Kasbahs & Desert tour

Meet at Marrakech and transfer to your hotel.

The rest of the day is free for you to relax or for a short orientation tour. Marrakech is a city that enchants every visitor with its great old Medina surrounded by magical mud walls and its numerous monuments. Marrakech also boasts lovely gardens and fresh non-polluted air. Dinner and accommodation in the hotel.

After breakfast, in the morning you'll enjoy a really rewarding trip. 

The spectacular Tizi In Tichka pass, about 100km of curves on the High Atlas mountain, is there to make you start appreciating what the south of the kingdom really looks like and how magnificent it is.

We will travel through Ouarzazate to the beautiful village of Skoura. After the visit of Skoura we will continue our trip through the one thousand and one Kasbah routes heading towards El Kella M’Gouna, famous for its roses festival: a yearly celebration of the rose which is the main product of this small but beautiful village.

Then it's on to Dadess and its beautiful valley before continuing our trip to Tinghir for dinner and overnight. 

Tinghir is a big village with a very special charm; a big oasis of more than 40 km very rich with most sorts of fruits, thousands of palm trees, olives and much more.

Morning walk through the old mud houses, making your way to wander for some time in the very green oasis along very narrow paths, meeting women coming back from their small green fields on mules backs to feed their domestic animals: a unique experience.

We will continue northwards to the Toudra Gorges, about 300 m deep. We then will leave Tinghir via Tinjdad to Erfoud. After visiting Erfoud we will continue via Rissani to Merzouga for dinner and overnight by the dunes. Optional two hours camel ride to witness the great and the most beautiful sunset and sun rise over the dunes.

The experience in Merzouga is very rewarding as everything there is unique: the golden dunes, the moon, the stars, the sun. We will leave Merzouga and its very peaceful world through the Berber villages of Alnif and Tazarine to Zagoura.

An excursion to the famous Tamgroute library with its very old Coranic scripts dating back to the 12th century is not to be missed. Dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, journey to Agdez, a Berber village with charming mud houses and nice people.

After the visit of the village we will continue to Ouarzazate, Morocco’s Hollywood with big film studios. In Ouarzazate visit to the famous Glaoui Kasbahs: Taourirt and Tifoultout. Dinner and overnight.

The city tour of Ouarzazate includes Tourirt Kasbah, considered as one of the most beautiful kasbahs in Morocco and Tifoultout Kasbah with its remarkable views over the valley. Visit the film studios where many great films were and are still being shot.

Continue on to the wonderful fortified village of Ait Ben Haddou, the most spectacular fortress village in the south of Morocco and the setting where many great films were shot. Leave Ait Ben Haddou crossing the High Atlas Mountains via spectacular Tiz-In Tichka pass (2260m) to Marrakech for overnight.  

After breakfast, full day city tour of Marrakech with a local guide. Marrakech with Jemaa El Fna square, the medina, the gardens, the very old monuments and much more has many things to attract you with.

Morning visit to the Koutoubia Minaret and the lovely gardens next to it, followed by a visit to the Saâdian tombs and the Bahaia palace. Menara gardens also have much to tell you, before wandering through the very narrow and crowded souks. Overnight in Marrakech.

After breakfast, transfer to Marrakech airport.