4 Days Tour Fes to Sahara Desert. From your hotel/riad in Fes we will drive to Merzouga, and pass over Middle Atlas Mountains where you will savor the beauty of the aromatic cedar forest and fertile green valleys. Along this route we will pass through Ifran city where you will see the sculpture of a lion in a park. Afterwards, we will drive to the small Berber village of Azrou and take a break. Azrou forest is famous for its aromatic cedar forest and here is where the wild Barbary macaque monkeys known as the “Magots” live. Your day trip continues to Midelt City along the green hills and mountains of the Middle Atlas. In Midelt we will break for lunch and afterwards, we will cross Tizi N’talghomt pass and Ziz Gorge and you will see how the land changes the nearer to Errachidia City you get. Thereafter, we will journey along Ziz Valley, passing a series of fortified Berber villages along Ziz River. We will then pass over Erfoud and Riassani, before getting to Merzouga, where you will have a glass of mint tea and put your luggage in private room in hotel. We will then camel trek to Berber tents in the middle dunes where you will live a nomadic life for one night.
After your night in camp, the camel man will wake you up early so you can see the sunrise and afterwards the camel man will bring you back to your hotel. Thereafter, you can shower and have breakfast before we travel to the rural village of Ouzina located deep in the desert. In this village you will have the chance to visit rural people and red Hamada Mountains which are rich in fossils and sharp teeth of dinosaurs and unique from other places you have visited.
After breakfast in riad in Ouzina Village, we will drive off-road in the desert towards Alnif Village and pass through more Berber villages, oases with palm trees and here the houses are built from mud. When we arrive in Alnif we will break for a beverage then continue on the road and cross the High Atlas Mountains to see Toudgha Gorge where the water runs in Toudgha River, and where you will see falls of palm trees, fig trees and almond trees. After the visit of Toudgha Gorge we will follow our route to Dades Valley, and we will turn towards Dades Gorge so we can see along this valley Gorge the ruins of ancient Kasbahs and strange rocks which called (“Monkey’s Toes”). At night you will dine in a hotel in Gorge Dades.
The last day of the tour will start from Gorge Dades. After breakfast in hotel we will drive to Ouarzazate and pass through Skoura oasis with its authentic Kasbahs. Then we will visit Ouarzazate which is known as the “Hollywood of Desert” and of Morocco generally. Ouarzazate is a province of Souss-Mass-Draa in southern-central Morocco. Whilst sightseeing in Ouarzazate you will see a Taourirt Kasbah which was the Kasbah of former Caid Thami El Glaoui and many movies have been filmed here at the Atlas Studios. After Ouarzazate we will drive to the fortified village and Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou where many movies have been filmed and which is under UNESCO World Heritage Site. After Ait Ben Haddou we will travel directly to Marrakesh by crossing through the bends of Tizi Ntichka in the High Atlas Mountains. After the Tizi Ntichka bends we will enter Marrakech town where your 4 Days tour from Fez to Sahara Desert will finish.
