7 days desert tour from Tangier to Marrakech

Best 7 days desert tour from Tangier to Marrakech, explore the royal capitals, UNESCO-listed treasures, and Sahara desert of Morocco. Travel across the nation, stopping along the way to discover the “Blue City” of Chefchaouen. The souks and medina of Fes, and Marrakech’s old medina and Jemaa el Fna plaza. Visit the Merzouga Desert en route for an incredible camel ride across the sand dunes. Spend the night at a typical desert tent.  

Tour highlights

• Explore Chafchaouen (the blue city)
• Visit old City of Meknes
• Discover the medina and the famous Souks of Fes
• Travel south through Ifrane to Azrou (switzerland of morocco)
• Enoy with camel ride to see sunset around Erg Chebbi Dunes
• take in the panoramic picture of the Todra gorges and valley.
• We’ll go to the Ait Ben Haddou Kasar.
• Cross the High Atlas Mountains and the Tizi Ntichka Pass.
• Visit Marrakech culture and tradicional souk of Jemaa El Fina

7 days desert tour from Tangier to Marrakech itinerary

Day 1: Tangier – Chefchaouen

After picking you up at the airport or port. We’ll drive you to Chfchaouen (also known as “the blue city”) through the Rif Mountains and Tetouan City so you can take in the stunning mountain vistas. Overnight at your hotel or riad

Day 2: Chefchaouen – Fes

Take a best breakfast in the riad, we’ll set out on an authentic journey to Volubilis. Passing through ouazan and other rif villages en route. Once there, we’ll see the best-preserved Roman ruins in Morocco and learn about the archeological site’s role in Moroccan history. From Volubilis, we’ll travel to Meknes, a city from the 17th century. Where we’ll stop for lunch and explore the medina’s massive walls and Following your visit to Meknes. We will make a quick trip to Fes, where you will spend the night.

Day 3: Sightseeing of Fes

We will make sure that you visit all sites of cultural and historical interest, including the renowned Al Qaraouine University. Today, you will have a guided tour to learn about the medina and the famous Souks of Fes. Its winding cobbled streets are dotted with historic mosques and towering green-glazed minarets, as well as the distinctive Andalusian architecture in every corner of the old city and its monuments. A visit to the tanneries and the ceramic cooperative to explore traditional Moroccan crafts will also be included in the tour. Afternoon in the hotel or riad. 

Day 4: Fes – Ifrane – Azrou – Midelt – Valley Ziz – Erfoud – Merzouga Desert

Picking you up from your hotel or riad, we’ll travel via the Middle Atlas highlands to Ifrane and Azrou. We’ll make a pit stop along the trip to visit the barbary apes in their native environment in the cedar forests. Later, we drive to Midelt via the spectacular Ziz Gorges. Which were sculpted out of volcanic rock, and through the Tizi N-Talghamt pass. As you get closer to the city of Errachidia. Views of the Middle-Atlas plateau and the landscape shifting to offer clues of the desert will be visible.

We will carry on with our day trip from Fes through the Ziz Valley to Erfoud, Rissani, and the Merzouga Desert after lunch. After a glass of mint tea and just before dusk, we begin the camel ride to your luxurious camp.

Day 5: Merzouga Village and Camel Trek

We’ll begin our exploration of the area by going to a community of black people who are originally from Mali to take in their culture and music. Then, after visiting Miffis Mines to learn more about how they operate there. We’ll drive into a gorgeous desert behind the dunes. Where we’ll sit down for a nice cup of tea with some Bedouins. After a cup of tea and before heading back to the hotel. Your local guides will show you how to mount and disembark the camels. And provide you with other helpful safety advice. Then you start exploring the enigmatic Erg-Chebbi sand sea. within a berber tent all night

Day 6: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Gorges

After breakfast, we will continue to Tinghir and the breathtaking Todra Gorge, one of the highest and narrowest gorges in all of Morocco. We will get up early in the morning to watch the best sunrise of your life, casting different shadows and colors over the sea of sand dunes, the highest in Morocco. The gorge is an excellent place for trekking, sitting by the river, and enjoying some regional Berber cuisine. We’ll drive through the Dades Valley after having lunch in the middle of the valley, and we’ll complete the day by spending the night at a lovely hotel perched atop a mountain.

Day 7: Dades Gorges – Ouarzazate – High Atlas – Marrakech

Following breakfast in your hotel, we’ll drive through the Dades Valley in the direction of Ouarzazat and Kalaa M’gouna (the city of flowers). The path through Dades Valley is known as the “way of the thousand kasbahs,” and it offers many opportunity to capture some of your best travel photos. Before traveling to Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah, the largest Kasbah in Morocco.

we will stop for a brief break at the Atlas Movies Studio in Ouarzazate. T-hami El Glaoui, one of the last Berber chieftains, built the Kasbah at the beginning of the 20th century, and it was once one of his stops on the lengthy journey from the Sahara to Marrakech. since 1987, one of the Unesco World Heritage Sites. After lunch, we’ll change directions and travel through high atlas mountains with panoramic views and lovely berber villages all the way to Marrakech, where the journey comes to a conclusion.