12 Days from Casablanca Merzouga Desert Tour

Day 1: Casablanca

Greeting at the airport and transfer to the hotel in Casablancal. Dinner and night.

Day 2: Casablanca – Meknes

After breakfast we will collect you from your hotel to visit the Mosque of Hassan II before departing to the capital city Rabat. In Rabat you can visit to the Mechouar of the Royal Palace, the ruins of Chellah, the Mohammed V Mausoleum and the Hassan Tower. After lunch we will depart to Meknes to arrive early evening.

Day 3 : Meknes – Volubilis – Fes

After breakfast we will take a tour of Meknes including El Hdim square, Bab El Mansour, the massive gate which is the entrance to the old city and the Jewish quarter, the Royal Granaries & the city rampart. We will then depart via Volubilis, the Roman ruins and Moulay Idriss, the holy town. We will continue onto Fes. Dinner and accommodation at a traditional riad.

Day 4 : Fes Explore

You will have a guided tour to discover the the medina and the famous Souks of Fes – its narrow cobbled streets are filled with ancient mosques and towering green-glazed minarets.. You will visit the most beautiful palaces and monuments of Fes. The tour will include a visit to the tannery and the ceramics cooperative to see the traditional moroccan crafts.

Day 5 : Fes – Ifrane – Midelt – Arfoud – Merzouga

Your driver will meet you at your riad or hotel at 8:00a.m., depart and transport (8 hours) over the Middle Atlas mountains through the cedar forests of Ifrane (the Switzerland of Morocco),azrou, Midelt and the Ziz gorges towards Sahara, until the Erg Chebbi dunes appear on the horizon.,after relaxing few minuts in Merzouga,we go to the camels who are waiting to take us on an adventure in the sand dunes. We will spend the night in an equipped camp with drums music in the middle of the Sahara, we go to a high dunes to see the sunset , we will spend the night in nomad tents

Day 6 : Khamlia – Nomad villages – Erg echabbi – Merzouga

We will wake up early to see the spectacular sunrise over the dunes before making our way back to the hotel for a shower. and Afert breakfast heading to Khamlia village to enjoy live Gnawa music, continue through an off-road to have a tour of sand dunes then stop to have a tea with nomads in berber tents you will discover a new sence of life.from there back to the hotel

Day 7 : Merzouga – Arfoud – Tinjdad – Toudra gorges

This morning you’ll travel through the remote volcanic Saghro Massif to Tinehir. Along the way you can visit a fossil workshop for a closer look at Sahara’s wonderful varieties of ancient life. and later we will have free time to walk around the “gorges”, to enjoy the river and the fabulous views.overnight in the hotel.

Day 8 : toudra gorges – tinghir – kalaa magouna – ouarzazate – ait benhaddou.

After breakfast you can wander with a local guide* through palmeries, villages, gardens, and kasbahs for a close look at traditional Berber ways of life. Your next destination is Ouarzazate. You will pass through many Berber villages, and green riverside oasis and barren red hillsides clustered with kasbahs (fortified dwellings that house many families and their livestock). Along the way you’ll drive off road (weather permitting) across the mountains to the remote village of Boutaghrah. You will pass through many Berber villages, and green riverside oasis and barren red hillsides clustered with kasbahs (fortified dwellings that house many families and their livestock). Villages sprinkle the Skoura oasis and the Valley of the Rose, famous for soft Persian rose oil – until Ouarzazate – and continue on to Ait Benhaddou. overnight in the kasbah

Day 9: Ait Benhaddou – Telwet – Marrakech

Today you’ll explore the World Heritage Site of Ait Benhaddou. The village of clustered Berber Kasbahs has been used as a backdrop for more than 20 films and was one of the most important fortress strongholds on the old Salt Road where caravans brought slaves, gold, ivory and salt from Saharan Africa to Marrakech and beyond. Back in the car, you’ll follow the old Salt Road camel caravan route toward Telouet to visit the old Glaoui kasbah. This was once a beautiful palace but now stands crumbling to ruins because no one wants to remember “the vulture” sultan and his son “Thami” who lived here until the 1950’s. After lunch descend the High Atlas mountains Tichka pass to Marrakech, with time to stop and enjoy impressive landscapes over coffee . Arrive in Marrakech at 6 p.m.

Day 10 : explore marrakech

After breakfast, we explore Marrakech’s historical sites: Menara Gardens, Koutoubia Minaret, Saadian Tombs, and the Bahia Palace. Tour the walls of the old medina, Agdal Gardens, the new Sueliz district, the markets, and the famous Djemaa el Fna Square. The famous square – the size of a football field -is as it was 500 years ago: storytellers, vendors of Magic potions, dancers, snake charmers, and acrobats. Dinner, Hotel .

Day 11:Free day and afternoon Transfer to casablanca

,night in the hotel

Day 12 : Transfer To Casablanca airoport.