4 Days Sahara Tour From Casablanca To Marrakech

Day 1: Casablanca – Meknes – Azrou – Middle Atlas Mountains – Midelt

The 4 Days Sahara Tour From Casablanca To Marrakech will start from your accommodation in Casablanca economic city and the largest in Morocco. We will drive forward to our next destination Meknes which is well known as one of the four imperial cities of Morocco founded by the Almoravids dynasty in the 11th century, located in the north where it has a strategic position in the heart of the country. In Meknes, we are going to visit many sights such as the big gate of Bab Mansour designed by sultan Moulay Ismail in the bustling Lahdim square and we will walk or drive to our coming site is Habs Qara “ Qara Prison ” built in an underground labyrinth that could host thousands of inmates. After your delicious Moroccan lunch, you are going to continue visiting the rest of the sights with a local guide:
• Grand Mosque of Meknes: the oldest and one of the most important mosques in Meknes, it is based in the center of the old medina and was founded by the Almoravids in the 12th century. Furthermore, the mosque had an extensive financial and religious section because it contained the main Souq streets.
• Madrasa Bou Inania in Meknes: Madrasa means school for higher learning in Islamic science established through the Marinid period by Sultan Abu Al Hasan. Today the school “Madrasa” is not just a place for practicing religion, but it also is open for tourists.
• Nejjarine Mosque in Meknes: Considered as an old mosque in the historic city of Meknes, it was built during the Almoravid period in the 12th century AD. In 1996 the mosque was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• Lalla Aouda Mosque in Meknes: Found in the Marinid era in 1276, Lalla Aouda refers to Lalla Masuda Waliya (Saint), the mother of Sultan Ahmad Al Mansour Saadi. The mosque has been massively shrouded by the cause of the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail’s big construction projects in the late 17th century as part of a new imperial city in Meknes.
Our journey will continue to Azrou is located in the southern area of Morocco known for its cedar grove forest a place where one of the sub-populations of the Barbary Macaque monkeys has found. You will have a chance to take marvelous pictures of the Barbary monkeys and to have a walk in the forest. Afterward, we will continue our trip by driving via cedar forest and many Berber villages and enjoying the landscapes and the spectacular road. We then reach the city of Midelt, where we will have dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 2: Midelt – Rich – Ziz Valley – Erfoud (Fossils’s City) – Merzouga Camel Ride

After an early morning in the middle Atlas Mountains with a great breakfast at your hotel/riad, our second day of The 4 Days Sahara Tour From Casablanca To Marrakech will start by leaving Midelt and heading south towards Merzouga located in the Sahara desert. On our way to the Sahara desert, we will visit many sites and notice how the landscape changes to reveal hints of the desert. After a stop in Rich town, we will travel through the charming Tizi N’talghamt canyon and the Ziz valley where you can see views of the High Atlas plateau. Moreover, we will drive past beautiful palm trees till we reach the Hassan Addakhil Dam near the city of Errachidia. We continue our journey to Merzouga by passing through the gorgeous Ziz Valley—where we will have a stop for its marvelous panoramic view on the road to Erfoud and Rissani.
Afterward, we will continue to the Khamlia village, which is 7 km away from Merzouga, to have Berber Pizza for lunch, later on, if you are interested, you may listen to the Gnawa songs sung and played by the dark-skinned Gnawi people who migrated to this area over 100 years ago. The Gnawa keep their culture and traditions going through this music, which they are associated with. We then drive back to Merzouga to have our Berber whisky “Mint Tea” before starting your camel ride to explore the golden Sahara desert with its magnificent views of sand dunes. Just as you approach your overnight desert camp, you will stop for a sunset view on the top of a sand dune, which will be one of the highlights of your trip. After your dinner at the desert camp, you will have a chance to listen to and play the local Berber music with your hosts.

