5-Day Tour from Casablanca to the Merzouga Desert

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Duration: 5 days / 4 nights
Departure: Morocco tours
Type: Private, tailor-made

5-day tour from Casablanca to Merzouga

5-day tour from Casablanca to Merzouga: a private, tailor-made trip with your own driver and a flexible itinerary.

From Casablanca to the Sahara and Marrakech in five days, with a night in a tent among the Erg Chebbi dunes.

Day 1: Casablanca airport – Fes

Welcome at Mohammed V airport. If you arrive in the morning, a visit to the Hassan II Mosque, built on the Atlantic from 1980 onwards: its prayer hall holds 25,000 worshippers and the esplanade another 80,000. Then the Corniche and on to Fes, where in the evening you will see Bab Boujloud. Night in a riad in the medina.

Day 2: Fes – Midelt – Errachidia – Rissani – Merzouga

Ifrane, the Swiss-style town, the cedar forest with its Barbary macaques, the Tizi n’Talghemt pass and the gorges of the Ziz Valley. Erfoud, home of the date festival in October and capital of fossils. In the afternoon, the Merzouga dunes and a night in a Berber tent in Erg Chebbi.

Day 3: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Gorges

Up around 6 am for sunrise, then breakfast and a shower at the hotel. Through Rissani, Erfoud and Berber villages to the Todra Gorges, ideal for a few hours of hiking, where nomads come down to fetch water. Lunch and on to the Dades. Night in the Dades Gorges or the Valley of Roses.

Day 4: Dades – Ait Ben Haddou – Marrakech

The Valley of Roses (in spring you can visit a distillery), the Skoura palm grove with the 17th-century Amridil kasbah, and Ouarzazate. Near Ouarzazate, the kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou, a UNESCO site and set for Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven and Game of Thrones. Over the High Atlas to Marrakech in the afternoon.