Overview of Tangier desert trip to Marrakech 8 days in imperial cities
This tour of Tangier desert trip to Marrakech 8 days in imperial cities will allow you to visit Chechouen city going through the astounding Rif Mountains. You will head out to Fez. On your way, you will investigate the Roman Empire ruins Volubilis and Meknes city.
You will likewise appreciate a guided visit to visit Fez’s landmarks and chronicled destinations. This trip allows us to have a visit to Merzouga to abandon and appreciate a camel trek to camp in the desert in a traveler tent. Visiting Ouarzazate, Dades Valley, and Toga Gorges are additionally included. Before you are driven back to Tangier, you will visit the lovely Assilah.
Experience Tangier desert trip to Marrakech 8 days in imperial cities Highlights
Travel to Chefchaouen: Drive through the Rif Mountains (about 2.5 hours).
Explore the Blue Medina: Wander the charming blue streets, visit local shops, and enjoy a meal at a café.
Overnight in Chefchaouen: Relax in this picturesque town
Travel to Fes: Drive (4 hours).
Fes Medina Tour: Visit the UNESCO-listed medina, including the Bou Inania Madrasa, tanneries, and vibrant souks.
Overnight in Fes: Experience the evening ambiance of the city
Day Trip to Meknes: Visit the historic city, including Bab Mansour and the Royal Palace.
Explore Volubilis: Tour the ancient Roman ruins nearby.
Return to Fes: Overnight in Fes.
Travel to Merzouga: Long drive (7 hours) through diverse landscapes.
Camel Trek: Arrive and ride camels into the dunes for a stunning sunset.
Overnight in Desert Camp: Enjoy traditional Berber hospitality with dinner and music
Sunrise in the Desert: Wake early to see the sunrise over the dunes.
Travel to Todra Gorge: Drive (3.5 hours) through beautiful landscapes.
Explore Todra Gorge: Hike and take in the breathtaking views.
Overnight in a nearby town: Relax after your adventures
Travel to Ouarzazate: Drive (3 hours) through scenic valleys.
Visit Aït Benhaddou: Explore this UNESCO World Heritage site, known for its stunning kasbah.
Optional Film Studio Visit: If time allows, visit local film studios.
Overnight in Ouarzazate: Enjoy local cuisine
Travel through the Atlas Mountains: Scenic drive (4 hours) via Tizi n’Tichka Pass, with photo stops along the way.
Arrive in Marrakech: Visit Jemaa el-Fnaa, Koutoubia Mosque, and explore the vibrant souks.
Overnight in Marrakech: Experience the bustling city life
Explore Marrakech: Visit the Majorelle Garden, Saadian Tombs, and Bahia Palace.
Shopping and Relaxation: Enjoy last-minute shopping or relax at a traditional hammam.
Departure: End your journey or prepare for your next adventure
Itinerary Tangier desert trip to Marrakech 8 days in imperial cities
DAY 1: Tangier AirPort / port => Hotel
=> Your driver will pick you up at the airportin the first day of Tangier desert trip to Marrakech, Mediterranean port, Tangier port. It will take you to your hotel. Yet if time permits you to visit Tangiers. Tangiers, a charming Moroccan city guarding the Strait of Gibraltar.
Enjoy an introductory tour of Tangier, visit Cap Spartel and the Cave of Hercules. Have free time for lunch and spend the rest of the day at leisure. Perhaps you can sip mint tea at one of the cafés along the water, which offer panoramic views of the strait and the Atlantic Ocean. Late in the evening, you will return to your hotel where you can relax and rest.
DAY 2: Tangier => Tetouan => Chefchaouen
=> Today after breakfast in the second day of Tangier desert trip to Marrakech, you will head from Tangier to White Bread, located in the Rif Mountains. Tetouan is a new mixture of Arab and Andalusian societies.
Visit the new city where you will see Hassan II Square, the senator’s quarters, the Spanish nursery, the main mosque in North Africa, and the divisions of the Kasbah.
Enter Medina through Bab Awk and embark on a road trip through the old town. This will include the Jewish area, the Andalusian segment, the Berber advertisements, the women, and the large.
=> Leave the old town and then continue on to Chefchaouen, great for winning the Rif mountains and one of the coolest cities in Morocco. Chefchaouen is an atypical Berber city.
A trip through the Blue City, bearing in mind that the city includes the Makhzen Palace, the well-known Uta-Hammam Square, the city’s Great Mosque that operated in the fifteenth century, and Medina. Overnight at the hotel where you can relax and unwind.
DAY 3: Chefchaouen => Vilubilos => Bab El Mansour gate => Fes
=> Today you begin this morning with the cool breeze of the city of Chefchaouen, and your next destination today will be the ruins of the ancient city of Volubilis.
