Merzouga is a small city located on southeast of Morocco, at the edge of erg chebbi, that the tourists call it the sea of sand, the sand dunes height 22km and width 5km, allows chance of the meditation in the change colors of sand according to day light, these dunes considered as the highest in Morocco, what is the special on merzouga ?
The simple life style, the traditional music and the hospitality,the landscapes of the dunes when sunrise or sunset , camel ridding, make you go away from the bustle of life, and live an exelent experience .
Day 1 : marrakech – ait ben haddou- ouarzazate – sekoura
Begins from your hotel early in the morning to merzouga, cross the high atlas mountains passing trough some kasbahs , the acient berber villages, descover landscapes on your tour in the mountains, few hours befor back to kasbah ait ben haddou, one of the amazing heritage sites of Morocco , you will enjoy the traditional lunch in local restaurant near of kasbah befor driving to ouarzazate (Africa’s hollywood), where you can visit one of the amazing studios, wherever filming several historical famous mouvies, in addition to visit the cinema musem in the town center, then we continue to sekoura to spend our night .
Day 2: Sekoura- rose vally- todra gorge- erfoud – Merzouga
After take you breakfast , we drive to desert camp, on the way it stops us the women rose coperative, in rose vally “ kalaa megouna “, this city celebrate “ the season of the roses “in april and may each year, with the moods of celebrations, dancing, artistic and cultural programes- miss roses will be elected in between of the participants girls those whom ages getting between 17 & 21 years old, and 60% of the economy’s city depends on the fields of the roses and its products, we keep driving to Todgha gorges ,dades vally, tinghir,erfoud, where you will enjoy watching the saharan oasis in Tafilalet, thereafter we continue to hotel in merzouga to relaxing and take abreak for few minutes, befor leave the hotel with some necessery luggage to ride camels crossing the erg Chebbi sand dunes, it’s also a good aportunity to take some photos of sunset and sunrise, whene we reach the camp we’ll leave the camels and we keep walking on the highest sand dunes to watch the sunset, we’ll spend our night in the berber nomad tents, where you can enjoy playing the drums music .
Day 3: merzouga –resani –alnif –agdez- marrakech
You wake up early in the morning to watch the beautiful moment in your trip “ sunrise”, and have your breakfast, then you ride camels back to hotel to take a shower,we driving to risani town where you can see the fosseles made, and we continue to alnif- tazarine –draa vally- agdez the tallest vally in morocco, known around 12 type of date, we wiil have free lunch time on the way, we crossing the high atlas mountains again by tizi ntichka pass, enjoy the beautiful landscapes, and the acient berber villages, befor arrived to your hotel in Marrakech.
