Morocco School Group Holiday

Leaving Marrakech at around 7.30am, you travel into the Atlas Mountains and spend the morning at the village of Aguersioual. Here you will meet the local Berber people and learn about their traditional life style, including their food, how to cook a tagine, animal husbandry, agriculture and the roles of the men and women in this community. A wonderful insight into a way of life that is hard work, but rewarding. After eating your lunch you will head to the the Tizi-n-Tichka Pass (2260 metres above sea level) into the barren slopes of shattered rock on the southern side of the pass. Witness how the forces of nature have helped shape these mountains offering an insight into plate tectonics and fold mountain formation. You continue onto Ouarzazate. Driving time approx. 4:30  Lunch will be taken en route.Overnight:, Ouarzazate, Hôtel Les Jardins De Ouarzazate (BLD)

This morning we leave the camp very early as it is a long driving day. Returning back to Marrakech along the Draa valley to Zagora and Ouarzazate, we’ll stop en route at Ait Benhaddou for lunch and of course a visit of the Kasbah which is probably the best-preserved fortified kasbah in the country. With its dramatic walls of red earth, slit windows and crumbling towers, it is a magnificent example of a traditional stronghold. Chosen as a location for Hollywood films such as Lawrence of Arabia, Jewel in the Nile and more recently Gladiator, Ait Benhaddou sits upon a lofty pinnacle of rock overlooking a river. After this visit we continue our journey and head up North to the Tizi n'Tichka pass, we cross the High Atlas once more and will reach early evening the red city of Marrakech.Approx. 9 hrs of driving ( 3.5 hrs from Ait Ben Haddou in the afternoon)Dinner will be at a Restaurant close to the Medina.Overnight: Hotel Majorelle, Marrakech (BLD).