We are happy to Geology trip
Day 1: Arrival to Casablanca airport transfer to hotel.
Firstly, Arrival to Casablanca Airport transfer to hotel! In other words, we start our Morocco Fossils upon your arrival too, depends on the time.
Day 2: Casablanca – Timahdite – Midelt.
After a morning breakfast at the hotel, we departure towards Azrou in the heart of the middle atlas. Then, we will have a Picnic in the cedar forest with the monkeys. Later, we head to the famous Michlifen extinct volcano rich in olivine and magna. Thus, we see the Jurassic site next to Timahdite rich in brachiopods bivalves and speriferes, if any time is lift we can visit cretaceous site rich in black shark teeth next to Bakrit. Thus, we end our evening at hotel in Midelt.
Day 3: Midelt – Sidi Ayad – Come back to Midelt (Geology trip).
After breakfast, we departure to visit Mibladen mines rich in barythe cerusite, also vanadinites but very hard to find then head to Ahouli old mine, to visit old mining equipments. Therefore, we enjoy a Picnic in the valley then go to Sidi Ayad to collect azurite malachite and flurite evening back to same hotel in Midelt.
Day 4: Midelt – Erfoud – Erg Chebbi.
We drive head down to Ziz gorges, where we will collect brachiopods bivalves from Jurassic, then to Ziz valley to collect echinoderms cidaris micrasteres from cretaceous cenomanian, and Picnic in the valley then down to Erfoud city. Evening in the Erg Chebbi sand dunes .
Day 5: Merzouga – Merzouga (minerals and fossils).
We head south Merzouga towards Mifis mine rich in laid and manganaise, fifty years ago, now desert except same workers looking for massive barytine. Then, we go to kemkem paleoriver beds rich in fish crocodiles and dinosaurs bones. Picnic there then go to an old mine called filon 12 rich in vanadinite quartz citrine and more. Then, Devonian bed rich in rolled phacops evening back to the same hotel in the dunes
Day 6: Merzouga – Merzouga.
After breakfast head north Merzouga collect goniatites made of goethite pyritised some times due to the big explosion end Devonian. Then, we collect enrolled Devonian trilobite, as well as, sand roses in the border then Picnic in a sacred oasis full of palm trees. Afternoon, collect sand roses and fish, crocodiles, dinosaur‘s bones in a cretaceous site Safsaf evening back to same hotel in the dunes.
Day 7: Merzouga – Boutchrafine – Alnif.
Firstly, we will have breakfast then road to visit the famous Erfoud quarry ten crinoids’mine to see the extraction collect few Devonian trilobites at Boutchrafine mount. Moreover, we will have a Picnic under a palm tree afternoon visit the factory where all the big blocs are cut and manufactured to tables, dishes, book ends, and decoration items. Then, we head to Alnif. Evening at a small hotel in half board.
Day 8: Alnif – Alnif (hunting trilobites).
After a the morning breakfast, visit Cambrian mine where the big trilobites came from such as cambropalace and paradoxidises. Picnic in the desert. Afternoon, we continue our Geology trip and visit the Ordovician mine of calymes and flexicalymenes de jbel Tiskaouine. Evening back to the same hotel in Alnif.
Day 9: Alnif – Todra gorges – Midelt.
Visit Todgha gorges and head back to Midelt hotel .
Day 10: Midelt – Oued Zem – Casablanca.
Drive through the high atlas and visit Oued Zem phosphate area famous by its shark teeth, evening in a hotel and Geology trip ends.