✦From Marrakech/ 5 days
5 Days Sahara tour from Marrakech
The connoisseur's desert tour. A full day around Merzouga by 4x4 — nomad families, the Gnawa village of Khamlia, fossil beds and seasonal lakes — bracketed by the great kasbah route and two unforgettable desert nights.
- Duration
- 5 days / 4 nights
- Route
- MRK → MRK
- Crosses
- Atlas · Imperial cities · Sahara & the gorges
- Price
- Quote on enquiry
5 days from Marrakech
✦Day 01
Marrakech to Ouarzazate
Cross Tizi n'Tichka and step into the cinematic ksar of Ait Ben Haddou. Evening at a kasbah hotel in Ouarzazate, Morocco's Hollywood of the desert.
- Drive
- approx. 200 km / ~4.5h with stops
- Highlights
- Tizi n'Tichka · Aït Ben Haddou
Day 1 — Marrakech to Ouarzazate
✦Day 02
Roses Valley & Dades Gorge
Through Skoura's palms and the rosewater town of Kelaat M'Gouna, then an afternoon walk among the Dades Gorge's surreal rock formations. Night at a gorge-side riad.
- Drive
- approx. 130 km / ~2.5h with stops
- Highlights
- Skoura oasis · Kasbah Amridil
Day 2 — Roses Valley & Dades Gorge
✦Day 03
Todra Gorge to Erg Chebbi
The canyon at Todra, lunch in Tinghir's palmery, then the dunes. A camel caravan delivers you to camp as the Sahara turns to fire — dinner under more stars than you have ever seen.
- Drive
- approx. 260 km / ~4.5h with stops
- Highlights
- Todra Gorge · Tinghir palmery
Day 3 — Todra Gorge to Erg Chebbi
✦Day 04
Deep Desert Day — Khamlia, Nomads & the Black Dunes
A 4x4 circuit around the erg: tea with a nomad family, hypnotic Gnawa rhythms in Khamlia, abandoned mining villages, fossil plateaus, and sunset from the highest dune. A second night in the Sahara.
- Drive
- 4×4 circuit around the erg
- Highlights
- Khamlia Gnawa village · Nomad families
Day 4 — Deep Desert Day — Khamlia, Nomads & the Black Dunes
✦Day 05
Merzouga to Marrakech
One last sunrise, then the full sweep back — Alnif's fossil country, the Draa road, Ouarzazate, and the Atlas pass — arriving in Marrakech in the evening.
- Drive
- approx. 560 km / ~9h with stops
- Highlights
- One last sunrise · Alnif fossil country
Day 5 — Merzouga to Marrakech
✦Included
What the price covers
- Private car (SUV or Minivan) A/C
- Pick up and return to accommodation
- Luxury stay booked
- Local guides
- Camel trekking (camel per person)
- Sandboarding (if interested)
- Flexible stops
- Lunch
- Drinks
- Tickets
✦Places on this route
Where it reaches
Tizi n'TichkaAït Ben HaddouOuarzazateMarrakechDades ValleySkoura & the Valley of RosesErg ChebbiTodra Gorge
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