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We stop where the tours turn around.
Most camps sit a two-hour drive from M’Hamid, which is why they all look the same at sunset. We keep going until the tracks disappear.
4 days by camel · one camp we do not share
Morocco
Erg Chigaga
Season Oct — AprNights 9Index 03
— The place
The last dune is not a metaphor. After it, the sand simply stops.
Four days out, and no other group on the same line of dunes.
- Nights
9
9 nights on the ground, in UTC+1.
- Group
Max 8 travellers
Small enough that the guide knows your name by day two.
- Window
Oct — Apr
Late autumn into spring — nights cold enough to want the fire, days clear.
- Pace
Slow · camel and camp
Walking is optional. The pace is the caravan, not a trek.
- Fitness
Easy · heat and saddle
You need to be comfortable in a saddle and in a cold night. Nothing steep.
- From
From €3,800 pp
Per person, land only — stays, guides and transfers included.
Why this one
On the book for a reason.
02
Silence is not the product.
The desert is wind, insects, a radio in the cook’s tent, and someone laughing at midnight. We don’t sell you a void.
See the journal · “The desert is not silent”
03
The kasbah days are not filler.
Two nights before the sand, in a house with a well and a kitchen that has not changed its Friday lunch in thirty years.
Draa valley · one family · no pool
— The experience
One day, four times over.
Dawn
The ridge
Walk the dune while the sand is still cold. Back before the heat.
40 minutes · barefoot if you want
Day
The line
Camels, a slow line, and a lunch in whatever shade the dune offers.
18–22 km a day · you can walk or ride
Dusk
The fire
Tea, then a sky with no town glow in any direction.
Nearest light 90 km
Night
The cold
It drops hard. The blankets are the good ones. We checked.
Often near freezing · November to February
— The journey
The route, in four movements.
A small group, a long stay — one place, walked slowly from end to end.
Days 1–2
The Draa
From Marrakech into the valley. A night in the kasbah before anyone mentions a camel.
Family kasbah · 7h by road, with stops
Days 3–6
The erg
Four days toward Chigaga. Camp moves once. The rest is walking the same dune at different hours.
Camel camp · no other group booked beside us
Days 7–8
Stone again
Out through a dry river and a town that sells dates and nothing else you need.
Auberge · one long shower
Day 9
Back
The road north. You will sleep in the car. That is allowed.
Marrakech by evening
— Where you’ll stay
One house at a time.
A kasbah with a family we have known since the first season, then a camp that is struck and moved rather than waiting for the next convoy.
- Type
- Kasbah & moving camp
- Setting
- Valley, then open erg
- Board
- All meals in camp
— What’s on the ground
Everything on the ground.
One price covers the week once you land — stays, guides, transfers, the meals that matter. You book the flight. We hold everything after it.
05
Included
- Kasbah and camp, both known to us
- Camels, camp crew and your guide
- All meals from the valley onward
- Road transfers from Marrakech
- Park and camp fees
03
Not included
- Flights to Marrakech (RAK)
- Travel insurance
- Tips for the camp crew
— Your host
Youssef El Mansouri Desert guide
People ask for silence. I give them the wind and the fire. That is the honest version.
- M’Hamid
- Based
- 12 in the erg
- Seasons
- AR · FR · EN
- Languages
Next destination · No. 04
Chile
Atacama
The driest sky anyone has ever slept under, and the clearest.
