Agadir Erg Chegaga 3D/2N
Program details
Day1
Agadir-Taroudante-Taliouin-Aitbenhadou-Ouarzazate –FoumZguid.
Breakfast at the hotel, departure for Ouarzazate and southern Morocco, passing through Taroudant, one of the oldest cities in Morocco, which has kept its ancestral character.
Before reaching Ouarzazate, stop to visit the Kasbah of Ait Behaddou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lunch on site. Then, drive to Foum Zguid along the long Draa valley. Arrival in Foum Zguid for dinner and overnight.
Day2
FoumZguid- Zagora-Tamgeroute-M'hamid-ErgChegaga
After breakfast, take the direction of M'hamid via Zagora. Stop at Tamegroute for the visit of the Koranic bookshop, the underground Kasbah and the pottery workshop. Lunch in M'hamid. In the afternoon, continuation to the sand dunes of Chegaga which extend over 40 km. Welcome tea followed by a camel ride around the dunes.
Enjoy the spectacle of the sunset over the dunes of the Sahara before dinner.
Night in a Berber tent.
Day3
ErgChegaga -Foumzguid-Taznakht-Agadir
Wake up early to admire the unique spectacle of the sunrise in the desert.
Delicious breakfast and return to the coastal city of Agadir, 7 hours by car, crossing a panorama and diverse landscapes, from the sandy desert to the heights of the old Anti-Atlas chain, via Foum Zguid, which you will reach after 3 hours of driving.
Stop at the Berber village of Taznakht with an optional visit to the women's weaving cooperative. The journey continues towards the coast with a lunch stop in Taliouine.
- Arrival in Agadir around 6 pm.
Essential Tips to Plan Your Holiday in Morocco - Magic Morocco Agency
-If your holiday with Magic Morocco involves trips out to the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert, where you may be staying for several days, up to a week, or longer, you will need to be prepared. Here are some useful items that we recommend you pack before you leave on your trip of a lifetime to Morocco.
- A sleeping bag: While we provide plenty of blankets and sheets for your tented desert accommodation, it does get very cold in the Sahara on a winter’s night. Bring along your own sleeping bag, so that you’ll be snug as a bug under the spectacular, if chilly, Moroccan night skies, studded with a galaxy of shimmering stars. This is only really required on trekking over several nights or on the Sufi Retreat.
- A turban or scarf: This is an essential item when heading out on Morocco desert tours, as the simple garment will protect your face and hair from the harsh sun, as well as any sand that gets whipped up by the wind. If you’ve arrived for your holiday in Morocco and find you don’t have a turban — known locally as a “shesh” — or scarf, don’t worry. You can easily buy a “shesh” at a local shop or bazaar.
- Warm clothing: You’ll need to bring some warm clothes when you embark on a Morocco desert tour. Although temperatures are high in the Sahara during the day, they plummet at night, due to a lack of cloud to keep the heat in. While you might think you don’t need to pack heavy clothing for a trip to hot Morocco, you will need it when you’re out in the desert in the evenings in early spring, late autumn, and the winter.
- High-factor sunscreen to combat the strong sun.
- Good quality sunglasses that can filter out the sun’s harmful rays and protect your eyes.
- Solid footwear, such as good trainers, for all the walking you will be doing. Trainers are ideal footwear, whilst walking barefoot in the dunes can also be practical.
- Plenty of bottles of water for the car, but we provide enough bottled water for each person in the desert.
- You might also like to pack a torch and a Swiss army knife, and above all you should make sure that you bring lots of water with you on every car journey in the Sahara. We will of course provide water at the camps you’ll be staying at.
- Being well prepared for your Morocco desert tour will ensure that you have the time of your life on your desert magic tour.
In Morocco, as travellers, we are paying guests, exploring and learning about age-old traditions and fascinated by a world so different from our own. Customs and traditions based either on religion or habits passed down from generation to generation can seem strange, unusual, or odd. Listening, learning and observing, without necessarily understanding and without passing judgment, can enhance our pleasure of participating in this other existence.
As we move around and through this environment, we leave behind impressions of ourselves and our own world – we are the most important ambassadors. Let us ensure that the memories we leave are ones of warmth, generosity, openness, curiosity, modesty and respect for this different society and for the environment which others experience on a daily basis. Moroccans are very welcoming and hospitable people and it behoves us to keep faith with this.
Environmental aspects
The desert is very much alive – witness the myriads of animal tracks on your morning climb to watch the sunrise. It is also other people’s living space. With this in mind, and considering also that the dryness of the desert means that even a paper tissue rots only exceedingly slowly, please be careful to remove all litter.
Throughout Morocco it is important that we are conscious and careful of our water consumption. This is a country under constant threat of drought. We are all individually responsible for maintaining a sustainable environment wherever we are.
Of course, there are scorpions and snakes in the desert, but these rarely pose a danger and they avoid the proximity of humans. Only in summer is it advisable to keep an eye out. The reason for the guide along with you is for your own safety. Please do not venture beyond sight of the camp alone, as it is easy to lose a sense of orientation in the dunes.
