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.

Some places to visit in Morocco and littel bite of history

In this page i would like to post some pictures of some places that tourists go to visit in Morocco. In fact ,there are other places that i will not put on this page but i will post them later.
Our work as a tourist agent is to show and describe  the spots to which we take our clients. Just lets keep in touch and we will teach you about Morocco.
 lets start with the moroccan bleu city that everyone likes!!

Chefchouen : the bleu town shimmers like a mirgae in the bleu and white ,especially when you approach it. It has narrow streets which run up and down the steep sides of the Jebel Magou. The strreets are painted bleu along with the gate doors which form an amazing lookng to the town.Why this city is called Chefchouen it is because it nestles between two mountains known together as Jebel Ech Chaouen ( horned Mountain)

This ramaprts are located in the moroccan imperial city of Meknes. The rampart on the top is called Bab Lhemis, it is one of the main gates around the old Medina or city in Meknes. This gate was the main entrance to the ' garden city' and the former Mellah , built during the 17 century on a site that Moulay ismail gave to a Jewish doctor who had cured one one of the royal prinsesses. It is richly decorated with brightly colored curvilinear motifs and Kufic script.

and down the Bad Lhemis is the Bad Mansour, named after the Christian converted to Islam who built it.It is the most beautiful gate in Morocco. , was the last architectural project undertaken on the orders of Moulay Ismail. And Moulay ismail if the founder of the city of Meknes.

Lets take you again to the Atlantic Ocean coast to Essaouira which is the town of arts and crafts

.It satnds on a peninsula that is permanently swpt by the trade winds. Its year-round temperate climate made it popular with navigators in classical antiquity . The PHoenicians also called there is the 8th centuray BC. In 1949 Orson Welles chose the imposing battlements as the setting for the outside shots of Othello, the film of the Shkespearean .

Skoura in the central south east of Morocco where this Kasabah located . It is in a fertile oasis , renowned for the cultivation of roses and it was founded in the 12th centuray by Yacoub el Mansour and named after its original inhabitants , the Berbers of the Haskourene.

This kasabh is called the Amerhidil Kasabh which was once beloned to the most powerful family resposible for prtecting the villageand its land. You can visit this place if you are going for a desert tour from Fes or Marrakech.

And at the end i like always to post pictures of this beautiful animal. Normally this animal called a Dromedary not a camel because camels have two hamps and this one has only one. This animal is used by the Moroccans as a draft animal . Plains dromedaries tend to be leaner ,while the moutain dromedaries have thicker coats

travelwithinmorocco day trips and camel trekking to the desert for 3 days from marrakech and back to marrakech or from fes to marrakech or vis versa

Travel within Morocco - Travel Agency: The High Atlas mountains the Ait Ben Haddaou Kasa...

Travel within Morocco - Travel Agency: The High Atlas mountains the Ait Ben Haddaou Kasa...: The pictures bellow are for Ourzazat , the High Atlas mountains and some Kasabah. To see this places you can do a day trip from Marrakech to...

The High Atlas mountains the Ait Ben Haddaou Kasabah and the Moroccan hollywood

The pictures bellow are for Ourzazat , the High Atlas mountains and some Kasabah. To see this places you can do a day trip from Marrakech to Ourzazat. you start at 8:00 Am then drive through the High Atlas mountains .you will driver through the highest pass (Tizi-N-Tichka)  in morocco , about 2260 M altitude .And around 3 hours and a half driving through the windy road of the montains you will have like 1 hour and a half in the Kasabh of Ait Ben Haddou. It is a fortified village which has been classified by UNESCO as one of the world 's cultural treasures.Mnay famous movies were done in this Kasbah like Sheltering Sky , Gladiator ,..Etc .And after some time in the Kasabh you will drive to the town of Ourzazat. The town stands in the middle of an arid plateau that contrasts sharply with the slopes and vegetaion of the nearby High Atlas .

this is the windy road. This stop point is a nice panoramique view up in the montain to the valley and road

The Kasabah of Ait Ben Haddou . The uphill veiw. This Kasbah is one of the oldeset Kasabah in Morocco. It used to be a meeting point for the caravans to trade in commodties. Today is a movie place and there stll like 10 famillies live permanently here.

Its the outside veiw of the old cinema studio in the town of Ourzazat, the Moroccan holywood.

Morocco in some few days

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.

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Travel within Morocco - Travel Agency: Travel within Morocco - Travel Agency: 3 days trip...: Travel within Morocco - Travel Agency: 3 days trip from marrakech to the sahara and end u... : DAY 1 : MARRAKECH - DADES GORGE Early morni...