Zagora Camel Trek 3 Days & 2 Nights: Erg Lihoudi, Ouadi Draa and Erg Chigaga

Zagora camel trek 3 days: most Zagora tours take you straight to one set of dunes. This one's different. It's genuinely a camel-trekking trip, not just a 4x4 ride with a photo-op camel bolted on. Among the camel tours Zagora has to offer, it crosses two separate dune fields over 3 days, partly by camel and partly by 4x4, with a night at a nomadic camp between each stretch.

This Erg Lihoudi to Erg Chigaga tour starts at 2:00 PM, when you leave Zagora by car or taxi for Oulad Driss, where your camels are waiting for a 2-hour trek into the dunes of Erg Lihoudi. That first night, dinner is served in a nomad tent, and you can sleep in a tent or right out under the stars on the dunes.

Day 2 is the real adventure day: a Draa Valley camel trek across Ouadi Draa, passing tamarisk trees and stopping for lunch in their shade, before you switch to 4x4 for the crossing of the hamada, the rocky desert, on toward Erg Chigaga. At 300 metres, these are the highest dunes in Southern Morocco, and you pass a sacred oasis on the way in. Second sunset, second night at camp, same big sky full of stars.

On day 3, sunrise over the dunes kicks things off, then it's the drive back via M'Hamid and a stop at the historic village of Tamegroute, with its Quranic school, underground kasbah and green pottery workshops, before arriving in Zagora around noon.

If you want a real Erg Chigaga camel trek, this is the one. Prefer the simpler route? Our direct three-day trip to Erg Chigaga skips Erg Lihoudi and heads straight there via M'Hamid, and our two-day trip to Erg Chigaga is the quick option. See our full range of Zagora desert tours to compare.