2 Day Tour From Ouarzazate to Erg Chigaga Desert

 

Ouarzazate to Erg Chegaga Desert Tour Overview:

Ouarzazate to Erg Chigaga 2-Day Tour, For everyone who wishes to have the fullest desert experience starting in Ouarzazate, this is an excellent choice. Erg Chegaga is the widest, longest, and most remote area of Saharan dunes in Morocco.

It attracts fewer tourists, so allows a deeper desert dunes experience. The night is spent in comfortable Berber tents in the middle of the dunes, with a luxury tent option available.

To reach the dunes, you travel over the Anti-Atlas Mountains to Agdez at the head of the Dra’a Valley. Here the largest Kasbah in the valley, Kasbah Tamnougalte, can be visited with a local guide as a witness to how family life has changed little over the centuries.

You will be following the ancient route of the caravans, used to bring precious goods from sub-Saharan Africa. You will notice many ancient Kasbahs and green oases, both very typical of this part of Morocco.

In Tamgroute, there is time to visit the famous, green glaze pottery workshops and the exquisite manuscripts of the Qoranic Library.

Driving over the Anti-Atlas Mountains and the extraordinary rock formation over the Tizi-n-Tinfifte pass
Visiting the ancient Kasbah of Tamnougalte and discovering the Dra’a Valley with its palm groves, Kasbahs and oases
Driving off-road following the ancient route of the caravans

Visiting the green pottery workshops and ancient Qoranic library in Tamgroute
Riding camels in the majestic dunes of Erg Chegaga while taking photos of your group wearing blue turbans
Watching the spectacle of the sunset from the top of the dunes

Enjoying dinner under the starlit sky, followed by an evening of Berber music round a campfire
Overnight in your private tent in a desert camp
Searching for fossils in Lake Iriqui
Learning about the craftsmanship of making Berber rugs

1st day – Ouarzazate – Anti Atlas – Agdez – Draa Valley – Zagora – Mhamid – Erg Chegaga:

We will start this 2-day desert Tour from Ouarzazate to Erg Chigaga by having breakfast and then heading out to drive through the great Draa Valley.

After driving by the town of Zagora, we will have lunch near Amzerou village, then pass by the Bani Mountain before finally getting on the road to the Erg Chegaga desert. You will enjoy dinner in the middle of the desert dunes while spending the night in traditional tents.


2nd day – Desert – Foum Zguid – Taznakhte – Ait Ben Haddou:

Today on the 2-day desert tour from Ouarzazate you will enjoy a traditional Moroccan breakfast in the desert before we continue our journey along the road of the famous Paris-Dakar Rally. After driving by the Lake of Iriqui and the village of Foum Zguid, we will get to Tazenakht town where we can have lunch.

If not, we can save lunch until we get to the famous Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah. Ait Ben Haddou is a world-famous UNESCO World Heritage site and a historical Kasbah that served as a filming location for many international movies, series, and photoshoots.

After we are done exploring it, we will finally head back to Ouarzazate where we will drop you off at your accommodation.

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