3-Day Marrakech to Fez Desert Tour via Aït Ben Haddou and Merzouga

Travel over the Tizi n'Tichka Pass (2260 m) while enjoying superb views of the mountains. Berber villages line the way. Stop for lunch and tour the World Heritage site of Aït Ben Haddou.

Pass through Ouarzazate and continue towards the Valley of Roses and the Dades Valley. Visit Skoura oasis with its authentic 17th-century kasbah, the Valley of a Thousand Kasbahs, and the Dades Gorge. Stay overnight at a hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel. Depart for the Todra Gorge, a massive fault rising to 300 m in a narrow valley thickly studded with palm groves and Berber villages.

After lunch in the gorge, continue further into the desert to Merzouga, with stops along the great dunes of Erg Chebbi. There, take a camel ride of about one hour and a half to reach your bivouac tent.

Your camel guide will wake you up early. In the morning, watch what may be the best sunrise of your life and take lovely pictures, then return by camel to the hotel for breakfast and a shower.

Continue through the Tizi Ntalghamt Pass to Midelt. You will have a break in Zaida for lunch (barbecue with a glass of mint tea). Before arriving in Fez, stop for pictures of wild monkeys in the cedar forests of Azrou. Drop-off at your accommodation.