Agadir - Tafraout - Erg Chegaga - Marrakech 7D / 6N
Program details
Day1
Agadir - Tiznit - Tafraoute
Road to Tiznit, the silver city for a visit. Continue through the beautiful Atlas Mountains. Lunch on the road before arriving to Tafraout, the city of colorful rocks. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Day2
Tafraoute - AmelnValley - Tata
Breakfast at the hotel. Then walk towards the Ameln valley 7 kms from Tafraoute. A walk on the sides of the valley and discovery of the village.
Continuation by the gorges of Tazegzaoute, known as "the enchanted valley".
Picnic or lunch with the locals. Road to Tata. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Day3
Tata - FoumZguid - Erg Chegaga.
Departure in the morning to reach the high and immense dunes of Erg Chegaga. Stops to enjoy the beauty of the southern regions before arriving in Foum Zguid for lunch. After Foum Zguid, the road passes by the dry lake of Iriqui, once a favorite place of southern gazelles, to reach the sand dunes of Erg Chegaga.
A welcome drink will be offered to you upon arrival. After settling into your tents, you will witness the unique and picturesque sunset behind the dunes. Dinner in tents or under the stars around the campfire.
Overnight in tents.
Day4
Ergchegaga - M'hamid - Tamgeroute - Draa Valley - Nkob
After sunrise, breakfast at the bivouac, then drive to M'hamid for a moment of relaxation. Lunch then departure for the village of Tamgeroute to visit the Koranic library and the old Kasbah. Road through the Draa valley and its thousands of palm trees to N'kob. Dinner and overnight stay in Kasbah.
Day5
N'kob - Tazzarine - Alnif - Todragorges
Departure for the immense Todra Gorges. Different landscapes parade through the rocky mountains of the desert. We pass through the Berber village of Tazzarine before reaching Alnif for lunch. Road to the gorges of Todra. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Day6
Todra Gorge - DadesGorge - Valley of the Roses - Ouarzazate Atlas Mountains (Tisselday)
Departure from the Todra gorges to discover the green valleys and the Dades gorges. Arrival for lunch in the heart of the Skoura palm grove. Visit Ameridil kasbah, then Ouarzazate, city of American movies. Stop to visit the Kasbah of Ait Benhaddou before reaching the Atlas Mountains, to the village of Tisselday. Dinner and overnight in kasbah.
Day7
Tisselday - Marrakech
Morning freshness and breakfast at the kasbah's terrace with its breathtaking view of the Atlas valleys. Mountain stroll before heading back to Marrakech through the Tizi N'Tichka pass which peaks at over 2260 meters. Lunch in the heart of the Atlas mountains.
- Arrival in Marrakech in the afternoon.
Essential Tips to Plan Your Holiday in Morocco - Magic Morocco Agency
-If your holiday with Magic Morocco involves trips out to the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert, where you may be staying for several days, up to a week, or longer, you will need to be prepared. Here are some useful items that we recommend you pack before you leave on your trip of a lifetime to Morocco.
- A sleeping bag: While we provide plenty of blankets and sheets for your tented desert accommodation, it does get very cold in the Sahara on a winter’s night. Bring along your own sleeping bag, so that you’ll be snug as a bug under the spectacular, if chilly, Moroccan night skies, studded with a galaxy of shimmering stars. This is only really required on trekking over several nights or on the Sufi Retreat.
- A turban or scarf: This is an essential item when heading out on Morocco desert tours, as the simple garment will protect your face and hair from the harsh sun, as well as any sand that gets whipped up by the wind. If you’ve arrived for your holiday in Morocco and find you don’t have a turban — known locally as a “shesh” — or scarf, don’t worry. You can easily buy a “shesh” at a local shop or bazaar.
- Warm clothing: You’ll need to bring some warm clothes when you embark on a Morocco desert tour. Although temperatures are high in the Sahara during the day, they plummet at night, due to a lack of cloud to keep the heat in. While you might think you don’t need to pack heavy clothing for a trip to hot Morocco, you will need it when you’re out in the desert in the evenings in early spring, late autumn, and the winter.
- High-factor sunscreen to combat the strong sun.
- Good quality sunglasses that can filter out the sun’s harmful rays and protect your eyes.
- Solid footwear, such as good trainers, for all the walking you will be doing. Trainers are ideal footwear, whilst walking barefoot in the dunes can also be practical.
- Plenty of bottles of water for the car, but we provide enough bottled water for each person in the desert.
- You might also like to pack a torch and a Swiss army knife, and above all you should make sure that you bring lots of water with you on every car journey in the Sahara. We will of course provide water at the camps you’ll be staying at.
- Being well prepared for your Morocco desert tour will ensure that you have the time of your life on your desert magic tour.
In Morocco, as travellers, we are paying guests, exploring and learning about age-old traditions and fascinated by a world so different from our own. Customs and traditions based either on religion or habits passed down from generation to generation can seem strange, unusual, or odd. Listening, learning and observing, without necessarily understanding and without passing judgment, can enhance our pleasure of participating in this other existence.
As we move around and through this environment, we leave behind impressions of ourselves and our own world – we are the most important ambassadors. Let us ensure that the memories we leave are ones of warmth, generosity, openness, curiosity, modesty and respect for this different society and for the environment which others experience on a daily basis. Moroccans are very welcoming and hospitable people and it behoves us to keep faith with this.
Environmental aspects
The desert is very much alive – witness the myriads of animal tracks on your morning climb to watch the sunrise. It is also other people’s living space. With this in mind, and considering also that the dryness of the desert means that even a paper tissue rots only exceedingly slowly, please be careful to remove all litter.
Throughout Morocco it is important that we are conscious and careful of our water consumption. This is a country under constant threat of drought. We are all individually responsible for maintaining a sustainable environment wherever we are.
Of course, there are scorpions and snakes in the desert, but these rarely pose a danger and they avoid the proximity of humans. Only in summer is it advisable to keep an eye out. The reason for the guide along with you is for your own safety. Please do not venture beyond sight of the camp alone, as it is easy to lose a sense of orientation in the dunes.
