Our private Errachidia Desert Gorges Loop offers an immersive Moroccan experience. If you only have three days and want both the sand and the canyons, this is the loop we build. Our Errachidia desert and gorges loop is a private 3-day round-trip that pairs the Erg Chebbi dunes at Merzouga with the Todra and Dades gorges — a full circle with no road driven twice. From Errachidia you drop south through the Ziz Valley to the desert.
The first night is a camel trek and a Berber camp out on the dunes; the next morning a 4×4 loop past Khamlia and the nomad tents. Then the road swings west along the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs to the Todra Gorge, where the walls nearly touch overhead, and the Dades hairpins before looping back to Errachidia. Private 4×4, English-speaking Berber driver, the pace yours.
Going all the way to Marrakech? The 4-day Errachidia to Marrakech tour ends in the red city.
Our private Errachidia Desert Gorges Loop offers an immersive Moroccan experience. This errachidia 3 day tour covers the Sahara and both gorges in 3 days, 2 nights.
Heading on to the red city? See our 4 Day Errachidia to Marrakech Tour.
| Day | Highlights | Overnight |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Errachidia → Ziz Gorge → Ziz Oasis → Erfoud → Rissani → Merzouga (sunset camel trek) | Berber desert camp at Erg Chebbi |
| Day 2 | Sahara sunrise → 4×4 desert circuit → Todra Gorge → Dades Valley | the Dades Valley |
| Day 3 | Dades Valley → Tinghir → Ziz Valley → Errachidia | Errachidia |
Pickup at 9:00 AM from your Errachidia hotel, airport, or bus station. We drive south into the red-rock Ziz Gorge, then the Ziz Oasis — over a million date palms down 70 km of valley. We stop at Erfoud, the fossil town, and the great souk at Rissani, birthplace of the Alaouite dynasty. You reach Merzouga by mid-afternoon and ride camels over the Erg Chebbi dunes for sunset to a Berber camp run by people we know — tagine, drums, stars.
Accommodation: Berber desert camp at Erg Chebbi (half board).
The sunrise from the tallest dune, camels back for breakfast, then a morning 4×4 circuit of Erg Chebbi — the Gnawa village of Khamlia, nomad households on the hammada, fossil beds. After lunch west to the Todra Gorge, where 300-metre walls close to a few metres apart and you walk the cool floor, then the Dades Valley for sunset on the cliffs.
Accommodation: hotel or riad in the Dades Valley (half board).
A morning at the Dades hairpins and the monkey-finger rocks, then back east via Tinghir and the Ziz Valley to Errachidia by about 4:00 PM — or onward to Ouarzazate or Marrakech if you like.
When you are ready, send us a message — we will set it up around you.
Our private Errachidia Desert Gorges Loop offers an immersive Moroccan experience.
Our private Errachidia Desert Gorges Loop offers an immersive Moroccan experience.
Route: Errachidia → Ziz Gorge → Ziz Oasis → Erfoud → Rissani → Merzouga (Erg Chebbi camp) → Todra Gorge → Dades Valley → Tinghir → return Errachidia
Distance: ~600 km loop.
