Erg chegaga

Day 1: Marrakech – High Atlas – Ouarzazate –Zagora

We will make an early morning departure from Marrakech to cross the Tizi n

Tichka pass in the High Atlas Mountains with a short stop for coffee and to

visit the argan oil cooperative. We will visit UNESCO World Heritage site,

Ait Ben Haddou and the Taourirt Kasbah in Ouarzazate . After lunch in

Ouarzazate, we will  travel over the Anti Atlas mountains, via the Berber

villages of Agdz  and the amazing Draa Valley.  We will have dinner and

spend the night in a traditional riad in Zagora.

Day 2     Zagora – Tamagroute – Erg Chegaga.

After breakfast we will have a tour of Zagora and its surroundings

including the Jewish quarter in Amzerou and the palm groves.  We will

continue towards the doorway to Sahara Desert -Mhamid.  We will visit the

the original town of the 16th century dynasty (Saadian), Tamgroute, to

visit the old Koran library and to see the ceramics the area is famous for.

We arrive to the Saharan village of Mhamid before taking the off-road track

to Erg Chegaga  to ride the camels into the desert to see the sunset on top

of the dunes. We will have a traditional tagine dinner, drink delicious

mint tea, listen to traditional berber music while watching the stars and

the rising moon in the amazing Sahara desert.  We will spend the night in

a  traditional nomad tent.

Day 3     Erg Chegaga – Foum Zguid – Tazenackt – Marrakech

We will rise early to see the spectacle of the sunrise over the dunes of

the Sahara desert before making our way back to the hotel for breakfast and

a shower. We will then follow the  old Paris-Dakar road to Foum Zguid,

crossing Iriqui lake. We will have lunch in the berber village of Taznakht

before continuing to Marrakech