
10 Days
Deep South Morocco
Most visitors turn back at Merzouga. This route keeps going. Erg Chigaga's empty dunes, the Draa Valley's oasis ribbon, towns where Saharan Africa begins. You'll reach places that feel like the end of the mapped world.
Your Route

Day 1
Marrakech
The souks spiral inward by specialty—leather, brass, carpets, spices. Each turn narrows. Bahia Palace holds its painted ceilings in afternoon shadow. The hammam strips you down to quiet. By evening, Jemaa el-Fna transforms. Smoke rises from a hundred grills. Storytellers gather crowds. The square has done this for centuries. It doesn't need your permission.

Day 2
Marrakech → Tamnougalt
Past Ouarzazate, the land exhales into the Draa. Palm groves appear in long green lines against rust and dust. Tamnougalt rises from red earth—a kasbah that breathes with age. You walk through rooms where mud walls hold centuries. Tea is poured without ceremony. The silence here isn't empty. It's full of something you can't name yet.

Day 3
Tamnougalt → Erg Chigaga
The Draa Valley stretches south. Zagora passes like a half-remembered name. Beyond M'Hamid, the road ends and the desert begins. Erg Chigaga rises in golden waves—pristine, remote, untouched by easy access. Camp appears at the edge of dunes. No generators. No performance. Just sand still warm from the day, and stars arriving early.

Day 4
Erg Chigaga → Foum Zguid
North from the pristine dunes. The sand releases you slowly, reluctantly. M'Hamid passes—last town before nothing. Then the track finds Foum Zguid, an outpost at the edge of the Sahara where the road remembers how to be a road again.

Day 5
Foum Zguid → Marrakech
The long road home. Taznakht's weavers pass. Ouarzazate marks the turn. Then the climb over Tizi n'Tichka—switchbacks and shepherd country, the Atlas showing its spine. Marrakech appears below as the pass releases you. The desert stays in your skin.

Day 6
Marrakech
The souks spiral inward by specialty—leather, brass, carpets, spices. Each turn narrows. Bahia Palace holds its painted ceilings in afternoon shadow. The hammam strips you down to quiet. By evening, Jemaa el-Fna transforms. Smoke rises from a hundred grills. Storytellers gather crowds. The square has done this for centuries. It doesn't need your permission.

Day 7
Marrakech → Zagora
Over the Atlas at Tizi n'Tichka. The pass doesn't announce itself—you're just suddenly above everything. Ait Benhaddou rises from red earth like it grew there. Then Ouarzazate, then the Draa. For two hundred kilometers the road follows Morocco's longest river. Palm groves and kasbahs repeat like breathing. Zagora marks where the road used to end. Beyond here, fifty-two days to Timbuktu. The sign still says so.

Day 8
Zagora → Marrakech
North through the Draa. Palm groves repeat for two hundred kilometers—green against rust, kasbahs rising and falling. Ouarzazate, then Ait Benhaddou in different light. The climb to Tizi n'Tichka. The descent into the Haouz. Marrakech appears and the desert becomes a dream you can't quite remember. But it stays in your skin.

Day 9
Marrakech → Ouarzazate
The road climbs until the city disappears. Stone villages cling to slopes where light shifts by the hour. Switchbacks tighten around you like a held breath. By afternoon, the mountains release you into ochre silence. Ouarzazate waits—not as a destination, but as a threshold. The air here tastes different. Drier. Older. You've crossed something.

Day 10
Ouarzazate → Marrakech
The crossing in reverse. Ait Benhaddou in morning light—the clay glows different at this hour. Then the climb. Tizi n'Tichka at 2,260 meters. The pass holds its breath. The descent reveals the Haouz plain—flat, green, impossibly different. Marrakech appears under the Atlas like an afterthought. But you know better now.
This journey is a starting point.
These itineraries aren't fixed. They're designed to bend. Add a day in the desert. Skip the city. Stay longer where something pulls you. This is your journey—we shape it around what matters to you.
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