Desert tours from Marrakech

Day 1: Marrakech – Ait Benhaddou – Draa Valley – Mhamid

Early morning departure with 4×4 from the hotel in Marrakech. We cross over the High Atlas Mountains- Tizi-n-Tichka with a visit of Ait Benhaddou, Morocco’s most famous kasbah. Lunch in Ouarzazate. The trip goes through Draa Valley with millions of palm trees and old Kasbahs, partly off road. After Zagora you will have a stop at Tamgroute to visit the famous Koran library and an underground Kasbah, night with dinner will be either in a hotel in M’hamid or under the Tent.

Day 2: Mhamid – Sacred Oasis – Erg Chigaga Dunes

After breakfast, you do two hours camel ride in the midst of the desert. Around 10:30 you are will travel in a 4×4 through a beautiful desert landscape to a Oasis for lunch break. This Oasis consists of a small group of palm trees around a source in the midst of the desert, which running water the whole year. It is deemed as a source of life to the nomads. Around 16h00 and after further 15 km we reach the dunes of Chigaga (Chegaga) . This largest group of dunes of the region reaches a height of 300 m on a length of 40 km. Dinner and night in nomad tent or under the star filled sky with entertainment.

berber tent in a desert camp.

Day 3: Erg Chigaga Dunes – Foum Zguid – Taznakht – Marrakech

After breakfast in Erg Chigaga Bivouac, departure with 4×4 jeeps via the old Paris – Dakar race road to Foum Zguid crossing Iriqui lake, lunch break in the berber village of Taznakht. We arrive to Marrakech at app. 18.30