Adventure to Sahara

Upon arrival to Marrakech, a city which has long been the crossroads linking sub-Saharan Africa with North Africa, a lovely city, on a site occupied since Neolithic times, Marrakech is enchanting with its skylines framed by the snow-capped High Atlas Mountains to the south, its twelfth century brick-red fortress walls, its Moorish architecture, busy souks and the world famous Jamaa El Fna Square. Check at the hotel, and then enjoy a leisurely afternoon guided orientation tour of the city including the Majorelle Gardens of Yves St. Laurent. 

Accommodation

Riad or Hotel at Marrakech (1 night)

Included Activities

Marrakech - Djemma el Fna square
Marrakech- entrance Majorelle Gardens of Yves St. Laurent

Optional Activities

Dinner at a Typical restaurant

After breakfast meet your tour guide of Marrakech. The city tour   will take you to the twelfth century Koutoubia Mosque, the sixteenth century Saadian Tombs and the nineteenth century Bahia Palace.  

     After lunch, visit a craft co-operative to learn about Moroccan handicrafts. Afterwards we will transcend you through time as to take a walk inside the souks.   Amongst the craftsmen and traders with its mazes of alleyways filled with beautiful potteries, apothecaries, spices, silver jewelry, blacksmiths, and wooldying. The walk inside the medina, finishes at the world famous Jamaa El Fna Square, a World Heritage Site. Experience the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of this magical place complete with jugglers, fortune tellers, snake charmers, dancers and herbalists. 

Accommodation

Riad or Hotel at Marrakech (1 night)

Included Activities

Marrakech - craft co-operative
Marrakech- Koutoubia Mosque
Marrakech- entrance Saadian Tombs
Marrakech – Walking Tour
Marrakech - Djemma el Fna square

Optional Activities

Lunch at a Typical restaurant
Dinner at a Typical restaurant

Meals Included

Breakfast

After breakfast, depart for Ouarzazate, the gateway to the Sahara Desert.  Cross the high Atlas Mountains with its beautiful landscapes. En Route, visit the Kasbahs (fortress’) of Telouet and Ait Benhaddou, an exceptionally well-preserved Kasbah which was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 by UNESCO. Ouarzazate is the center of the Moroccan film industry where many famous international films have been made including: the Gladiator, the Four Feathers, Romancing the Stone, Cleopatra, the Sheltering Sky, Jewel of the Nile and Lawrence of Arabia. 

Accommodation

Hotel at Ouarzazate(1 night)

Included Activities

Telouet -  Visit the Telouet Kasbah
Ait Benhaddou – Visit the Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou

Optional Activities

Ouarazate - Atlas Movie Studios - 
Ouarzazate - Kasbah Taourirt - 
Lunch at a Typical restaurant

Meals Included

Breakfast
Dinner 

After breakfast, drive along the Route of a Thousand Kasbahs to the Dades Valley, a spectacularly beautiful area of contrasting colors and terrains. At the head of the valley is the Dades Gorge, a beautiful example of the intricate and effective irrigation systems used in this area. The lush green willows, roses and alfalfa sway in the gentle breeze at the bottom of the valley using water channeled from the river while the sides of the gorge are a barren, stark shade of brick red. Nearby is Todra Gorge, above the old town of Tinerhir and the ruined Glaoui Kasbah, a palatial structure intentionally built to intimidate invaders. The gorge is a dramatic 3,200 ft. canyon in the mountains whose massive walls rise steeply, cutting off sunlight from the gravel riverbed far below.

  The Dades and Todra Gorges provide some of the best seasonal bird watching sites in Morocco, with larks, sand grouse, buzzards, falcons, warblers, and finches. 

Accommodation

Hotel (1 night)

Included Activities

Dades Valley - bird watching sites
Tinghir - Glaoui Kasbah

Optional Activities

Lunch at a restaurant

Meals Included

Breakfast
Dinner

After breakfast, depart for Erfoud across the Tafilalet valley known under the name of small Mesopotamia. Stop on the way to visit the old system of irrigation used since immemorial time called Khattara system. Arrive to Erfoud, stop for lunch and to visit a fossil factory center where 500 million year old fossils are extracted, polished and exported around the globe. From Erfoud,drive into the Sahara Desert to Merzouga, the site of the Merzouga Dunes, the highest in Africa and one of the film locations for Lawrence of Arabia. Camp overnight in a nomad tent, furnished inside with a comfortable clean cot, fresh linens and blankets set on colorful Moroccan carpets.Take an optional camel trek to watch the sunset behind the Sahara dunes.

