Morocco Sahara Camel Caravan Expedition

Unique and fascinating, Fez stimulates the senses with its haunting yet beautiful sounds, visual splendor, and evocative smells. The most ancient of imperial capitals and the complete medieval city of the ancient world, Fez is suggestive of a city hanging in time, unaware of the constantly evolving world outsides its walls, self-sufficient, owing nothing to the world of today except electricity and Wifi. Time spent in Fez will reveal much about the sophistication of its inhabitant of scholars, stoics, astute merchants, skillful artisans, artists, and musicians, providing an unparalleled learning experience to those who cross its path. Your morning will be devoted to discovering the marvels of this world heritage Medina. You will break for midday meal at a typical Moroccan restaurant. You will continue your walking tour exploring which of the monuments is your favorite and Souk shopping in a medieval fashion for the remainder of the day.

You will spend your day discovering the surrounding rural areas of the Atlas Mountains and its dwellers called the Berbers. On this overland expedition, you will travel through vistas covered with evergreen pines, tall cedar trees, and poplars and laced with flowing streams. Your first view of the Middle Atlas Mountains will appear as soon, as you depart from Fez, oddly un-Moroccan. In this overland trip, you will quickly come across the first real town of the Middle Atlas, Azrou, a crossroads market center for the region's Berber tribes located at a major junction of mountain routes. Midelt's Middle Atlases give way to the High Atlas Mountains, whose peaks are visible through the haze, soaring to over 12,000 feet. Your expedition will pause for a break in Midelt for midday meal, enjoying the dramatic sight before you of the soaring High Mountains with a hint of what is behind could be a dry, harsh expansion of a desert called the Sahara. The adventure then will continue to Erfoud, one of the most delightful southern regions consisting of a dry, red belt of the desert with a sudden drop into the lush valley of Ziz, with copious date palm groves and flowing streams. Over the dunes, in the distance, a private base camp is set for you. Your tents are pitched, and your camels are saddled over the dunes of Merzouga to experience your first night under the African skies in the bosom of these voluptuous dunes. And the fun begins with a unique camel ride expedition.

After a night under the Milky Way, billions of stars reserved just for you, you will wake up to an ethereal dawn with indescribable beauty, watching the sun as it rises over the spectacular Merzouga dunes. It is an experience that should not be missed. Afterward, you will eat morning meal with the Tuaregs. Your camels are lined up to start your trek, and your caravan will take off direction khamliya, passing by the enticing oases and enjoying the beautiful landscape. A private Camp will be set for you on the edge of an oasis, and dinner will be prepared in a nomadic fashion. After dinner, some drumming and tales of the nomads will be narrated from oral tradition as you sit around a base campfire under the starry skies.

After morning meal, your caravan expedition will depart for Taouz in the morning, traversing through a Sahara desert landscape unique to this region to reach fertile, green plots enclosed by hedgerows of Persian rose bushes. It is surrounded by date palm groves, pomegranates, and other fruit trees that interlace the flow of these groves. You will stop for midday meal by the banks of the Ziz River, and your camel caravan will continue the winding trails to the oasis of Taouz. You will conclude your day with dinner in a local family Kasbah, followed by dance and desert mythic storytelling.

You will spend your day traveling to Ouarzazate via Zagora and Agdez. Your day will end with a farewell dinner in a typical Moroccan restaurant.

In the morning, we will take you to the airport if you have a connecting flight to Casablanca from Ouarzazate Airport. End of our services.