Erg Chegaga

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...

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...

The classic caravan crossing of the western Sahara in Morocco: five days on foot from M'hamid El Ghizlane to the dune field of Erg Chegaga,...

A long caravan route that goes beyond Erg Chegaga to the dunes of Bougarn and the dry bed of Lake Iriki, a former inland lake...

From M'hamid El Ghizlane the great dune field of Erg Chegaga is about sixty kilometres away, all of it off the tarmac, and it can...

Lake Iriki was once a shallow inland lake fed by the Draa; today it is a dry plain of cracked ground, fossil beds and scattered...