7-Day Family Tour of Southern Morocco
SOUKS, SNAKES & SAHARA
Trip ref: FT2
No. nights: 7
Cost from: 7,500MAD/€680/£625 pps*
(based on family of 4 in 2 x standard twin/double rooms)
*Family price:
30,000MAD/€2,700/£2,500
(2 adults+2 children, or 1 adult+3 children in 2 standard double/twin rooms)
Minimum Group Size: 4 (max 6 per vehicle)
Type of accommodation/s:3-star hotels & bivouac camp
4-star upgrade available in Marrakech if preferred.
Meal Plan: 7 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 5 dinners
For additional family members joining the group up to max 6 passengers please contact us for a price
Highlights: Marrakech souks, Kasbah Ait Benhaddou** & Atlas Film Studios**, pottery-painting activity, camel trek, local Saharoui guide, 4x4 off-road, sandboarding, nomad camp.
** Entrance fees to Kasbah Ait Benhaddou and Atlas Film Studios not included (approx 70MAD/€5/£5 per person)
Ideal for: families, friends, ages 5+, basic level of fitness,
Tour Starts/Ends: Marrakech
Dates available for this trip: Any dates between September – May as required
If you want a European tour escort throughout your trip this can be arranged subject to availability and at extra cost.
Trip Summary:
A 7-day 4x4 adventure tour that has plenty to entertain all members of the family. The excitement of haggling in the ancient medina of Marrakech, it's snake charmers and it's endless souks where you can buy anything from dried bats for casting spells to health-giving potions or luxurious kaftans. The tour takes you over the High Atlas Mountains in 4x4 where you can stop at the street stalls or cafes where there are glimmering minerals and pre-historic fossils to admire and see rural life in the mud-built douar (villages). A visit to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Kasbah Ait Benhaddou and to the "Hollywood of Morocco" in Ouarzazate - the Atlas Film Studios. The trip continues on toward the expanse of the Sahara desert, encountering "Blue Men" of the Sahara nomads who do business here. If time permits we will have time for you to try decorating a locally-made ceramic plate using traditional method of henna-dye. Then you will spend 2 nights in desert camps with campfires and music and local nomads as your hosts. For a circular tour you travel back off-road across desert piste via the dried lake of Irikki and return to Marrakech.
You will be accompanied throughout by an English-speaking local Saharaoui guide.
Day-to-Day Itinerary:
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Meal Plan |
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Day 1 |
Arrive in Marrakech and transfer to your hotel. Dinner at hotel. |
D |
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Day 2
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Day to explore on your own the labyrinth of the medina and its souks. We recommend dinner in the bustling Place Jemaa el Fna amongst acrobats, musicians, peddlers and sooth-sayers...not to mention sizzling barbecue grills. |
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Day 3
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An exhilarating drive across the Tizi-n-Tichka mountain pass in 4x4, winding and twisting at high altitudes towards the great South of Morocco. Visit to back-lots of nearby Atlas Film studios - Morocco's Hollywood. |
B,L,D |
Day 4 |
Over the Anti-Atlas, off-road through the Drâa Valley and on towards the Sahara! Time for a short walk in the oasis before lunch in Zagora (the last major town before the desert) and then a visit to the Berber pottery at Tamegroute run by local families and their children. Possibly you will have time to try and decorate your own small bowl using henna (by advance arrangement if time allows). Evening time we arrive at the bivouac camp at the edge of the desert - dinner in the company of your Saharaoui nomad hosts and you can sleep under the stars or under the tents woven from camel-wool. |
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Day 5 |
Say goodbye to modern life as the Sahara beckons...setting off after breakfast on a camel for 2-3 hours with a local guide, you head into the desert. Lunch in the shade of an oasis and we continue in 4x4 to the highest dunes of Erg Chegaga in time for sunset. Time for some sandboarding! Overnight in bivouac camp. |
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Day 6 |
Early departure before the sun gets too high to continue across the desert in 4x4, over the dried lake of Irikki and then the long road back to Marrakech via the High Atlas Mountains. The shifting dunes, the stunted trees, the lush oasis...was it all a mirage? Dinner at hotel in Marrakech |
B,L,D |
Day 7 |
Free day in Marrakech for sightseeing, shopping or relaxing by the pool | B |
Day 8 |
Transfer to airport and time to say goodbye. |
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