A Travel Dreams 8 Days
DAY 1: Marrakech – Ait Benhaddou – Ouarzazate – Dades Valley
Departure takes place from your riad in Marrakech. We head towards Ouarzazate and Dades gorges, through the Tizi- N-Tichka pass (2260m) in the High Atlas Mountains. From Marrakech to Ouarzazate, you will enjoy a snaky road, beautiful landscapes with different colours and the Berber villages along the way, before Ouarzazate, the doorway to the Sahara desert. You will visit the 1987 UNESCO world heritage site called “Ait Benhaddou”. This ancient fortified Ksar (city) is an attractive site for tours and excursions departing from Marrakech.
The Ait Benhaddou Kasbah is one popular location and has served as a natural decoration for many movies which were shot in the area such as “Lawrence of Arabia and “Jesus of Nazareth” “Prince of Persia” and “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”. Take a walk and cross the dried riverbed with your guide to discover Ait Benhaddou and dominate the Kasbahs once you get to the top of the hill. Afterwards, you will head directly to Ouarzazate, another destination for tours from Marrakech to Merzouga. You will continue via the rose valley and Skoura palm grove to Dades valley and gorges where you spend the first night in a Moroccan hotel, located in the heart of Dades gorges at the south of Morocco. Dinner and overnight in Dades Gorges.
Day 2: Dades valley-Todra Gorge-Anif-Tazarine-Nkoub-Agdz(Tamnougalte)
After a typical Moroccan breakfast, departure from your hotel will be at at 8 a.m, and we take the road of a thousand kasbahs. We drive around the colourful Berber villages of the Dades valley, 45 km further, you will get to Tineghir with it’s beautiful palm grove and Jewish quarter. You continue to the gorges of Todra (Todgha), free time to go on a trek along the canyons of about 300 m high, a preferred place of mountain climbers. We will keep going by the beautiful landscape passing by many berber villages and we will stop in Tazarin for a terrace lunch with a beautiful view of the old village. After lunch we will continue our exploration, passing by the little berber village of Nkob and that will be the last village before we arrive to the Draa valley.
This valley was the caravan route for thousands of years. We cross the river of Daraa and carry on alongside of the river for 15 km of off road, full of beautiful small houses and villages and a view of hundreds of palms in the valley before we arrive to our destination of Tmnougalte, an old village of the 13 century with a beautiful kasbah from the 16 century. That will be our last point for today. Dinner in the hotel in the village ,with some local music
Day 3: Agdez-Zagora-Tamgroute-el m’hamid – Chegaga desert
Breakfast done, a local guide will take you around the place to have some information about the history of the place and the people of the area. Have a little walk in the gardens and when you’re done, we will start our journey in our car to Zagora, famous for the large palmaries and old Kasbahs. It is the last city in the south east of Morocco before the Chegaga desert. Lunch will be there. We will make a stop to visit the Quranique old school and the school museum to have a idea about the pottery of Tamgrout.
After our interesting visit in Tamgroute, we proceed on to El M’hamid the new last village before the desert. We will have a little tea there to say “See you soon civilisation” before we start our adventure of 90 km of dunes and desert landscapes. We will arrive 2 hours before the sunset so you have the chance for a camel ride to bid good bye to the sun for the day in the beautiful big dunes of the Chegaga desert. Dinner, music, it will be a night filled with stars so prepare yourself with 100’s of wishes.
Day 4: Chegaga Desert-Lack Lriki-Foum-Zguid
After the breakfast you can have a couple of hours walking between the dunes or enjoy the silence of the Sahara, after that we will leave the desert by the river of Chegaga and we will make a stop the see where it was the Lack Lriki and the beautiful surrounding nature. Stop to drink a little tea with some nomads of the Chegaga desert and see how they are living, take some pictures with them and we will have lunch under the african trees in the middle of nowhere. We will continue until we arrive to our oasis where we can have a swimming pool with a cool view of the mountain. Dinner in the same place.
Day 5 : Foum-zguid-Taznakt-Taliwin-Taroudant-Agadir-Taghazout
After breakfast the way will take us this time by the sea from Taroudant to Agadir. We will comeback little by little to the civilisation passing by the famous village with the atlas carpets, if you are interested we can make a little stop to know about the carpets, after that we will be in Taliwine ,the town of the Moroccan Saffron and it’s the best place to make some shopping if you like to use Saffron in your kitchen. After lunch we will keep going to Taroudant, the little sister of Marrakech, with the small market and the different kind of the Argan products before we arrive to Agadir.
Known as the princess of the south with the beautiful long beaches, we will make stop to take some souvenirs pictures ,before we go about 20 km to our distination of Taghazout , the village of the surfers with the beautiful artistic colors of the little restaurants and the streets. Dinner will be outside of your hotel this time.
Day 6 : Taghazout
Your free day. It will be your day you can do whatever you want , be at the beach ,take surf lessons ,swim…
Day 7 : Taghazoute-Sidi Kawki-Essouira-Marrakech
After our breakfast we will start our journey by the sea view most of the day passing by the banana village and another small Sous village. The first stop will be in a small fishing berber village and have a little walk in the place, after that we will keep going in our way until we arrive to MOGADOR the old name of Essaouira city, lunch and a spend some time in the city to visit the sea port and the old city, around 5 pm we will leave the city to Marrakech and that will be the end of our beautiful tour trip of the south of Morocco, hoping we have brought your Dream holiday to you.
Riad for the night.
Day 8 : Departure to airport.
