Off-road and Erg Chigaga Desert Morocco Cultural Tour

Day 1 : Marrakech Airport Arrival

Marrakech Airport Arrival

Welcome to the Capital of tourism and people’s first taste of Morocco. After you touch down to Marrakech our shuttle will be waiting for you at the airport with a card by your name.

Day 2 : Marrakech City Tour

Marrakech City Tour

Today, with your private Marrakech born and bred guide, you embark exploring the Red City from its old part with its Medina’s skinny lanes that leads to lavish sites, tombs and religious monuments decked out in marble. Bahia and El-Badii Palace and Saadien’s Tombs will be your targets. Afterward, you driver/Tour Guide will pick you up for the outside medina visit to explore the Majorelle garden, Museum Saint Laurent, Berber Museum. While in Marrakech you will surely encounter thousands of motorcyclists and horse-carts roaming in the city and some of them pull over next the vast square of Jemaa El-Fnaa where it’s carnival night every night and musicians, acrobats, storytellers and slapstick acting troupes tap into the Medina frenetic pulse.

Day 3 : Marrakech – Demnat – Skoura

Marrakech – Demnat – Skoura
Your adventure tour in morocco truly begins with a jump start today, you will picked up by your drive/tour guide east of Marrakech in the central high Atlas accessible through the regional hub of Demnate, a lively town to explore. 6km east of Demnate you encounter the route to the picturesque gorges of Imi n’Ifri, a nature travertine bridge that formed over gorges 1.8 million years ago. The paths are clearly marked by the bridge so that you can walk down into the gorges and through the toothy maw by yourself. Follow the road to Skoura, a
startling range of imposing Kasbahs. Besides, the Ameridil Oued is an extraordinary sight even from the road and the grandest and most extravagantly decorated Ameridil Kasbah.

Day 4 : Skoura – Dades Gorges – Todgha Gorges

Skoura – Dades Gorges – Todgha Gorges
Via the valley of a thousand
Kasbahs and 50km away of Skoura we cannot miss the bottles of local rosewater
for sale in Kelaa M’gouna a small town that is famous for roses and daggers.
After that we take off-road onto the Atlas and the M’goun Mountain to glimpse
some best views along hidden livestock to the ancient rust-red and a series of
crumbling Kasbahs & Ksour line the valley of Dades. While you are there you
should not miss the Monkey toes, one of nature’s wonder. Head to not-to-miss
Todgha gorges.

Day 5 : Dades gorges – Todgha Gorges – N’kob

Dades gorges – Todgha Gorges – N’kob
This morning we’ll head south when you’ll have the
chance to see Todgha Gorges by day light with its gigantic rock walls changing
color to magical effects as the day unfolds. Later on you leave Todgha gorges
towards the rambling Ksar of N’kob with its prehistoric rock-carving sites and
45 mud-brick ksours make you stop by and stare. The name N’kob comes from a
cave that once served as a lodging for nomads.

Day 6 : N’kob – Tamegroute – M’hamid El-Ghizlane

N’kob – Tamegroute – M’hamid El-Ghizlane
Today, we set the compass
for southeast head to Morocco’s wildest desert via Draa valley, a 125km belt of
palm trees oases that eventually merges into the Sahara near M’hamid. We’ll
stop in an unusual place that was once the most important settlement in the
Valley of Draa with its green potry. The Zawiya Naciria is still a site of pilgrimage
and refuge for the mentally-ill and a working Quranic school with a library
that was once the richest in Morocco of ancient illuminated texts containing
4000 books. Leave Temegroute through a dauntingly bleak landscape of
sun-scorched rubble to the end of paved road of M’hamid El-Ghizlane, the climax
of this tour and the gateway to the towering dunes of Erg Chigaga

Day 7 : M’hamid El-Ghizlane – Erg Chigaga Desert 09:00

M’hamid El-Ghizlane – Erg Chigaga Desert
Be prepared to begin your
off-road journey to Erg Chigaga a splendid stretch towering dunes and golden
sand sea, the largest sand sea in Morocco, where you’ll surely choose to drift
off to sleep while watching the twinkling stars after dinner.

Day 8 : Erg Chigaga Desert Roam

Erg Chigaga Desert Roam
Always, the best way to live
the nomad life and explore the desert and hear its windy whisper is by riding
the camel. So, today you will have a chance to fully live a real desert experience
with your camel guide to discover the fauna, flora and history of the desert.
Lunch will be served in the middle of nowhere in the 300 meter-high dunes.

Day 9 : Erg Chigaga – Foum Zguid – Taznakht – Ouarzazate

Erg Chigaga – Foum Zguid – Taznakht – Ouarzazate
Wake by dawn to watch the
sun starting its daily arc with a cool blue morning sky as it replaces the
Sahara shadows just before becoming a glowing ball of fire. You exit Erg Chigaga
head to north to Ouarzazate via a rough-road out of the desert through the 80s
km long dry lake bed of Lac Iriki that made well-known by the Paris-Dakar rally
and through the sahel and reg to Foum Zguid and then 85km north to Taznakht, a
handy stop for a quick bite coffee, petrol and, yes, carpet. Arriving to the
strategically located Ouarzazate.

Day 10 : Ouarzazate – Ait Benhaddou – Tizi n’Tichka – Marrakech

Ouarzazate – Ait Benhaddou – Tizi n’Tichka – Marrakech
This morning you leave
« Ouallywood » and head to Marrakech through some of Morocco’s most
stunning landscapes beginning by Ait Benhaddou, the UNESCO-protected red mud-brick
Ksar from the 11th century. After lunch with a local family and the visit of
the Ksar we drive along craggy cliff tops to tiny Berber villages in the North
Africa’s highest mountain range via the splendid Glaoui Kasbah in Talouate and
the lush green Ounilla Valley all the way through the Tizi n’Tichka pass
(2260m). Arrive to Marrakech.

Day 11 : Marrakech departure 00:00

Marrakech departure

Airport Shuttle

Our Morocco Cultural Tour comes to an end today, we hope that you
spent a good time with us. Pleae note three hours before your departing, your driver will
pick you up to the Airport

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