The monuments are a great example of the different civilizations that Morocco witnessed in the past. However, this place is a perfect place for a peaceful stroll alongside the wonderfully preserved original mosaics.
Next, continue your journey [ Tangier desert trip to Marrakech ] to the imperial city of Meknes where you will explore historical points of interest such as the ruins of Moulay Ismail and the huge Bab El Mansour gate. Later, you will reach the ancient city of Fez, the cultural capital of Morocco. overnight at your Riad in Fez.
DAY 4: Exploring old medina of Fes
=> Fourth day of Tangier desert trip to Marrakech : You will spend an entire day exploring Fez, the spiritual and cultural capital of Morocco. You will need to memorize every detail of the narrow city streets so that you can share this once in a lifetime experience with your friends and family! A professional guide
will lead you through the transformation paths of this medieval city and explain the significance of the places to visit.
Imagine seeing sight filled with slippers of every color, shimmering hammered gold plates, a wall of red and brown carpets…
=> Walk a little further and you are sure to come across a dazzling mosaic fountain located right in the middle of the daily action. Smell the fresh bread? Your guide might explain this…
Every neighborhood has a bakery and a fountain. Your guide will take you to the weavers, where you will watch them craft a beautiful piece of cloth before your eyes.
Choose a scarf to wear in the Sahara Desert! Next stop is tanneries. From an elevated deck, you’ll look into several basins of dye and learn about the leather-making process.
=> After a morning of exploring, you’ll be ready to sit down to lunch at one of the best restaurants in Medina. You will continue to understand the obsession with Moroccan food as you eat a delicious main course of tagine or couscous and finish with some fresh seasonal fruits of the desert.
DAY 5: Fes => Ifrane => Midelt => Ziz Valley => Errachidia => Merzouga
=> You will have an early start this morning to travel south into the dramatic landscapes of the Middle Atlas, heading first towards Imouzzer and Ifrane and passing near the small mountain village of Azrou, which translates in Berber as “the rock”.
This is the land of fiercely independent Berbers, masters of the Atlas, whose traditions and ways still prevail here in their mountain strongholds far from the cities below.
The Berbers offer us a unique insight into a way of life lost in the rest of North Africa, where music and dance, and even language and religion, are far from their Arab neighbours.
=> You continue your way into the Berber sheep-breeding country, heading to Timadite and over the Col du Zad, before crossing the Tizi Talghemt Camel Pass and continuing through the Gorge Ziz to Er Rachidia.Admiring the beauty of the old abandoned kasbahs and the Berber villages located along the way.
Arrived in Merzouga, you will enter the ocean of desert dunes on the back of a camel that will take us to the camp where you will spend the night staying in an authentic Berber camp in the fifth day of Tangier desert trip to Marrakech 8 days in imperial cities.
DAY 6: Merzouga desert => Tourug => Tinghir => Toudgha => Dades
=> In the sexth day of Tangier desert trip to Marrakech tour an early morning Berber camp, you will climb up the sand dunes to admire the wonderful sunrise in the desert.
After that, we will return to the hotel, take a shower and pack our belongings to get to the road to Erfoud. On the way you will pass palm groves Tinjad and Tinghir. Then you will reach the Todra Gorge which is one of the most visited and breathtaking landscapes in southern Morocco.
A riverbed in the shape of giant reddish walls plus a paradise for climbers. You will have lunch there and walk if you’d like. As evening falls, you will already lead you towards the Dades Valley. You will spend the night in the Strait of Dades Gorge.
DAY 7: Dades => Ouarzazate => Ait Ben Haddou => High Atlas mountains => Marrakech
=> Seventh day of Tangier desert trip to Marrakech 8 days in imperial cities: After having breakfast in the early morning, you will drive towards the Ouarzazate, a desert city at the gates of the desert. Its strange name means “without noise” in the Berber language.
Walk around the village of Taourirt, which was built in the 12th century and is still inhabited today. It was an important village located at the crossroads between the Sahara and northern Morocco. Your tour also includes the Kasbah Taourirt, an impressive building that was built to house hundreds of people.
=> Finally, visit Ait Ben Haddou, a fortified village, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This famous kasbah was built in Morocco during the 20th century by Tohami El Galaoui, one of the last Berber chiefs. Within the walls of the Kasbah, which used to be one of El Galaoui’s stops on his long journey to Marrakesh, there are half a dozen merchant houses and other individual residences that will surely amaze you because of the unique way in which they are built.
