09- days Desert Morocco Tour From Fes To Marrakech

After breakfast, start your guided city tour of Fez, once the capital of the kingdom before 1912. Your visit today will revolve around exploring Fez the Medina which is a World Heritage Site, according to the UNESCO, and it was founded in the 9th century and it is home to the world’s oldest university.
Your local guide will show you around the major sites like Bou-Inania and Attarin Medersa, the tanners, Ess-Seffarine Square, Moulay Driss tomb, El-Nejjarine square, and the cabinet makers’ souk, the Hebrew district ‘Mellah’. In your schedule, you will have a pottery workshop (optional) with a pottery master so that you get to have a full Moroccan experience. After lunch (optional) at a local restaurant, you are free to either choose to go back to your hotel or stroll in the narrow alley of the old town on your own.
The more you know: each October Fez held one of the largest and well-known Sufi festivals with performers from around the world

After breakfast, you’ll leave Fez to the Desert passing through the Middle Atlas Mountains and the Berber village of Immouzer Kandar and Ifrane, a wonderful mountains village, referred to as “the Switzerland of Morocco”. we arrive in the cedar forest of Azrou where we meet some Barbary macaque monkeys. We will continue at a time of Midelt, a beautiful village famous for its sweet apples, where we will stop for lunch. In the afternoon, after lunch, we will continue towards the desert of Merzouga via Errachidia and Erfoud. You will be travelling through the fascinating Tiz Ntalghamt pass and the Ziz Gorge, taking in views of the High Atlas plateau; you’ll notice how the scenery changes to reveal hints of the desert as you approach the city of Errachidia. Afterwards, you will travel along the luxuriant Ziz Valley, stopping for panoramic views along the way to Erfoud and Rissani. Arrive at Merzouga guided by an experienced camel man to explore within the mysterious sand-sea of the Erg-Chebbi. On your way, pause to watch the sunset then continue your ride – seemingly in the middle of nowhere! Dinner and overnight will be under the stars, in a traditional Berber nomad tent

After breakfast, we will depart to the holy city of Er-Rissani, a site where the Alaouite dynasty is buried in the mausoleum of Moulay Ali Sherif, visit the ruins of Ksar Abbar, a kasbah that dates from the 17th century. Rissani is surrounded by 360 ksars (fortified villages with many towers) and has a big souk (an open market), held three times a week. After we will have a tour of Rissani’s famed Palmeri and a glimpse of life as it is lived on the edge of the desert. Visit the ksar Oulad Abdelhalim, which was built around 1900 for Sultan Moulay Hassan. And we continue the trip through the open black desert back to Merzouga. Overnight will be under the stars, in a traditional Berber nomad tent

After breakfast you’ll leave for Rissani, Tinghir, and Boumalne Dades; the line of Kasbahs that give this extremely popular route its nickname: Valley of a Thousand Kasbahs. Begin just before the town of Skoura, which is Kalaa Mgouna, the rose city where you could purchase rose water and continue to Ouarzazate, the Hollywood of Africa, whose geography and beautiful landscapes have attracted many world-class movie producers. Possible visit (if there is no production event) to the movie studio, a well-known chromatographic centre used for blockbuster productions including “Astrix and Cleopatra” directed by Alain Chabat and the Oscar-winning “Gladiator” directed by Ridley Scott.

After breakfast, we will depart early for Marrakesh. Today we will visit the famous Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah, one of the most intriguing red earth castles lining the ancient Route of the Kasbahs, our trip will continue through the dramatic landscape of the High Atlas Mountains passing through the Berber town of Taddart, and over than 2260m high Tizi-in-Tichka pass, where we will stop for lunch before we continue to Marrakesh.

Today you will get the chance to wake up and live Marrakech, a dream of many, so be sure to make the best of it. After your breakfast our local guide and driver guide will be waiting for you to start was named after the French painter, Jacques Majorelle who dedicated a lot of effort and passion to this art piece. After Majorelle let’s continue after it to Menara and though the name in Arabic translates to “lighthouse”, it is actually a pavilion with a basin and a garden of orchards and olive groves. We will be heading afterwards to the Koutobia Mosque and through the Jewish quarter called Mallah, viist the Bahia palace before to finish your visit with a carriage ride or “Koutchi” to Jamaa El Fnaa (optional).
The more you know: Marrakesh is known for being holy, Moroccans call it “the land of the seven men” who were huge religion and Sufi scholars that gave their lives for knowledge and worship guided city tour of the “Ochre City”. We will visit first in the morning the Majorelle Garden which was named after the French painter, Jacques Majorelle who dedicated a lot of effort and passion to this art piece. After Majorelle let’s continue after it to Menara and though the name in Arabic translates to
“lighthouse”, it is actually a pavilion with a basin and a garden of orchards and olive groves. We will be heading afterwards to the Koutobia Mosque and through the Jewish quarter called Mallah, viist the Bahia palace before to finish your visit with a carriage ride or “Koutchi” to Jamaa El Fnaa (optional).
The more you know: Marrakesh is known for being holy, Moroccans call it “the land of the seven men” who were huge religion and Sufi scholars that gave their lives for knowledge and worship

Because all good stories start with a lot of courage, today you get a free day at Marrakech to discover it on your own and have one of those fascinating “once in Marrakech ….’’ Stories

Wake up and enjoy a lovely breakfast at your hotel before heading to Marrakech Menara Airport to catch a flight back home.