Adventure · On request
Guided buggy expeditions from M'hamid, Zagora or Ouarzazate, each one ending at the camp we own in the dunes of Erg Chigaga.
Four nights, one crossing
The three routes above are built to order. This one is not: a fixed format, four nights, published dates and a published price. You drive from Ouarzazate across open desert to the great dunes of the Erg Chigaga, behind a lead guide and a mechanic, and the camp at the end of it is ours. Full board, and the desert programme that comes with it: sunset camel ride, sandboarding, sand bread, stargazing, fire camp and Amazigh music.
12 – 16 March 2027
12 seats
16 – 20 April 2027
12 seats
15 – 19 October 2027
12 seats
12 – 16 November 2027
12 seats
Erg Chigaga sits sixty kilometres past the last paved road. How you arrive changes the whole expedition: an afternoon of dunes, a full day across the Drâa, or two days from the film studios down to the sand. All three finish in the same place, and all three are led by a guide who has driven the piste for years, with a support vehicle and a mechanic behind you.
From M'hamid El Ghizlane
The closest launch point to the erg, and the purest. You leave the last village in Morocco and there is nothing between you and the dunes but sixty kilometres of open desert. Arrival at the camp in time for the light to go long. The right route for anyone who wants the desert without a day behind the wheel.
Priced on request
From Zagora
The old caravan road follows the Drâa valley through the longest palm oasis in Morocco, then leaves it for the hamada and finally the sand. You cross three landscapes in one day and understand, by the end of it, why the erg felt so far away to everyone who came before the engine.
Priced on request
From Ouarzazate
From the film studios down through Agdz and the Drâa to the erg, with a night on the way. The most complete of the three: mountain pass, palm valley, stone desert and dunes, in that order. For groups who want the expedition to be the holiday rather than the transfer.
Priced on request
Every route ends the same way: three nights at our own camp in Erg Chigaga, all meals included, and the days built around what the desert actually offers rather than a list of excursions.
Stargazing
No light within a thousand square kilometres. Telescopes on site and someone who can name what you are looking at.
Fire camps
The fire is lit every night. Amazigh musicians most of them, and no schedule after dinner.
Sand bread
Bread baked in the embers under the sand, the way the nomads have always done it. You make it yourself.
Sandboarding
Boards and instruction on the big face behind the camp. Best in the first hour after sunrise, when the sand is still firm.
Walking with the nomads
A half day on foot with a nomad family who still move with their herds. Tea in the tent, and no performance in it.
Sunset camel ride
Out to the high dunes for the last hour of light, and back on foot if you would rather walk.
Full board
Every meal, water and teas throughout. Cooked on site, sourced from the valley.
Guide and support vehicle
A lead guide, a support vehicle and a mechanic on every route. Buggies, helmets and briefing included.
The erg is closed to us from June to the end of August: temperatures pass 45°C and the nights do not drop below 29°C. It is not a comfort question, it is a safety one. The season runs from the first of September to the end of May, and the best driving is between November and March.
Where you stay
Nothing on this site was booked from a catalogue. Every riad, camp, kasbah and guesthouse was found, visited and slept in by one of our experts before it was ever offered to a guest. The standard is superior throughout, and the reason is practical: after a day of walking, surfing or altitude, comfort is not a luxury, it is what makes the next day possible.
Our team travels the country year-round. If one of us has not slept there, it does not go into a programme.
Private riads, our own exclusive-use camp in the dunes, restored family kasbahs, guesthouses in Berber villages. Places you cannot book from a screen.
Real beds, hot water, quiet rooms, proper food. Recovery is part of the programme, not an afterthought.
Three routes, three lengths, and a group size that moves the number more than the mileage does. Tell us where you want to start, how many of you there are and when, and you will have a written quotation.
2027 Season
8 days · 8 to 14 guests · Morocco. We send the itinerary, dates and availability by return.
No newsletters. One email with the programme, nothing more.