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Rihabmed team will help you to choose the right place to visit. It suggest to you exploring the old traditions of Morocco. It offers to you calmness. We ca, help you to have the best trip. Visit Merzouga to experience the warm gold sands. It will only take a one-day-ride from the crimson city!
So we offer you a 3-day trip to the desert where you can explore both Marrakech and Merzouga. The tour will surely be fun, full of adventure and of course good food and beautiful sceneries.
Merzouga is a Moroccan city located in the south-east of the Kingdom of Morocco, 130 km from the city of Errachidia and about 20 km from the Algerian border. The city is known for its vast sandy areas and the spread of what is known as the race of young people. It is considered a tourist city with distinction where it is visited by dozens of tourists monthly for a number of reasons including the scenery of beautiful sand books as well as recreation and the desire to cure a number of diseases such as rheumatism. The number of foreign and Moroccan tourists arriving in the city is between 100,000 and 120 thousand annually, while the rate of overnight nights is about 80 thousand nights according to unofficial statistics dating back to 2017.
In general, the city is characterized by sand dunes in the form of hills between short and large, which makes it within List of areas that tourists prefer to visit Morocco. Known in recent decades for a number of practices such as the “burial process” or locally known as “sand bath”, which is widely believed to be a highly effective treatment for many incurable diseases, chiefly rheumatism, as well as other benefits, which are Mainly to get rid of toxic deposits after getting out of a sandy and hot place.
Our trip will start from your Riad or hotel. We will drive across Tizi N’ Tichka Mountains – the highest mountains in North Africa. We will have 2 hours driving. Then, stop to take a rest and have your lunch. Why not take pictures in the middle of the beautiful nature. After the delicious lunch, we take the road again towards Ouarzazate, the Hollywood city. Visit other famous places in Ouarzazate like: Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah which is from the old and historical monuments in Ourazazate. It is also considered as a UNESCO World Heritage.
After that, you will enjoy a traditional meal in the city which will energize you for your cinematic experience in the Atlas Film Studios afterward. After having fun in the Atlas Film Studios, we will go back on the road and drive for a few hours before we can arrive in Skoura. Skoura is a small magical town that is embellished with Kasbahs wherever you look. We will then drop you in a hotel in Dades Valley where you can stay for the night and refresh yourselves for the trip the next day.
Our morning will be started by a healthy breakefast. We will be back on the road to discover and enjoy the Todgha town and the Todgha Gorges and also take pictures. It is a series of meanders and canyons of the Limestone River, or valley, located in the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, 14 kilometers from the city of Tinghir. The Todgha River and the Dades Valley adjacent to the Strait, responsible for truncating these deep canyons sloping along the cliff, are the last 40 km (25 mi) across the mountains. The height of the valley walls can change, but in some places it can reach a height of 400 meters (1,312 feet).
We will move to another place called Tinjdad. It is one of the little towns in these areas. So it is the time to have a rest and take your lunch while we are in our road to Merzouga. We will take our trip to Arfoud and Errissani and arrive in early evening. You’ll go to a hotel in Merzouga where you relax next a pool, drinking a delicious mint tea. After that you will experience riding high camels on the gold beautiful dunes for one hour and a half. Upon arriving at our tent, we will settle for a bit and enjoy Sahraoui mint tea together with the desert nomads. What’s more attractive is to end the day by watching the sunset over the desert dunes. You will feel tired after the long trip you have, but be sure you feel relax after watching the wonderful view and listening to the Saharian music around the compfire.
It is the third day of the trip, you have to wake up early to have the chance to enjoy the beauty of sunrise in the desert. It is an amazing view that everyone should not miss! After enjoying the sunrise, we will go to Merzouga. We move directly to your hotel where you have shower and have your breakfast. We will then go back to Marrakech where we may arrive in the evening.