Fes to Merzouga Desert Tour 3 days
👉 1st day: Fes – Toudgha Gorges
Start this Fes to Merzouga desert tour with a morning departure at 08.00, when your driver/guide will pick you up in a comfortable 4×4 air-conditioned car, passing through Ifrane, nicknamed the Switzerland of Morocco owing to the houses having sloping roofs, unusual in Morocco.(Fes to Merzouga Desert Tour 3 days).
Our desert trip from Fes continues crossing the Middle Atlas Mountains and the cedar forest near Azrou. Here there will be opportunities to see the antics of Barbary apes. Driving further south, we pass many Berber villages to arrive in Midelt, known as “the apple capital”, which will be the venue for lunch.
Further south along the main road at Er Rich, our Fes desert trip takes us deeper into the mountains to enjoy breath-taking landscapes and beautiful Berber villages. By the end of the afternoon, we arrive at Toudgha Gorge, which will be the venue for dinner and the night’s rest.
👉 2nd day: Toudgha Gorges– Merzouga
After breakfast, there will be opportunities to walk along the river bank or to go for a hike around the gorges. Later on, our desert trip passes through many Berber villages, which will give you a close look into the daily lives of the local inhabitants of the region.
Our Fes desert trip to Erg Chebbi continues via Tinjdad… These are the openings to the “khettarat” used for the catchment of underground water via a system of wells all closely placed to each other in underground galleries… You can actually descend into them for a better understanding of this clever system.
In the afternoon, after a welcoming glass of tea, a one hour to an hour and a half sunset camel ride leads to the summit of Erg Chebbi dunes (250m), where the spectacle of the sunset and the expansive, wind-blown dunes are an awesome sight. In the evening, dinner is served under a star-lit sky followed by music round a campfire.
👉 3rd day: Merzouga – Fes
If you get up early in the morning, you will be reward by an amazing spectacle when the sunset and the play of the sand dunes shadows are an awesome sight. After breakfast, there will the opportunity to go for a second camel ride and to walk the wind-blown dunes of Erg Chebbi.
Shortly afterwards, you leave for Rissani and Erfoud, where you will stop to visit the local exhibits of the locally found fossils and to see how they are worked into interesting artifacts and furniture. From here, our Res desert trip continues to Errachidia and along the Ziz Valley, remarkable for its huge palm groves and famous for its date festival in November.
Crossing the Middle Atlas Mountains, we arrive in Midelt, which will be the venue for lunch again. You continue a wonderful drive over the Ayachi Mountain and through the cedar forests. We arrive back at Fes by the end of the afternoon. Your Fes Sahara desert tour ends as your driver escort you to your riad.
