4 Days from Errachidia to Marrakech via Merzouga, Dades and Ait Ben Haddou

Day 1: Errachidia – Erfoud – Rissani – Merzouga

Pick-up in Errachidia and drive south along the Ziz Valley, with stops at the panoramic viewpoint, at a fossil workshop in Erfoud and in the souk of Rissani. Arrival in Merzouga in the late afternoon, camel trek into Erg Chebbi for sunset, dinner and night in a desert camp.

Day 2: Merzouga – Tinejdad – Todgha Gorges – Boumalne Dades

Sunrise over the dunes and breakfast at the camp. We drive west through Rissani and Tinejdad to Tinghir, visit the palm grove and walk into the Todgha Gorges between walls three hundred metres high. In the afternoon we continue to Boumalne Dades and up into the Dades Valley to see the kasbahs and the Monkey Fingers rocks. Night in a hotel in the Dades Valley.

Day 3: Dades – Valley of Roses – Skoura – Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Haddou

We follow the road of a thousand kasbahs through Kelaat M Gouna, the valley where damask roses are grown and distilled, then the palm grove of Skoura. After Ouarzazate and its film studios we reach Ait Ben Haddou, the fortified village listed by UNESCO and used as a set for many films. You climb through its earth houses to the old granary at the top for the view over the valley. Night in Ait Ben Haddou.

Day 4: Ait Ben Haddou – Tizi n Tichka – Marrakech

After breakfast we cross the High Atlas by the Tizi n Tichka pass, at 2260 metres, with stops at the viewpoints and in a Berber village on the slopes. We descend through walnut and olive groves and reach Marrakech in the afternoon, where you are dropped at your hotel or riad.