3-Day Desert Tour from Marrakech with Merzouga Camp and Camel Trek

• Embark on a 4x4 Marrakech desert excursion from Marrakech to Dades Valley, crossing the Tizi n'Tichka Pass (2,260 m high) in the High Atlas Mountains. From Marrakech to Ouarzazate, enjoy beautiful landscapes with different colours and Berber villages along the way.
• Visit Kasbah Ait Benhaddou, a Human heritage famous site used in films such as Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, and Kingdom of Heaven. Eat lunch near the site in a typical restaurant.
• Continue further south to Ouarzazate, the gateway to the Sahara.
• Explore the cinema studios and Kasbah Taourirt.
• Drive eastwards to the green Dades Valley and the City of Roses via the fascinating Skoura palmery.

Dinner and overnight stay in Dades Valley.

• Drive along the Road of 1000 Kasbahs and around the colourful mud Berber villages of the Dades Valley for 40 minutes.
• Travel beside the volcanic range of the Sghro Anti-Atlas Mountains and reach Todra, with its beautiful palm grove and Jewish mud villages. Follow the beautiful winding road to the Todgha Gorges, then walk along the gardens into the canyons, which are about 400 m high and are a popular place for rock climbers.
• Afterwards, drive through the stone desert across palm valleys to the Erg Chebbi dunes in the Merzouga Sahara Desert.
• Have a lunch break in the middle of the empty Saharan landscape at a restaurant, then head to Erg Chebbi, the highest dunes in Morocco.
• Have afternoon tea in the middle of the dunes and enjoy the most beautiful sunset in the world from the dunes in the middle of nowhere.
• Spend the night in a Sahara dunes camp under nomadic tents or outside under the shooting stars. Play drums with the nomads.

Dinner and overnight in the Merzouga Sahara Desert.

• Enjoy the dunes of Erg Chebbi, 20 km away from Algeria.
• Eat breakfast in the camp and ride back from the dunes.
• Afterwards, drive across acacia tree savannas along the black stone desert, with a toilet and drinks break in Alnifa, a small Saharan town in the southeast of Morocco.
• Drive to Draa Valley, the longest and most preserved palm valley of Morocco, famous for being the Jewish centre for 1,000 years.
• Reach Agdez dates market, once used as a caravan crossroads for nomadic Berber tribes, and then head north to Ouarzazate after crossing the Anti-Atlas Mountains.
• Continue to Marrakech via Tizi n'Tichka Pass.

Overnight in Marrakech after a long day's drive.