3 Days tour From Marrakech to Merzouga Desert

The 3 days desert tour from Marrakech to Merzouga Desert is the most popular tour from Marrakech. During this 3-day desert tour from Marrakech, you will enjoy the beautiful sceneries. The landscape change on the road is captivating. The most interesting thing in these 3 days is that you will discover the genuine beauty of Morocco. You will drive through the High Atlas Mountains and enjoy its beauty and arrive at the famous Kasbah Ait Benhaddou. Famous for its beautiful and old architecture.

Not only that, but many movies were also filmed there such as Gladiator, the game of thrones. After that, you will explore Ouarzazate with its Atlas studio and Kasabah Amridil. In the end, you will drive by the rose valley before we get to our final destination of the day.

Next day, you will explore the Todghra Gorge and Palmary. Also, the water irrigation system that they used in the past to get the water to the oasis and Erfoud. The latter is famous for Marbel products or fossils products. When we arrive in Merzouga, you will be taken on a camel ride over the dunes to see the sunset and play the sandboard. In the evening you will camp in the desert and spend the night there playing the drums under the stars.

The Last day, will be 9 hours’ drive from the Sahara desert to Marrakech. We will take a different way and cross the small Atlas.
We can highlight some activities in our 3-day tour from Marrakech to the Sahara Desert is the camel ride to see the sunset. Also, overnight stay in a desert camp.

DAY 1: Marrakech – Tizi N tichka Pass – Ait Benhaddou – Ouarzazate – Rose valley.

First of all, we will pick you up at your (Hotel or Riad… ) then we will start our 3 days tour from Marrakech to Merzouga Sahara Desert, passing by Dades Gorges and Tizi-n-Tichka pass on High Atlas, with picturesque views of mountains and traditional Berber villages. After enjoying the beauty of the Atlas mountains and the old Berber villages, we will visit one of UNESCO’s World Heritage, the kasbah of Ait Benhaddou.

You will have lunch at Ait Benhaddou Kasbah. Also, you will have the chance to explore the Hollywood city, Ouarzazate by visiting its famous studio known as Atlas studios. Also, you will learn more about Moroccan history and culture, when we will visit the kasbah Amridil. Afterward, we continue to Dades gorges through roses and Dades valley. We will spend our first night in a Riad or hotel in Dades gorges.

DAY 2: Dades valley– Tenghir – Todgha Palmeraie And Canyon – Tinjda – Erfoud– Merzouga.

On our second days of the 3 days desert tour from Marrakech to Merzouga, after breakfast, our destination will be Tinghir to take a walk in the Todgha gorge. Then, to the dunes of Erg Chebbi. The dunes are located near Merzouga in the Sahara Desert. After that, we will continue to the Sahara Desert to do a camel ride for one hour to watch the sunset from Erg Chebbi dunes. Not to mention, that you can play the sandboard by then. The Camel trek continues until we get to the camp. By the end of the day, we will spend the night huddling close to the fire with locals.

DAY 3: Camel trekking – Draa Palmerie – Atlas Mountanais – Back to Marrakech.

Firstly, we will make sure you wake up early in the morning so that you do not miss the sunrise and miss the beauty of the sun among the sand dunes. Secondly, you will have breakfast, then you will ride the camel’s back to the hotel. From the hotel, you will start your day tour backing to Marrakech through different areas. Also, through different Berber villages until Ouarzazate. It is where we will use the same road back to Marrakech. Furthermore, we will arrive in the evening or at night. It depends on the traffic, and this will be the end of our 3 Days tour from Marrakech to Merzouga desert.

Kasbahs in Morocco:

A long time ago, the population of morocco invented a very special art of architecture. It was different from any other architecture in the world. Before the emergence of the big cities, the old Moroccans settled in what is called ksour and Kasbahs which are set of house buildings linked together to make one large village. The buildings were built in a traditional way.

The mud, stones, and straw were the main ingredients used at that time, and also they were not building any fences around in the Ksours, but in the Kasbahs, they were building high and huge fences that are because kasbahs were like strongly defended forts on strategically placed high points all over the regions. Another thing that characterizes Kasbahs is the inscriptions from the bottom to the top. We are going to focus only here on the Kasbahs that we will visit during this 3 days tour from Marrakech to Merzouga.

Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou is the first fortress, we will visit during this 3 days tour From Marrakech to Merzouga:

You have probably never heard of it, yet it is one of the most famous places in the world. The Ksar Ait Ben Haddou is located in the southern slopes of the High Atlas Mountains. Also, it is 30km far away from the town of Ouarzazate, more or less. The Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou is a perfect synthesis of the earthen architecture of the pre-Saharan regions of morocco. Not to mention that it is a vivid example of the southern Moroccan art and design in making buildings. Ait Ben Haddou was once a place of living for many families who succeeded to create collective grouping of dwelling. It signifies that they were living as a unit.

There are buildings and community areas in the Ksar, and the Kasbah is crowded houses together with high angles towers decorated with motifs in clay bricks and engraved from the inside and outside. The oldest erection seems to be earlier than the 17th or so. The construction materials used in the regular maintenance are still the same; mud, stones, and straw. Thanks to these maintenance control the village and the Kasbah are still fine. A huge considerable number of tourists come each year to see this historical monument which is also a destination for many cinema makers. The Kasbah itself has been and still a perfect background in movies and many movies were snapped there.

Kasbah Amridil is the second fortified village, we will visit during this 3 days tour From Marrakech to Merzouga:

The Kasbah of Amridil is a real historical monument and a living museum in the village of Skoura. The Kasbah belongs now to the Nassiri Family, their predecessors once built the Kasbah of Amridil in the 17th century. Visiting the Kasbah offers the visitor an experience to take a look at how the life of the Saharan people was a long time ago. Also, the Kasbah hasn’t changed much, and the walls are well-maintained. Inside of it, you will be able to see stunning things like the old olive oil press, old walls, etc…

The outskirt area of the Kasbah and the village is a rich stunning scenery full of date palms and almond, olive, and fig trees. Of course, there are other kasbahs around the village of Skoura but the kasbah of Amridil is the most known of all. In your visit to the Amridil kasbah do not forget to explore the oasis of Skoura too and meet the friendly people.