If you want to start your Sahara desert tour from Ouarzazate, this 7 day Ouarzazate to Marrakech tour via the desert, Fes, Chefchaouen, and many more would be your best choice, thanks to the places you’ll visit and the great experience you’ll enjoy. If the itinerary below doesn’t match what you’re looking for, get in touch with us and customise your tour to your requirements. We’ll be happy to help.
We start your Sahara trip with a pick-up in Ouarzazate, then drive to the famous Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and location for Lawrence of Arabia, Gladiator, and Game of Thrones.
After lunch in Ait Ben Haddou village, you continue to the Dades Gorges via Ouarzazate along the “Road of the Thousand Kasbahs,” arriving in the evening.
Overnight: Hotel/riad in the Dades Gorges
You start the second day with breakfast, then leave for the Todra Gorges, where you walk beneath the 300-metre-high cliffs. You then continue to Merzouga, where camels are waiting to carry you across the fabulous dunes, a ride of around half an hour to reach the camp.
You spend the night with locals under the stars.
Overnight: Desert camp, Merzouga
After breakfast in the camp and a camel trek back to Merzouga, you start your day of exploring the Merzouga desert, driving through the desert in a 4×4. You visit a nomadic family close to the Morocco-Algeria border, then the village of Khamlia, home to a community with roots in Sudan, for Gnawa music and local life.
Overnight: Hotel in Merzouga
After breakfast, you start the journey to Fes around 8:30 am, travelling along the Ziz Valley with a stop at a panoramic viewpoint. Lunch is in Midelt, then you continue and may glimpse the Barbary apes in the cedar forest of Azrou. Your next destination is Ifrane, the Switzerland of Morocco, before heading to Fes.
Overnight: Hotel/riad in Fes
After breakfast, you set off to visit Fes, the oldest city in Morocco and one of the four imperial cities. You spend most of the day in the Medina, visiting the Royal Palace gate with its golden gate and the University of Al-Qarawiyyin, the oldest existing university.
After lunch in a traditional restaurant in the Medina, you visit the famous tanneries and the Jewish quarter before returning to your riad.
Overnight: Riad in Fes
After breakfast, you drive to Chefchaouen via the city of Ouazzane, arriving around noon. You then explore Chefchaouen, the “blue city” or blue pearl, a fabulous destination for photographers thanks to its blue-washed walls, with a walk inside the Medina.
Overnight: Hotel in Chefchaouen
After breakfast, you head to Casablanca to visit the Hassan II Mosque, the biggest mosque after Mecca, with lunch near the Corniche coast before continuing to Marrakech, where you’re dropped off at the airport or your hotel.
End of tour · Drop-off in Marrakech
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It starts in Ouarzazate and ends in Marrakech, taking in the desert, Fes, Chefchaouen, and the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca along the way.
Yes. If you’d rather not ride, we can take you to the camp by 4×4 instead.
Yes. If the itinerary doesn’t match what you’re looking for, get in touch and we’ll customise it to your requirements.
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