3-day Marrakech to Fes Desert Tour

This spectacular 3-day Marrakech to Fes Desert Tour allows you to camel trek, camp overnight in the deep desert (in a standard or luxury camp), and see the Rose Valley, Todra and Dades Gorges, Ait Benhaddou World Heritage Sites and see Barbary monkeys before getting to Fes.

On the first day, we will go via Morocco’s highest pass, Tizi-n-Tichka, to see and cross the High Atlas Mountains. On the second day of our Marrakech to Fes desert tour, we will travel via the Todra and Dades Gorges. We shall arrive in Merzouga Sahara Desert late in the afternoon. From there, a camel guide will take us across sand dunes to a Bedouin camp. You’ll spend the night in the Merzouga desert, enjoying to the Sahara’s tranquility. On the third day, we will continue our journey to Fes (Fez) through the Midelt and Azrou cedar forest

You can camel ride, camp overnight in the middle of the desert (in a basic or fancy camp), and see the Rose Valley, Todra and Dades Gorges, and Ait Benhaddou on our 3 Day Desert Trip Marrakech to Fes .

You will be picked up from your riad Marrakech location to start your 3-day Marrakech to Fes Desert Tour adventure. You will soon leave the city behind as you travel through the High Atlas’s sceneries over the Tizi-N-Tichka pass, which is 2260 meters (7415 feet) above sea level. Enchanting Berber villages will be visited during several stops along the way.

One of the best examples of Moroccan architecture is this fortified village called Ait Ben-Haddou. Several well-known movies that were shot in the Kasbah, such as “Kingdom of Heaven” from 2005, “Babel” from 2006, “Prince of Persia” from 2010, “Game of Thrones” from 2012, and “David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet” from 2020. There will be plenty of chances for you to explore the interior of this historic Kasbah.

Following lunch, we will travel via Ouarzazate, Skoura, and Kalaat M’Gouna’s rose valley to reach the Dades Gorges along the 1000 Kasbahs road. We will visit the amazing rock formations known as the monkey fingers if we still have time when we get to the Gorges in the evening. Dinner and hotel accommodations.

Our next morning will start with a delicious breakfast to on your second day of your 3-day tour from Marrakech to the Merzouga Desert, you will proceed to Tinghir, where you will make a stop at a panoramic viewpoint that overlooks picturesque Berber settlements and an oasis teeming with palm trees. We will drive for a while deep along the valley to reach Todra gorge where you can walk alongside the Gorge, a 300-meter-tall canyon.

After lunch, we drive further to the southeast towards Merzouga desert where your camels awaits. As we get there, you will get on your camels for a breathtaking ride through the sand dunes of the Sahara Desert while enjoying the beauty of nature. In order to catch the sunset, you will stop on one the sand dunes to watch a beautiful sunset full of tranquility in the middle in the desert. Later, you ride your camels to the camp where you will get your private tent and rest before having a Berber dinner and enjoy Berber music around camp fire.

On the third day of our 3-day Marrakech to Fes Desert Tour, you will wake up to the breathtaking sunrise above Erg Chebbi’s dunes and then have breakfast at the camp. Instead of riding camels back to the starting site, you can then choose for a 4WD transport.

After exploring Merzouga, you’ll be taken to the next destination, which is Fes, via the Ziz Valley, Midelt, Ifrane City, which is referred to as the “Little Switzerland of Morocco,” and the famous Middle Atlas cedar forest, which is home to the Barbary apes, in Azrou, where you can take a brief walk for photos. When you arrive in Fes in the late afternoon, you will be taken to your hotel or riad with amazing tales and unforgettable experiences still bright in your mind.