Morocco Overlanding Tour — 15 Days

This desert tour Morocco begins at Tangier port. You meet the convoy at the briefing point and drive south to Fès the following day. Traffic thins as the city comes into view. That afternoon you walk the Medina — spice stalls, leather tanneries, and the narrow alleys around one of the oldest universities in the world. The group cooks together for the first time. The Atlas starts the next morning.

A full day on the dunes dedicated to dune driving technique. After a group briefing you work through tire pressure adjustments, line selection, and 4x4 recovery basics in real sand conditions. The instruction is practical — you drive it, not watch it. This is the atlas mountains 4x4 tour preparation stage before the harder terrain south at Erg Chegaga.

You work out of the dune field, cross the dried-up Lac Iriki salt flat, and drive flat stone tracks to Foum Zguid on this tangier to sahara tour return leg. The landscape shifts entirely: palm oases, Berber villages, small settlements along the road. By late afternoon you reach Aït Benhaddou. After the last visitors leave at sunset, the UNESCO kasbah is nearly yours.

After days of red and brown terrain, the route drops into cedar forest in Khenifra National Park on this sahara tour homestretch — Barbary macaques on the roadside, mountain meadows, shaded tracks heading north. Camp is set among fruit trees. The next stage crosses the last Atlas ridges through quiet agricultural country before arriving in Chefchaouen. The blue-painted alleys of the Rif mark the end of driving.