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Day 1: Marrakech


Welcome to Morocco! Be sure to arrive in time for your pre-departure meeting at 6:00pm. 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 – 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 4: Todra Gorges – Tinjdad – Touroug- Erfoud Merzouga 160KmTotal 35 Off-road


Morning walk around the Tinerghir Palm Plantations. We drive to Tinjedad to have lunch and visit Touroug Palm Plantations reaching Erfoud town for a visit of a local fossil craft workshop. Continuing to the fascinating dunes of Erg Chebbi, The Dunes of Merzouga. We now switch from our 4×4 to camels, where you’ll be taken on a camel ride on the dunes to enjoy the Sun set on the dunes and overnight on a true nomad bivouac.
Dinner and over night in a bivouac.

 

Day 5: Merzouga - Khamlia - Taouz - Ouzina- Khamlia - Mharch 185Km Total Off-road


Early morning in order to admire the sunrise ,return on camels to the the bottom of the dunes.after breakfast departure for the village of Khamlia (village of Gnaoua which make music in the desert) with a stop for a tea with ment at the gnaoua house, then departure for Taouz and engravings repistres then descent of Ziz Wadi by the track of Paris-Dakar passing by small village lost in the desert of Ouzina (lunch in the place) and Ramlia, after Ramlia crossed very sandy of the wadi Rheris and track which follows the mountain that leads to M’harch
Dinner and over night in hotel.


Day 6: M’harch – Zagora 170 Km Total Off-road


After the breakfast, departure for Zagora, by the track of Paris-Dakar while crossing desert plates; hamadas and nomads under the tent.
Dinner and over night in hotel in Zagora.


Day 7: Zagora –Tamegroute – Mhamid - Chegaga 155 Km Total 65 Off-road


After the breakfast departure for Tamegroute and visit of Zaouïa; old Koranic library; craftsmen of pottery and a Kasbah underground; then one continues towards
M’ hamid and lunch on the place,After noon we takes a track which carries out towards the dunes of cheguagua to see the sun set and spend the night in the Bivouac.
Dinner and over night in a bivouac.


Day 7: Chegaga – Foum Zguit – Taznakhte- Ouarzazate 270 Km Total 90 Km Off-road


Early morning to see the sunrise on the dunes, after the breakfast Departure for Foum Zguit passing by nomads who lives in tents, the dry lake of iriqui and desert plates full with the aKassia plants . (Picnic for lunch in the place). Continuation to Ouarzazate via Taznakhte.
Dinner and over night in hotel.


Day 8: Ouarzazate – Marrakesh 200 Km Total


After the breakfast departure for the visit of the town of Ouarzazate: the Kasbah of Taourirt; cinema studio; then drive to Marrakech by the Tizi N-Tichka pass.
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 9: After breakfast, transfer to the airport for the flight home.