Tours From Fes

Day 1 :Fes – Middle Atlas Mountains – The Sahara Desert

After breakfast in your hotel at Fez city, our guide will pick you up from your hotel or riad at 7 am to start up the amazing tour that will begin in Fes driving towards the sahara desert. We will pass through the High Atlas Mountains toward the most modern and clean city in Morocco named Ifran, which built by the French in the 1930’s. IFRANE means caves in AMAZIGH famous as Switzerland of Morocco. It attracts many visitors with its waterfalls, green nature, and European character they may come to skiing because of its high altitude at 1665 meters or they may come to sniping. This Berber city is a fantastic cool and calm city really recognized by The Brotherhood Private University that was established in 1997 by the king of Morocco Hassan II and the king of Saudi Arabia Fahd. Continuing the way via the big Cedar forest, the largest woods in Morocco at the Middle Atlas, for about 89km south the city of Fez driving towards Midelt that is situated on the foothills of the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains. From vast plateau, we start passing those tough mountains, which are still established by a big Berber community moving to the peaceful Berber town of Azrou, “The Rock” in the local Berber dialect, where the famous Barbary Apes, actually macaque monkeys, will be eager to share your lunch, in the heart of their natural habitat.

Then continuing our drive along the monstrous Tiz Ntalghamt pass and the Ziz Gorge, amused the view of the High Atlas Mountains that are said to hold up the sky, winding your way though forested peaks, twisting mountain streams and gushing springs and spectacular, jagged walls of rock  viewing Tafilalt Oasis until we reach the city of Errachidia where you will watch colossal palm trees and a location perfect for building up an extensive variety of natural item trees and vegetables with a one of a kind microclimate. Moreover, we will pass through the rich Ziz Valley, stopping at various stations to relish the view and take pictures en route to Erfoud and Rissani; ERFOUD the capital city of fossils that organize the DATES SEASON yearly and were a sea before hundreds of years. Heading up on south  to the red colored sand sea dunes of Erg Chebbi at Merzouga massive, up to 50 metres  via, RISSANI, Sijilmassa once upon time the hometown of the Alaouist dynasty, where Moulay Ali sheriff started to unify Morocco under his red flag in the beginning of the 17th century before continuing the way to Merzouga that his huge sand dunes appearing from the horizon.

By arriving, we will be welcoming by a glass of mint tea followed by one hour and half of riding on camel guided by a specialist camel’s man into the breathtaking sunset as you travel through the shifting sands before you arrive at a traditional Berber desert encampment on the desert to spend a wonderful night enjoying these dramatic dunes, wonderful skies and stars at night, you may want to experience Berber GNAWA music an playing drums with them while rounding campfire at that night dinner will be served in the campsite under so many and so bright  stars that you feel you could almost reach out and touch them.

Day 2 :Desert Dawn – Mighty Mountains – Marrakech

In early morning, our guide will aid you ride on camels guided by specialist in order to reach the highest sand dunes to experience a memorable sunrise. A moment that saved in our visitors memories when seeing a round of gold sun rising between waves of sand colorizing merzouga with golden yellow before coming back to your hotel riding your camels for breakfast ,you cannot fail to notice the shifting and changing of the shadows cast by the dunes, lengthening and shrinking as the day progresses. Following the breakfast, the voyage towards Marrakech begins with a drive through the 300 metre deep canyon of the Todgha Gorges that are situated ahead of the central high Atlas Mountains around the pretty village of Tinghir where you will see the contrasting landscapes take you back of the Colorado, with its high plateau, its gorges and great canyons, and its peaks sometimes fractured by erosion. Todgha Gorges are natural monuments in the southeastern that was crafted by Todgha Valley and Dades Valley across thousands of years

We will head up in the wonderfully preserved walled fortress or Kasbah of Taourirt diverted in 17th century , a UNESCO world heritage site, very traditionally Moroccan in its architecture and which you will be free to explore. Venturing onward though the High Atlas along the twisting, winding and narrow roads of the Tizin’Tichka pass, 2,260 meters above sea level, as this way your journey ends in the Paris of Morocco as Winston Churchill described where you would be dropped off at your riad or hotel.

If the itineraries that we offer do not match what you’re looking for, contact us and we will prepare the trip to your measurements and needs.

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Included In this tour :

  • Private A/C comfortable Vehicle.
  • English/Spanish speaking driver.
  • Pick up & Drop off at your accommodation.
  • Accommodation with breakfast.
  • Camel trekking and night in the camp
  • Visit berber family
  • fuel
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Not included:

  • Lunches
  • Drinks
  • Tips
  • Entrance fees to monuments, studios, and Kasbahs