We also have 3, 4, and 5 day desert tours with an overnight camel trek. Tours can depart Fez or Marrakech.
2009
New Years Eve Desert Tour with
Camel Trek
Enjoy a
special New Years Eve celebration of traditional music and drumming and whole
roast lamb (Meschui); camel trek a second night under the winter stars,
sleeping in a Nomad tented camp. This all inclusive five day
tour from Marrakech takes you through the snowy High Atlas mountains
to the Erg Chebbi dunes of Sahara. Enroute you will visit Old
Salt Road World Heritage Site of Ait Benhaddou, Todra Gorge, including
walks and 4x4 piste options to explore the markets, environments and
villages
of the desert Nomads and Berber people.
December 30, 31, January 1, 2 and 3, 2009.
Departure from/return Marrakech, five days - tour
dates are flexible.
PRICE
5850 Moroccan dirhams per person all inclusive.
Child 10 and under, 10% discount.
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Included: Site guides, private transport by 4x4; experienced driver, hotels with air conditioning; breakfast, lunch and dinner; (vegetarians welcome); explorations through markets, old kasbahs, Berber villages and oasis; overnight camel trek to a desert camp; blankets and sheets are provided; New Years buffet dinner in a desert auberge, including traditional whole roasted lamb (Meschui) with all the trimmings and traditional drumming and dancing.
Not included:
Marrakech airport transfers, Marrakech hotel, or site guides; tips, personal
purchases.
New
Years Desert Tour 2009
ITINERARY - tour dates are flexible.
December 30:
We will meet you at your riad or hotel at 8:00a.m., depart Marrakech, and
transport over the High Atlas mountains Tizi nTichka pass. We will have time
to stop and enjoy impressive landscapes, and break for coffee and fresh-squeezed
orange juice. We spend the afternoon visiting the World Heritage Site of
Ait Benhaddou, used as a backdrop
for more than 20 films and was one of the most important fortress strongholds
on the old Salt Road where caravans brought slaves, gold, ivory and salt
from Saharan Africa to Marrakech and beyond. We pass through Ouarzazate,
and the Valley of the Rose, famous for soft Persian rose oil. Our next destination
is Dades valley. You will pass through many Berber villages, and in the desert,
see barren red rock formations clustered with kasbahs (fortified dwellings
that house many families and their livestock). Stay in Dades valley auberge
(small country inn) with Moroccan dinner on the terrace, overlooking the
valley gorge and gardens.
December 31
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure for Todra Gorge: a massive fault dividing
the High Atlas mountains, rising to 300 m in a narrow valley thick with
palmeries and Berber villages. After lunch there, transport further into
the desert
to your auberge near the tiny village of Merzouga, where you will settle
in for New Years celebration in the beautiful Erg Chebbi dunes. Includes
dinner, and traditional folklore music and dancing. Stay in the desert
auberge this night.
January 1
Relax at the auberge after a late breakfast/lunch. Explore around the
dunes by 4x4; sun on the roof terrace. Late afternoon at sunset take
camel with
guide into the dunes to bivouac (camp) and sleep in traditional Nomad camel
hair tents.
January 2
Return by camel at sunrise to the auberge for breakfast and shower before
going to Tinehir. Along the way we pass through folded exposed rock slabs
of fossils and we can stop and visit a fossil workshop for a closer look
at Sahara’s wonderful varieties of ancient life. After lunch you can
wander with a guide through palmeries, villages, gardens, and kasbahs for
a close look at traditional Berber ways of life. Visit the market in Tinehir
and old kasbah quarter. We will have a late afternoon arrival to stay in
an old kasbah with evening Moroccan dinner.
January 3
After breakfast the remainder of the day is spent driving back to Ouarzazate
where we’ll stop for lunch and visit the old Glaoui Kasbah Taouirt.
Then we cross the High Atlas once more, down the Tizi nTichka pass. Arrival
evening in Marrakech at approximately 6pm. Marrakech hotel this night optional
with an extra cost.
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Telephone
inside Morocco:
GSM: 0 6246 1598 / 0 6770 5212
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