Your driver picks you up at your riad at 8:00 a.m. Depart Fes for Merzouga over the Middle Atlas mountains through the cedar forests of Ifrane (the Switzerland of Morocco), Azrou, and Midelt, and cross the Ziz Valley and its gorges towards Sahara. We reach Merzouga before sunset, Depending on your arrival at the hotel on the foot of the Dunes of Erg-Chebbi. After rest and a mint tea, the guide and camels will be waiting to carry you across the sandy Dunes of the Erg-Chebbi, you will enjoy the beauty of the sunset on the dunes, and you will reach the desert camp to spend a night in a Berber tent. At your desert shelter, your camels are hobbled and mint tea is served. After a wonderful dinner, there will be a campfire and drums playing.

We will wake up early to enjoy a magnificent sunrise on the dunes then take a camel ride back to the hotel. After freshening up and breakfast we’ll leave for Fes through Ziz Valley and the Middle Atlas mountains, the cedar forests of Azrou, and stop to hand feed the monkeys. We will continue via Ifrane, the ‘Switzerland of Morocco’ to arrive early evening to Fes.