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9 Days Private Sahara Desert Tour From Marrakech Via Erg Chigaga Desert
June 11, 2024Private Sahara Desert Tour From Marrakech
This specific Sahara Desert excursion covers a large nonetheless very thrilling region of Morocco. Atlas mountains, Erg Chigaga Desert and Atlantic coast are all locations that this non-public Sahara wilderness excursion goes to . You’ll begin on the high Atlas, undergo the paranormal Draa valley then sleep underneath million of stars at Erg Chigaga desolate tract before you finish this tailored Morocco excursion at one of the most stunning seashores of Morocco, talking here approximately Legzira seashore .
Day 1: Marrakech
Meet up at the airport in Marrakech and Drop off at the riad. Freshen up and relax. Go out and go to Marrakech on your personal. A special welcoming dinner will be held at the riad/hotel, accompanied by a nearby spectacle.
Day 2: Marrakech – visit of the city
Your private English-speaking manual will find Marrakech and its treasures for you. He will pick you up at 9 AM at your riad. It is stimulated to start with the Bahia Palace and, close by, the ruins of the Badi’a, guarded via the storks. Next door, the implementing marble columns of the Golden dynasty, the Saadis, decorate the mausoleums. The small but very richly adorned Douiria is a quality example of crafts and architecture from two centuries ago. Across the souks, Medersa Ben Youssef Koranic School will awe you with its tricky stucco engravings as well as the Qoubba Almoravide, the oldest nevertheless-status structure within the town. Accommodation as according to the previous night. Dinner on your own.
Day 3: Marrakech – ait ben haddou – ouarzazate – zagora
After breakfast, Leave Marrakech at the back to take at the Atlas Mountains and its dense forests via one of the most winding and dramatic routes in Morocco. Reach the Tizi n Tichka skip at 2200 meters high to enter the Great South. Stop and go to the UNESCO world website Ait Benhaddou to skirt through Ouarzazate later, then move the gorges and reach 1700 meters high, from wherein the panorama of the legendary Draa Valley unfolds.
Outside Agdz, it’s far worth touring the Black human village and the ksar of Tamnougalt. Before Zagora, a dusty off-avenue will take you to the neighbourhood’s prehistoric rock engravings of Foum Chenna. Reach Zagora early at night. Dinner and accommodation at a stunning Kasbah at the heart of the Draa Valley
Day 4: zagora – m’hamid – erg chigaga
After breakfast, find out about the nearby village of Amezrou and its Jewish background – the old adobe synagogue and the silver earrings craft. Further on, the stoves of Tamegroute solid the emerald glaze so effortlessly diagnosed on mosque tiles, dishes and pots across Morocco. The close by Nassiria library holds a ten-century antique gold-engraved Koran and various treaties on astronomy, medication and Arab poetry, among different gems. Before leaving the tarmac at the back and taking at the Sahara, we propose visiting a traditional ksour and having lunch with a local circle of relatives. From Mhamid, across numerous varieties of wasteland, you’ll reach the dunes of Erg Chigaga, the closing bit by camel. Dinner and lodging are in luxurious tents with ensuite bathrooms and toilets.
Day 5: Erg Chigaga Desert
Today is a day complete of off-roading in the Sahara Desert. Leave the camp after breakfast and then power to explore the tallest dunes and the unique terrains of the Sahara barren region. Lunch is blanketed these days, and it will be deliberate in a stunning shady oasis in the middle of the Sahara. In the early nighttime, alternate the 4WDs for camels and experience them to the top of the dunes for a magical sunset. Dinner and fireplace-side tune. Overnight on the Sahara barren region camp once more.
Day 6: erg chigaga – foum-zuid – tazenakht – taroudant
Wake up to appreciate the dawn and stroll around the dunes. Later on, you may take the hamada ( rocky wasteland ) and move to the dry lake Iriki. Have tea with the nomads, pry out fossils, and join the tarmac once more at Foum Zguid. Have a delectable lunch via the pool at Bab Rimal, or choose the more formal preference of a kefta in the village. Take the path west and soon attain the village of Tazenakht, which is very well-known for its extensive choice of Berber rugs and the locations of various merchants who promote rugs in distinctive Moroccan towns. Reach Taroudant at the cease of the afternoon. Dinner and lodging in a stunning hotel at the palm grove.
Day 7: taroudant – agadir – massa park – Mirleft – legzira
After breakfast, take a caleche trip around the town walls and/ or browse the souks for refined argan oil or honey in Morocco. Or, arrive early in Legzira instead to improve the quality of some time there. Find out about the stunning Spanish structure in Sidi Ifni and the silverwork craftsmen in Tiznit, and revel in the overall comfortable ambience of this beautiful beach. You don’t have to plan anything in advance, but as a substitute, determine the day. Follow the Atlantic coast all of the way to Massa National Parc to look at some of the rare birds like the Bald Ibis and have a picnic lunch on the Parc. Respect the goats up inside the trees as you technique Legzira. Dinner and lodging at A stunning Hotel with the aid of the seaside.
Day 8: legzira – sidi ifni – legzira
After breakfast, have a stroll at the beach of Legzira, famous for its vast crimson-orange coloured arches carved by way of the ocean in coastal cliffs. The place is still no longer mainly known to the overall public; however, it is widely known amongst surfers and paragliders. Picnic at the seashore or a café, then later in the afternoon, discover some time to Sidi Ifni, which is a bit of a coastal metropolis with an exciting history and eclectic Moorish Art Deco architecture. It became the ultimate Moroccan town surrendered by Spain in 1969. It became known as Santa Cruz de la Mar Pequeña and changed into kept below Spanish manipulation even after Moroccan independence in 1956. Spain resisted a sequence of Moroccan assaults to take the territory within the Ifni War of 1957–fifty-eight. It subsequently led to 1969. There is no particular tourist infrastructure right here, but you may walk inside the old Spanish Town. Dinner and accommodation at because the preceding night time
Day 9 – legzira – tiznit – agadir – marrakech
Go away from Legzira early to have an early arrival again to Marrakech to make the first-rate out of your time there. We can take one of the most picturesque mountain routes in the u. S . Going north over Tizi n’Test ( elevation of 2092 m) in the High Atlas mountains to Marrakech. Dinner and lodging at a captivating riad within the Medina.
Subsequent days and depending on what time your flight is, the motive force can be there to take you out of your lodging to the airport; you must be there at least hours earlier than your flight. End of your personal Sahara wasteland excursion.
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