BIG SOUTH DESERT TOUR 10 DAYS

10 Days Marrakech to Desert (Big South)

Day 1: Marrakech

Driver will pick you up from the airport up to your arrival time. Transfer to your hotel/riad. You’ll have the rest of the day to relax while exploring the main square Jemaa el Fnaa and the souks.

Day 2: Marrakech

We will take you to exploring Marrakech “the red city of Morocco”. We will ensure that you see the most important places of historical cultural interest, including the Majorelle Garden, the Koutoubia Tower, the Saadian tombs, the Bahia Palace. After lunch, you will walk through the souks and discover hundreds of handicrafts. Afterwards we bring you back to your hotel.

Day 3: Marrakech – Ghazala Camp

Departs from your accommodation at 7 a.m. We’ll drive through the High Atlas Mountains, with their breathtaking scenery and Berber villages, before continuing to Taznakht, where we’ll stop for lunch before going to visit an association of women who make these well-known Berber carpets using a variety of working methods. Before embarking on a camel ride to take in the sunset, you will be greeted with a glass of mint tea as you arrive in the Chegaga desert. We’ll have dinner there and spend the night in the Ghazala Camp or under the stars among the breathtaking sand dunes.

Day 4: Ghazala Camp

Wake up early to enjoy the sunrise in the dunes. Breakfast facing the dunes and adventure day in the desert. We recommend a camel trek with your local guide. Gentle walk through ergs and regs to discover the fauna, the flora and the nomadic people. Lunch in the middle of nowhere then return to the camp (possible route in 4wd). As options you can add quad excursions, massages, cooking classes. Night at Ghazala Camp

Day 5: Ghazala – Merzouga

After breakfast driver will pick you up from, ghazala Camp and head to Merzouga desert, you will pass through the daraa valley, enjoy the picturestic view of the sahara desert. Arrical in the afternoon to Ghzala before sunset. Camels will be waiting for you to take you to your camp to enjoy the sunset experience.

Day 6: Merzouga – Fes

You will wake up early to enjoy the sunrise that makes the whole Morocco Imperial Cities and Desert Tour worthwhile, have breakfast and take a quick shower in riad before crossing the rocky pathways of Ziz Gorges and the Tizi Ntalghamt pass to Ifrane. Along the way, we will stop in Zaida where you will taste a delicious barbeque with a cup of mint tea and in the Berber village of Azrou to visit the cedar forest where some attractive monkeys live in. Thereafter, we’ll spend some quality time in Ifrane before making our way to Fes to spend the night in hotel there.

Day 7: Fes

We offer for you a city-guide to do your Sightseeing in Fes. On your Fes Sightseeing Tour, you will explore the oldest imperial City of Morocco and enjoy the walk through its alleys and small streets. You can be sure, that you will visit all sites of cultural and historical interest.

• Jewish headquarter, the first Mellah ever built in Morocco during the 16th century
• The famous Al Qaraouiyine University, the oldest in the region
• The Tanneries
• The Attarine Museum
• The Moulay idriss mausoleum
• Tiles Cooperative
• Medina of Fes

Before we will bring you to your Riad, where you will stay overnight you will experience a wonderful panoramic view over the whole Medina of Fes.

Day 8: Chefchaouen

After breakfast we will drive northwards to explore an extremely different culture and lifestyle of Morocco. Chefchaouen, the blue city, is nestled at the feet of the Rif Mountains by which the name chaouen “horns” has been adopted, because of the shape at the top of the mountains. It was founded in 1471 as a small fortress by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa, who is direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed. Chefchaouen fell under Spanish occupation and was emancipated in 1956. It’s known as the blue city for its traditional buildings. We will enjoy walking to explore the white and blue washed walls of the medina and the markets that offer some unique native handicrafts.

Day 9: Rabat

Ghazala Camp driver will pick you up from your hotel or riad in Chefchouen to head to Rabat.

Day 10:  Transfer to the airport

Hope you enjoy your, itinerary tour from Marrakech