3-Day Tour: Magical Desert Merzouga

Embark on a thrilling 3-day Sahara tour from Marrakech to Merzouga and experience the beauty of the Moroccan desert. Explore stunning landscapes, visit UNESCO World Heritage Sites, ride camels at sunset, and sleep under the stars in a Bedouin Sahara desert tent.

Duration: 3 days
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

MARRAKECH – ATLAS MOUNTAINS – KASBAH AIT BEN HADOU – DADES VALLEY

Marrakech - Your budget-friendly three-day desert vacation from Marrakech to Merzouga will begin early in the morning with a drive east of Marrakech via small suburban settlements to the High Atlas Mountains. There will be several breaks to take photographs, enjoy the landscape,…

What's Included
  • Visit Todra Gorge
  • Sunrise camel trekking in Erg Chebbi
  • 1-night accommodation at desert camp
  • Sandboarding
  • Dinner
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Breakfast
  • Berber music in the camp with bonfire
  • Explore the UNESCO-listed Ait Ben Haddou
  • Sunset camel trekking in Erg Chebbi
  • Luxury private tent (if option selected)
What's Not Included
  • Lunches
  • Drinks
  • Gratuities
  • Local guide in Kasbah Ait Ben Hddou (available for an extra charge 2€ pp).
Additional Information

Our most popular Morocco desert tour is the group Shared 3-day Marrakech to Merzouga desert tour. This desert safari is ideal for individuals who wish to see Morocco’s deep Sahara desert yet don’t mind driving for lengthy periods of time. The landscape on the journey is spectacular; you will never be bored since you will be occupied appreciating one…

