Main Info
Departure | From Marrakech |
Start Time | a prompt departure at 8:00 AM |
Return Time | Approximately 6:30 PM |
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Itinerary
- Around 8 am, your driver-guide will pick you up from your hotel/riad and leave Marrakech, driving through the spectacular Tizi n’ Tichka Pass (2260m above sea level). We will have a lunch break in Ouarzazate and continue our journey passing through Zagora to get to "Faija Plateau".
We will have dinner and spend the night in a camp in the middle of the Sahara desert.
After breakfast, the team will install and get the camels loaded then start our trek by crossing the pass of "Oum Laachar", We will continue our hike along a dry river and go through a hidden oasis between the mountains.
After a short climb and descent, we will reach our camp on the riverbank of Oued Lemhasser. Dinner and spend the night in the camp.
We leave early around 7 am after we cross the desert valley we will finally get to the huge Sahara desert on which we will go through and meet nomad families that invite us to drink tea at home according to the weather. On a path hardly drivable for dromedaries, a descent on large black flagstones, limestone rocks well eroded by the wind and heat. After lunch and having some rest, we will accelerate our walk to reach the beautiful sunset on the dunes of the Erg Chegaga. Dinner and spend the night in the camp in the middle of the Sahara desert.
Today, we will cross the Chegaga plateau, a dry green lake and the shelters of some nomad families with their flocks coming from the Draa Valley. We will continue east of "Jbel Abes" direction and "M'hamed" then have lunch under tamarisk trees. After the lunch break, we will head towards the dunes of "Bougnern", a magnificent less frequent dunes. We will enjoy dinner and sleeping under the beautiful stars.
Today, we will make an early departure to enjoy the sunrise on the beautiful dunes of "Bouguern". Lunch would be on the shade of tamarisk dunes the continue our hiking to reach Oued-Naam dunes. Dinner and spend the night in the camp in the middle of Sahara desert.
Today, after breakfast a long drive is waiting for us to get back to Marrakech. It's about 7 hours' drive. On our way back to Marrakech, we will go via the Dra valley road, we will pass by Ouarzazate and cross the Atlas mountains through the pass of Tichka.
Your driver will drop you off at your hotel or the nearest access point to your riad. End of the tour.