Ten Day tour: Marrakech, Mountains and Desert

Suggested Itinerary:

• Flight to Marrakech
• 2 days in Marrakech. Visit the souk and the medina, the palaces and gardens
• Drive through the high Atlas mountains
• Visit Ait Ben Haddou, Unesco World Heritage site
• Stay in Morocco's Hollywood - Ouarzazarte - visit Atlas Studios
• Travel via the Valley of the Roses to stay in Tinghir and visit a traditional Berber village
• Visit the Todra Gorge
• Travel to Merzouga
• Book overnight stay in Sahara and the desert camp at Erg Chebbi
• Take a long drive back to Marrakesh or drop down to Agadir

We booked our 3 day trip from Marrakesh with Ando Travel for around 100 Euros.

Tips:
Go in May and visit the Rose Festival - Valley of the Roses, El Kelaa M'Gouna (near Tinghir), Dades Valley.
Every May 3-4,000 tonnes of wild roses are harvested each day before dawn. The majority are destined to be made into rosewater or oils for French perfumeries. Rose oil commands £10,000 per litre but with 1.6 million flowers per litre, that's a lot of picking. The culmination of the harvest is a traditional feast where local boys and girls can get married. The local traditions dictate that a boy needs to meet a girl's parents to ask for her hand in marriage. The girl makes mint tea for her parents. If the tea is sweetened it means that she likes the boy and if there is no sugar in it she doesn't.

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