Geological Morocco tour 5 days

Day 1: Marrakech – Ouarzazate -Dades Valley

The Geological Morocco tour 5 days will start After your breakfast, we pick you up from your hotel and travel. So we depart Marrakech to Kasbah Ait Ben Hadou through Tizi Ntichka passing an elevation of 2260m (6,867 ft.). Visit the UNESCO World Heritage Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou a spectacular fortified village (Ksar). Lunch will be in a traditional restaurant in Ait Benhaddou. Likewise, we continue to Ouarzazate, visit Kasbah Taourirte and the cinema studios of Atlas & CLA Studios where many movies were produced thus being called The Hollywood of Africa like Lawrence of Arabia, Sahara…

In the afternoon, we drive to Boumalne Dades via the Valley of the Roses is known for the extensive harvest of roses, used in the production of perfume. More than rose water and cosmetic products. Before we reach our small hotel located in Dades Valley. Your accommodations and dinner will be in a hotel at Dades Valley.

Day2: Dades valley – todgha gorges – Jorf – Erfoud

After your breakfast, we will pick you up from your hotel and travel to Erfoud the city of fossils, We will travel the road of a thousand Kasbah, through the village of Tinghir, with its Jewish quarter, reach the Todra in time to visit the famous Gorges of Todgha. Where you can take amazing pictures and discover the region.

After we will take the direction to Erfoud, the desert’s door. You will pass through Tinjdad’s palm groves and Touroug palm plantations. Then we crossed Jorf with his old underground irrigation system. After 20 km we’ll arrive in Erfoud where you will feel the beginning of the Saharan oasis. Dinner and overnight in Erfoud in the local hotel/riad.

Day 3: Visit Boutchrafine sites – museum – fossils market – Erg Chebbi

Get up at 9 AM in the morning and enjoy a Moroccan breakfast, first visit the old market of spices and dates, before taking the road to ELKHAMLIYA the black village famous for Gnawa music. We will stop for a drink of mint tea, after taking the road to the CRINOIDS QUARRY. The Crinoids Quarry was the first fossil site on the earth for the discovery of the FLOUR OF SEA, over 350 million years ago.

Here you will see the workers under Earth searching which gives you the opportunity to contact the workers directly. After we will visit the QUARRY OF FOSSILIZED MARBLE containing Orthossaire, Ammonite, Goniatite, and Sea Stars. It’s the biggest load in the world. Then to the QUARRY OF DINOSAURS and to other fossilized animal sites. Also, you will have a visit to the House of Trilobite where you can find all sorts of Trilobites.

We will have a typical picnic lunch with a charming geological view before heading to Erfoud to the center of fossils workers of all sorts of fossils where you can buy fossils at an affordable price. Then we will visit two different museums where you find all sorts of fossils, for example, shark teeth, crinoids, trilobites, fossilized marbles, ammonites, trilobites…

After you, we will travel on to the Merzouga Desert. The camels will be packed with food and blankets, as well as the other necessities needed for this one-night stay in the desert. Also, We will trek our way through the sand to a small Oasis in the middle of the dunes.

Here is where you will be spending your evening, where the sky is clear and stars sparkle and shine with intensity. Your accommodations this evening will be camping in a Nomad Berber Tent. (luxury camp).

Day 4 Merzouga – Risani – alnif – agdez – Ouarzazate

In the morning, after having a sunrise breakfast we will break camp and ride our camels out of the desert and back to our original point of departure. , First, we will visit Rissani the biggest market in the region. Then we will take the road to the greatest center of TRILOBITE in the world (Alnif City) where you can see the mountains of trilobite and FACOPS …and visit shops that sell all sorts of trilobite and different fossils.  then we continue our road to ouarzazate accrossing agdez and daraa valley. Accommodation and dinner at your hotel Riad in Ouarzazate.

Day 5: Ouarzazate – Atlas Mountains – Marrakech

After your morning breakfast, you will travel to Marrakech through the Atlas Mountains. You will stop in Taddart to have lunch at a Berber village in a panoramic restaurant. After you complete your lunch you will continue your travel to Marrakech. Once you arrive in Marrakech, You will be dropped off at your hotel and this will complete your 5 day desert tour Marrakech Merzouga and end our services.

Tour includes :

• Tour in 4×4 vehicle or Minibus
• Fuel
• An English-speaking driver/guide
• 3 Hotel overnight stays
• 1 Night in Desert Camp
• dinner & breakfast
• A camel ride
• Visit Khamliya (Gnawa village)
• The market of dates
• Visit the Market in Rissani
• The Museum of Fossils
• Boutchrafin site

The tour does not include:

• Flights
• Lunches
• Beverages
• Any hotel extras or incidentals
• All that is not mentioned above