Three days on the road from Marrakech to the Sahara, by Tizi n'Tichka, Aït Benhaddou and the Dadès valley, with a camel ride into the dunes and a night in a desert camp.
Return to Marrakech, or continue to Fès.
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Total
€480
€240 per person
Up to 12 travellers per booking
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The places, the food and the nights on this program. Keep scrolling to travel through them, or select a photo to see it larger.
Scroll and the van drives the 1,190 km with you. Open any stop to see it, or use the map to look ahead and jump to any day.
Day 1 of 3
Dadès Gorge
Over the Tizi n'Tichka pass, a stop at the ksar of Aït Benhaddou, and east along the valley of the kasbahs to the Dadès Gorge.
330 km, 7 hours with stopsBy Toyota Land Cruiser, over Tizi n'Tichka
Night 1
Rooms set back into the rock with balconies over the river. Dinner is lamb with prunes and almonds.
Day 2 of 3
Erg Chebbi
The longest stretch of open country. After the Todra Gorge the road crosses the hammada, flat black stone to the horizon, past lines of well heads that mark the old underground canals. Then the dunes show up on the skyline, orange, all at once.
300 km, 6 hours with stopsBy Toyota Land Cruiser, via Todra and Rissani
Night 2
Canvas tents with real beds and blankets, a washroom tent with hot water, and a fire in the middle. You stay two nights.
Day 3 of 3
Marrakech
Sunrise from the dunes, breakfast at camp, and the long road back over the Atlas, arriving in Marrakech in the evening.
560 km, 10 hours with stopsBy Toyota Land Cruiser, back over the Atlas
The end of the road
1,190 km in all, with the same guide the whole way.
The vehicles and the animals that carry you, and the people who drive and lead them.
4x4Up to 6 travellers
For the mountain passes and the desert tracks: high, steady and comfortable on rough roads.
Mohamed, our driver for 15 years: licensed, careful on the passes, speaks English and French.
CamelThe last hour into the dunes, at sunset, to the camp, and back at dawn.
A camel man from Merzouga leads each line.
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Ask about this tourImlilMerzougaMarrakechRoad trip
Ten days by road: the High Atlas, the kasbah valleys, two nights in the dunes, then north through the cedars to Fès.
