8 Days from Agadir to Marrakech: kasbahs and desert

Pick-up at your hotel or Agadir airport and a short drive through the orange groves of the Souss valley to Taroudant, a market town surrounded by 7 km of red ramparts. Afternoon visit of the walls by calèche, the Kasbah and the Berber and Arab souks. Dinner and night at a riad.

We cross the Anti-Atlas to Taliouine, where the best saffron of Morocco is grown, with a stop at a saffron cooperative and the old Glaoui kasbah. We continue by Tazenakht, the town of the Ouaouzguite carpets, to Ouarzazate. Dinner and night at a hotel or riad.

Today we follow the road of the thousand kasbahs: the palm grove of Skoura and the Kasbah Amridil, then Kelaat M'Gouna in the Valley of Roses, famous for its rose water. In the afternoon we enter the Dades Gorges with their red rock formations and winding road. Dinner and night at a hotel in the gorges.

After breakfast we drive to Tinghir and walk between the 300-metre walls of the Todra Gorge. We continue through Tinejdad and Erfoud to Merzouga. In the late afternoon the camels take us into the dunes of Erg Chebbi to watch the sunset and reach our desert camp. Dinner, Berber music around the campfire and night in the camp under the stars.

Sunrise over the dunes and breakfast in the camp. Today we discover the desert around Erg Chebbi by 4×4: a nomad family, the village of Khamlia and its Gnawa music, the old mines and the Sunday-Tuesday-Thursday market of Rissani. In the afternoon there is time for sandboarding or to relax by the dunes. Dinner and night at a hotel in Merzouga or in the camp.

Sunrise from the dunes, camel ride back and breakfast. We take the road of the south through Rissani and Alnif, known for its fossils, to N'Kob, a village with more than forty kasbahs, and then the Draa Valley to Zagora, with its famous sign "Tombouctou 52 days". Dinner and night at a hotel or riad in Zagora.

We drive up the Draa Valley, one long line of palm groves and kasbahs, to Agdz and over the Tizi n'Tinififft pass to Ouarzazate, with a visit of the Kasbah Taourirt. In the late afternoon we reach Aït Benhaddou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, to see the ksar in the light of the sunset. Dinner and night at a kasbah hotel.

Morning walk in the ksar of Aït Benhaddou, then we take the old caravan road through the Ounila valley to the Kasbah of Telouet, the palace of the Glaoui family. We join the Tizi n'Tichka pass (2,260 m) and come down the High Atlas to Marrakech in the afternoon. Drop-off at your hotel or riad and end of our services.