3 Days Agadir to Erg Chegaga Desert Tour: 2 Nights via Zagora

Your driver picks you up at your Agadir hotel at 8am, and the coast soon gives way to the Anti-Atlas. The first big stop is Taliouine, Morocco's saffron capital, where the "red gold" is grown and sold. From there the road crosses the Tizi n'Tinifift pass toward Agdez, where we stop for lunch. In the afternoon you drive down the Draa Valley, the valley of a thousand kasbahs, with its fortified villages and endless palm groves, to Zagora. Dinner and the night are at your hotel.
Erg Chigaga is remote and quiet, reached through the Draa Valley and M’Hamid. Merzouga’s Erg Chebbi is the better-known dune field, and our 4-day tour reaches it on a loop through Aït Benhaddou, Ouarzazate and the Todgha Gorges.

After breakfast, the morning belongs to Tamegroute: the old Koranic library, an underground kasbah and the green pottery workshops. Lunch is in M'Hamid, the last village before the open desert. Then the adventure begins: the 4x4 heads off the paved road to Erg Chigaga, a sea of sand that rises to about 300 metres and runs for more than 40 km. At camp you ride a camel for about an hour, try sandboarding if you fancy it, and watch the sunset from the dunes. Dinner is at the camp, and you spend the night in a tent or under the stars in the middle of the dunes.

<div class="tour-tags"><span>Tamegroute library</span><span>M'Hamid</span><span>Camel ride & sandboarding</span><span>Night in the dunes</span></div>

Breakfast in the desert, then the 4x4 follows the old Paris-Dakar rally track and crosses the dry bed of Lake Iriki to Foum Zguid, where the paved road starts again. Lunch is in Taznakht, the capital of Amazigh carpets, with a chance to see hand-woven rugs made in the area. From there it's the road back to Agadir, where you arrive in the late afternoon.

<div class="tour-tags"><span>Paris-Dakar track</span><span>Lake Iriki</span><span>Taznakht carpets</span><span>Back in Agadir</span></div>