Deserts & Empires
Day 9 Includes
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- 4x4's in the Sahara
- Transfer from Sahara to Ouarzazate
- Standard Accommodations: 4-star Hotel Mercure
- Luxury Accommodations: 5-star Berber Palace
"Memories for a lifetime"
"Thank you for giving us our incredibly well planned and executed 11 day holiday in Morocco. We met awesome people, explored a very beautiful country and now have memories for a lifetime."
-Bromwyn H
Day 9: Ouarzazate
After breakfast at camp, you'll begin your 4x4 ride
out of the desert and back to Marrakech. You will stop at an oasis on the way. A babbling spring of crystal clear (but not potable to us) water seeps out of the ground to support desert men, beasts and frogs.
As you
drive along, you'll think the Sahara is lifeless, but to survive, life adapts. One of the most surprising splashes of life and color are the Tamarisk mounds. These
mounds are formed around the Tamarisk tree, which exudes a sticky sap that gathers the sands pushed by the wind, building its own sand dune until nothing but branches are visible.
After crossing the dry Iriqui lakebed, you'll continue north along the route of the famous Paris-Dakar rally to the main road and Tazenkhat, the rural center of Berber Rug production in Morocco where you'll have lunch.
Your driver will take you the 2 hours north to Ouarzazate. You spend the night at a hotel before a flight out to the US.
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