Day 1: Arrival to Marrakech Airport
Upon your arrival, your driver will be waiting for you outside of the airport ,at the last gate holding a placard with our agency name ready to take you to your accommodation.
Day 2: Marrakech - Ouarzazate
After breakfast, across the mountains of the High Atlas through Tichka col (2260 m) towards Telouet. Visit the Glaoui’s Kasbah. From there, you drive on more twisty and narrow mountain roads with a sprinkled landscape of Berber villages and Kasbahs. The lunch break half the way. Drive on to the South by the Kasbah of Ait Ben Hadou, one of the most beautiful kasbahs in Morocco and also protected as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO. Arrival to Ouarzazate after 20 kilometers to find the other fascinating Kasbah ‘Taourirt’, a former residence of the sultan whose pottery houses rose up in the sky… Dinner and night stay at a hotel.
Day 3: Ouarzazate – Agdz – Zagora – Chegaga
Breakfast and departure to Agdz through the mountains of Tizi-n-Tinifift (1660 m). After Agdz, the road follows the Valley of Draa covered in immense forests of Palm trees taking down to Zagora. The next desert city on the Draa valley is surrounded by the Jebel Adafae (1027 m) and the Jebel Zagora (974 m). Zagora was an important cross-road of caravans. You can read more in: “52 days on the camel to Timbuktu”. After that, we take the direction towards Oulad Driss Chegaga then continue towards the desert where you feel the solitude of the place as well as the calmness that reigns. It will be a good chance to meet hospitable and courageous nomads. Night stay in the Bivouac.
Day 4: Chegaga – Foum Zguid – Taznakhte – Ouled Berhil
After breakfast, transfer from Chegaga to Ouled Berhil and all the way up to Foum Zguid crossing the village of Taznakhte, well-known for the Berber carpet production. After driving by Taliouine, the only village in Morocco and Africa where saffron is produced, go on a visit for some cooperatives to get informed on this plant. Arrival to Ouled Berhil at the end of the day. Dinner and night stay in a magnificent Palace.
Day 5: Ouled Berhil – Marrakech
Breakfast then departure through the Tizi N Test col (2090 m) driving by wonderful villages and spectacular scenery. You will have the chance to see Argan, a type of tree existing only the West of Morocco and Mexico. Later, a visit to the Tinmel mosque which was built at the time of the Almohads. Continue to Marrakech and spend the night at a hotel.
Day 6: Departure
A representative from Noble Explorer will meet you at your accommodation for a small discussion about your stay, After that, your driver will handle your transfer to the airport according to your flight schedule.
