3-Days Morocco Tour: Sahara Desert Excursion from Fes to Marrakech
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Embark on a thrilling 3-day Morocco tour, exploring the Sahara Desert from Fes to Marrakech. Discover the beauty of Fes, the desert landscapes, and vibrant Marrakech.
Duration: 3 days
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Day 1: Over the mountains and into the desert

Middle Atlas - Start your day bright and early and travel south toward Merzouga. Along the way, you will climb up and over the Col du Zad pass (7,146 feet or 2,178 m) through the picturesque small town of Ifrane and the cedar forests of the Middle Atlas Mountains. Enjoy sightings of the local Barbary macaque monkeys before stopping for lunch in Midelt (the ‘apple city’), relishing the nearby Moulouya River. Continue over the Tizi n’Talremt pass and into the Ziz Valley, known for its hidden oases and palm tree clusters. Along the road, you will see many fortified houses known as ksars—built to protect precious wares, including gold, salt, and spices.

Erg Chebbi - Continue on to Erfoud, known for its date festival and fossil mining. Here you can visit a local collective to learn more about the process and meet some local artisans. Continue to Erg Chebbi, an extensive sea of sand dunes covering an area of 13.5 square miles (35 square km). Never stationary, the massive dunes shift and travel depending on the changing wind! Upon reaching your luxury camp, you will experience an amazing camel ride to enjoy the spectacular sunset along the way and explore the magical golden Dunes of Erg Chebbi. Return to your camp and enjoy some fantastic local cuisine while you sit around an open fire, enjoying live music and dancing under the stars. Your well-furnished luxury private Nomadic Style tent ( Not equipped with AC) will welcome you to spend a memorable overnight in the heart of the Sahara Desert.

What's Included
  • 24/7 care and support
  • Ticket to the Studio Cinema in Ouarzazate
  • Airport or accommodation pick-up/drop-off in Fez and Marrakech
  • No hidden fees
  • Meals including dinner and breakfast
  • In-vehicle Air conditioning and on-board WiFi
  • Sandboarding experience
  • Nature stops for photo opportunities
  • Entrance fees to historic sites
  • Luggage handling
  • Complimentary bottled water
  • Tea and coffee provided
  • Camel trekking experience in the Sahara Desert
What's Not Included
  • Tips
  • Extra
  • Lunch each day.
  • Drinks except those included.
Additional Information

This whirlwind 3-day Sahara Desert Trip starts from Fez and ends in Marrakech, it highlights the best of Morocco, including Fes, the Desert, and Marrakech. Start in the imperial city of Fes and make your way south, traversing the Cedar forests and the Middle Atlas Mountain range into the Sahara Desert. Cross up the 1000 Kasbahs Road, Palms Oases, and over the High Atlas Mountains before ending your trip in bustling Marrakech.

A perfect option for individuals, small groups, couples, or friends looking to enjoy unique adventurers, see the diversity of Morocco’s landscapes, and travel in private while maintaining a budget.

