Coming from Marrakech, we drove down the High Atlas street to Ait-Ben Haddou – Quarzazate. After we passed loads of excellent landscape's, we halted at the Rose Valley for one evening. A short time later we went to the Dades Valley and furthermore the Todra Gorge close to Tinghir. After Tinghir all the region transforms into desert: Barren scenes as should be obvious.
Distance: Plan 560 km drive from Marrakech to Merzouga and at least 9 hours drive. Ensure you take the street through Erfoud, the Gate of the Sahara. The streets are all around created and furthermore there are a lot of gas stations on this course. Obviously, there are additionally stunning directed visits beginning from Marrakech : merzougaonlinetours.blogspot.com
Tip: We typically search modest trips through Skyscanner and Kiwi! The closest air terminal to Merzouga is Errachidia air terminal (100 km). Be that as it may, for global flights you ought to pick Marrakech or Fez.
Pretty much 20 km after Erfroud you will arrive at Rissani. The bab of Rissani (primary door) is an expample of numerous stupendous Moroccan constructions.
Merzouga is a city situated toward the start of the Sahara, from that point you will as of now see the enormous sand hills of Erg Chebbi.
Desert Tour and Camel Trekking
We showed up around 3 pm in the early evening at the house the desert camp. The team from the berber camp invited us energetically. With loads of jokes and giggling, we had some pleasant mint tea and an astounding lunch was served. In spite of the fact that we had a lengthy drive, promptly we felt new and ready to go once more. We got a major comfortable space for washing up and leaving our gear
Then, at that point, we began with our 1 hour camel visit somewhere within the Moroccan Sahara, it was only the 4 of us riding the camels so it was a truly private and loosened up trip.
Merzouga is renowned for the Erg Chebbi desert and its immense sand hills. Soon after 15 minutes we passed the principal hills. Sooner or later, the rises became ever more elevated and the late-evening sun hued the sand an in a profound orange. Being encircled by this ceaseless desert was an astonishing encounter.
Sooner or later we halted the camels before a truly enormous ridge (appr.200 meter) and kept on moving up this sandy mountain! It was totally great however, the view was simply stunning – sand ridges without an end. The Sahara Desert Morocco in the entirety of her wonder.
We plunked down for some time to watch a unimaginable delightful nightfall. It was mysterious! Perhaps the best one we've at any point experienced and the air was so calm and loaded with agreement.
Note: Riding a camel was an incredible fun, yet additionally not the most agreeable one. So you better wear great garments .
Afterward, we returned down to our desert camp, where Youssef and his sibling Ismael previously pre-arranged a scrumptious Berber supper for us. The camp was truly perfect, with stunning subtleties, an agreeable bed thus far superior to our assumption regarding dozing inside the Sahara was.
That evening we had a good time, kidding and chuckling a great deal – Youssef Is a characteristic conceived performer. We drank huge loads of mint tea and we ate the best and greatest tajine that we tasted voyaging 3 weeks in Morocco. Until late in the night we plunked down close to the open fire, singing Austrian and Moroccan songs.Youssef and Mohamed played drums music and we watched the stars which we had never been seen so near. A "once in a blue moon insight".
The following morning we woke up with a dust storm. So we pressed our stuff and returned to the house where we had a scrumptious breakfast.
Jeep Safari
After we got gotten by a 4×4 wheeler and startet the jeep safari. To begin with, we went to the town Khamlia where we partaking in the otherworldly Gnawa music. Later we visited the dark volcanic rocks desert, our aide Youssef showed us how to discover wonderful minerals and fossils. With the 4×4 we passed some little Berber towns and furthermore the mines of Mefis. All the time we had an all encompassing perspective on brilliant hills close to the Algerian boundary – that was fabulous!