You can ride a camel, climb sahara dunes, sift cinnamon-and-sugar sand through your fingers, enjoy magnificent views, and spend the night in a tent or beneath the stars on the wonderful Erg Chigaga desert tour. Another well-known set of saharan dunes are the Erg Chebbi dunes in Merzouga. The Erg Chebbi dunes are more well-known, covering a 50-kilometer expanse and rising up to 150 meters in certain places. To spend the night in a conventional hotel room or a luxurious tent before exploring the Merzouga desert and its surrounds during the day, there are hotels along the edge of the desert.
We depart from Marrakech at 8:00 a.m. in an air-conditioned 4x4 vehicle for our Chegaga 3 day Morocco desert tour. We drive across the Tizi-n-Tichka Pass in the High Atlas Mountains, passing through gorgeous and picturesque landscapes on our way to Ait Benhaddou, Morocco's most famous ksar (ksar = old village of kasbahs). We stop in Agdez or Ouarzazate for Lunch. The journey continues via the Draa Valley to explore its splendid palm trees and historic Kasbahs. We spend the night in a hotel in Zagora or in the tent.
After breakfast, we continue our Erg Chigaga desert trip through the Draa valley's palm orchards. We will stop at Tamgroute to visit the famous Coranic library (closed on national and religious holidays) and an underground Kasbah. Then we continue to M'Hamid, a little village – the last town and large Draa oasis before the huge desert of Erg chegaga sahara. We next continue our three-day desert adventure by driving 60 kilometers off-road from M'hamid to the Erg Chegaga dune. This region's largest cluster of sahara dunes that reaches a height of 300 meters and covers 40 kilometers. After a 40-minute camel trek to see the desert's magnificent sunset, spend the night in a berber tent camp.
After breakfast at the Erg Chegaga Bivouac, drive to Foum Zguid via the historic Paris – Dakar race road, crossing the natural dry Iriqui lake. We stop for lunch in the berber village of Taznakht. We arrive in Marrakech at 6 p.m. and drop you off at your Riad.
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