3-Day Desert Adventure from Fez to Marrakech with Merzouga Camp

• Meet your tour guide at 08:00 in the morning for pickup from your accommodation in Fez, then drive towards the Merzouga Desert.
• Pass through Ifrane, a winter ski resort built by the French in the 1930s in a non-Moroccan style to resemble a Swiss village. Continue to the cedar forest in Azrou, where you will see the monkeys.
• Drive across the Middle Atlas Mountains. Most of the day will be spent winding through beautiful forests, springs, jagged rock faces, and Berber villages as you cross the Atlas Mountains and begin descending towards the Sahara Desert. Halfway through the journey, stop for lunch in the town of Midelt, famous for its fossils and rocks.
• Continue on the road towards Merzouga, stopping for panoramic views over the huge oasis of palm trees.
• Reach Merzouga in the afternoon, where you can rest and enjoy mint tea while your guide and camels wait for you.
• Begin camel trekking across the sandy dunes of Erg Chebbi. Enjoy the beauty of the sunset from your camel, and after 2 hours reach the desert camp to spend the night in a Berber tent. At your desert shelter, the camels will be hobbled and mint tea will be served. After a beautiful dinner, enjoy a campfire and traditional drum playing.

Dinner and overnight in a Berber tent.

• Wake up early and take a walk over the sand dunes to watch the sunrise from just behind the Algerian border, about 50 km from Merzouga.
• Ride the camel back to the hotel, where you can take a shower, have breakfast, relax, and enjoy the opportunity to take nice pictures.
• Head out towards the gorges, departing along the road used by the Paris-Dakar Rally. Reach a cave where you can discover how local people extract fossils from the heart of the earth. Stop to visit Rissani, the town where the Alaouite dynasty was established and which still rules Morocco today. Along the way, see the historic monument of Sijilmassa, once a major center of desert trade, the kasbahs in the Rissani area, where there are more than 350 kasbahs, the Mausoleum of Moulay Ali Cherif, the founder of the Alaouite dynasty, the Museum of lfida, the souq, and the area's large market.
• Continue through the Ziz Valley and gorges. Take a walk in Todra Gorge to enjoy the beauty of the rivers and mountains.
• Reach Dadès Gorge.

Dinner and overnight in nice traditional kasbahs.

• Have breakfast and go for a walk in the gorges to enjoy the beauty of the mountains.
• Stop to visit the town of Ouarzazate, the Kasbah of Taourirt, and the Atlas Studios, the largest and most famous movie studios in Africa.
• Head to the Fint Oasis near Ouarzazate. Then take the Tizi n'Tichka road, stopping for lunch in a small village.
• Reach Marrakech in the late afternoon for the end of the tour.