Road trip
DAY 1
Demnate-Boumalne: 240 km, 6-hour trip – possible track 1h30
Start on an old track that has become a road, but looks like a track in many places. For lack of resources, nature always taking back its rights, in some time it will be a track again! Getting to grips with motorcycles and magnificent landscapes of mountains, passes, villages, gorges … A few hundred bends further and 2 passes swallowed up, we fall on the southern slope of the Atlas. Green gives way to minerality. It’s gone for 6 days of desert, but in Morocco it is always synonymous with color, variety, hospitality and warmth. When you arrive in the plain, the first possibility to test driving on the track, depending on your desires and the condition of it, some years the storms make it very complicated at the start of the season. After Skoura, the valley of roses to Boumalne, if you have the chance to spend the spring before May 05, the spectacle and the perfumes will liven up this end of the day.
DAY 2
Boumalne – Tazzarine: 302 km, 6-hour journey
Start the day heading to the Dades Gorge and make a round trip of the valley of 1000 Kasbah. The scenery is breath-taking with multi-coloured ochres surrounded by the oases greenery along the Dadès wadi providing a cinematic backdrop. We reach the town of Tineghir and will pause at the Todgha (Todra) gorges known for high-level climbing routes. Descent south in the afternoon to reach our desert camp in the Tazzarine region
DAY 3
Tazzarine-Zagora-Dunes de Tinfou: 160 km, 4h journey
It is our Desert and Dunes day for which you have two options:
-The relaxed way is a mapped road circuit which allows you to rest a little while still exploring. Pass the Tinfou dune, visit the Koranic library, and meet a famous potter from the region. Visit Zagora, the last city in the south, before the Sahara.
-The fun way is a foray into the desert by a track we suggest. More tiring, of course, but an unforgettable experience.
DAY 4
Zagora-Foum Zguid: 230 km, 5h journey
Today we’ll travel from Drâa valley to Agdz for the first 100 km and discover the largest palm grove in the world: 220km long, and18km wide, with 1,500,000 palm trees. The road winds on the right bank of the Drâa from village to village, Kasbah to Kasbah. After a break in Agdz, head west to reach the Anti-Atlas in the Tazenakht region, famous for its female carpet-making cooperatives. End the day descending due south through the impressive geological folds of the orange Foum Zguid mountains, where an aperitif by the large swimming pool awaits us.
DAY 5
FoumZguid-Ouarzazate, 165 km, 6 hours of travel including 4 hours of slopes
We go up due north by a very beautiful little road through magnificent geological folds. After 2 hours of this superb winding road, we arrive near Tazenakht, the capital of the weaving of Berber rugs. An optional break to discover this craft is possible. The visit does not take more than an hour accompanied as it should by a mint tea. After a 30-minute drive, we take the track back to the meal point. The afternoon trail, allowing you to cross the Anti Atlas, is again very wild and a little more technical. But we have all the afternoon to cover the 55 km! Arrival at the shores of Lake Ouarzazate where the island ecolodge awaits us for a new refreshing dive.
DAY 6
Ouarzazate-Demnate, 238 km, 6 hours of journey including 1 hour of slopes
From Ouarzazate to Telouet, the route is simply breathtaking. Even though it has very little track (it was recently paved) the scenery is breathtaking. First the Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, then the Ounila valley, dotted with magnificent villages as far as Telouet with incredible colors, from the red of iron oxide to the green of copper sulphate through yellow and ocher and finally the climb to the famous Tizi N Tchka pass This route is enchanting. After 20 km of national road, we leave it again to take a marvelous valley of beauty with its terraced crops, where water flows in abundance. Striking contrast with the images seen so far. Then the Ait Adel lake, last break before returning to Demnate
GALLERIE
