
2-day Marrakech desert tour
Haut Atlas · Aït Ben Haddou · Ouarzazate
Marrakech → Zagora → Erg Chigaga → Ouarzazate → Aït Ben Haddou → Haut Atlas → Guelmim → Tan_tan → Tarfaya et lagune de Khnifiss → Laayoune → Dakhla


Small-group overland expedition (max 16) leaving Marrakech on 9 November 2026. It crosses the High Atlas, Erg Chigaga and the Draa estuary, takes a boat on the Naila lagoon, then from Laayoune makes a three-day off-road crossing of the Western Sahara interior with a Sahrawi nomad guide before Dakhla, Mauritania's Adrar and Senegal.
Arrive independently; airport taxi not included.
Off-road to Berber villages and gem diggers, over Tizi n'Tichka to Aït Ben Haddou and Ouarzazate.
Palm groves and ancient engravings, lunch in Zagora, on to M'Hamid.
4x4 across Erg Chigaga, fossil hunting on Lake Iriqui, night in Foum Zguid.
Mountains and large oases, with a walk through one.
Assa's stone village and Guelmim's caravan past; night at Ksar Tafnidilt.
Dunes to the Draa estuary, fishing camps, colonial ruins, a low-tide beach drive.
Coast road to the Naila lagoon by fishing boat, then Tarfaya and its airmail museum.
Meet a Sahrawi nomad guide in Laayoune and start a 3-day off-road crossing; camp under the stars.
Big dunes and caravan wells of the Reguibat nomads; second desert camp.
Last dunes and nomad camps, then out to the Atlantic coast.
Dakhla peninsula and the tidal Rio de Oro inlet, fishing harbour, oyster-farm lunch.
Coastal cliffs past the Tropic of Cancer, border crossing at Guerguerat.
Off-track from Akjoujt with GPS and compass, Stone-Age tools, nomad camps.
Valleys, adobe villages and oases to Chinguetti.
13th-century stone town, manuscript libraries, palm gardens.
Along a dry riverbed to the 12th-century oasis and Portuguese fort ruins.
Fort Saganne ruins, Agrour rock art, Atar market and the Terjit spring oasis.
National Museum, West African lunch and the pirogue harbour.
Into Senegal and a boat to the pelican colony.
Colonial island town by horse carriage.
Long drive on the sand to a big fishing village.
Museum of Black Civilizations, the Plateau, ferry to Gorée at sunset.
Morning on Gorée, airport transfer.

Haut Atlas · Aït Ben Haddou · Ouarzazate

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