Geological and Cultural Trips:

1st Day: start geological trip from Marrakech-High Atlas Mountains-Draa valley- Zagora

Depart from Marrakech to begin your geological journey towards the beautiful sceneries of the Draa valley. Pass via Tizi n-tichka and take pictures of High Atlas Mountains before visiting the salt mine. After lunch in Ouarzazate, we continue to the Draa valley, Morocco’s longest valley (1200km). Overnight in a motel in Zagora.

2nd Day: Zagora-Anti Atlas Mountains-Alnif(geological and cultural trip)

Departure from Zagora for a visit to the Cambrian site noted for its massive yellowish trilobites, followed by a visit to the Ordovician site jbel Imi-N-Ouassif, which is rich in calymenes and flexycalymenes. Overnight at the meteorite hotel (Alnif).

3rd Day: Alnif-Trilobite site-Goniatite site-Merzouga

Departure to discover Isoumour’s legendary trilobites post paradise. Where all Devonian trilobites lived together. Collect rolled phacops. Also Devonian, but in a flat area rather than a mountain, where we will harvest red ammonites. After that, drive to Mecessi to see the Lalla Mimouna site and gather some Devonian trilobites, then to Jbel Mdawar to collect Devonian goniatites before heading to Merzouga Erg Chebbi beautiful sand dunes. Night under the stars in a Merzouga camp.

4th Day: Merzouga-kem kem mountains-Erfoud-Boumalne Dades

Departure from Merzouga to Bomalne dades via Erfoud.

You will travel to Begaa early in the morning to examine dinosaur bones and shark teeth. After breakfast, you return to the famous Erfoud quarry to view the extraction, where you gather several Devonian in the Botchrafine mountains, and visit the Crinoid site as well. Then, via Toudra Gorges, and continue to Boumalne Dades, where you will spend the night.

5th Day: Dades-Ouarzazate-Ait Benhaddou-Tizi N’tichka-Marrakech( geological and Cultural tour)

Following your breakfast at the hotel. Our adventure will begin by visiting Berber settlements along the way. Continuing after that across the Skoura Oasis to Ouarzazate. Then to Ait Benhaddou Kasbah, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. Many films were shot there, including Gladiator (2000), The Mummy (1999), and Babel (2006). Then proceeding to Marrakech via Tizi N’ticka, the highest major mountain pass in North Africa at 2260 meters above sea level. The final step of our geological tour in Marrakech.