Marrakech Tour To The Desert Of Erg Chigaga - 4 Days

Marrakech Tour To The Desert Of Erg Chigaga - 4 Days

The best trip in the Sahara desert to Erg Chigaga from Marrakech via Zagora, Mhamid and Foum Zguid is for serious desert enthusiasts, who admire the silence and majesty of the desert to forget the hectic life of the city!

Itinerary
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Stop At: Zagora, Zagora, Souss-Massa-Draa Region

Your excursion in the desert of Marrakech in Erg Chigaga in Morocco will begin at 07:30 with a transfer from your hotel / Riad to Marrakech.
Leave Marrakech and join the Atlas Mountains by the Tichka Pass, where the view is splendid. Some stops are made to admire the landscape and the photography.
We arrive at Ouarzazate for lunch before continuing to Zagora crossing the Draa River which gave life to a huge oasis stretching about 200 km at the foot of the anti-atlas. Along the way, several palm groves will bring nuances between Kasbahs and fortified villages dotted with fields of corn, barley, vegetables and henna plantations.
Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Zagora.
The Kasbah (there are six in a fortified city) is a place of wonder. Here you will have the impression of going back to the days of gladiators, desert nomads and former trading markets. Lunch of the first day will be taken in the Kasbah at Ait Ben Haddou at the end of the tour.

Our next stop on our first day will be Ouarzazate. We will admire the landscape of a city where several hit movies have been shot. Classics like The Mummy and Lawrence of Arabia are among the many films that have been shot in a city often called "The Door of the Desert".
Getting out of the bustling city and relaxing in the natural spectacle of this place will be the first real sense of pleasure you will get on this tour. Few tourists manage to escape as far as these areas, but this tour will take you from the city to the waterfalls and back in a full and spectacular day.

Few people will be able to see the parts of Morocco that we will do on this excursion. You should bring a good pair of walking shoes that we will sometimes explore the beauty of the countryside as we head into the cascades at Ouzoud.

We will pass several small towns and villages with a real rural atmosphere about them. Sometimes you will be forgiven for thinking that you have traveled back in time as some of the rural villagers go about their daily business in some of the most spectacular areas of outstanding natural beauty.

On the way you will see the monkeys and even greet them because they are not as shy as you might expect. Once we reach the waterfalls, you will have a chance to be shown some of the best features of this region by our own guide.

There are many cafes and restaurants among the waterfalls where you can relax by the rock pools at the bottom of some waterfalls and rushing rivers. Many may choose to bring a packed lunch and dinner in areas near the falls.

You should bring some sunscreen, a camera and a change of clothes, if you plan to take a bath in some of the pools at the bottom of the falls. But one thing is certain: you will not forget this excursion among the immense natural waterfalls, the barbarian macaques and the rural villages that seem stuck in the middle of time. We return to Marrakech in the same picturesque way that we came and return at some point in the early evening.

Duration: 7 hours

Stop At: Atmospher Erg Chigaga, M'Hamid El Ghizlane, M'Hamid Morocco

After breakfast, we will drive to M'hamid (where the paved road ends) through the village of Tamagroute where we will have the opportunity to visit the oldest Koranic libraries in Morocco, then the underground kasbah and the pottery factory.
Lunch will be served at M'hamid at leisure. In the early afternoon, we leave for the dunes of Erg Chigaga crossing different regions of the desert; 'Erg', 'Reg', 'Hammada', oases. The dunes of Erg Chigaga are far from civilization and the silence of the sand is overwhelming.
Drive your camels through the dunes and enjoy one of the most spectacular sunsets on the ever-changing sand.
Dinner under the stars next to the campfire, animated by local nomads playing local music.
Night in your luxury camp in the Sahara Desert

Duration: 4 hours

Stop At: Ouarzazate, Ouarzazate, Souss-Massa-Draa Region

After breakfast, the road takes us through another 90 km of desert with varied landscapes: we first cross Lake Iriqui, the mountains and fossils that follow the old route of the "Rally Paris Dakar" until to Foum Zguid, first village after the desert, and where paved road begins.
After lunch, continue to the Berber village of Taznakht, famous for its Berber carpets and rugs.
We arrive in Ouarzazate late in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Ouarzazate.
At night in a desert camp

Merzouga is really a place in the heart of the desert. Here we will ride on our camels, cross the dunes of Erg Chebbi and finish at the camp of the Berber desert to rest during the night. At the desert camp, you will have your evening meal and your breakfast in the morning before ending our last day of travel to Marrakech.

Duration: 6 hours

Stop At: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz Region

DAY 3: MERZOUGA - MARRAKECH
After breakfast, visit the movie studios located just outside Ouarzazate, known as Hollywood of Africa.
We will continue to visit the Kasah Ait Ben Hadou World Heritage Site, previously used for more than 20 blockbusters in Hollywood, including "Gladiator" "Indiana Jones" and "Lawrence of Arabia". Stroll through the traditional Moroccan architectural style in which kasbahs are built.
We continue our way to Marrakech through the High Atlas Mountains and the Tizi n'Tichka pass. Depending on the time, lunch can be served at Ait Ben Hadou or in the Atlas Mountains towards Marrakech.
Arrival in Marrakech at 17:00.
Your 4-day trip in the desert of Marrakech to Erg Chigaga will end with a return to your hotel / Riad in Marrakech or a place of your choice.
Our last leg of this tour sees us again crossing Nqob then Tamnougalt before the familiar town of Ouarzazate. Lunch can be taken in any cafe before we return to the Atlas Mountains and Marrakech to complete our trip. The arrival in Marrakech is scheduled around 20h.

Duration: 4 hours