IRIQUI EXCURSIONS

8 days Tour
 

To people who have more time, we propose this circuit because you will discover the desert in the nomad life like you never seen. By a sequence of caravanning...you will be impregnate of this nature, this people, their rhythm of the life.
We assure you change of scenery, far from stress and city life.

Day 1 :  Arrival in Ouarzazate, transfer to  3* hotel for night.

Day 2 :  Departure after breakfast in 4x4 with driver from Ouarzazate passing through  Agdz , the Drâa Valley and Zagora, then continuing to  M’hamid  for lunch. (250 km).  

In the afternoon :  continuation in 4x4 with driver to the Oasis bivouac, dinner and night in the Oasis.

Our bivouac of the Oasis is in the middle of the desert, at 55 km away from Mhamid. It’s a real heaven of peace with palm trees, spring water, local organic farming and parks with animals. This bivouac offer an infrastructure of quality : nomad tents for the restaurant and pass nights, under shelter of the wind and in the shade of palm trees, showers, sanitary convenience and kitchen.

bivouac of the "Oasis Sacrée"    

Day 3 :   breakfast and lunch in the Oasis, visit of the site.

In the afternoon  departure for an exceptional adventure alternating walking and riding the camels to discover according to one’s  own  inclination and fantasie the most beautiful desert in Morocco and to experience a true nomadic life style ;  siesta at mid-day in the shade of tamarisk trees, delicious bread baked in the sand, the unique taste of a nomadic tea, the evenings spent around a camp fire and the nights spent in tents or under the stars !  Meals are prepared by your guides and camel drivers.  

The experience of the caravan is an ideal way to discover the desert and the life of the nomads. You will be accompanied by people originating in the desert, who will be happy to make you discover their habits.

Days  4 and  5 :  Continuation of the caravan, night in the desert.

During the caravan, to count about 2.5 hours of walk (or dromedary) the morning, then idem the afternoon, after a long break of relaxation for the lunch.

The landscapes crossed during the caravan make it possible to discover and to appreciate  the diversity of the desert: sometimes stone extents, then the presence of a small vegetation, or  the sand dunes.

Day  6 :   Caravan and lunch in the desert.

Arrival in the afternoon at the dunes of Chgaga to watch the sunset. (12km)   Dinner and night under canvas at the bivouacs of St Exupéry at the foot of the dunes.

dunes of Chgaga

Day  7 :   After breakfast departure in 4 x 4  for return across the track to M’hamid for lunch.   In the afternoon  continuing  through the Drâa Valley towards Ouarzazate. Dinner and night in hotel in Ouarzazate (300km).

Day 8 :  Transfer to airport for return flight.