ROUTE TIPS:
Want to experience more? Extend your trip from this route with these great add ons.
Options from this route:
- At Agadaz join the Gold Route
- At Ouarzate join the Orange Route or Gold Route to travel on to Marrakesh.
- Or take the Orange Route through to the Dades Valley.
You have many options to extend travel on the grey route also, depending on what you want to see and do!
Rissani to Ouazazate
Grey Route — The road of a thousand Kasbas
1. Rissani
Begin in Rissani, a small Saharan town in southeast of Morocco. Once called Sijilmassa, this was the meeting place for the salt caravans, coming from Timbuktu in Mali.
Highlights:
- Visit a fossil workshop.
- Explore the souk selling spices, vegetables and textiles.
- Grab a delicious lunch pizza if you have time.
2. Tazzarine
3. N'kob
The capital village of the Berber Ait Atta tribe.
A great stopping point for lunch in a traditional Kasbah and you can take in a superb panoramic view.
4. Draa Valley
5. Agadaz
6. Ouarzazate
Known as the Hollywood of Africa. Here you can tour cinema sets and film studios and learn some of the history of the film-making industry in Africa.
7. Ait Benhaddou
If you're heading on to Ait Benhaddou, you will experience a World Heritage site that has been used as a backdrop for more than 20 films including; Gladiator, Indiana Jones and Lawrence of Arabia.
Take a walk and explore the traditional Moroccan style of architecture in which the Kasbahs are built.
Marrakech office:
Izdihar 3 building 17, Nº 3 Floor, Apartment 17, Marrakech. 40,000 Morocco.
Dades office:
Dades Gorges, Boumalne, near Chez Pierre hotel, Tinghir, Morocco.
