Marrakech – High Atlas Mountains – Talouet – Ait Benhaddou – Ouarzazate. Top Morocco desert tours from Marrakech to Erg Chigaga. After breakfast we start our trip through Tizi-n-tichka pass of the High Atlas Mountains, where hundreds of superb Berber villages are scattered on the mountains. Most of the houses in these villages are made from mud and straw; in the middle of nowhere; with thousands of satellite dishes on the roofs. The scenery will make you feel that nothing has changed in life here through thousands of years. Meanwhile, donkeys and mules are still the main means of transportation among these high and tough mountains, since there are no accesses for cars and tracks. After almost three hours driving, we will stop to visit the ancient fortified city of Ait Benhaddou which was first built on the 11th century and has been listed by the UNESCO in 1992 as a world heritage site. Explore the streets of this clay Kasbah at a relaxed pace and have some tea with the family that is still living there looking after the Kasbah. More than 300 families used to live here, and each Berber family consists of at least ten people. So you can imagine how many families used to live here! More than 3000. We pass by Ouarzazate (Africa´s Hollywood) and get to Noiselesslytown, the door of the desert, a city situated in the middle of a bare plateau, south of the High Atlas Mountains. Why this town is nicknamed as Africa’s Hollywood? Simply because it has been noted as a film-making location, with Morocco’s biggest studios inviting many international film companies to shoot their movies, like : Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Living Daylights (1987), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Mummy (1999), Gladiator (2000), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Martin Scorsese’s Kundun (1997) and Babel (2005).