, we'llcontinue our journey to Casablanca. There, you'll discover the Mosque of Hassan II, situated on the shore of Atlantic Ocean. It is the second largest mosque after Mecca, the highest temple in the world. On the outside it can accommodate about 80,000 people while in the prayer hall nearly 20,000.
Day 9: Marrakech Airport
Breakfast. Airport Transfer to the scheduled flight departure. End of our services.
