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This Desert Inclusive Tour can be tailored to your needs if you want to extend your trip or continue on to Fes, the Imperial City. It’s excellent if you want to combine your own planned trip to Morocco with an organized Desert Tour that departs from your hotel in Marrakech and returns to your hotel in Marrakech or Fes. Please keep in mind that the Chebbi Dunes and Desert Camps can get very busy during the high holiday seasons of Spring, Autumn, and Winter.
Our brisk ‘Flying Carpet To The Desert’ allows anyone short on time to start on a road journey across Morocco and into the Sahara. That said, in our opinion and experience, the more time you have to commit to this road journey, the better.
The journey from Marrakech, as well as the Dades Valley and Erg Chebbi Saharan region, is so stunning and full of unique sights and experiences that it ought to be taken at a slower pace to fully appreciate the wonderful aspects of the shifting landscape and the Sahara’s distinctiveness.
You travel through the High Atlas Mountains and the iconic Tichka Pass to Skoura Palm Oases, then through the Kasbah-lined Dades Valley to Todra Gorge before arriving in the Saharan village of Merzouga for an overnight stay at one of Erg Chebbi’s Desert Camps, which includes good-natured Saharan hospitality, short camel treks, and optional informal sandboarding at the base of the towing dune sets.
This thoughtful journey includes atmospheric lodgings, magnificent High Atlas Mountainscapes, visits to historic Kasbahs, camel rides in two different places, the enormous Todra Gorge, and enjoyment in one of the world’s most distinctive settings, the Sahara.
• Stairway To Heaven High Atlas Mountains.
• Feeling Star Struck At Kasbah Ait ben Haddou.
• Dades Valley & Picture Perfect Kasbahs Skoura Oasis.
• Cool & Green Date Palm Oases.
• Todra Gorge, A Slice Of Moroccan Rock.
• Camel Ride In Unique Village Location.
• Erg Chebbi & Quartz Pyramids Of Sand.
• Camel Trek In Sahara Sun Setting Light.
• We meet with you in your place of residence. Journey via the High Atlas Mountains and Tichka Pass at 8:00 a.m.
• Optional tour to the Argan Oil Cooperative in the countryside.
• Kasbah Telouet is an off-the-beaten-path destination.
• A choice is available. Camel ride takes about 30 minutes. Tamdaght Village is a village in Tamdaght, Ireland.
• Lunch near Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah.
• Visit the UNESCO-listed Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou.
• Make as many photo and refreshment stops as you'd like.
• Arrive late afternoon/early evening at Skoura Oasis.
• 1 Night of Accommodation Lunch, Dinner, and Breakfast at Skoura Oasis
• After breakfast, we will meet you at your lodging.
• Visit a rose oil producer on Kelaat M'gouna's outskirts.
• A quick halt at the impressive Todra Gorge.
• On the way to the Sahara, stop for lunch in a Berber settlement.
• Arrive in Merzouga about mid-afternoon.
• Meet with the camel and the guides in the late afternoon.
• Camels take about 1 hour to reach Desert Camp in time for sunset.
• From the top of a big dune, watch the sunset.
• Live Saharan music and a bonfire are part of the experience.
• Make as many photo and refreshment stops as you'd like.
• 1 night's stay in a desert camp, including lunch, dinner, and breakfast.
• An optional early sunrise dune climb is available.
• Sandboarding is an optional extra.
• After breakfast, depart from camp.
• Camel trip takes about 1 hour from camp.
• At Merzouga, change to 44.
• Explore the scenery of distant alpine villages.
• The Saghro mountain range was used in the Brad Pitt film "Babel."
• Lunch in Agdz's Carpet Town, Kasbah Tamnougalte.
• Return travel to the spectacular High Atlas Mountains.
• Make as many photo and refreshment stops as you'd like.
• Arrive at your Marrakech hotel in the early evening.
• Bislema, we bid you farewell!
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