Hiden morocco Marrakech – Ouzoud Waterfall - Imilchil – Amellago Gorges – Goulmima

Adventure tour in Marrakech, Merzouga, Rissani, Erfoud, Ait Benhaddou

Tour Price : from 300 per person Duration : 8 days Languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian

Day 1 : Airport– Marrakech (Marrakesh Menara Airport) We pick you up at the airport and take you to the hotel, where we have dinner and spend the night.

Day 2 : Marrakech – Ouzoud Falls - Imilchil The first stage of the journey starts with a visit to the Ouzoud Waterfall, a magnificent 100 m. high cascade. After breakfast, we head out to the huge Ben El Ouidane Lake, in the great High Atlas landscapes. We resume our trip until we reach Azilal, a small town in the Atlas summits. Finally, we arrive to Imilchil -a Berber village known for the tradition by which the young women of the Ait Hadiddou tribe are allowed to choose their husbands. We spend the night in a hotel.

Day : 3 : Imilchil – Amellago – Goulmima – Merzouga With this circuit we will discover the magnificence of the High Atlas mountains. We take the 150 km road that leads us to be Berber villages of Agoudal, Ait Hani and Assoul. After taking a break for lunch, we proceed until the Amellago Gorges. We move forward on the road to Tadighoust and we arrive to Goulmima. We take a road lined with tamarinds and palm trees until we reach Erfoud. The road ends there and we take a desert track until the golden dunes of Erg Chebbi, near Merzouga. We spend the night in a hostel with swimming pool and air conditioning.

Day 4 : Merzouga - Erg Chebbi - Merzouga We have breakfast and take a 130 km circuit around the dunes. During the trip, we can admire the two oases of Merzouga, the nomad settlements, the village of Khamlia -which inhabitants come from Mali-, M'fiss mines, the arid plateaus and the Tissardmine oasis. We go back to the hostel and, in the afternoon, we ride camels and go to the heart of the dunes to contemplate the sunset. We spend the night in the middle of the desert under a haima, in a wild oasis two hours away.

Day 5 : Erg Chebbi – Rissani – Todrà Gorges – Dadès Gorges We go back to Merzouga and, after cooling off, we leave to Rissani, the first imperial city of Morocco. We pass by Erfoud, a hub of the fossils industry, and Tafilalet palm trees plantation. We visit the Todrà Gorges and the journey ends in the Dadès Valley, where we have dinner and spend the night.

Day 6 : Dadès Valley – Ait Benhaddou – Marrakech We take a road to Ouarzazate following the 1000 Kasbahs Route. We visit Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou and Tamdaght kasbahs. We move to Marrakech by the Tizi n'Tichka mountain pass, which offers a unique landscape and a great colour contrast. We spend the night in a riad.

Day 7: Marrakech We visit Marrakech, the nerve centre of Morocco, with its old medina, its red souks, its famous Jemaa el-Fnaa Square - teeming with life day and night - and its renowned historical monuments: the Menara Gardens, Palais de la Bahia and El Badia palaces, the Saadian tombs... We spend the night in a riad.

Day 8 : Transfer to the airport and end of travel

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