Excursion from Fes to Marrakech
Itinerary
From Fes to Marrakech in three days and two nights
Day 1: Fes – Midelt – Erfoud – Erg Chebbi
Beginning in Fez, you’ll be up for an early breakfast before starting your climbing into the Middle Atlas Mountains – a really amazing piece of the world. Twisting through delightful rich backwoods, past rugged shake faces and through Berber towns, this piece of our visits will take a large portion of the day. You’ll at that point dive toward the Sahara desert, ceasing most of the way for lunch in Midelt – a town renowned for its delightful stones and notable fossils.
Proceeding on pleasant mountain roads Oversee the winding Oued Ziz, you, alongside our Desert Tours group, will go through Kasbahs and palm forests making a beeline for the adobe-shaded city of Er-Rachidia, reaching our target of Merzouga in the late evening. After some rest, our group will enable you to saddle up your own particular camel for a protected, excellent excursion through the most staggering and ungracious parts of the world – the Sahara Desert. Venturing for around two hours, you’ll take the stand witnessing a desert dusk before making camp in the hills of Erg Chebbi. Resting in a traditional roving tent under a night sky lit with a large number of stars and encompassed by Berber music and sustenance, both gave by your guide, this guarantees to be a remarkable night.
Day 2: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Gorge
You’ll rise at an opportune time the second day to be watch the dawn over the rises, previously being escorted back to Merzouga by camel by our visits group. After breakfast, you’ll make a beeline for Erfoud and the Todra Gorges beyond that. On the way, you’ll go by wanderer individuals approaching their lives. On arrival, you’ll have the opportunity to climb the 300 meter-tall canyons and view the delightful waterway valleys from an amazing vantage point. These same valleys make for a dazzling voyage as we turn towards the southeast of Morocco. Our desert visits at that point have you proceed past the odd rock pattern of Tamnalt Hill before touching base in Dades Gorge where you’ll spend the night.
Day 3: Dades Gorge – Ouarzazate – Marrakech
The last day of our visits has your gathering heading for the notable town of Ouarzazate via the High Atlas Mountains. Rough terrain for around 25kms in your 4WD, you’ll find holes home to itinerant gatherings over a wide span of time before moving toward a standout amongst the most wonderful and fragrant urban communities of the world.
Going past the Skoura palm desert garden and Kasbah Ait Benhaddou through the Road of One Thousand Kasbahs, you’ll reach Morocco’s Valley of Roses. Ouarzazate is home to the roses providing most of the world’s fragrance needs, but at the same time is known as the Hollywood of Africa, where endless blockbusters including Lawrence of Arabia, Jesus of Nazareth and Gladiator were taped. Your visits group will urge you to discover the city and locate the shrouded pearls, before being dropped off at your riad or inn toward the evening.
A stretched out adventure from Fes to Merzouga lasting four days
Day 1: From Fes – Midelt – Erfoud – Merzouga
Our Desert Tours group will gather you from your inn or riad, and set off with you on your travel toward the Middle Atlas Mountains past forcing rock faces and through fragrant cedar woodlands and affable Berber towns. Intersection the Atlas Mountains, you’ll approach the Sahara Desert and stop for lunch in the antiquated town of Midelt. Here you can peruse various neighborhood handcrafts including floor coverings and covers made in the itinerant style and view a scope of fossils and beautiful minerals pulled from the earth around the town.
Following hilly roads oversee the delightful waters of the Oued Ziz, you’ll pass notable Kasbahs and palm forests close by the adobe-fabricated town of Er-Rachidia. In the late evening you and our desert visits group will arrive in Merzouga on the edges of the Sahara Desert and remain medium-term in an agreeable nearby inn.
Day 2: Merzouga – Rissani – Erg Chebbi
Wake up and have your breakfast quickly it’s time to discover this delightful town on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Visit the old city of Rissani – rise of the leading Alawite Dynasty of Morocco and Prince Moulay er Rachid of Morocco, second in line for the royal position. With visits accessible, Rissani is a place out of another period – discover this impressive Moroccan monument and its engineering styles as well as the amazing castles and sanctuaries including Ksar Oulad Abdelhalim. Become acquainted with the Saharan people somewhat better – effectively spotted on account of their conventional and speacial indigo robes.
At that point, visit Khamlia town in the shadows of Erg Chebbi – the biggest sand desert in Morocco – and tune in to Gnaoua music – an antiquated African Islamic collection of religious melodies, something you won’t notice in any other part of the world. Later toward the evening, our desert visits group will enable you to saddle up your camels for a trek over the sands amid dusk to an itinerant camp in the rises of Erg Chebbi, where you’ll be spending the night. Experience customary music from the multi year-old Berber culture light just by the moon and a night sky brimming with stars. Life-changing.
Day 3: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Gorge
Our desert visits group will awaken you and your gathering early so you can get the dawn over the hills, previously making a beeline for Merzouga by camel. After breakfast around the local area, you’ll start to move toward the desert spring town of Erfoud and the striking 300m high Todra Gorges after that. With beautiful waterway valleys giving a charming scenery, you’ll proceed with your trip from Todra Gorges to adjacent Dades Gorge where you’ll remain the night through roads encircled by the peculiar shake creations at Tamnalt Hills.
