{"id":10025,"date":"2024-07-30T15:13:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/shortcuts-to-the-desert-in-morocco\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T02:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:27:35","slug":"shortcuts-to-the-desert-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/shortcuts-to-the-desert-in-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortcuts to the desert in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sahara is one of those goals dreamed of by every traveler, but how to get here if you do not have much time to devote to the trip?<br \/>\nWith Tenere Tours we have some options that can be considered real shortcuts to reach the desert in Morocco,   <\/span><b>departing from cities that have their own airport and are not too far from the most emblematic places of this <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the most emblematic places of this fantastic place, such as the Erg Chebbi<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/what-are-the-best-dunes-in-morocco\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dunes of Erg Chebbi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/>\nAqu\u00ed te las presentamos. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distances from the most common cities<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three of the cities from which you can travel to the desert in the same day are <\/span><b>Marrakech, Fez and Agadir<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main tourist destinations in the world: they have their own airport and are first class tourist destinations, which attracts many tourists who spend a few days in them.<br \/>\nBut in all cases,   <\/span><b>the journey is long<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as you can see below:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>From Marrakech: a little more than 550 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trip can be completed in just under 9 hours.<br \/>\nTo make this journey, it is necessary to cross the High Atlas Mountains, which slows down the trip. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fez: just over 450 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to be completed in about 7 hours.<br \/>\nIn this case, we cross the Middle Atlas Mountains. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Agadir: 650 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a route of about 9 hours and a half, through the Draa Valley.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, a tour from these cities necessarily involves 3 days, since the first and last days are almost entirely dedicated to the road trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The &#8216;shortcuts&#8217; to reach the Moroccan desert<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Tenere Tours we have tours that start in<\/span><b> other closer cities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  to the desert: they are not so famous but they have their own airport, with national and some international connections.<br \/>\nAnd they also have some tourist attractions, so they are a viable option to travel to the Sahara saving valuable time. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ouarzazate, &#8216;the gateway to the desert&#8217; and to the Thousand Kasbahs Route<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first option is Ouarzazate, often considered the &#8216;gateway to the desert&#8217;.<br \/>\nFrom here, <\/span> <b> the journey to the village of Merzouga (at the foot of the Erg Chebbi dunes) is <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(at the foot of the Erg Chebbi dunes) is about 350 km <\/span><b>about 350 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which can be done in <\/span><b>just over 5 hours<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/>\nAdem\u00e1s de ser un atajo para llegar al desierto de Marruecos, cuenta con dos grandes atractivos tur\u00edsticos: su   <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/what-is-a-kasbah-doubly-interesting-for-a-traveler\/\"><b>kasbah<\/b><\/a><b> of Taourirt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and its <\/span><b>Atlas film studios<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which can be visited.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for its airport <\/span><b>airport, it is on the outskirts of the city.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  and has domestic connections to Casablanca, as well as direct flights to some European cities.<br \/>\nThese international routes may undergo changes and closures, or new connections may be inaugurated, so we recommend you check them at the time of reading this post. Some of the cities that have or have had direct connections with this airport are Madrid, Barcelona, London, Marseille and Paris.<br \/>\nTangier and Zagora are other Moroccan cities that have or have had direct connection with this airport.  <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Errachidia, a city even closer to the desert<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Errachidia is a city with less tourist appeal, as it is relatively recent since it was established mainly during the time of the French Protectorate. <\/span><b>in times of the French Protectorate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/>\nPor ello, su urbanismo es moderno y carece de grandes monumentos hist\u00f3ricos.<br \/>\nPero para lo que nos interesa en este post, resulta muy atractiva.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located <\/span><b>just 130 km from Merzouga<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and since the road has no major complications, following the Ziz Valley, it is completed in just two hours <\/span><b>two hours of travel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/>\nEn su aeropuerto operan vuelos locales, principalmente, procedentes de ciudades como Casablanca, Marrakech o Rabat.<br \/>\nPor ello, volar hasta aqu\u00ed, haciendo escala en algunas de esas ciudades, supondr\u00e1 una forma r\u00e1pida de acercarse al Sahara, propiciando circuitos realmente expr\u00e9s.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to know more details, you can check our private tours from all these cities and choose the one that best suits your available time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sahara is one of those goals dreamed of by every traveler, but how to get here if you do not have much time to devote to the trip? With Tenere Tours we have some options that can be considered real shortcuts to reach the desert in Morocco, starting from cities that have their own airport and are not too far from the most emblematic places of this fantastic place, such as the dunes of Erg Chebbi. Here we present them to you.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[117,107],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","tag-cities-of-morocco","tag-transportation-in-morocco"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15172,"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions\/15172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teneretours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}