Marrakech · Erg Chigaga · High Atlas

The Short Way In

Fly in over the Atlas. Drive out through everything you flew over.

3 days · 2 nights6-14 guests · fully private

The drive is only a chore in one direction.

Marrakech to Erg Chigaga is about four hundred and fifty kilometres of road and sixty of piste. Done both ways in a short trip, it eats the trip. Done once, in the right direction, it is the trip: the Draa valley, the ksour, Ait Ben Haddou, a pass at 2,260 metres and the villages on the far side of it.

So you fly in and drive out. The helicopter crosses the High Atlas and the Draa in a fraction of the time and lands at our own camp, which is the part most helicopter packages cannot do: they set down at Zagora and put you back in a vehicle for three and a half hours, two of them off-road. Ours has a helipad in the erg.

It runs to three days and two nights because that is what a diary can absorb without a fight, and it is built for people who decide alone: founders, chief executives, a board, a small leadership group. One group at a time, and nobody else on the camp.

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What you'll experience

Helicopter from Marrakech, landing at our own helipad in the erg
The High Atlas and the Draa valley seen from above
An evening and a night with nomad families in Erg Chigaga
Sunrise on the crest before anyone else is awake
Out by 4x4 through the Draa palm groves and its ksour
Ait Ben Haddou, and a kasbah night near Ouarzazate
The Tizi n'Tichka pass at 2,260 metres on the way home
High Atlas Berber villages, and lunch in a house
An argan or rose cooperative, explained by the people pressing it
Six to fourteen guests, and nobody else on the camp

The programme

Day 1

Marrakech, and then the erg

Lift from Marrakech in the late morning and cross the High Atlas from above: the Tichka road as a thin line below, then Ouarzazate, then the Draa valley unrolling south until the palm groves stop and there is nothing but sand. You land at our camp, not at an airstrip three and a half hours away. Tea, the dunes at the hour they are worth seeing, and an evening that does not involve a schedule.

Day 2

A night with the nomads, and the long way out

The families who move through this erg are not a performance laid on for arrivals; they are the people who know where the wells are. Dinner and a fire with them, and the sky that comes with sixty kilometres of nothing in any direction. Sunrise on the crest before anyone else is awake, then out by 4x4: the piste, M'Hamid, and the Draa north through its palm groves and its ksour. Night in a kasbah near Ait Ben Haddou.

Day 3

The Atlas, the villages, and home by dusk

Up over the Tizi n'Tichka at 2,260 metres, stopping in High Atlas Berber villages where lunch is in a house rather than a restaurant. An argan or rose cooperative depending on what the season is producing, where the people pressing it explain it themselves. Back in Marrakech by late afternoon, which makes the following morning workable.

The retreat

Capacity
6-14 guests · full buyout
Base
Our own camp at Erg Chigaga, then a kasbah near Ait Ben Haddou
Transfer
Helicopter from Marrakech on the way in · private 4x4 convoy on the way out · reversible, or flown both ways as a two-day version
Temporada
Late September to early June. Not July or August: the Sahara is unusable in that heat.
Inversión
On request

Estas semanas se construyen con un socio

Este retiro no está a la venta libre. Lo construimos con un estudio, un club o una clínica que trae su propio grupo, y abrimos una fecha en torno a su temporada y no a la nuestra. Díganos a quién traería y cuándo, y volveremos con una semana.

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Dónde duerme

Alojamientos de calidad superior, elegidos sobre el terreno por nuestros expertos.

Nada de lo que ve aquí se reservó de un catálogo. Cada riad, campamento, kasbah y casa de huéspedes fue encontrado, visitado y probado por uno de nuestros expertos antes de ofrecerlo a nadie. El estándar es superior en todos, y la razón es práctica: después de un día de caminata, surf o altura, el confort no es un lujo, es lo que hace posible el día siguiente.

Visitado antes de ofrecerse

Nuestro equipo recorre el país todo el año. Si ninguno de nosotros ha dormido allí, no entra en un programa.

Original, nunca genérico

Riads privados, nuestro campamento de uso exclusivo en las dunas, kasbahs familiares restauradas, casas de huéspedes en pueblos bereberes. Lugares que no se reservan desde una pantalla.

El confort como herramienta

Camas de verdad, agua caliente, habitaciones silenciosas, buena comida. La recuperación forma parte del programa, no del decorado.

Grupos y círculos

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A partir de seis personas, todo el retiro puede organizarse en torno a su círculo. Díganos el tamaño del grupo y las fechas, y preparamos una propuesta para ustedes.

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Una salida solo para su círculo

Una fecha privada reservada para su grupo, al ritmo y en la temporada que les convengan.

Un solo grupo cada vez, nunca mezclado

Nunca estarán entre desconocidos. El campamento, la mesa y los guías son suyos.

Tarifa de grupo y privatización a petición

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Three days, six to fourteen guests, flown in and driven out. Dates are built around the group, and the two published departures are a starting point rather than the only option.

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