Morocco as described
by many people, a cold country with a hot sun!!you can travel in one day from a
hot temperature to the cold one then to
the hot one once again just as you get the desert .Its has as well the widest
range of climates of all North African countries .It has different kinds of
Mountains , the Rif , the high ,the middle and the Anti Atlas mountains. This
ranges shield the temperate and rainy Alantic coastal region of the country
from the desert conditions of the Sahara to the east and south. The pre-saharian
and the saharian south is a stony and sandy desert at the same time Morocco
also has a strikingly varied landscape .Many different types of local climate
have produced such contrasting scenery as mountain valleys carpted with flowers,
the sun-scorched dunes of the Sahara, moist cedar forests and wadis swollen
with spring rains. All I can say is that you can travel from the snow of the
high Atlas to the sands of the Sahara in the space of a day and just in 3 days
you can visit all this places from Marrakech to Fes. And below is a sample program to do with the
pictures of some of the places mentioned above and in the itinerary.
DAY 1: MARRAKECH TO THE DADES VALLEY
In the morning at 8:00 am you will start the tour with
an English speaking driver .the first day tour take around 8 hours driving
including stops and lunch time and visit time for the interests. You will drive
through the High Atlas Mountains to grasp what is a typical berber village and
the traditional way of living in morocco. You will see as well spring shepherds
and herdsmen, who are sedentary farmers, leave their villages, the highest of
which are situated at 6,500 fee t, and begin their transhumance towards the
high pastures. After you cross the highest pass in morocco which is called ‘Col
du Ticka’, it’s about 7,415 feet, you will arrive the fortified village of Ait
Benhaddou .after or before lunch you will go for a walk in the village which
consist of a maze of luxury apartments, simple pisé houses and crenelated
towers which are lavishly decorated with geometric motifs. And many movies were
shot in the village like games of throne, gladiator…after that you will drive
to the Moroccan Hollywood .this city is the crossroads of the main routes
leading to the Drra valley,Sous valley and the Dades valley .this city was
built by the French as the garrison in the late 1920.you can visit one of the
cinema studios and a famous Kasbah called Taorirt .later on drive to the Dades
valley through the capital of roses Kella Mgouna .over night in a hotel
in the Dades groge.
DAY 2: DADES VALLEY TO MERZOUGA
After breakfast in your hotel, you will drive to the
sahara .you will enjoy seeing the kasabh of Ait arbi ,built at the foot of
volcanic rocks, and Tamnalt ,known as the ‘valley of human bodies’ ,where rocks
on one of the cliff faces have been eroded into what looks like the soles of
human feet.and the locals call it the ‘monkey feet’.and after that you will go
back till the administrative center of Boumalne –du –Dades.then drive to the
Todgha gorge via the Oasis of todgha valley to see the dense and
extensive palm grove and go up to the gorge .you will enjoy looking to the most
spectacular section of the gorges ,where for a distance of 110 yards the narrow
corridor between the sheer,towering walls of rock (985 feet high) is only 65
feet wide .it’s as well the best place for rock climbers.and after that you
will drive back the valley and later on Tinjdad, stop for lunch . Then continue
the trip to the desert via Erfoud and Rissani. Just after you get the
desert, you will relax for a while then ride the camels to the middle of the
desert for the night. Sleep in an equipped Berber camp.
DAY 3: MERZOUGA BACK TO MARRAKECH OR DRIVE TO FES
In the morning after you see the sunrise in the camp
,you will camel back to the hotel for breakfast and shower.and then travel
either back to Marrakech through the same way,or to Fes.if it is Fes.you will
drive through the Ziz valley.and stop for a nice veiw to the vast oais of Ziz
.you will drive as well through the Ziz gorges ,which are sliced through the
imposing rock faces that presage the rise of the high atlas in the west,are an
indication of the former power of the Ziz.then through Hammat moulay ali cherif
,Rich,then Midelt.this town is bulit at the foot of the Jebel Ayachi,whose
summit (12,260feet) is covered in snow for a large part of the year.lunch in
resturant.after lunch you will drive through the middel atlas mountain and stop
in cedar forest to see the a kind of monkies called ‘the Barbery apes’ then to
the swiss style moroccan city of Ifrane.from here Fes is just 60 KM and around
6:00pm your driver will drop you off in Fes.
Do you have longer travels instead of 3 days?
ReplyDeleteyes i do have long travels like 10 ,8,9 days or even more.i can make long tours for prople who want to stay longer
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