Min – 4
Age
Across the High Atlas
Destination
5 Days – 4 Nights
Duration
Min 1 – Max 16
Group Size
2/5
Physicality
1A5A
Trip Code
Day 1: Marrakech to Skoura Palm grove. 215 km around 4 hours driving .
Leave Marrakech after early breakfast. Drive from Marrakech to Skoura Valley. Traverse the High Atlas mountains via the highest main road pass in Morocco, at 2260m altitude, offering stunning views and exhilarating driving. The route passes lush valleys & traditional adobe Berber villages by the road-side. to reach Ait Ben Haddou. Ait Ben Haddou is essentially a living museum, comprising numerous ksar (series of earth dwellings) and has been used as the backdrop in many international films. After lunch and visit to the Kasbah we continue to Ouarzazate where you can stop, for visit the kasabh of Taourirt or take photos . Finally you will be taken to the palm grove of Skoura, about 20 kilometers from Ouarzazate, to a charming guest house with pool where you will dine in bio-aromatic gardens.
| DEPARTURE/RETURN LOCATION | Marrakech, Morocco |
| THEME | Sahara & Kasabh |
| Destinations | Chegaga Desert |
| Physical rating | 2/5 |
| STYLE | Original |
| AGES | Min 4 |
| GROUP SIZE | Min 1 – Max 16 |
| TRIP CODE | 1A5A |
INCLUSION
Meals
- 4 Breakfast
- 0 Lunches
- 4 Dinners
ACCOMODATION
- Hotel/Riad (1 night)
- Camp (1 night)
TransportTravelling in an air- conditioned vehicle with an English speaking experienced guide/driver.
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Day 1:Marrakech to Skoura Palm grove. 215 km around 4 hours driving .
Leave Marrakech after early breakfast. Drive from Marrakech to Skoura Valley. Traverse the High Atlas mountains via the highest main road pass in Morocco, at 2260m altitude, offering stunning views and exhilarating driving. The route passes lush valleys & traditional adobe Berber villages by the road-side. to reach Ait Ben Haddou. Ait Ben Haddou is essentially a living museum, comprising numerous ksar (series of earth dwellings) and has been used as the backdrop in many international films. After lunch and visit to the Kasbah we continue to Ouarzazate where you can stop, for visit the kasabh of Taourirt or take photos . Finally you will be taken to the palm grove of Skoura, about 20 kilometers from Ouarzazate, to a charming guest house with pool where you will dine in bio-aromatic gardens.
- Lunch at Kasbah ait ben haddou not included
- Visit to the ait ben haddou nice walk about 30 min
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Day 2: Skoura Valley to Zagora & Draa Valley 197 km 3 hours driving
After breakfast, discovery of the palm grove of Skoura (kasbah d’Amerdihil) Drive Skoura Valley to Zagora, The journey will take us across the volcanic mountains of Sarhro and the Draa Valley to Zagora. We will be travelling along dramatic rock formations and gorges with superb views. These mountains are very different from the Atlas Mountains Eventually the scenery changes as we see the first palm trees of the Draa Valley, the longest river valley in Morocco. In Zagora we enjoy dinner and stay the night at a nice Riad .
In Zagora we enjoy dinner and stay the night at a nice Riad .
In Zagora we enjoy dinner and stay the night at a nice Riad .
- Trek in the Morning from the hotel in skoura to kasbah d’Amerdihil around 1 hour .
- Lunch and visit to the Kasbah Tamnogalt in Agdaz not included .
- Stop at Kasbah Oulad Othmane for tea and visit .
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Day 3: Zagora – Tamgroute – M’hamid – Chegaga 150 km 3 hours
Drive from Zagora to the Deluxe Desert Camp in the Moroccan Sahara, at the great dunes of Erg Chigaga. The route follows the course of the Draa River Valley (the Draa is Morocco’s longest river, flanked by glorious palm oases & crumbling kasbahs) to reach the end of the tarmac road at M’hamid El Ghezlane. From M’hamid, drive off-road for 2hrs to arrive at the Deluxe Desert Camp with chance to freshen up in your en-suite tent, before taking a chilled aperitif on the rolling dunes. Watch the sunset from a vantage point. Enjoy traditional music next to the campfire after dinner. Overnight at the Sahara camp.
- Visit the Koranic library, explore the Tamgroute pottery.
- Lunch at the nice hotel at the palm grove of Mhamid or at the Sahara camp its depend to the weather .
- Camel ride for about 1h30 to the sand dunes to watch the sunset at one of the sand dunes .
- Sandboarding
- Dinner at the camp under the 1k stars .
- Night at the Sahara camp .
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Day 4: Chegaga Dunes to Ounila Valley around 4h30 hours 250 km
Another opportunity to walk amidst the dunes after breakfast. Then drive Erg Chigaga dunes to onuila valley . Drive off-road for 90km , to join the tarmac road at Foum Zguid, via arguably some of the finest remote scenery in Morocco (including the vast dried salt flats, at Lake Iriqui, the imposing mountain ridges of the Jebel Bani, and acacia tree groves). You will also cross vast fossil beds, stopping to make a fossil hunt. From Foum Zguid, pass westwards through the Anti-Atlas mountains (the Jebel Bani) via dramatic and arid scenery, interrupted by palm oases and small settlements. Drive through the towns of Tazenakht. Thereafter, reach the UNESCO Site of Ait Ben Haddou, in the beautiful Ounila Valley. Overnight near Ait Ben Haddou, in the Berber hamlet of Tamdaght, at a charming guest-house inside a restored kasbah.
- Sunrise at sand dunes .
- Fossil hunt .
- Lunch at Foum zguide not included .
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Day 5: Across the High Atlas to Marrakech 170 km 3 hours .
Before breakfast, option to bake bread with the neighbours near to the guest house. After breakfast possibility to go for nice hike around the onila valley , after we drive back across the High Atlas mountains, via the scenic, single-track Ounila Valley and the Telouet Kasbah. Shortly after Telouet, re-cross the High Atlas at the main crossing (the Tichka Pass, as day 1) and descend towards the Marrakech plain. Expect to reach Marrakech mid-afternoon.
- Nice hike around the onila valley for about 1 hour .
- Visit to the Telouet Kasbah and stop for lunch not included .
Tour package From Euros 600
Activities
- Kasbah Ait Benhaddou visit
- Kasabh Telout Visit
- Camel ride in the Sahara
- Tamgroute pottery visit
- Sand dunes of Chegaga Visit
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