3-Day Sahara Desert Tour from Marrakech with Merzouga Camp Stay

• Meet your local tour guide for pickup from Marrakesh.

• Start your journey towards Dades Gorges across the Tizi-n-Tichka pass, with far-reaching views across the mountains, including the High Atlas. Continue to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Aït Benhaddou.

• Have lunch at Aït Benhaddou or Ouarzazate, where you will have a break to explore the door of the desert and the Atlas Studios.

• Continue crossing the Rose Valley to reach the Dades Valley.

Spend the night at a hotel or guesthouse in Dades Gorges.

• Travel from Dades Gorges to Erg Chebbi Sahara in Merzouga today. Pass by Tinghir, Todra Gorges, Tinjdad, and then Erfoud, an oasis town in the Sahara Desert known for its various forms of fossils, where you will feel the beginning of the Saharan oasis of Tafilalet.

• Continue to a hotel in Merzouga.

• After relaxing for a few minutes, take some of your luggage in a small bag - the necessities for the night in the desert - and leave the rest at the hotel. Then set out on a thrilling camel ride across the Erg Chebbi sand dunes. This is a great opportunity to take lovely pictures of the sunset and sunrise.

• Reach the campsite here. Leave the camels behind and walk to the highest point of the sand dunes for sandboarding and to watch the sunset.

Spend the night in a camp (Berber nomad tents) with drum music in the middle of the Sahara.

• Wake up early in the morning to watch the sunrise over the dunes.

• Ride the camels back to Merzouga.

• After breakfast and a shower at the hotel, start the journey back to Marrakech through different areas and various Berber villages - Alnif, Tazarine, and N'kob - until Ouarzazate. From here, take the same road back to Marrakech and arrive in the evening or at night.