The 4 days fes to marrakech desert tours through the Erg Chebbi sand in Merzouga is highly recommended. The tour includes two nights in the Sahara, a camel hike and short trips. The tour gives you the opportunity to see the best of Morocco in just 4 days: see the barbarian macaque monkeys in the Azrou cedar forest, take a desert sightseeing tour to visit the Sahara nomads, visit the Risani donkey market, walk in Palmary with a local guide or walk through the Dades Valley or the Gorges of the Dades Todra. Spend more time exploring sights and less time driving. Share a cup of tea with a Berber family.

4 days fes to marrakech desert tours is the best desert tour from Fez to Marrakech, Fez, and Marrakech through the Merzouga Sahara Desert, Azrou Sabd, and Erg Chebbi combined for a camel hike and a night in a desert camp. Meet nomads, Todra Gorges, Ouarzazate and Ait ben Haddou Kasbah. This 4-day tour of the Fez desert to Marrakech through the Erg Chebbi Hills in Merzouga is highly recommended. The tour includes 2 nights in the Sahara (1 night in a hotel and the second in a desert camp), a camel trek, and short trips. The tour allows you to see the best of the Southeast in just 4 days, see Barbary monkeys in the cedar forest of Azrou, take a desert sightseeing tour to walk desert nomads, caves, Dades Valley or Todra Gorges, spend more time.sightseeing, a cup of tea with a Berber family to share. 

Note: At Morocco Discover Tours, we offer standard, luxury, or mixed (medium) private options. At very competitive prices depending on the number of agencies and the type of service. We also provide affordable 4-days small-group tours from Many destinations to Marrakech and the Sahara on small-group tours in Morocco. Keep in mind that you only share transportation. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at any time. 

4 days Fes to Marrakech desert tours Option 1

Day 1: Fez – Midelt – Erfoud – Merzouga – Erg Chebbi 467 km 

At 8:00 am we start our 4 days fes to marrakech desert tours through the Sahara Desert. We headed to Midelt through the mountains and cedar forests of the Middle Atlas. We passed through Ifrane, also called “Little Switzerland” for its European architecture, climate, and cleanliness. Then to Azrou, an important craft center specializing in cedar woodworking. We’re here to eat in Midelt, the capital of apples. In the afternoon we headed to Erfoud and into the desert. Dinner and overnight in a hotel at the foot of the sand of the Erg Chebbi Sahara.

Day 2: Merzouga – Erg Chebbi Dunes – Tour of (Erg Chebbi Desert) 

After breakfast, we head to the village of Khamlia to enjoy live Gnawa music, we will drive on an off-piste road to tour the sand , then stop for tea with nomads in hairdressing shops, from there you will have a new way of life and you’ll enjoy a Berber pizza for lunch as well. Return to the hotel to relax before starting your camel ride in the middle of the Hills to watch the sunset. After arriving at the camp, enjoying a mint tea and the beautiful sunset of the Sahara, you will be prepared during dinner in its beautiful tents with a bath and shower. After dinner, you can enjoy a piece of music by the staff around the fire and watch the starry night of the Sahara.

 Day 3: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Ouarzazate 368 km 

Wake up early to watch the spectacular sunrise where the color of the sand and the play of shadows is a great sight to behold. Arrive at the hotel/riad for breakfast and shower. We continue to Ouarzazate via Rissani and stop at Erfoud: famous for its petrified marbles, where we will visit the workshop for the manufacture of marble fossils. Continue to the Todra Gorges, which is an ideal place for hiking and exploring on your own. Have lunch and then drive through the city of Roses, Kelaa Mgouna. We continue along the road of a thousand kasbahs passing through the palm grove of Skoura until we reach Ouarzazate called “Hollywood of Morocco” and check into the hotel/riad.

Day 4: Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Haddou – Marrakech 204 km 

We drive to Ait Benhaddou, a “fortified city” that lies along the ancient caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech. It is located on a hill next to the Ouarzazate River and offers some examples of kasbahs, some of which are still inhabited. The site has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has been the scene of many films, including Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator. After a lunch break, the journey continues to Marrakech through the High Atlas Mountains.

4 days Fes to Marrakech desert tours Option 2:

Day 1: Fez – Midelt – Erfoud – Merzouga – Erg Chebbi 467 km

At 8:00 am we start our 4-day tour from Fez to Marrakech through the Sahara Desert. We headed to Midelt through the mountains and cedar forests of the Middle Atlas. We pass by Ifrane, a charming ski resort, and Azrou, a major craft center specializing in cedarwood. We arrived in Midelt for lunch. In the afternoon we headed to Erfoud and into the desert. Dinner and overnight in a hotel at the foot of the dunes of the Erg Chebbi Sahara. 

Day 2: Merzouga – Erfoud – Amellagou (spring and summer) – Todra Gorge – Dades Gorge 271 km 

Early in the morning to watch the sunrise, return to the hotel after breakfast with camels departure to Rissani and Erfoud to visit the petrified marble of the sewage treatment plant before continuing with the groves from torougg and tinjdad, reach the Tundra Gorges and have lunch on-site, and in the afternoon you will drive through Boumalne and the Dades Valley to the Dades Gorges. Dinner and overnight in a hotel 

Day 3: Dades Gorge – Rose Valley – Skoura – Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Haddou 191 km 

After breakfast, we will return through the Dades Valley to the Kasbah of Ait Youl, the railway route that crosses the valley of roses with its kasbah and kosours. In this part, you can see very beautiful scenery before reaching Kalla Mgouna, have lunch on the way, leave the afternoon to the palm groves of Skoura and visit the Kasbah of Amredhyle. Continue to Ouarzazate to visit the Kasbah of Taouirt and then to Ait Ben Haddou for the night in a beautiful kasbah. Dinner and overnight at the hotel. 

