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Marrakech
Marrakech – Tizi-N-Tichka – Ait Benhaddou – Ouarzazate – Dades Valley/Gorges
We will you pick up from your hotel/riad around and start our journey from Marrakech to Dades Gorges. Across the Tizi-n-Tichka Atlas pass, with far-reaching views across the mountains, to the traditional High Atlas Berber village of Telouet and we continue to Ait Benhaddou to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ait Benhaddou, a spectacular fortified village (Ksour). We will have lunch at Ait Benhaddou or Ouarzazate and continue to Dades valley, we will spend the night in a riad/hotel in the Dades Gorges.
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Dades Gorges
Dades Gorges – Tenghir – Todra Gorges – Tinjdad – Erfoud – Rissani – Merzouga
After breakfast, we go from DADES to Toudra gorges, Tenghir and to the Sahara desert of Merzouga, berber villages are scattered along the way. We’ll pass through Tinjdad, Jorf and Erfoud where we’ll start to feel the air of the Saharan oasis of Tafilalet then we continue to Merzouga, a night in a riad/Hotel near the dunes.
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4x4 Tour
4x4 Tour in Erg Chebbi Desert – Merzouga – Camel Ride & Night In Desert
After breakfast at the hotel/riad, there are many options available to you :
You may go to explore the neighboring villages of Merzouga such as Begaa village we can visit desert school and berber children , then Khamlia where you can hear the black musicians from Mali ,youou may also enjoy an offroad drive around the dunes of Erg Chebbi and see the nomads living in tents in the desert and have lunch with a nomad family – berber pizza. In the afternoon we will ride the camels to see the sunset over the dunes and spend the night in the desert camp. We will have a traditional tagine dinner, drink delicious mint tea, listen to traditional berber music while watching the stars and the rising moon in the amazing Sahara desert.
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Merzouga
Merzouga – Draa Valley- Ouarzazate
Morning departure on 4X4 WD through Rissani market (donkeys market Rissani) and the immense Bougafer mountain. Lunch in N’Kob (first village on the way). Afternoon excursion on the one-thousand- kasbahs road (alongside the trail to enjoy the best part of Draa valley). Arriving in Ouarzazate in the late evening. Dinner and overnight stay in hotel.