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- All meals during the hike
- An accompanying professional guide
- Camels for carrying luggage
- Ready tents and mattresses during the hike
- Team of camel drivers
- The services of a cook
- Transport and transfers
- Anything not mentioned in the program
- Drinks and personal things
- Flights
- Hotel and meals in Marrakech
- Traditional tips to the team
- Travel insurance
Highlights :
- Enjoy a beautiful desert hike in the Zireg takes place in one of the most isolated regions of southern Morocco
- Discover an exceptional color palette: bluish black mountains, regs, grandiose circuses, dry wadis, sanded hills and plateaus beset by dunes in flamboyant colors
- Meet the nomads Aït Khebbach, a powerful warrior oasis tribe who once lived trans-Saharan trade between Africa and the Maghreb
- Enjoy the beautiful landscapes of the high atlas during our drive to Desert
- Explore the thousand Kasbah in Dades and Todra valleys
- Experience the nights in the desert of Morocco under the stars
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Marrakech Arrival
Airport reception and installation at your hotel. Free meals. Night in hotel ***.
South Moroccan & The Palmeraie De Tinghir
Departure to the south of Morocco crossing the High Atlas at the Tizi N'Tichka pass (2260m) down to Ouarzazate, where we will have a picnic break. Then, we will take the road of 1000 Kasbahs through the palm grove of Skoura and the Dades valley to reach the palm grove of Tinghir and the Todra Gorge. Dinner and overnight in an inn.
350kms / 6H drive - Night in hostel.
The Oasis Of Merzouga
This morning we cross the palm of Tafilalet to join the oasis of Merzouga, which was an important crossing point for slave caravans and gold traffic from Sudan and Guinea, but also a meeting place and exchanges between Arabs, Berbers and Africans.
Meeting with our camel drivers. Dromedaries loaded we leave towards the south of Erg Chebbi. Harmattan 'desert wind' which sweeps the Sahara, has modeled here the most beautiful dunes of Morocco. The red color of its sand is reminiscent of the magnificent Soslusvei dunes in Namibia. Picnic. Bivouac in the dunes.
150kms / 2H drive - 4H walk - Bivouac.
The Dunes Of Erg Chebbi
Beautiful immersion in this magnificent dune massif, where we sail the waves of sand, sometimes corridors between the high dunes, sometimes over the ridges of erg. Picnic stop near a well where we can meet nomads who come to drink their cattle. In the afternoon we cross a reg to arrive in the beautiful dunes of erg Znagui. Bivouac.
6 hours walk - Bivouac.
The Dunes Of Douifa
We begin our walk through a stony plateau. Then we will cross the wadi Ziz to reach the dunes of Douifaa hung on the foothills of the dbjel Ougnate. Bivouac.
6 hours walk - Bivouac.
The Djebel Ougnate
With the slow pace of the camels, between sandstone peaks and huge dunes, our journey continues along the djbel Ougnate. During our walk we will discover rock carvings testimony of the human presence in this region at the time when it was a huge savannah. Bivouac at the foot of the dunes.
6 hours walk - Bivouac.
The Dunes Of Ouzina
We go through the mountains with a cape-shaped mountain, a sentinel rock bordered by Wadi Rheris on the west, and Wadi Ziz on the east, which runs along the Hamada du Guir. These two wadis feed the largest oasis in Morocco, the Tafilalet with over a million palm trees. You will cross stony landscapes, black shales and outcrops of marble, as you will encounter important dunes. Bivouac in the beautiful dunes of Ouzina.
6 hours walk - Bivouac.
The Dunes Of Remlia
We leave the dunes towards the last Saharan village before crossing the hamada of Guir. It has been inhabited for a long time by the Berber tribes Ait Atta and by Gnaoua, descendants of former slaves from Sudan at the time of the Saadians. Our walk continues through Wadi Rheris whose floods frequent in winter allow the fertilization of the alluvial plain, cultivated by the nomadic tribes Ait Khebbach. Possibility to meet some nomads. Our bivouac will be installed in the dunes facing the ocher terracotta houses of Remlia.
6 hours walk – Bivouac.
Remlia – Marrakech
After breakfast we will drive from Ramlia to Marrakech through the Todra gogres dades valley and rose valley, stop to visit the Kasbah ait ben haddou in Ouarzazate then continue to Marrakech through the tichka pass. Arrival and check in to your accommodation in Marrakech.
Departure
After breakfast and at the scheduled time we will take you to the airport for your return flight.
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