10 days desert tour from Tangier to Marrakech

Day 1 : Tangier Airport / Port to Your hotel :

Pick up from Tangier airport by your driver from around Morocco trips, Visit the famous Hercul's cave, then drive straight to your hotel for rest, overningh in Tangier at your Hotel.

Day 2 : Tangier - Chefchaouen :

Today at Morning time we will head to the Moroccan blue city, Chefchaouen. Passing by the amazing Rif Mountains till we get to the city, where you will have the fisrt contact with this little blue town. We will drop you in your riad, then you can do a walking tour by your own and its very safe to walk around even at night.

Day 3 : Chefchaouen - Rif Mountains - Volubilis - Meknes - Fes :

This Morning we will leave around 9 am and head to Fes city, we'll visit volubilis « the roman ruins », then we continue to Meknes, passing besid Moulay idriss. We will explore Meknes, visit of Bab Mansour, Sahrij souani, and lahdim square. Finelly we reach Fes, where you will spend the night at an authentic beautifull riad.

Day 4 : Fes - Fes (sightseeing) :

After your breakfast, your local guide will pick you up from the riad at 9:30am, to explore the city of Fes and its ancient medina. You will visit, the Royal palace, Bab Boujloud gate, the panoramic view of the whole city for a great sunset. You will have a cultural walking tour with your guide into the authentic medina of Fes, the lunch will be at a local restaurant in the medina, and then your guide will lead you to your riad after the visit.

Day 5 : Fes - Ifran - Azrou - Midelt - Errachidia - Erfoud - Merzouga :

In the morning time at 8:30 am, we start our desert tour to erg chebbi sahara. We'll leave for Midelt through the mountains and the cedar forests of barbary apes monkies in the Middle Atlas. We'll pass by Ifrane, a charming ski resort, and Azrou, an important handicraft centre specialized in the work of cedar wood. We arrive to Midelt for lunch. In the afternoon we will drive towards Erfoud getting to Merzouga sahara desert dusring sunset. Dinner and overnight will be in a your hotel.

Day 6 : Merzouga - Merzouga - tour around the area in 4x4 :

Today we will start an explorative journey of the Desert before your camel trek and spend the night at the sahara camp. Today, you will visit the Gnawa people, originally slaves brought from Sudan, to discover their music and lifestyle. Not far away there is a lake of Merzouga, with its different typs of birds. You may also visit the nomad wire house where so many Berber handicrafts are priced lower than the big cities. On the afternoon you will ride your camel, by an experienced camel man to explore within the golden sand oucean. Dinner in front of your tent where you will spend the night. Your camp is equipped with flush-toilets.

Day 7 : Merzouga - Rissani - Alnif - Todra gorge - Dades valley - Rose valley - Ouarzazate :

This Morning we departure towards Rissani, old Sijilmassa center of the ancient caravans from Toumbouktou to Marrakech as center Salt Market. After walking around the biggest market of the region we continue our trip through a semi-desert landscape till we reach the oasis of Tinghir, one of the wonderful places in Morocco. Then we get to Todra gorges highest and narrowest gorges with 300m which is the popular place for the rock climbers. After your lunch, we continue the way until another impressive valley of Dades and to the city of Roses; the area where the real flower grows called Damskin, a short break if you are interested to see how they abstract a variety of Natural products from Roses in one of the cooperatives there. Then, we drive through a famous road known as” road of thousand Kasbahs”, to reach one of the most important cities of southern Morocco Ouarzazate, known for its intense and cinematic activity, having to his credit films like Gladiator, Troy,Game of trans the Mummy etc made in a big studio Called Atlas Corporation Studios, you can have a visit before we get to the hotel where we will spend the night with dinner and breakfast.

Day 8 : Ouarzazate - Ait Benhaddou - High atlas - Marrakech :

Today we will cross the high atlas to Marrakech, We'll visit the impressive Ait Benhaddou kasbah which is the world heritage site, its an amazing berber village situated on a hill in few km from Ouarzazate city. The place is known by many movies such as Game of transe, lawrence of arabia and so on... We will have lunch in the same town and then we continue our journer towards Tizi ntichka pass where we'll have a stop (2260m) passin by the majistic high atlas mountains to Marrakech, we'll reach the red city early evening and drop you in your riad.

Day 9 : Marrakech - Marrakech (Guided city tour) :

In the Morning from your riad your local guide from the red city will pick you up to discover the amazing Marrakch. The visit includes a rang of sightseeing including : The kotoubia mosque, Saadiens tombs, Majorelle gardens and the famouse busy square where you will have a typical luch with your guide. Afternoon time we'll transfer you to your Riad for rest, if you're interested you can visit the square by your own at evening time for dinner, its has a super fantastic view.

Day 10 : Marrakech - transfer Airport :

Today we'll transfer you to the airport at anytime, depends on your flight back home. End of our 10 days tour from Tangier to Marrakech.