5-Day Morocco Desert Tour from Marrakech with Ait Benhaddou

• Meet your driver in Marrakech and begin your journey toward Azilal.

• Visit the Ouzoud Waterfalls, one of the most beautiful and popular natural sites in Morocco.

• Continue through the high-altitude pastures known as Agdal, an area frequented by the Ait Atta and Ait Bougmez tribes.

• Enjoy the scenic views of rural Morocco and the High Atlas Mountains.

Dinner and overnight stay at a gîte d'étape in Ait Bougamez.

• After breakfast, travel across the Mgoune Valley via the Ait Imi Pass at 2900 metres.

• Continue through the second pass, Ait Ahmed, also at 2900 metres, with stunning panoramic views of the surrounding three valleys.

• Descend into the Valley of Roses, famous for its rose harvest and traditional cosmetics.

• Travel along the Kasbah Road and explore the dramatic landscape of the Dades and Todgha Gorges.

Dinner and overnight stay at a hotel in the Dades Valley.

• Travel along the southern edge of the Atlas Mountains.

• The scenery becomes increasingly arid and desert-like as you approach the Tafilalet palm grove.

• Discover the first sand dunes and unique desert landscapes.

• Late in the afternoon, take a camel ride through the Erg Chebbi dunes.

• Enjoy the sunset before arriving at your desert bivouac.

Dinner and overnight stay at the bivouac in Merzouga.

• Wake up early to climb the dunes and watch the sunrise over the Sahara.

• Return to Merzouga for breakfast.

• Depart for Rissani, historically a key meeting point for Saharan ethnic groups.

• Continue along the southern slope of Jebel Saghro, passing through the oases of Alnif and Tazarine.

• Follow the Draa River through Morocco's longest palm grove, rich in caravan history.

• Cross the Anti-Atlas Mountains to reach Ouarzazate.

• Climb toward Ait Benhaddou and visit the famous UNESCO-listed kasbah in the late afternoon.

Dinner and overnight stay at a hotel in Ait Benhaddou.

• After breakfast, depart for Marrakech.

• Travel through the scenic Tizi n Tichka mountain pass.

• Arrival in Marrakech.

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