Day Trips From Marrakech

Highlights

  • Drive through the High Atlas Mountains and Tizi n Tichka.
  • Passing via the Mountain Berber villages and enjoy the beautiful nature.
  • Explore the world heritage site Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou
  • Special visit to film studio of Ouarzazate and Kasbah Taourirt

Itinerary

In this journey that engages a spectacular opportunity to see a great deal of Morocco all within one full day. It is the ideal trip for those who do not wish to spend a few nights sleeping out embracing between the sea sand of Sahara desert and want to be back in Marrakech for an evening eating out.

We will head via the chains of the High Atlas Mountain after we pick you up from your Marrakech accommodation before 8:00am, the beauty of the look will magic you have you will glued to the window in our minibus as we snake through the mountain roads.

Being on way enjoying the fascinating landscapes we will get a chance to stop a moment in Berber monuments to take some photographs of the elevated scenery before making our way to the Kasbah at Ait Ben Haddou.

The Kasbah at Ait Ben Haddou it is classified as a World Heritage site. It is a collection of several traditional building side by side that it was built by El Glaoui, one of the last Berber chiefs in the start of the XXth Century; it is used to be one of his hideouts for his long journeys from the Sahara to Marrakech. This Kasbah was recognized also as a Hollywood place to film many movies: ancient Arabic legend or movies set thousands of year ago. Sodom and Gomorrah (1963), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and The Jewel of the Nile (1985) all made use of the ancient fortified village here at Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou.

From the enormous Kasbah we will take our adventure to Ouarzazate, where we’ll tour around this city and see the film studios. A city that was established is 1920 as a transit door for AFRICAN traders going to Europe and North Morocco, it is famous as  Hollywood of Africa that contains several ancient buildings, golden landscapes and stunning scenery where many widely known movies pictured there, that marketing this city; we mention: THE MUMMY1999 and ALEXANDER 2004 and A GAME OF THRONE 2011

With our coordinated trips to Morocco, all this and much more await you