5 Days Mt Toubkal Trek & Sahara Desert Tour

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5 Days Mt Toubkal Trek & Sahara Desert Tour

June 12, 2024

5 DAYS MT TOUBKAL TREK

In this 5-day journey, you will combine the high-quality Morocco is known for: the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara Desert! First, get a feel for the neighbourhood tradition as you sleep inside the High Atlas Mountain huts. Then, proportion a loaf of bread with the Berbers and barren region camps in Merzouga, gaining knowledge of how to play Tam Tam drums with the nomads.

Day 1 : Marrakech → Imlil → Toubkal Hut

Your epic journey will begin early morning with pressure from Marrakech to Imlil, the gateway to the Mount Toubkal hike. Meet your guide, muleteer, and cook, who will help you cope with your belongings earlier than you begin with a short hike to Aroumd village ( 2000m ). From here, you will move the flood plain of Ait Mizane and begin a 1207 m hike in altitude. At the side of a series of switchbacks following the mule, Zigzag tracks past the holy shrine of Sidi Chamharouch. Arrive at Toubkal Hut ( 3200 m ) in the late afternoon for dinner and overnight.

Day 2 : Toubkal Hut → Toubkal Summit → Imlil

Wake up at sunrise for a ten-hour trek. Toubkal summit climb will contain scrambling across steep rocky fields that require trekking abilities within the snowy iciness season. After 4 hours of hiking, you may attain Toubkal summit (4167 m). Enjoy the majestic views over the roof of North Africa: Look up the east, and you may see the Sahara barren region plains. To the west lays the Atlantic coast behind the peaks of Nfiss Valley. Toast your accomplishment over a packed breakfast before mountaineering to Toubkal hut base for lunch. In the afternoon, we descend to Imlil for a nicely deserved Hammam, dinner, and overnight at your hotel.

Day 3 : Imlil → Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou → Boumalne Dades

After breakfast, it’s time to depart the Toubkal summit hike behind you and begin your Morocco Sahara barren region tour. Cross Tizi N’tichka Pass toward Kasbah Ait Ben Hadou. This earthen village is indexed as a global heritage website and turned into a hard and fast of several Hollywood epics. Meet your neighbourhood guide for a quick visit to the village to learn about this seventeenth-century building. After lunch at the entertainment, you’ll continue to Ouarzazate. You will easily spot Atlas Film Studios on the metropolis front on the left. If you desire to visit, guided excursions are scheduled at some point in the day. We will visit the oasis of Skoura, famous for its most preserved Kasbah in Morocco: Amridil. This one is really worth a visit to study the oases’ Berber subculture, architecture, and lifestyle. In the afternoon, we drive to Boumalne Dades, passing the road of 1001 Kasbahs and the Valley of the Roses. You may want to stop at nearby artisanal distilling factories to learn about the technique. You arrive at your inn positioned at the brink of the Dades canyons for dinner in a single day.

Day 4 : Boumalne Dades → Tinghir

After breakfast, today’s journey will head to Tinghir, a former Fench navy bastion at some point in the 20th-century occupation. It also became well-known for its critical Jewish network and silver ring craftsmanship.
Meet your nearby guide for a walk within the oasis and to the majestic Todgha Canyons.
In the afternoon, we continue on to Rissani, a holy city well-known for being the birthplace of the real dynasty ruling Morocco: the Alaouites.

Day 5 : Tinghir → Merzouga

Visit the dates marketplace before you continue to Merzouga. Upon arrival, meet your camel caravan and head directly to Erg Chebbi for every other epic adventure.
Stop on the pinnacle of the sand dunes to look at the solar set down over the horizon whilst the sand dunes trade colour. Just earlier than it receives dark, arrive at your Morocco Sahara desolate tract camp nestled in the middle of nowhere.
After settling down to your tent, get equipped for a delicious Moroccan dinner under the celebs, relaxed nighttime across the campfire, and be entertained by your nomad hosts playing Tam Tam’s drums.

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