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DESERT DOORS

7 Days / 6 Nights
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Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Tinghir, Erfoud, Al Nif, Nkob, Agdaz and more

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From USD 1,091.57 USD 545.79

Guaranteed departures from Marrakech on Sunday and Monday all year around.

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What is included in this package

  • 3-nights accommodation in Marrakech on half board basis, according to your desired hotel category.
  • 1-night accommodation in Tinghir on half board basis, according to your desired hotel category.
  • 1-night accommodation in Erfoud on half board basis, according to your desired hotel category.
  • 1-night accommodation in Ouarzazate on half board basis, according to your desired hotel category.
  • Visit to Marrakech with official English-speaking tour guide.
  • Camel ride through the Dunes.
  • Transportation in 4x4 cars according to availability and number of participants.
  • All transfers as mentioned in this itinerary.
  • Tourist transport according to the number of participants as mentioned in the itinerary.
  • 24/7 emergency phone line.
  • Daily Breakfast.
  • Taxes and Fees.

Not included & Optionals

  • Visa
  • Personal expences or tips.
  • International air tickets.
  • Optional Exclusive Suplement, one nigth accomodation in Merzouga desert camp, with private bathroom add in step 1/3
  • Add extra nigths in Marrakech in step 1, at the moment of make your reservation.
  • Mandatory Suplement for arrivals to the Tangier, Fes or Casablanca Airport, add it step 1/3
  • Check our FAQs for more information, including hotels in this package according to destination and category.
  • 10% discount for groups of 10 travelers or more.

Note: In case your arrival is at night, you may miss dinner since the restaurant closes at 10:30 p.m.

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Package Tour Itinerary: Desert Doors

WELCOME TO MARRAKECH
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WELCOME TO MARRAKECH

Upon arrival at the Marrakech airport, you will be greeted by an English-speaking assistant to provide you with all the necessary information for your stay in the city and accompany you in the transfer to the hotel in one of our private vehicles and help you with registration. The rest of the day will be to relax and enjoy the city at your own pace.

Marrakech is one of the most important cities in Morocco and one of the four imperial cities along with Meknes, Fez and Rabat. Founded in 1062, it was one of the country's capitals and has the largest traditional market in the region and one of the busiest squares on the continent and in the world.

VISITING MARRAKECH
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VISITING MARRAKECH

After a delicious breakfast, you will begin your visit to the city of Marrakech, the magical red city.

Your visit will begin with the Menara Gardens, on the outskirts of the city. These gardens with a 14-hectare park in the center of which is an immense 12th-century pond. Later you will go to the city center to see the majestic Koutoubia minaret, twin tower of the Giralda in Seville.

You will also visit the Bahia Palace built in the 19th century, the Berber Pharmacy, where you will find all kinds of natural remedies. The visit will end in a magical place: the Yemaa el Fna (People's Assembly) Square, declared a World Heritage Site. In the morning you will find sellers of orange juice and other fruit, wicker baskets, souvenirs, sweets, jewelry, dentists, healers, commissioned writers. This universe becomes particularly fascinating at nightfall, when the square is lit up with a thousand lights.

Free afternoon and return to the hotel for accommodation.

Greca Tip: Try a fabulous orange juice in Djemaa el Fna Square, you won't regret it

MARRAKECH - OUARZAZATE - TINGHIR
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MARRAKECH - OUARZAZATE - TINGHIR

Finished your fabulous breakfast you will go to the mountains of the High Atlas via the Col de Tizi N'Tichka. The road will change the color of the landscapes, from the strong green of the valleys, to the ocher red of the Col de Tizi N'Tichka until reaching Ouarzazate (the door to the desert), a small commercial point in the journey of African merchants to reach the north of Morocco and Europe. During the French colonial period it served as a supply city, administrative center, customs office and base for the French aviation. The most important film studios in Morocco (Atlas Studios), the largest in the world, are also located here.

Free time for lunch. You will continue with the City of Roses (Kelaa de los Mgguna), a fortified village where the damask rose is grown (resistant to cold and drought), one of the most valued species in the world whose flowering extends from mid-April to mid-May. Then you will travel "the route of the kasbahs", a series of adobe fortresses with battlemented towers made of raw brick located in a spectacular landscape where the desert and the mountains meet.

Dinner and accommodation in Tinghir

Tip Greca: In the Valley of the Roses, you can take advantage of the occasion to buy its exquisite rose water or some perfume.

TINGHIR - ERFOUD
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TINGHIR - ERFOUD

After a typical and tasty Moroccan breakfast you will go to one of the most beautiful landscapes of the trip "the Todra Gorges" and one of the most spectacular rocky canyons in the world, a place of great reputation among climbers.

Then you will go to Erfoud, an increasingly difficult path but it will be worth it just to see that the towns we will pass through will be more and more authentic as you enter the lands of the people of the desert. Erfoud is considered the gateway to the desert and an ancient trading center. You will visit a fossil extraction center and you will be surprised to discover the incredible amount of aquatic life that existed in the past.

Accommodation and dinner at the hotel. 

Greca Tip: You can take the opportunity to bring a fossil as a gift.

ERFOUD - AL NIF - NKOB - AGDEZ - OUARZAZATE
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ERFOUD - AL NIF - NKOB - AGDEZ - OUARZAZATE

Before breakfast you will have the option, if the clouds allows, to contemplate the beautiful spectacle of sunrise over a sea of ​​dunes with another camel ride. Later, after a nutritious traditional breakfast, you will get into our 4x4 vehicle to head to Rissani, 22 km from Erfoud, a small and attractive city both for its surroundings and for its history. Its market and its famous donkey parking stand out, which show you an authentic Morocco that has several monuments of interest. It is considered the heiress of the mythical Sidjilmasa, the ancient Berber capital city of Tafilalet.

Next you will go to Al Nif (known by gemologists and mineralogists from all over the world for being the place where the most meteorites and trilobites have been found), where along the way you will be able to observe herds of wild camels and an impressive semi-lunar landscape. You will also pass through Nkob, one of the oases that close the passage to the desert.

Later you will arrive in Agdez where you will stop to enjoy the beauty of the Draa Valley with its supernatural palm grove and its river to then continue along the possibly most beautiful road in Morocco to Ouarzazate, where you will have dinner and stay.

Tip Greca: It is almost an obligation to try the dates of the Boufegoous variety in the oasis of Nkob.

OUARZAZATE - MARRAKECH
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OUARZAZATE - MARRAKECH

Ouarzazate, known as "the door of the desert", is close to the Atlas Mountains and was a small trading point on the journey of African traders to reach northern Morocco and Europe. During the French colonial period it served as a supply city, administrative center, customs office and base for the French aviation. The most important film studios in Morocco (Atlas Studios), the largest in the world, are also located here.

After a delicious breakfast you will leave for the High Atlas mountains to Col de Tizi N'Tichka, to reach one of the most interesting places of the trip: the Kasbah of Ait Ben Hadou, an old obligatory stop for camel caravans, declared a World Heritage Site. Humanity by UNESCO. It is considered the most impressive ksar (fortified city) in southern Morocco and the best preserved in the country, which takes on different shades of red depending on the time of day. It has also served as the setting for numerous films.

Finally arrival in Marrakech for dinner and overnight at the hotel. 

Greca Tip: Today it is forbidden to forget the camera.

GOODBYE MARRAKECH
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GOODBYE MARRAKECH

After an exquisite breakfast and at the agreed time you will transfer to the airport of Marrakech.

After spending some fantastic days with Greca, we hope to see you again to enjoy some wonderful moments that will remain forever in your memory. Have a good trip, or as you say yourself, Rihlat saeida!

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