Our private 7 Day Ouarzazate Sahara Tour offers an immersive Moroccan experience. A week to see both of Morocco’s great dune seas — the famous Erg Chebbi and the wild, roadless Erg Chigaga. Our 7 day Ouarzazate Sahara tour is a private journey from Ouarzazate that pairs the gorges and the Draa Valley with two very different stretches of Sahara.
You start near the UNESCO kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou and the film studios, climb the Dades and walk the Todra Gorge, then ride camels into the Erg Chebbi dunes at Merzouga for a camp run by people we know. Later you cross the Draa to M’Hamid and 4×4 deep into Erg Chigaga, the tallest and remotest dunes in the country, where the silence at night is total. Private 4×4, English-speaking Berber driver, desert camps under the stars.
Shorter trip? The 5-day Ouarzazate desert tour keeps Merzouga and the gorges.
Our private 7 Day Ouarzazate Sahara Tour offers an immersive Moroccan experience. This 7 day ouarzazate sahara tour is the premium deep-desert expedition — 7 days, 6 nights, both great ergs.
| Day | Highlights | Overnight |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Ouarzazate → Skoura → Valley of Roses → Dades Gorge | Dades Gorge |
| Day 2 | Dades → Todra Gorge → Erfoud → Merzouga (Erg Chebbi) | Erg Chebbi |
| Day 3 | Erg Chebbi — full day and a second desert night | Merzouga |
| Day 4 | Merzouga → Alnif → Nkob → Draa Valley (Zagora) | Zagora / Draa Valley |
| Day 5 | Zagora → M'Hamid → deep-desert 4×4 → Erg Chigaga | Erg Chigaga |
| Day 6 | Erg Chigaga → Foum Zguid → Agdz | Agdz / Draa Valley |
| Day 7 | Agdz → Ait Ben Haddou → Ouarzazate | Ouarzazate |
We pick you up at 8:30 AM and head east on the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs to Skoura and Kasbah Amerdhil, then Kelaa M’Gouna and the Valley of Roses, and up the Dades Valley to the gorge’s famous switchbacks and monkey-finger walls, sunset in the gorge.
Accommodation: hotel or kasbah, Dades Gorge (half board).
A morning walk through the Todra Gorge, then east via Tinghir, Erfoud and Rissani, and a late-afternoon sunset camel trek into Erg Chebbi to a desert camp — tagine, drumming, stargazing.
Accommodation: Berber desert camp, Erg Chebbi (half board).
The sunrise over the dunes, then a full 4×4 circuit: the Gnawa village of Khamlia (live music), the Mifis kohl mines, nomad households, fossil beds, and seasonal flamingos at Dayet Srji. Sandboarding and a dune run if you like, and a second night by Erg Chebbi.
Accommodation: luxury camp or kasbah hotel, Merzouga (half board).
A long, scenic transfer west across volcanic plains and oases via Alnif and Tazzarine to Nkob, the village of forty-odd kasbahs, then down into the Draa Valley to Zagora — an evening at a kasbah hotel with a pool to rest before the deep-desert leg.
Accommodation: kasbah hotel, Zagora / Draa Valley (half board).
South to M’Hamid el Ghizlane, the last village before the open Sahara, then off the tarmac entirely — a long 4×4 piste across regs, dry oued beds and the Lake Iriqui basin to the towering, utterly remote Erg Chigaga dunes, up to 300 m high and 40 km long. A camel trek into the sand and a wild camp deep among the dunes, far from any road or light.
Accommodation: wild Berber camp, Erg Chigaga (half board).
The sunrise over Chigaga, then a spectacular desert piste to Foum Zguid, back onto tarmac and north up the Draa, with stops at the Tamnougalt Kasbah and palm-grove viewpoints, to a kasbah hotel near Agdz.
Accommodation: kasbah hotel, Agdz / Draa Valley (half board).
A last morning over the Tizi n’Tinififft pass back toward Ouarzazate, finishing at the UNESCO Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou — the climb to the granary for the panorama — and drop-off at your Ouarzazate hotel in the early afternoon (onward drop in Marrakech can be arranged).
When you are ready for the wildest Sahara we run, send us a message — we will plan it around you.
Our private 7 Day Ouarzazate Sahara Tour offers an immersive Moroccan experience.
Our private 7 Day Ouarzazate Sahara Tour offers an immersive Moroccan experience.
Route: Ouarzazate → Dades Gorge → Todra Gorge → Merzouga (Erg Chebbi) → Zagora → M’Hamid → Foum Zguid (Erg Chigaga route) → Ait Ben Haddou → Ouarzazate
Distance: ~989 km round-trip.