Accommodation

Desert Camp (1 night)

Included Activities

Erfoud - visit the old system of irrigation
Erfoud - visit the fossil factory center
Tinghir - Glaoui Kasbah

Meals Included

Breakfast

Dinner at your encampment whilst experiencing the breathtaking sight of stars in the desert sky. 

In the early morning wake up  for an optional camel ride to see the sunrise over the sand dunes followed by breakfast at your camp.

 Then depart for Zagora, a town located in the Draa Valley, founded by the Arabs in the twelfth century, Zagora was the starting point for the sultan Ahmad al-Mansour’s legendary desert crossing to conquer Timbuktu in 1591.The route was used before and after that to trade Atlas mineral salt for African gold. Today, a sign post informs you that the trip is 52 days by camel! At Zagora, camel caravans from the south were able to break their journey and rest before heading to the east and north of Africa. Even today the town continues to be the main marketplace of the south. 

Accommodation

Hotel or Riad at Zagora (1 night)

Included Activities

Stop for photos and Enjoy the Draa Valley
Agdez – Enjoy the oases of  palm grove 
Tamegroute - Ancient Library 
Tamegroute - Underground Village guided tour
Visit of the Ceramic Quarter
Zagora - visit the old system of irrigation

Meals Included

Breakfast

Dinner

After  breakfast  begin your return to Marrakech travelling up the beautiful Draa Valley, one of the largest valley in Morocco crossed by  a huge river  called Draa .The  region is  fertile,  located though  the extension  of the river ,palm-shaded terraced farmland which is fed by a labyrinth of irrigation channels. All habitation is concentrated in groupings of houses called ksours, usually on hillsides high above the irrigated farmland,then continue over the High Atlas Mountains to arrive in Marrakech  crossing the high pass of Tichka 2260m

Accommodation

Hotel or Riad at Marrakech (01 night)

Included Activities

Agdez – Enjoy the oases of  palm grove 
Visit of the Ceramic Quarter

Optional Activities

Lunch at a restaurant
Dinner at a restaurant

Meals Included

 Breakfast

Departure after check out, you will be transported to the airport for your return flight home. 

After breakfast at your hotel, visit Taourirte Kasbah, the residence of
pasha Glaoui who ruled the south of Morocco during French protectorate.
The Kasbah is a sample of the Berber architecture in the area since
immemorial time. Transfer to visit the fortified village of Ait Ben Haddou,
chosen by UNESCO as World Heritage Site. After lunch, drive to Marrakech
crossing the High Atlas Mountains with its fabulous landscapes and stop at
the highest pass called Tichka 2260 m high.

Accommodation
- Hotel or Riad at Marrakech (01 night)
Included Activities
- Ouarzazate visit Taourirte Kasbah
- Visit of Ait Ben Haddou
Optional Activities
- Lunch atAit Ben Haddou
Meals Included
- Breakfast
- Dinner

After breakfast drive to visit Anima gardens one of the best gardens
all over the world designed by Andre Heller .After visit of the Aromatic
garden in Ourika have a lunch and back to Marrakech and enjoy visiting
Jamaa El Fna Square, recognized as a verbal World Heritage Site by the
U.N.E.SC.O. Here you will see a medieval scene, complete with jugglers,
fortune tellers, snake charmers, dancers, herbalists, food and juice vendors,
experience all of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and contrasts of this exotic
place.

Accommodation
- Riad or Hotel at Marrakech (1 night)
Included Activities
- Marrakech - visit Anima gardens
- Ourika - the Aromatic garden
- Marrakech – Enjoy Djemma el Fna square

Optional Activities
- Lunch at a Typical restaurant
- Dinner at a Typical restaurant
Meals Included
- Breakfast

Breakfast at the hotel head on to visit the new Aman museum, a
unique museum in Morocco the visit will take you to know about irrigation
systems used in Morocco in agricultural field since immemorial time . Drive
to visit the Medina with its colorful market visit Madersa Ben Youssef and the
private Museum of Marrakech.
After lunch depart to Casablanca crossing many fertile plateaus like
Rhamna and Chaouia Dinner and overnight in Casablanca.

Accommodation
- Hotel at Casablanca (01 night)
Included Activities

- Marrakech -Visit Aman museum
- Marrakech-Medina Walking Tour
- Marrakech -Visit Madersa Ben Youssef
Optional Activities
- Lunch at a Typical restaurant at Casablanca
- Dinner at a Typical restaurant at Marrakech
- Meals Included
- Breakfast

After breakfast you will be transferred to Mohamed V airport for flight back
home.
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