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You can escape from the more active and noisy city, change it by the other relax and peaceful place, don’t feel like you don’t have any other choice. There are other wonderful places to visit in Morocco. Rihabemed team helps you to discover the Sahara. The South has the Sahara desert which is famous for its safe and quiet atmosphere.
Join us now as we explore South Africa for five days and four nights. During the trip, you will experience how you can live in Marrakech and Merzouga. Below, we have written an itinerary for the journey.
Tinghir is located between the mountains of the High Atlas and those of Saghro, it is perched at over 1300m altitude with peaks up to 3000m altitude to the north.
At the end of Todgha gorges, the Assif of the same name is difficult to spawn a passage on the southern slopes of the High Atlas (Tizguine), then leads into the great plain connecting the region of Ouarzazate Tafilalet to meander about twenty kilometers to the Wadi Ferkla.
The palm grove of Todgha, very dense and extensive, consists only of the two banks of the Assif Todgha; it is irrigated by a network of pipes called in Berber tirgwin (sg targa). Absorbed by many of these irrigation channels, water does not usually reach Ferkla, a tributary of the Gheris, except during heavy floods.
We are going to leave Marrakech at 7 o’clock in the morning. We will travel through the Atlas Mountains. After a few hours, we will stop in Tadart Village to taste some delicious Moroccan breakfast. After that, we will then continue our trip to the next destination which is the Ait Benhaddou Kasbah. It is a UNESCO World Heritage. We will visit there the Ksar Ait Benhaddou, it is also known by the Ait Benhaddou Castle. This Kasbah is known by shooting movies like Sodom and Gomorrah, Lawrence of Arabia, Alexander, Gladiator and many other Hollywood movies. After that, we will continue our trip to Ouarzazate the Moroccan Hollywood where we will enjoy an amazing meal. After filling our stomach, we will come back to our road again and go straight to Tinghir where we will settle in at the hotel.
After having breakfast in the hotel, we will start our trip to Todgha Gorges where we will see beautiful and imaginary landscapes. We will have our lunch at Tinjdad Village. After that, we will move to Merzouga. We will pass through Arfoud and Rissani. Then arrive at a hotel in Merzouga in the afternoon. In the hotel, we can relax next to the swimming pool and drink sweet Moroccan mint tea. In the late afternoon, we will enjoy riding camels to the heart of the desert. In the center of the desert, we will watch the sunset and the gold dunes while sipping a cup of tea with the nomads’ company. In the evening, we will enjoy a delicious meal by the campfire, accompanied by excellent traditional Moroccan music played by the nomads.
It is the third day, you should wake up early to enjoy watching the wonderful view of the sunrise in the center of desert. After that, we will go back to our hotel riding camels. In the hotel, we will eat our breakfast, take a bath and rest for a bit before we take off to Errachidia which is a small town. We will be taking pictures while we are on our way. After Errachidia, we will drive to Midelt where we eat our delicious Moroccan lunch. Then, we will drive to Ifrane where we will pass by some small towns like Azrou and Tihmadit. We will have a 20-minute break before continuing our trip to our hotel in Fez. We will spend the night there and recharge for the next adventure tomorrow.
We will have our breakfast at 8 o’clock and travel to Meknes. The city of Meknes takes its name from the Amazigh Meknassa tribe from the Aures of Algeria who immigrated to Morocco in the 10th century by undermining the idrissid authority. The members of this tribe are called the Imknassen plural, Ameknas is the singular. Ameknas means in Tamazight the warrior or the fighter. Moreover Amazigh activists call it Ameknas. In 711, several members of the tribe took part in the conquest of Andalusia alongside Tariq ibn Ziyad and settled north of Cordoba. Towards the eleventh century, they founded the Aftasid dynasty in Badajoz.
One group takes part in the Maysara uprising and adopts kharidjite Islam. They founded the emirate of Sijilmassa, at the northern limit of the Sahara. By allying with the Caliphate of Cordova, they are able to fight the attacks of the Fatimids. However, when the chief Meknassa Al-Mutazz allies with them, the Meknassa are driven out of Sijilmassa by the Maghraouas, allies of the Umayyads.
Another group joins the Fatimids against the Umayyads; hunt the Salihids of northern Morocco in 917. However, they do not maintain their resistance against the Maghraouas. After several permanent battles in northern Morocco, the Meknassa weakened by the struggle are defeated by the Almoravids in the eleventh century and come to settle in Meknes.
The city was also called Mequines or Mequinez in French. Thus Voltaire wrote: “I wish that the earthquake would have engulfed this wretched Acadia rather than Lisbon and Mequines. (Letter to François Tronchin Voltaire, 17566).
We will visit and enjoy the view of the Old Town in Meknes. After that, we will drive to a small town called El Hajeb where we will eat our lunch. After that, we will go to Beni Mellal. While we are on our way there, we will enjoy the view of the beautiful small towns that we will pass by, during our drive. The cities that we will drive across are Mrirt, Khenifra, Kasbat Tadla and others. We will stay at a hotel in Beni Mellal on our last night in Morocco.
We will have our breakfast at the hotel at 9 o’clock. We will then drive to our last destination which is the Ain Aserdoun before we go back to Merrakech.