Itinerary 3 days from Marrakech-Merzouga desert-Marrakech
This 3 days tour, is one most popular, where we will have the opportunity to discover southern Morocco´ cultural highlights . Its takes to visitings the great tourist interrest places. It is a route of many contrasts, the landscape changes enormously like the towns, its take you to splendid view of the Hight Atlas Mountains , an opportunity to visit several old Kasbahs alog the way as well visiting The Dades Valley, the Valley of Roses and the Todra Gorge that will delight us with their exotic landscapes of palm groves. The highlight of this tour is the great golden dunes of Merzouga with camel trekking and night in tents.
Day 1: Marrakech - Ait Ben haddou - Ouarzazate - Dades Gorge
Pick up you at yor hotel and then drive through the dramatic Tizi n Tichka, over the Hight Atlas Mountains, this roads will show you fantastic veiw and lead you through Berber village, and the landscaps change as the all city of Morocco. After many stop for enjoy this veiws, we drive through the famous Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou, this is a beautiful example of southern Moroccan architecture, now is a parte of UNESCO and has been filmed many movie in this kasbahs. After lunch we continue to Dades Valley via Ouarzazate, this is ´Hollywood of Africa´, if you like you can visit the Atlas Studio. The road we take is a Road of the thousand Kasbahs, as you can see many kasbahs and Ksar in Morocco, until we arrived to the famous Valley of Roses, home of the fragrant damascus rose that is cultivated here and processed into the world famous rose oil , we can stop in a coorperarive to see how the women do this fantasic work. Then we continue to our hotel in Dades Valley.
Day 2: Dades vallez - Todra Gorges - Merzouga
After breakfast we drive to Todra Gorges via the view panoramic of Valley of Dades, here the contrasting landscapes remind visitors of the Colorado, with its high plateau , until we arrived to this amazing great canyons. The narrow valley is lines with palmery and up on the rocks you may see the nomad famillies tending sheep and goats. This great canynos its peaks sometimes splintered by erosion, and ths area is populated by Berbers, when you can have some time to walk by yoursefl and interact with the local people. Afterwards we travel further into the desert to the tiny village of Merzouga, then take camel ride to a berber camp when you will see one of the most beautiful sunset and thousands of stars in the sky. Spend the night in a camp.
Day 3: Merzouga - Rissani - Alnif - Valle de Draa - Ouarzazate – Marrakech
After breakfast we will drive to Errisani, the silent town was the ancient capital of Tafilalet, and its location as a cross roads between north and south brought the city to an important status of a former major caravan center. Up to now Erissani remains a major commercial center in the region with a large souk, particulary lively today on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. After this our journey back to Marrakech. we drive through different areas and different Berber villages (Alnif, Tazarine, N’kob) until we arrived to the Draa river and Valley is a Morocco longest, we will have a stop to admire this view. After that we cross the Montains of Anti Atlas until we arived to Ouarzazate where we will take the same road back to Marrakech. We arrive in the evening/night and take you to your hotel.