Day 3: Merzouga Camel Ride – Rissani – Erfoud – Underground Irregations System – Gorge Tudra – Boumalne Dades

The day will be started by dating with the sunrise in a panoramic view that is worth waking up for after your breakfast at camp you will have two options to drive back from your desert camp to Merzouga Sahara, which is to come back by camels or by Jeep 4X4. Eventually, we leave Merzouga after a great lifetime experience in the Sahara desert, driving toward Rissani is the ancient capital of Tafilalet which was a principal road of caravans, and considered as a commercial center in the region with a large market “Souk” where you will take a chance to connect and to interact with locals, then continue our journey to Erfoud “Fossils City” as well-known as filmmaker’s destination thanks to the beauty of the surrounding Desert Sahara and towns of oasis areas, movies had filmed here are March OR Die, The Mummy, and Prince Of Persia. After two hours of driving, we will reach one of the famous spots of the high atlas, called Todgha gorge located 16KM far away from Tinghier consists of several canyons and a large river. This stunning area affords plenty of opportunities to walk, such as along the river through the garden or up the road on the other side of the gorge.

Besides, the Todgha Gorge was deemed as a station for tourists and locals who are interested in climbing and hiking in its canyons and having a walk through the gorge, you will have lunch in a beautiful restaurant which is overlooking the river. In the afternoon, we carry on our journey to the Boumaln Dades is famous with lovely valley located in a desert plateau, 1500m high also is known as an old way of transhumance, also valley recognized as Figs Valley going through Boumaln Dades region, we will have a short walk for exploring the charming of the valley and visiting Monkey Fingers, as well you will spend a night in that valley and dinner in your Riad/Hotel.

Day 3: Boumalne Dades – Kelaat M’guna (Roses’s City) – Skoura – Ouarzazate – Kasbah Ait Ben Haddo – High Atlas Mountains – Marrakech

We will start our last day of the 4 Days Sahara Tour From Casablanca To Marrakech after your delicious breakfast at the accommodation. Later, you can enjoy the stunning view of the Dades valley from one of the strategic lookouts in the high Atlas Mountains. Then we continue our expedition to another valley called the Valley of the Roses, “Kalaat M’gouna”. The city is the central district of many villages it has two special days for the local market. The first day is Tuesday, only for livestock trade, and Wednesday, the second day is for food and other goods. The city of Kalaat M’gouna is well-known for rose products of beauty, which has recognized as natural products used in Moroccan cuisine and the perfume industry. As for the city, it is famous for its festival in early May because there is no exact date for the festival, it is determined by the harvest season. During this festival, local Berber musicians play traditional instruments while others dance.
The last day of the festival is for choosing “Ms. Roses.” After a few stops to enjoy and discover the fascinating “Road of a Thousand Kasbahs”, we will move on to Ouarzazate, known as the Gate of the Sahara Desert. Ouarzazate is a city in the Draa-Tafilalet region. It is a Berber town where most inhabitants speak Tamazight, “Berber.” Ouarzazate, in the Berber language, means “city without noise.” Our first site is the Kasbah of Taourirt, built in the 17th century by a dominant local family. The Kasbah crucial position controls a junction of several river valleys. This Kasbah is one of many considered as part of the Desert Sahara Trade Roads, In the 1990s the Kasbah was registered as a historical world UNESCO World Heritage Site. Furthermore, Ouarzazate is an important tourist destination and one of the favorite spots for filmmakers in the world. If you are interested, we can visit the biggest cinema studio in the region that has attracted the major international film companies. Movies that were filmed here such as ” The Man Who Be King” in 1975, “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1988), “The Mummy” (1999), “Gladiator” (2000), and “Hanna” in 2011.
The coming kasbah site we will visit is called Ait Ben-Haddou is located 15km from our previous sight, Ouarzazate. This site was also declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and is located on the top of a hill with a view of the Ounila River, the Kasbah’s houses are linked together within a great wall for fortification. The Kasbah consists of corner towers and a gate, while the houses are decorated with geometric motifs. Kasbah Ait Ben-Haddou is regarded as a stopping place for the old caravans that came from Sub-Saharan Africa. We will have time for lunch here and then move on to Marrakech through the mountains called Tizi N’Tuchka (the second-highest altitude in Morocco at 2260m), it is part of the High Atlas Mountains. This mountain region was well-considered a controlled pass by El Glaoui, the last Pasha of Marrakech. We will have some more stops to take pictures of this delightful landscape. We complete our private tour of the 4 Days Sahara Tour From Casablanca To Marrakech finishing in Marrakech, and we will transfer you to the hotel/riad where our services end.

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