Location
Bab Boujloud
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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537allened
May 14, 2024
Extraordinary in every way! - There's little I can add to the superlative reviews of this company. With two friends, I toured most of the main cities in the country, crossed over the High Atlas, through lush valleys, dry waterways as far as the Sahara dunes where we stayed in an amazing desert camp. We travelled in a comfortable car with Sharif and Abdul, two careful, knowledgeable and intuitive drivers. Our day tour guides also were always competent and charming and we learned so much about the culture and history of each place visited. We also stopped (and shopped!) at many fine craft cooperatives of ceramics, tiles, argon oil and, of course, carpets. At the end of each day we entered into an enchanted world. The riads or hotels were so beautiful, filled with all the mosaic tiles, carved ceilings, fountains and pools for which Morocco is famed. If you ever want to have the most unique, exceptional travel experience ever, let Rachid plan your visit to this marvellous country. Allie
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A5258glrebeccaa
Mar 15, 2023
Great experience - It was a great experience. Rachid helped us a lot in planning our trip. And the driver/tour guide was very caring. The accommodation is also a great choice. Strongly recommended
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Marcello0011
Jan 11, 2023
Morocco Adventure! Excellent Planning - The Best Sahara Desert Experience - This was a dream trip of a lifetime! Our Morocco travel designer’s, Rachid has advised, and supported us at every stage of our Morocco travel plan as well as create, visualize and realize our dream holiday ensuring that we experience the very best vacation possible. Also, the important part of our private itinerary, our Sahara Desert experience was absolutely incredible. Exceeded our expectations in how it enables us to meet locals and immerse ourselves in the authentic Morocco’s culture and how it covered all the major attractions of the beautiful country, High Atlas Mountains, Cedar Forest, Sahara Desert, and Palms Oases. Our guide Brahim in Sahara Desert was so kind, fun and knowledgeable. If anyone is choosing to explore Morocco, I would highly recommend Morocco Culture Travel.
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802youssefo
Jan 11, 2023
A great trip to Merzouga - we had an excellent trip with our guide abdul, we had an incredible experience in Merzouga, everything was well organized, they are really professional, thank you Rachid for organizing our unforgettable trip
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Tomasma89
Dec 22, 2022
The Best Tour Ever – 3 Days Morocco Sahara Desert Tour From Fez to Marrakech - Having a private car, driver and guide is a must to truly see the highlights and we were lucky to have this team on all our excursions including Sahara Desert. We were able to tailor our 3 Days Sahara Desert trip and get the most of our Morocco private tour at our own speed. Our driver Hassan, whom we had during the entire time in Morocco is the best driver. He was able to safely get us through traffic jams without issues. He was very polite, always greeted us with a smile and attentive to our needs, ensuring we stayed hydrated and safe exiting the car offering assistance. Our guide Aziz was also very knowledgeable, soft spoken and helped us understand the culture and history of her country. She also helped with special request to see specific sites and with the best places to shop. In addition, she is a very good photographer and knew exactly where to take the best photos. The ones she took of us will be some of our best memories. I truly believe these two people were the best. We really recommend Morocco Culture Travel to enjoy a memorable Sahara Desert tour in Morocco.
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Francka488
Dec 18, 2022
A Fabulous Sahara Desert with a very a conscientious and polite team: Desert Trip from Marrakech to Fez through Merzoug - We got in touch with Morocco Culture Travel because we wished for a bespoke and special Morocco desert trip. From the planning stage, I realized we were onto a good thing from my first contact with Meryem via email. We had an incredible experience with Morocco Culture Travel on our 3-day trip from Marrakesh to Fes (via Merzouga). Our driver/main guide Hassan was incredibly welcoming and knowledgeable, and he genuinely cared about us having the best experience in Morocco. The 3-day tour had many good stops along the way which allowed us to see many more places and sites than we were expecting. Morocco Culture Travel is very organized and set us up with many local guides in the various places. All of the local guides were very friendly and answered any questions we had. We stayed at both the basic and luxury camps, and both were fantastic experiences. The camps were very comfortable and well-decorated with good food and activities. (I highly recommend sandboarding if you have a chance!) The camels at the camps were very well cared for and treated well. Overall, I highly recommend this experience! And thank you, Hassan!
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Cathalinah2022
Nov 10, 2022
The most memorable Morocco private Tour - The most memorable Morocco private Tour – 3 Days Sahara Desert Trip – From Fez to Marrakech My husband and I have enjoyed this unforgettable private 3 days Sahara Desert tour with this amazing company Morocco Culture Travel. Fatima was super helpful right from the moment we contact them, she was responsive and informative when communicating over WhatsApp. Throughout the tour, the excellent private English-speaking driver, Abdul and the knowledgeable local guides (Hamid & Moha) kept our interests at heart and they took extremely good care of us. The hotels, the luxurious private tent in Erg Chebbi dunes and the authentic spicy Moroccan food were top notch.
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B2070qbantoniod
Oct 27, 2022
Just book this Best Value Morocco Desert Trip - Very nice tour, well packaged, no wasted time, exquisite landscapes, exceptional food and entertaining activities. The pace of the Sahara Desert trip was great, the driver was friendly and skilled, the guide was nice and knowledgeable! Bring warm in winter and book this tour.
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Thomasdd3901hm
Oct 13, 2022
very good - A special Morocco Tour – 3 Days Sahara desert Trip from Fez to Marrakech We had a wonderful time in Morocco, and really loved the Sahara Desert Trip itinerary that Morocco Culture Travel Team put together for 3 Sahara Desert tour. Moha, our driver, was definitely the hero of the trip. He was so friendly and accommodating, and really went out of his way to make us feel like his guests. We had excellent experiences with all of our guides: Hassan in Merzouga, Mustapha in Ouarzazate, and Said in Marrakech. Would definitely recommend this 3 days Morocco desert Tour to my friends and family!
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Robynfwilson
Oct 4, 2022
Excellent guided tour of Morocco's Sahara and Atlas Mountains - This was such a memorable experience, made particularly special by our local guide, Abdellah, whose intimate knowledge of the region was second to none. We spent an evening in the Sahara desert gazing at stars before driving out into the Atlas Mountains where we were able to stop on isolated roads and soak up the scenery. On our final day we were taken to a small local Tagine stop on the side of the road where we ate a delicious lunch under fig trees. Thanks Abdellah for making this such a special trip!
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