Day 4: Dades Gorge – Marrakech
Next you’ll leave Dades Gorge heading towards Ouarzazate through the High Atlas Mountains. Going rough terrain for around 25km, our desert visits group will demonstrate to you a multiple of holes utilized by Berber nomads over a wide span of time as homes. Back headed straight toward Ouarzazate, you’ll go by the Skoura palm desert garden containing the Kasbah Ait Benhaddou, an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here you’ll discover why it’s known as the Road of One Thousand Kasbahs. Reaching Ouarzazate, the desert tour group will drop you off at your settlement and wish you farewell and urge you to discober not only the film sets the town is celebrated for (where Gladiator and Lawrence of Arabia were recorded), however to search out the concealed jewels in the city.
An elective course from Fes more than four days (Fez to marrakech)
Day 1: Fes – Volubilis – Meknes – Midelt
Going with our desert tours group from Fes, you’ll have an early breakfast and make toward Meknes – one of the biggest urban communities in Morocco – with a stop-over in the old Roman remnants of Volubilis. Dating from the third century BC, this notable remainder of a past society highlights excellent mosaics that give you a photo of not simply Roman, but rather Phoenician and Carthaginian life.
Our guides will then have you proceed to Meknes where you can see the entryways of Bab El Mansour and Bab El Khamis and feast in the blessed city of Moulay Idris. After lunch, our visits gathering will set off towards the Middle Atlas Mountains, where the vast majority of our day will be spent winding our way through incredibly lovely and differed territory, including cedar woods, rough shake appearances and Berber towns, before spending the night in Midelt.
Day 2: Midelt – Er-Rachidia – Erfoud – Erg Chebbi (sand boarding)
Eating breakfast in Midelt, you’ll cross the Atlas Mountains and drop toward the Sahara Desert. Going along mountain roads offering unparalleled perspectives of the farmland and Oued Ziz, you’ll pass Kasbahs, palm forests and the adobe-shaded city of Er-Rachidia before landing in Merzouga in the late evening. Arranged on the edges of the Sahara Desert, this is a perfect spot to discover and savor the neighborhood culture. Our desert visits group will then make them saddle up your camel for a two hour trek out into the rises amid nightfall, before camping nightlong at Erg Chebbi at a conventional roving tent and some fun sand boarding.
Day 3: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Gorge
Bookend your stay in the rises with an early arousing to see the dawn before a camel drive back to Merzouga. Breakfast around the local area before setting out to Erfoud and after that onwards to Todra Gorges where you’ll climb almost a thousand feet to the best. Lavish stream valleys give the ideal scenery to the gathering’s trip towards the southeast of Morocco. Wonder about the magnificence of Morocco’s common excellence with a trip to adjacent Dades Gorge going by the striking rock patterns of Tamnalt Hills. Rest the night in agreeable settlement in Dades Gorge.
Day 4 : Dades Gorge – Ouarzazate – Marrakech
After a flavorful breakfast, you’ll travel towards Ouarzazate going through the High Atlas mountains. Our desert Tours group offers something genuinely one of a kind – they’ll take you go 4×4 romping quickly to see a progression of hollows home to itinerant individuals. From that point onward, we’ll proceed not far off of One Thousand Kasbahs toward Ouarzazate with a visit to Skoura palm desert garden and the Kasbah Ait Benhaddou, an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Reaching our last target in Ouarzazate, our guides will drop you off at your inn or riad. We beseech you to explore the town, finding not only the locales where acclaimed films including Gladiator and Jesus of Nazareth were recorded, however the mystery, shrouded diamonds out of the way.
Take a shorter desert visits from Fes with two days and one night
Day 1: Fes – Midelt – Erfoud – Erg Chebbi
An early breakfast kicks you off for multi day of fun and escapade with our desert tours group. The majority of the day will be spent twisting through rich cedar woods and Berber towns and past spiked shake faces in the Middle Atlas Mountains. Most of the way there you’ll stop for lunch in the town of Midelt, well known for its topographical and palaeontological destinations creating numerous wonderful minerals and fossils.
Proceeding over mountain tracks offering clearing perspectives of the field, our gathering will go by Kasbahs and palm forests as we head towards Er-Rachidia with its adobe-hued façade. In late evening we’ll reach Merzouga at the edge of the Sahara Desert. After a little rest, we’ll set up the camels and take off on a life-changing excursion into the Sahara to the rises of Erg Chebbi. Watching the sun set over the sands from camelback is something that our visitors always remember. At night, we’ll influence camp with a gathering of roaming Saharan individuals and remain in a conventional tent under the night to sky. Tune in to Berber music and eat delectable nourishment cooked for you by your guide and appreciate an unparalleled night.
Day 2 : Erg Chebbi – Merzouga – Nekob – Agdez – Marrakech
Emerging early, our aides will give you the ideal end to your stay in the Sahara – dawn over the rises. You’ll at that point come back to Merzouga by camel where you’ll eat and after that proceed onward. Visit the antiquated city of Rissani – the wellspring of the ruling Alawite Dynasty – and meet indigo-robed Saharan local people. Our gathering will then turn west towards the volcanic piles of Sarhro including sensational shake formations and suburb sees.
Your instruction in Morocco’s natural beauty is finished with a visit to Draa Valley, the biggest desert spring in the nation. Subsequent to respecting its lovely, palm-lined waters we’ll make a beeline for the town of Agdez and the UNESCO site of Ait Benhaddou – a great and all around protected Kasbah and fortification where numerous films have been shot including Lawrence of Arabia, Gladiator and Game of Thrones.
Our desert Tours group will then lead the gathering onwards to High Atlas Mountains, cross them through the most astounding roads go at Tizi-n-Tichka at a height of more than two kilometers. This piece of the trek offers noteworthy and unsurpassable views of valleys, mountains and adjacent towns. After this, we’ll drop you off at your riad or lodging at night.
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