Monday 15 February 2016

3 DAYS CULTURAL TOUR FROM MARRAKECH TO MERZOUGA DESERT




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.