Location
Marrakesh
Certainly! The meeting point in Marrakech will typically be near a prominent landmark, such as the main square, Jemaa el-Fnaa. Customers will recognize the guide by looking for someone holding a sign with the tour company's logo or name.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Mirko
Sep 20, 2024
Fantastic experience - On the first day we left Marrakech to visit the High Atlas Mountains, we continued towards Ait-Ben-Haddou with intermediate stops. The day ended at the gorges of Dades. On the second day we saw the Todra Gorges and then arrived in the desert. The desert experience exceeded expectations. It was great to ride the dromedaries at sunset and dawn, the tent was very spacious and also had a bathroom. The last day served entirely to return to Marrakech with a very long journey dampened by many stops. The agency made itself available for any need and information, in fact we requested to move the tour by one day and they did not hesitate to help us. Thanks to Guide Hamid and driver Achraf(and his music) for making the experience unforgettable!
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Floppi03
Sep 20, 2024
Spectacular tour - Nice tour with many visits of many places, excellent comfortable vehicle with Achraf Pro driver. Hamid Guide professional, quiet and nice. Top the dunes on the dromedary.. worth the trip.
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Leonord783
Sep 9, 2024
Great experience in the desert - Very good tour, especially the camp ⛺️ it was wonderful, the food and attention of all the boys was very good, I recommend them!
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154pilart
Sep 8, 2024
100% recommended, an experience of 10 - It has been a super fun trip!! Our Ahmed Guide is the best, super close and friendly, made us have a 10 experience. It's all very nice, it eats great and varied and the visit to the desert is a great one. Sure we repeat because we have enjoyed it so much and felt like family! I recommend it 100%
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Eddiegeografia
Sep 8, 2024
Amazing experience with Guide Ahmed – an unforgettable trip through Morocco! - My experience with Guide Ahmed was simply wonderful, one of the best of my life! Knowing Morocco, with its rich culture and civilization, was even more special by its incredible hospitality. We made a 4-day tour, starting in Marrakesh, and went through stunning landscapes in the country’s interior. The highlight was camping in a luxurious 5-star campsite in the middle of the Sahara desert – a unique experience, and still we were lucky to witness rain in the desert! The full Vacation Package cost 250 euros, all inclusive (hotels, transfer, breakfast, dinners, camel tours, Spanish Guide and more). Ahmed was amazing: fun, attentive and full of local tips. He even took us to a wedding lunch from a friend of his, something totally unusual for tourists. I highly recommend! Morocco is beautiful and, unlike some European destinations, tourism there is quieter and more sustainable. An unforgettable cultural and natural experience!
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Mounal430
Sep 8, 2024
Experience to be redone!! - We chose a group tour, and we did well because we also made friends. It was a tiring trip but very nice and with many stops... our guides were very competent and very nice!! The desert what to say.... a wonderful experience... to do at least once in a lifetime. And the person who ran the tour always sent me messages x asking me if everything was going well... highly recommended tour❤️
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Verou49
Sep 6, 2024
I recommend 100%, looking forward to coming back!! - We have had a great time with our group, our Guide Ahmed has made us have a great experience! Super recommended, all the sites are great, the desert is a pass and you will feel at home with the super friendly and close treatment they give.
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Andrea
Aug 21, 2024
Sahara adventure - The trip to Sahara was amazing. Things went a bit too fast. Maybe og we could have the opportunity to breathe a little in the morning, gather around and make local food together before going back already. I wish there were more activities in the sand. Like sandbordning on longer sand dunes for example! Other than that, the camel ride in the sunset felt surreal and the rooms were luxurious. It was nice to have a shower after a long day. The dinner was so tasty. And the camels so cute.
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Flaviogalaverna
Sep 8, 2024
4 friends from marrakech - Fantastic experience. We saw the gorges of todras and the gorges of dades, and did two long stretches in the desert on the saddle of a camel. The night in the tent with the whole group was very nice. Also along the way we stopped at restaurants where we ate delicious buffet dishes. My girlfriend and I recommend this experience to everyone. We give 4 stars instead of 5 because, despite the Guide was exceptional he did not speak very good Italian as written at the time of registration. Also it was not clear the division between luxury tent and normal tent at the time of the division for the night since we divided into two different campsites in an unclear way, but apart from these small points the experience would be redone 1000 times.
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Gonjada
Aug 30, 2024
They didn't deliver the service they promised! THERE IS NOTHING LUXURY - To start the tour is 10 hs by mini bus (very hard seats and little space) with 1 Guide for 2 vehicles that was inserted at each stop during the 10 hours. From the beginning there was no Guide, we had 1/2. We hired a Guide in Spanish and 95% of the time he spoke Portuguese and asked us “Argentines understand?”. This is because in the total of the 2 minibuses there were 4 Argentinians and 2 Spaniards, who did not even have the delicacy to group us, plus the Guide spoke better Portuguese, both tourist information and all kinds of jokes. 10 hours of this situation on the way and 10 hours on the way back... Along the way they took us to a place to buy drinks” and remarked alcoholics for what the Guide called “the party of the night”, most of the market were vertical refrigerators full of beers of many brands. So almost all of us bought a lot of water and packs of beer as we had 2 nights to go and we had been stressed that the tour did not include drinks. We arrived at the 1st hotel at 18:40, we were taken to store the drinks in an industrial cold room of the hotel, which for dinner never cooled the beers (and obviously we could not drink the water we had bought - because we had to buy there in the hotel). So that night everyone picked up the drinks and took them to the room. We also ordered ice, but they didn't have any. 1st night there was no party, but we didn't care because the idea was different and the next day we were going to the desert excursion. When we told the Guide about the cold, he told us that in the desert they had an exclusive Frizer to cool the drinks for “the night party.” The next day, after several stops, we arrived in the desert at 18hs, got on the camels and arrived at the camp. We hire and pay for a luxury room, with air and wifi. It was our honeymoon. When we were assigned the room we were sent to a tent with the other Argentinian couple and when we entered the tent there were 4 single beds. In this room there was no luxury or air conditioning, not even a fan. When I saw all that I went to complain to the Guide and explain what we hired and that I would not sleep on my honeymoon with a couple in the same room. They told us that there was no problem that they gave us another tent but that there was no air conditioning throughout the camp and that the internet did not work, that connected but did not walk. I attach a video and photos of what the luxury room was according to them. Added to that at 20hs when we went to save the drinks for dinner and the evening party, there were 2 Freezers, 1 off and that connected at the time and another working where the drinks they sold were. We all complained, so much so that they opened the lock on the Freezer of them for us to keep there. Clearly nothing cooled and neither was there ice, which would be understandable in the middle of the desert. But none of this was told before. The next day we were already back so the drinks were mostly left there in the locked Freezer. A total mess, the hard bed, the uncomfortable pillows. The carpet already dirty and full of sand before entering. Old, holey towels. They had no air conditioning or fan. In conclusion, I paid for a service they didn't fulfill. At no time nothing but nothing fancy. And the food was always the same. My experience was not good at all, and since we complained about all this, the Guide did not speak to us anymore, he avoided us all the time.
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From $110
up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).