Day 1: Marrakech – Ait Ben Haddou – Ouarzazate – Dades Valley (315 Km)

Morning departure from Marrakech to the Dades gorges and driving across the High-Atlas mountains. At panoramic viewpoints, there will be opportunities to stop and take photos. After the Tizi-n-Tichka pass (2260m), you leave the main road and take a side road to the kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou, which you can visit after lunch (a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is also well-known as being the backdrop to many Hollywood blockbusters). The road past Ouarzazate and to the oasis of Skoura where we stop to visit the kasbah of Amridil. From here, the route goes through Kela’a M’gouna, the valley of the roses and the road of one thousand Kasbahs. You stop in the Dades gorges in a hotel there for dinner and night.

Day 2: Dades – Todra Gorges – Merzouga (Night in Desert Camp) (255 km)

After breakfast, there is time to walk by the Boumalne Dades valley before continuing to the dunes of Merzouga via the Todra gorges where you can take a walk before having lunch. In the afternoon, our trip continues along the Ziz valley and the Tafilalte valley to the dunes of Merzouga for an hour camel ride to reach the dunes of Erg Chebbi (250m). From the top of the dunes the sunset is spectacular. Here, at Erg Chebbi dunes, we will have dinner and spend the night in a desert camp.

Day 3: Merzouga – Errachida – Midelt Atlas Mountains – Ifran – Fes (471 Km)

If you wake up early enough, you can watch the spectacle of the sunrise. After you having breakfast then return on camel back, departure for  Erfoud. From there the road leads north to Errachidia and the Ziz valley, remarkable for the extent of its palm trees. Lunch is in Midelt, which is called “the apple capital”, in the Middle Atlas and at the foot of the Ayachi Mountain. We cross the Tizi-n-Talremt pass, ravelling along a beautiful road bordered by green oaks and cedar trees to reach Azrou, where you can see Barbary apes looking out for tidbits. We reach Fes at the end of the afternoon.