A whole day spent learning about the smartest city in the kingdom. There are several monuments that you are able to see: In Medersas (Koranic Schools): Bouinania Attarin, Chahrij. The Karaouine Mosque, Fes El-Jedid, and the Souks (the world’s first university).

We will begin our third day on a six-day Fes Desert trip to Merzouga, Sahara, after breakfast, traveling via Ifrane to Merzouga. We’ll traverse the Cedar Forest to reach Tafilalte and the Ziz Valley.

We will ride camels to the Merzouga desert camp in the afternoon and spend the night under a nomadic tent. Dinner and sleeping arrangements in the tents.

The desert is already where you are! .. taking in the enchantment of the dunes… Following our early morning admiration of the stunning sunrise image in the dunes, we ride the 4 x 4 back to the hotel where we meet these lands: the flamenco-filled Dayet Srji lake, and the home of a family of Gnawa or Bambara musicians, who are descended from slaves who came from Black Africa and will enchant us with their traditional music.

We will see some semi-nomadic households that make their way across the sea of sand and stone as we approach the dunes where the Paris–Dakar pass passes. An authentic journey! We will go back to the hotel in the afternoon to spend the night there.

After breakfast, travel via Rissani, the old Moroccan commercial center, to Fes. We will go in the direction of the Ziz Valley, traveling via Tafilalet and taking in the expansive vistas of the Gorges and Palmerales.

After arriving to AZROU, we will take in the breathtaking views of the Middle Atlas and the Forest of the Cedars, as well as the mandatory stop to see the free-living monkeys.

After that, we’ll go through IFRANE, often referred to as “Moroccan Switzerland,” and arrive in Fez in the afternoon. That concludes our second to last day of a six-day desert trek from Fes to Merzouga.