The Kasbah is also famous for being the setting for many films such as Lawrence of Arabia, Gladiator, and many others. Head back to your trip, while you enjoy the historical disc of the Kasbah, you will depart for Marrakesh through the High Atlas Mountains. Overnight at your raid.
DAY 8: Transferred to the airport for departure
=> You will be transferred to the airport for departure. Say goodbye to your driver and country that surely left you priceless memories. We hope your trip was an enjoyable one… We always welcome you back to your second home. End our services of Tangier desert trip to Marrakech 8 days in imperial cities.
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What Is Included? [ Tangier desert trip to Marrakech 8 days in imperial cities ]
=> Pickup you at Tangiers airport, port or Mediterranean port and Drop off at your airport Marrakech
=> Private or shared Transport by an A/C vehicle
=> Fuel included
=> English-speaking driver during the tour
=> Free time to explore the village
=> Half-board accommodations in selected hotels or Raids (dinners and breakfasts are included)
=> Overnight in Berber camp (dinners and breakfasts are included)
=> You can stop everywhere to take photos
=> Camel Trekking & Night in Desert
=> Camel Per person
Not Included [ Tangier desert trip to Marrakech 8 days in imperial cities ]
=> Lunches and Drinks
=> Airfare travel
=> Anything not mentioned in the itinerary
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All that You Need to Know about the Desert trip from Marrakech to Merzouga
takeoff and return are planned from your lodging or riad in Marrakech, assuming you are remaining inside the Medina in a point that can’t be reached through transport, the get will occur at the nearest point; it is extremely insightful to reconfirm the specific get time and point basically the day preceding the tour “3 days Desert trip from Marrakech to Merzouga”, maybe by having your inn staff contact the neighborhood provider (contacts in the voucher/affirmation that is shipped off you subsequent to booking) and afterward have them make sense of you obviously where to meet.
Two evenings/3 days tour from Marrakech to Merzouga; takeoff on the first day around 7 with return on the third day between late evening and afternoon.
English, French, Spanish and Italian talking guides.
minimal expense imparted visit to different explorers, the vehicle happens by minibus or bigger transport with 17 seats relying upon the quantity of members. The neighborhood provider is Marrakech Travel Service; prompt affirmation at season of booking, you can book regardless of whether you are traveling solo. At the hour of the update of this article, one further choice was presented: on the third day as opposed to getting back to Marrakech it is feasible to take a common gathering move by taxi to Fez, clearly there is an enhancement.
incorporates transport, help from a driver/guide all through the excursion in addition to camel guides in the desert, convenience for 2 evenings in extremely straightforward lodgings/inns/tents, half board (breakfast and dinner) and two camel rides. Snacks, drinks, manual for Ait Ben Haddou (costs a couple of euros) and tips are excluded.
There could be no other visit that brings you into the desert, the genuine one, spending less, neither in Morocco nor in some other country in North Africa or the Arabian Peninsula.
it might happen that you have a private room/tent however consider that occasionally you should impart the convenience to different members; for snacks you don’t have a lot of decision, they are given in traveler eateries situated in disengaged areas, frequently with a decent menu and more costly than Moroccan norms; both the lodging at Dadés/Tinghir and the camp in the desert are extremely basic; put into account the compulsory stops in trinket/cover/craftsmanship shops, nobody compels you to purchase everything except you would likely have saved them.
when you are in the desert you presumably won’t wash; the vehicles utilized don’t necessarily have working cooling, or more all no cooling in the Erg Chebbi tents; most importantly make sure to constantly assess what you get with the exceptionally low cost you pay, in some cases a few analysts forget about it.
in the event that you are traveling solo or in a couple, you will acknowledge basic convenience and don’t have any desire to pass up on the chance to take a brief trip ‘3 days tour Morocco’ and see the extraordinary rises of the Sahara desert for an exceptionally minimal price.
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Desert trip Marrakech 3 days to Merzouga FAQ
Desert tripMarrakech 3 days to Merzouga distance is 8 hr 49 min (563.8 km) via N9 and N10. Nonetheless, it will be parted in two on the in with a night in Dades Valley. Returning, you will go through the day heading to Marrakech.
Indeed, they are. Your room in Dades Valley Hotel or Guest house will have private ensuite washrooms.
It is approximately 1 hour for nightfall and one more hour for dawn the next day. Time relies upon season, Day light saving time, and dusk/dawn time.
Imagine a scenario You can. a 4×4 will be proposed to move you from Merzouga hotel to Erg Chebbi desert camp for an additional an expense of 30 Euros ( Included in extravagance tent choice )
There will be a couple of sand sheets accessible at the camp administrator’s cabin to use at relaxation ( Availability not ensured ). You can request one to take to the camp with you. They are for nothing
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