4 Days Tour From Agadir to Merzouga Sahara Desert

The Amazing 4 Days Tour From Agadir to Merzouga Overview:

Take the road from the Atlantic Ocean, passing through the door of the Moroccan desert for several charming nights under the dark blue sky. You will visit many highlights of Southern Morocco, including a film studio, Ouarzazate, Kasbahs, Camel Trekking, and Desert Camp.

Tour Itinerary: Best 4 Days Tour from Agadir to Merzouga Sahara Desert:

Day 1: Agadir – Taroudante – Ait Ben Haddou – Ouarzazate

You will be picked up from your hotel at 08 am and departure from Agadir to Ouarzazate passing by Taroudant, Taliouine and Taznakht. From here the road continues to the kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou. This is the most famous Kasbah in Morocco and is a UNESCO World Heritage site, which we visit after lunch.

In the afternoon, a visit to the Atlas Film Studios (where scores of these films were shot and the sets are still intact: Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Asterix and Obelix, Game of Thrones….) is scheduled, before continuing to Ouarzazate where you spend the night in a hotel.

Day 2: Ouarzazate – Draa Valley -Alnif – Risani – Merzouga

After breakfast, we’ll pass through Anti Atlas Mountains to Agdez village where the Draa valley starts. We head east to Nkob, a popular village for its 45 Kasbahs as a background of a palmary, through the arid Saharan landscapes till the largest oasis of Tafilalet appears. We continue deeper into the desert sand dunes of Erg Chebbi.

You stop in a hotel at the dune line for bathrooms stop before the camel ride takes place around sunset time for the overnight in the desert camp with dinner and breakfast.

Day 3: Merzouga – Todra gorge – Dades Gorge – Ouarzazate

If you wake up early enough, you can watch the spectacle of the sunrise, when the colour of the dunes and the play of shadows are an awesome sight. The return to the hotel in Merzouga for having a shower is on camel back again and, after having breakfast, the itinerary continues to Ouarzazate via the Todra gorges (300m high canyons) where you can hike and lunch in a local restaurant.

We continue along the road of 1000 Thousand Kasbahs since there are enormous kasbahs on both sides of the road. Some of those old fortified houses are restored but unfortunately, a lot of them are ruins. We pass through Dades valley and the valley of roses before we attend the Skoura palmary where a huge number of Kasbahs such as “Amrhidil” are surrounded by gardens and palm trees.

Later on, we will drive to Ouarzazate for the night at the hotel with dinner and breakfast.

Day 4: Ouarzazate – Taliouine – Agadir

After breakfast, we drive from Ouarzazate to Taznakht, famous for its Berber glims and carpets. Later, we continue to Agadir crossing the Tizi-n-Ikhsane and Tizi-n-Tighatine passes. We stop to have lunch in Taliouine (the heart of the saffron-growing area of Morocco). In the afternoon, the road takes us on to Taroudant and then to Agadir which we reach by the end of the afternoon.