Marrakech to Fes: 3-Day Desert Tour & Luxury Camp

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Duration3d

GroupUp to 200

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PickupAt your hotel

Three days crossing Morocco: from the Atlas to the Sahara to Fes

You travel from Marrakech through the High Atlas and Dades Valley to Merzouga, where you ride a camel into Erg Chebbi at sunset and sleep in a luxury desert camp. The next morning, after a sunrise trek, you drive north through the Ziz Valley and cedar forests, arriving in Fes by evening. Hotel stays, meals, camel rides, and a professional guide are included; you handle only your own pace and what you want to photograph.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Marrakech to Tinghir via Atlas Mountains

Drive from Marrakech to High Atlas Mountains
Stop for coffee and photos at Tizi Ntichka pass
Visit Kasbah of Aït Ben Haddou
Pass by Ouarzazate to Dades Valley
Drive through Skoura oasis and Klaa Mgrouna
Continue to Tinghir via Dades Gorges
Arrive at hotel and enjoy dinner

Day 2 — Tinghir to Merzouga Desert Camp

Breakfast at hotel in Tinghir
Visit Tinghir oasis
Cross Tinghir to Todra Gorges
Walk along stream and explore Todra Gorges
Lunch at local cafe
Drive to Rissani passing small towns and oases
Arrive in Merzouga and meet camel caravan
One-hour camel ride and sandboarding at Erg Chebbi
Continue camel trek to desert camp
Dinner and entertainment at Bedouin camp

Day 3 — Merzouga to Fes via Ziz Valley and Atlas

Early sunrise camel ride over Erg Chebbi dunes
Breakfast at camp lodge in Merzouga
Drive across Ziz Valley with date palms
Cross Middle Atlas Mountains to Midelt
Lunch stop at Midelt
Drive past Azrou cedar forest and spot monkeys
Continue to Fes and end tour with drop-off

The Experience

Most people fly into Marrakech and leave the same way. This tour does the opposite — it takes you out of the medina and doesn't bring you back to the same city. Day one climbs through the High Atlas, stops at Tizi-n'Tichka Pass at 2,260 meters, and drops you in front of the Kasbah of Aït Ben Haddou, a UNESCO site that's been the backdrop for Game of Thrones and Gladiator. The landscape shifts as you drive past the Dades Valley, through rose plantations and Berber villages, and by evening you're in a hotel in Tinghir with the Dades River running nearby.

Day two is the one people remember. You walk into Todra Gorge with date palms overhead and the Berber farmers still working the same plots their families have worked for generations. The cliffs rise up around you, and then you're back in the van heading toward Merzouga. When you arrive, there's a camel waiting. The ride lasts about an hour, and somewhere in the middle of Erg Chebbi's sand dunes you stop to sandboard down a slope while the sun drops toward the horizon. After that comes dinner at the luxury camp — a private tent, a fire, drums, the sky so full of stars it doesn't look real. You sleep there, under it all.

The third day starts before sunrise with another camel trek across the dunes, then breakfast at the lodge. From there it's a long drive north through the Ziz Valley, past thousands of date palms, across the Middle Atlas Mountains, and through cedar forests where wild monkeys sometimes appear. You reach Fes by late afternoon, dropped at your hotel or the nearest point your driver can access. The whole thing is three days, two nights, one professional guide, and the kind of distance that makes you understand why Morocco feels like several countries at once.

What’s included

Your three days include hotel pickup from Marrakech, a comfortable hotel stay in Tinghir on night one, a private tent at a luxury desert camp in Merzouga on night two, all meals starting with breakfast on day two through breakfast on day three, a camel ride and sandboarding experience in Erg Chebbi, a professional driver-guide for the entire journey, and drop-off in Fes at your hotel or the nearest accessible point. Entry to Aït Ben Haddou and Todra Gorge are included; lunch on day two is at leisure in a local café.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Morocco Best Tour

Is this one for you?Choose this if you want to cross Morocco in three days without arranging transport, camps, or meals separately — the fixed itinerary and included guide handle the logistics, leaving you to focus on the drive, the dunes, and the shift from mountains to desert to another city entirely.