• Pick-up in Fes at your hotel/riad at 8:00 AM

• Drive through the scenic Middle Atlas Mountains

• Stop at Ifrane (the “Little Switzerland of Morocco”)

• Meet Barbary macaques in the cedar forest near Azrou

• Lunch in Midelt, known for apple farms

• Cross the dramatic Ziz Valley (photo stop)

• Arrive in Merzouga before sunset

• Camel trek to your camp in the dunes of Erg Chebbi

• Enjoy dinner, music, and overnight stay at a desert camp

🏕️ Overnight: Desert camp (standard or luxury)
🍽️ Meals included: Dinner

• Breakfast at camp

• Optional activities:

  • 4×4 tour to visit nomadic families

  • See ancient fossils, seasonal salt lake, and Khamlia village (Gnawa music)

  • Ride quads/buggies over dunes (optional)

  • Relax at your hotel pool (if daytime break is needed)

• Watch the sunset from a high dune

• Dinner and Berber music around the fire at the camp

🏕️ Overnight: Same desert camp
🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner

☑️ Option 1: Return to Fes

• Wake up early for a beautiful desert sunrise

• Breakfast, then camel or 4×4 back to Merzouga

• Drive through Erfoud, Ziz Valley, and Middle Atlas

• Arrive in Fes in the evening

☑️ Option 2: Continue to Marrakech (long day drive – ~9 hrs)

• Depart Merzouga early

• Scenic drive through Dades Valley, and Ouarzazate

• Cross the High Atlas Mountains via Tizi n’Tichka Pass

• Arrive in Marrakech by evening

🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast