5-Day Merzouga Desert Tour from Marrakech with Camel Camp Stay

• Get picked up from your hotel or riad.

• Head towards the High Atlas, the mountain range with the highest altitudes in North Africa.

• Continue to Ouarzazate, a village near the High Atlas Mountains and the Draa River valley.

• Travel down the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs as you enter the Dadès Valley.

• Continue along the river road into the narrow valley.

Have dinner and spend the night.

• Depart for Todra Gorges through the vast palm grove of Tinerhir.

• Arrive at the gorge, where you can admire the spectacular landscape.

• Drive to Merzouga, where you will leave your luggage at the auberge and continue into the desert by camel.

• Once in the haima, have dinner, hear the drums echoing in the desert night, and settle into your tent.

• Wake up early to watch the sunrise.

• Visit a nomad family at midday.

• Eat under the shade of a tree and see how Berber pizza is made.

• Set out in a 4x4 to see an oasis in the desert, and also visit the town of Khamlia (village of the blacks), the MIFISS mines, desert landscapes, and the Berber nomads of the desert.

• Return to the haima, have dinner, and spend the night in the tent.

• Watch the sunrise and return by camel to the hotel.

• Travel to Rissani and stop to visit the market.

• Continue on the route to Ouarzazate, crossing the magnificent Draa Valley with its huge palm trees.

• Arrive in Ouarzazate, have dinner, and spend the night.

• Visit the fortified city of Ait Ben Haddou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where several films were made, including Lawrence of Arabia, Gladiator, and The Mummy.

• Depart for Marrakech.