Desert Camping

Agafay is not sand but stone desert: a landscape of bare grey hills about thirty kilometres from Marrakech, with the High Atlas as a backdrop....

Erg Chegaga is the largest dune field in Morocco and the only one with no sealed road running to it: the last stretch is driven...

The four-day version of the Erg Chegaga route adds a night in Ouarzazate and a slower passage through the Draa Valley, which means the kasbahs...

Merzouga sits at the foot of Erg Chebbi, a compact wall of orange dunes rising to about 150 m and reached entirely on sealed road....

A one-way crossing of Morocco from north to south, ending in Marrakech rather than doubling back. The route leaves Fes through the cedar forests of...

A round trip from Fes to the dunes of Erg Chebbi and back, taking in the Middle Atlas cedar forests, the Todra Gorge and the...

The shortest desert route from Marrakech. Zagora lies at the southern end of the Draa Valley and its dunes are modest compared with Chegaga or...

Five days allow the southern desert to be crossed rather than visited. The route goes out through the Atlas and the Draa Valley, spends two...

For travellers already in the south, the great dunes are within reach of a single overnight. This short route starts in Zagora, follows the last...

A full loop of the Moroccan south that takes in both of the country's great dune fields: Erg Chebbi at Merzouga, reached by road, and...