Registration and boarding to Marrakech. Meet at the airport of Marrakech Menara with your guide who will briefly inform you about the program. Transfer to your hotel. Dinner and overnight
Departure for Ouarzazate, the gateway to the Great South, located at the confluence of the Draa and Dades valleys, crossing the High Atlas Mountains by the Tizin-Tichka Pass, the highest in the country (2,260 m above sea level). Lunch in Ouarzazate, then taking the road to Zagora, the ancient city of the caravans’ time. Crossing the mountain to Agdz. The trip continues to Zagora through the Draa Valley (fortified villages and oases), which includes one of the largest palm groves in southern Morocco. Diner and overnight
After leaving the palm grove of Zagora, the day begins along the shore of the Oued Drâa, where Ksours, oases and palm groves on both sides of the Oued follow one another in virtual uninterrupted greenery. At the intersection of the Tansikht palm grove we continue via N’Kob, the palm grove of Mellal, Tazzarine and Alnif. Lunch at Alnif. In the afternoon, in a lunar landscape, we walk for miles through a vast stony plain along the imposing Djebel Saghro. Dinner and overnight
In the early morning, excursion possibility by a Land Rover in the desert to watch the sunrise in the famous dunes of Merzouga. Departure towards Tineghir, stop with panoramic view on the palm grove of Jorf. Crossing the desert plateau. Incursion into the famous Todra Gorge, one of the most impressive sights of southern Morocco and natural high rocky cliffs. Dinner and overnight
Departure to Ouarzazate, the Dades Valley, nicknamed the road of the “Thousand Kasbahs”. A sublime landscape scrolls: a fortified villages, kasbahs, ksours … Lunch and visit of the most famous kasbahs in the region including that of Taourirt, visit of the Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou and visit of the decoration used for shooting of many films and heritage-listed Of Unesco. Then stop at the Kasbah of Tiffoultout. Dinner and Overnight.
Back to Marrakech via the pass of Tizi N’Tichka (pass of the pasture), which remains snow covered the majority of the year. Djebel Tichka with its 2,260 meters is the highest road in Morocco. Built by the Foreign Legion in the 1920s, it is the only tarred and direct passage to Ouarzazate and the whole South-East region. The descent to the plain of Haouz is a panorama more appealing with its lush vegetation, punctuated by many Berber villages. Check-in at the hotel, lunch and free afternoon. Dinner and overnight
