4 Days Desert Tour from Ouarzazate to Merzouga
Tour Overview
If you love adventure, nature, off-road trails, or if you are a photographer: Then this trip is probably what you need to take to experience the hidden off-roads and Saharan landscapes in southeastern parts of Morocco. 4 Days from Ouarzazate to Merzouga desert tour that covers many remote regions of the Draa Tafilalt region including Mountains, deserts, valleys, Berber villages, palm groves, rock formations…etc.
This Morocco adventure tour of 4 days starts with the Unesco world heritage site of Ait ben Haddou and the valley of roses trails to Dades gorges after visiting one of the most known Kasbahs including Amridil. you will have the opportunity to experience the Berber cultures, food, and clothes, you will explore the Sahara desert in southern Morocco which is located near the border of Algeria and Morocco, and experience camel rides, desert camps, and Berber music.
Tour Information
- Duration: 4 Days & 3 nights
- Departure: 08:00AM
- Starting Location: Ouarzazate
- Ending Location: Ouarzazate
Tour Highlights
- Visit the Unesco world heritage of Ait ben Haddou and Kasbah Amridil
- Drive through roses Valley to Dades Gorge
- Visit the Todra Gorges and drive via the palms grove Tinghir to Merzouga desert
- Ride a camel in Merzouga while assisting to a dramatic sunset
- Sleep under the stars in Erg Chebbi Desert camp
- Drive through the Draa Valley and Nkob, Agdez Back to Ouarzazate
Tour Inclusions
- Transfers from your hotel, riad, airport, or agreed on the place
- Transportation during the trip in an all-terrain vehicle with AC
- Accompanying driver in your own language
- Half board accommodation, breakfast, and dinner
- Night in luxury Desert camp with private bathroom
- Camel excursion through the Erg Chebbi dunes, one camel per person
Tour Exlusions
- Drinks
- Lunches
- Entrance Fees to monuments
- Tickets
Trip Itinerary
We will start our Tour of 4 Days from Ouarzazate to Merzouga Desert from the agreed place in Ouarzazate. The first visit will be the visit to the Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou, a 13th-century fortified village declared a World Heritage by UNESCO.
A place of great beauty as we will see as we stroll through its narrow streets. As a curious fact, this place has been filmed in films such as Gladiator, Sahara or The Kingdom of Heaven, the continuation of the journey to the oasis of Skoura, where we will visit the kasbah of Amridil, a kasbah in perfect condition where we will learn the meaning and use of these buildings.
Now the route of the thousand kasbahs and the Valley of the Roses will bring us closer to the gorges of the Dades river with its spectacular orography. dinner and accommodation in Todra gorge at a hotel/riad.
On the second day of our 4 Days Desert tour from Ouarzazate to Merzouga After breakfast, the trip continues a short distance to Tinghir and the very different Todra Gorges where you can take a short walk to appreciate the steep sides of the gorge and the narrow expanse of the sky above.
From there, you continue to the Erg Chebbi dunes via Tinjdad, and the Oasis of Tatilalet near Erfoud, famous for its Date Festival, and Rissani, which is the seat of the Alaouite family of the present king of Morocco. Erfoud and Rissani.
Between Tinjdad and Erfoud, you can stop to go down into the fascinating underground water channels deep below the earth, which always cool and prevent the evaporation of this source of irrigation, In Erfoud itself, you can stop to see the workings of thousands of fossils made into all sorts of artifacts.
Lunch will be in a Berber village along the way. At the bivouac, you are welcomed with a glass of tea before taking a camel ride to watch the sunset from the top of the dunes.
Later there is dinner and the night in a nomad tent at the foot of the dunes.
After breakfast, you will make the large turn of the dunes while passing by: the 2 oases of Merzouga, the wandering deposit, the village of Khamlia (village of the Gnaoua) mines of MIFISS, the plates desert with the meeting of the Berber nomads of the desert, oasis TISSARDMINE, and return to the hotel.
Today the early risers will be able to enjoy a spectacular sunrise in the desert. After breakfast, we will start the way back to Ouarzazate through Rissani.
the origin of the Alaouite dynasty that reigns Morocco, then we will go through the Berber villages of Alnif and N’Kob and through the Draa Valley to Agdez, where we will have lunch. Then we will continue the 4 days Tour from Ouarzazate to the Merzouga desert.
We will arrive in Ouarzazate late afternoon is also possible to arrive with enough time to take your flight, the end of our 4 Days Desert tour from Ouarzazate to Merzouga Sahara.