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Day 1: Marrakech
Welcome to Morocco. Your first night will be spent at our pre-expedition hotel in the centre of town. Dinner and overnight - Marrakech
Day 2: Marrakech - Telouat - Ait Ben Haddou - Ouarzazate 220 Km Total 32 km off – road:
After the morning breakfast, reception of your car keys at the hotel desk. Departure to Ouarzazate trues the Tichka pass, crossing the high Atlas at 2260 meters. All along the road you will discover the beautiful Berbers village. Few kilometers after the Tichka you will leave the main road for the Telouet track; the Telouet Kasbah is the highest Kasbahs in Morocco and used to be the house of the Glaoui manager of the south Morocco in the 1930 years. The track will then go down up to Ait Ben Haddou, this fortified village is a site classed by UNESCO. This village has been filmed on many movies such as Lawrence d 'Arabia, Nil Diamante, Cleopatra.
Few kilometers more and you will arrive at Ouarzazate, the Morocco city of movies.
Day 3: Ouarzazate – Agdz – Tansikht - Drâa track - Zagora 165 Kms
Breakfast at the hotel, city sightseeing of Ouarzazate, will visit the Tifoultoute & Taourirt Kasbahs, then departure to Zagora by the Agdz road. This road will cross the black mountain, before to go down to the Draa valley. All along the Draa valley the palm trees produce famous date of Zagora. You will then used the track on the left side of the river to discover small villages under the mountains with their highs walls of earth, very different from the previous houses and looking like Tombouctou village. Let's stop in Tamgroute to visit an old library keeping some Koran words written on gazelle’s skin.
Day 4: Zagora - Tamgroute - M'hamid - Chegaga
Morning departure to Tamgroute to visit the ancient Zaouia, the old Koranic Library, pottery artisans and the underground kasbah. Road to Tagouenite Oasis by Ait Isfould. Arrival at M'hamid and lunch. Desert tracks to Chegaga dunes and enjoy Sun set. Diner and overnight in nomad tents.
Day 5: Chegaga - Foum Zguit - Taznakhte - Ouarzazate
Morning wake up to enjoy Sun rise in Chegaga Dunes. After breakfast we leave to Foum Zguit passing nomad people that live in tents. Visit to Iriqui dry lake and the desert plateau of Akassia. Lunch snack in the Oasis. Ouarzazate via Taznakhte. Dinner and overnight- Ouarzazate.
Day6: Ouarzazate – Skoura – Kelaa Mgouna - Rose valley - Dades Gorges – Boumalne- Tinghir- Todra Gorges 270 Km Total 50 Km Off-road
Leaving Ouarzazate around 8:30am towards Skoura where we’ll have a quick 20 minutes visit of the Amredhyle Kasbah, one of the wonders of the southern “Route of the thousand kasbahs”. Continuing our journey through the Valley of the Roses where cross 50km off-road on Valley tracks.Ait Youl Kasbah . Before heading Boulmane, we lunch on top of Dades Gorges, reaching Tinghir and 20km after, its fabulous views, and the Todra gorges Canyons.
Diner and over night in hotel.
Day 7: Todra - Ouarzazate - Marrakech
After breakfast we start our journey to Marrakesh via Ouarzazate, then the High Atlas road passing Tizi n'Tichka Pass at 2260m high.
Sight Seeing of Marrakech city: A day to discover the city where the Berber and Arabian Nights fantasy is based on reality – magical Marrakech. While your half day tour takes in sights such as the Koutoubia Mosque, Saadian Tombs, Menara Gardens, souks and the medina, you will be blown away by what you see on the famous square of Jamaa El Fna, especially at night. While impeccably dressed chefs grill sausages and kebabs under the stars, musicians, snake charmers, monkey handlers, merchants, medicine men, preachers, storytellers, magicians, dancers and acrobats all perform in a wonderful blaze of humanity. Order a drink from a balcony seat in one of the square’s upstairs cafés, sit back and be amazed.
DAY 8: After breakfast, transfer to the airport for the flight home.
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