Day 4: Ait Ben Haddou -Telouet – the Atlas Mountains – Marrakech 184 km

 After breakfast, the morning is spent visiting Aït Benhaddou, a “fortified city” along the ancient caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech. It is located on a hill along the valley of the Ounila River and offers some examples of kasbahs, some of which are still inhabited. After lunch, we will continue to Marrakech with a detour to the traditional village of Telouet in Upper Atlasber and visit the Kasbah el Glaoui and cross the Upper Atlasberg. Stop at your hotel in Marrakech and end your adventure with a desert tour in Morocco. 

4 days Fes to Marrakech desert tours Cities Definition

1- Midelt

Midelt is a Moroccan city in the Middle Atlas Mountains, adjacent to “Jebel Ayachi” in the province of Khenifra, a city famous for apple production, where the “apple season” is held every year. It has an exciting aesthetic, especially in the winter, when the city is covered in white, and for its attractiveness, it was nicknamed “Little Paris”.

It is also famous for a group of semi-precious minerals such as Vanadinite.

2- Erfoud

Erfoud is a town in the province of Errachidia, in the Moroccan region of Meknes-Tafilalet. It is located 75 km from Rashidiya and is considered one of the most important tourist cities in this region. There are 14 hotels and 52 cafés, all of them beautiful. The property is 22 km from Rissani and 58 km from Merzouga. It has a population of 45,000 people. It is also considered one of the largest Moroccan cities in the production of dates, as the local population celebrates the annual date season at the end of October. 

3- Merzouga

In the southeast of Morocco, the city of Merzouga, nicknamed by tourists as the “Sea of ​​the Sands” and the “Pearl of the Moroccan Desert”, is located 130 kilometers from the city of Rashidiya, which has wide sandy areas that visitors visit to treat rheumatism.

Merzouga’s 22-kilometre-long and five-kilometer-wide sand offer the opportunity to contemplate the changing colors of the sand according to the change in daylight, especially when sitting on top of those sand that are the highest in Morocco. , especially thanks to traditional music, hospitality, and other things that the people inherited from their ancestors.

The city can be reached by road or air. The road starts from the city of Errachidia, which is a transit point for any traveler to the area. Due to the city’s position and attractiveness, a direct line was operated between Casablanca and Merzouga by public bus during the summer.

As for the air route, it is via the air line that started early last summer between Casablanca and Rashidiya, and when the traveler arrives at Moulay Ali Sharif Airport, he needs to take a taxi to reach Merzouga.

4- Erg Chebbi

Erg Chebbi is sand in the Merzouga desert in southeastern Morocco, about 50 km from the cities of Erfoud and Rissani. They are sand formed by the wind, thus forming hills of varying height, shape, and color.

The hills of Erg Chebbi stand for about 150 meters over an area of ​​22 square kilometers in length and 5 kilometers in width, in a view that suggests one is in the middle of a vast sea and crashing golden waves. From narrow and crowded, a scene in which golden sunlight blends with the bright colors of sand.

This distinction made the region a destination for tourists, especially Europeans looking for some calm and fascinated by the charm of the desert. And spread in the desert of Merzouga dwellings in the form of traditional tents prepared to receive visitors, and the region is a destination for treatment of rheumatism, in addition to the distinguished sands of Merzouga.

5-Todra Gorges

The  Todra Gorges is a series of zigzags and canyons of the limestone river, or wadi, located in the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, 14 kilometers from the city of Tinghir. cliffside, the last 40 km (25 mi) through the mountains. The height of the canyon walls can vary, but in some places, it can reach a height of 400 meters (1,312 feet).

6- Ouarzazate

Ouarzazate is a city south of Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains, known as the gateway to the Sahara. The huge Taourirt Kasbah, which houses a 19th-century palace, offers views of the rugged local landscape that can be seen in various films. To the northwest is the red-earth fortified city of Aït Ben Haddou. In the northeast is the rocky gorge of Todra. A road winds southeast through the lush palm groves of the Draa Valley to the desert. 

7-Ait Ben Haddou

The Moroccan Palace of Ait Ben Haddou is one of the palaces that has preserved its valuable architectural characteristics, despite the harsh erosion factors that have passed through different times.

The palace or kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou is located 30 kilometers from the city of Ouarzazate. It is a sand castle built in the middle of a field filled with almond trees.

The presence of this palace in the midst of this flowering oasis is a wonderful sight, especially in the spring, which made it a distinctive decoration for a number of international films.

The interest of filmmakers, archaeologists and tourists in this historical landmark made it worthy of UNESCO’s sponsorship and its inclusion in UNESCO’s “World Heritage List” since 1987.

Palais Ait Ben Haddou has a total area of ​​about 1,300 square meters, and it overlooks the Onilla Valley, where a small river known as the Salt Valley flows.

8- Marrakech

Marrakesh is Morocco’s tourist front, and its capital during the rule of the Almoravids and the Almohads. It is called the red city in relation to the predominant color on its buildings.

Europeans describe it as a charming city for its nature and healthy climate; This made thousands of them choose to settle there, including international personalities and big names in the world of politics, art and sports.

Fes to Marrakech desert tour 4 days Includes:

•  A/C Vehicle, 4WD Toyota Land Cruiser + fuel
•  English/French/Spanish speaking driver during the tour
•  Pick up & Drop off at your Marrakech accommodation
•  Overnight in a private hotel room (depending on the option you choose)
•  Overnight in a luxury camp, private tents with ensuite bathroom and shower
•  1-hour camel ride each way
•  Dinner and Breakfast daily included
•  Free time to explore the sites, Breaks for photos. Etc
•  Customized & Flexible stops
•  No Shopping stops

not included:

•  Lunch
•  Drinks
•  Entrance to optional monuments