2 days sahara tour from ouarzazate to merzouga
2 days Sahara tour from Ouarzazate to Merzouga. Join us on an unforgettable excursion with Berber natives and experience the desert in a way you’ve never seen it before.
TOUR DETAILS
Overview
This 2 days Sahara tour from Ouarzazate to Merzouga Desert is one of our desert tours from Ouarzazate that allow you to experience Morocco’s southeast region. We will spend the next two days exploring the Kasbah Ameridil, which boasts panoramic views of the Todra valley and gorges. Discover the enchanted Sahara desert, which includes a camel trek and overnight camping in a desert camp. Take in the spectacular views of the Draa Valley and Anti-Atlas Mountains. The Tour concludes in Ouarzazate.
Highlights
- Promenade along the Todra oasis’s stream to the beautiful gorges.
- Spend time in Ait Ben Haddou’s Casbah and discover the Berber village.
- Taking a camel ride across the dunes.
- Spend the night in the Merzouga desert camp after enjoying a Berber meal under the stars.
- Enjoy the sights of Erg Chebbi and its magnificent sunset from the back of your camel.
includes
- PICK UP AND DROP OFF AT YOUR ACCOMMODATION.
- AC PRIVATE FUELED TRANSPORTATION (4WD VEHICLE, VAN, MINIBUS).
- A DRIVER WHO SPEAKS ENGLISH OR A DRIVER ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING GUIDE.
- OVERNIGHT IN A DESERT CAMP (PRIVATE TENTS).
- MERZOUGA CAMEL TREKKING.
- BREAKFAST AND DINNER.
excludes
- LUNCHES
- DRINKS
- MONUMENT FEES
- TIPS AND GRATUITIES
Itinerary
The first day: Ouarzazate - Dades Valley - Todra Gorges - Merzouga Desert
After picking you up from your hotel in Ouarzazate, which means “noiseless or without confusion” in the Berber language, we’ll see the Taourirt kasbah, one of Morocco’s most beautiful ksars. The next place to visit is the Rose Valley, a beautiful place to see more than 700,000 palm trees and a lot of kasbahs in the area. In this valley, damascene roses are grown for rosewater, which is very valuable. The Rose Festival is held here every year in May, and it is a significant museum for Moroccan history.
Finally, when we arrive in the Dades valley, we’ll have one of the most spectacular views of the Dades Valley from a strategic lookout in the mountains, where we’ll be able to admire a large number of kasbahs and the picturesque features of each one. From Tinerhir, an excellent asphalt road travels up the valley to the gorge and then to the desert. We’ll make a few stops along the way and eventually arrive in the Todra Gorges. The scenery is breathtaking. The area is populated by locals, who can be seen in their adobe villages.
These gorges are popular with rock climbers because they have rock walls in a lot of different shapes. After a short walk through the Todra gorges, you’ll have some time to have lunch in Tinejdad or Touroug. Then, we’ll keep going through the desert until we reach the spectacular dunes of Merzouga. Camel rides will take us one hour to our nomad camp in the middle of a sea of dunes. We’ll stay there until the sun comes up again tomorrow morning (Erg Chebbi). Before dinner, we’ll watch the sunset from the top of a dune and then sleep beneath a starry sky in a tent.
the second day: Merzouga - rissani - nkob - agdez - ouarzazate
We have to get up very early in the morning to see the sunrise. If you want to see the best sunrise you’ve ever seen from the top of a nearby dune in the middle of the desert, you have to get up early. After breakfast, we rode back to Merzouga on camels or in a vehicle to go back through Ouarzazate.
Leaving towards the town of Rissani, we’ll walk around the area’s most famous traditional and largest market, looking for locally manufactured goods and arts and crafts. Later, on the way to the Draa valley, we’ll make some stops to enjoy the beautiful views of the river that gives the valley its name. It’s the longest river in Morocco, going through the whole country before reaching Mauritania. Our trip continues through the Anti Atlas, and going towards Ouarzazate, and conclude our services.
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Know before you go
- The cost of the tour is based on the number of people in your group and the kind of accommodation you stay in during the trip.
- The drive back from Erg Chebbi to Marrakech on the last day is somewhat lengthy. Please prepare yourselves for it.
- A 4×4 vehicle can easily seat up to four adult guests. However, if your tour has more than five individuals, a van will be used.
- Local guides and (if applicable) entrance fees are not included. You make direct payments to suppliers for those.
- The pick-up time for your desert tour is negotiable. Between 07:30 and 08:00 AM is the best time.
- The 3-day itinerary can be customized to be a 4-day Marrakech to Merzouga excursion with an additional night at Erg Chebbi, or halfway between Merzouga and Marrakech.