5 Days From Fes Via Desert And Back To Fes In Morocco

Our driver-guide will be waiting for you at the fes airport and he will bring you to hotels at leisure.

After breakfast, we take an excursion to explore the royal city of Fez. Visit the medieval Medina (old town), with its walls and narrow streets, which was declared a World Heritage Site in 1981 by UNESCO. We can see the ruins of the tombs of Merinides 16th century You will visit the Medersas of Bouanania and Attarine built in the 14th century by the Merinides, the Karaouine Mosque (The old school of Islamic learning) and the Nejjarine marble fountain. Stop for lunch at a typical Moroccan restaurant. Continuing your visit, you will see the decorated gate of Bab Boujeloud, medieval tanneries, the Royal Palace. Then visit the souks (local markets) where merchants and artisans sell their handcrafted items from jewelry, leather goods, ceramics and copper. After finishing we will leave Fes traveling towards Ifran, a beautiful village in the mountains, known as "the Switzerland of Morocco" During this journey, you will catch glimpses of the Middle Atlas and High Atlas Mountains. Stopping at Azrou, a Berber village in the middle of the famous cedar forest - the largest in Morocco - where you can see Barbary monkeys. After some time in the forest, your journey continues to Midelt along the magnificent hills and mountains of the Atlas, and continue our journey overnight in Midelt.

Part of the morning we have breakfast and following our journey into the desert you will be traveling through the fascinating Tiz Ntalghamt Gorge and Ziz Gorge, taking in views of the High Atlas Plateau. I will notice how the scenery changes to reveal hints of the desert as you approach the town of Errachidia, here you will have lunch and enjoy Berber hospitality. Afterwards, you will travel along the lush Ziz Valley. The river feeds a series of oases bringing a beautiful landscape to the Sahara. Arriving at the dunes of Merzouga (Erg Chebbi), the traditional Moroccan welcome tea will be waiting for you there. In the late afternoon, we'll ride a camel to the dunes of the Erg Chebbi desert on our way to the Berber camp where we'll spend the night. Dinner and the absolute and magical silence of the desert.

Once ready, we start our last day heading north through the Tafilalet palm grove, the largest in the world. You will see thousands of palm trees along the 20 km of road. This path takes us to the Ziz Valley, whose river descends from the High Atlas and feeds the palm grove. Here we make a stop and from this high point of view, enjoy a magnificent view of the valley and the town of Aoufous. We make another stop in Midelt, just in the heart of the Atlas, where you will have free time to have lunch and rest for a while. In the afternoon we continue our way through Cedar Woods where, if we're lucky, we'll see some monkeys. The next place we will visit is the city of Ifrane, located on the northwest slope of the Middle Atlas, 1630 meters above water level. Its wide avenues, its urban development with perfect cleanliness, the gardens, the green areas and its architecture make this city look like a Swiss city. Ifrane feels lost in Morocco. That's why it's called Moroccan Switzerland, and if that's not enough, it has an important ski resort, Michlifen. Around five o'clock we arrive in Fez, we return to the hotel and end of our services.

Department for Fes Airport (you need to be at the airport at least 2 hours before the flight, so that the departure can be arranged accordingly).