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Desert Dopeness
All Sahara, all week: camels, ATVs, dunes and endless stars
The three days people are still talking about a year later.
Endless dunesThis is where we're going. Erg Chebbi is an erg: a sea of sand dunes so big it makes its own horizon, some over 500 feet tall. We hike the big ones before sunrise and watch the whole Sahara turn gold under us. It is the moment people describe first when they get home.
ATVs, then sandboardingA guided ATV wave across the flats, helmets on, engines screaming, sand everywhere. Then we climb a dune with boards under our arms and find out who can actually stand up. Nobody, at first.
Sunset camels into Erg ChebbiWe ride out of the lodge as the light drops and the dunes go orange, then pink, then a purple you will not believe is real. Nobody talks much on the way back. Then everyone talks at once.
📅 The Day By Day
Seven days, planned so you never have to think about it.
Meet the crew in Casablanca, fly to the desert on us, straight to bed. The Sahara can wait until you have slept.
Meet us at Casablanca airport (CMN) by 3pm. We hang out in Casablanca for a few hours with your trip leader. Nothing official, just a chance to meet the crew before it all kicks off. Then we all board the 10pm domestic flight to Errachidia together (covered by us, it is in your trip price) and land just before 11pm. A pre-arranged pickup takes you the short hop to our arrival hotel, where check-in is already handled and your key is waiting. Sleep. Tomorrow the desert starts.
A slow morning, the Ziz Valley, sunset camels, then our first theme party: The Playa Goes Sahara.
Sleep in. Late breakfast, first workout, and a relaxed drive south. First stop of the trip is the Ziz Valley, where a turquoise river snakes through red canyon walls and date palms, and the whole crew piles out for the first proper photo of the week. Check into the dune-side lodge, get in the pool, and as the light softens we ride camels out into Erg Chebbi for the sunset. Then the welcome dinner turns into our first theme party, The Playa Goes Sahara: Burning Man energy, dust goggles, glitter, whatever you packed that makes no sense anywhere else. It makes sense here.
Full throttle in the morning, boards on the dunes, pool and shade through the heat.
Morning workout, breakfast, then helmets on for a guided ATV outing in waves, with a chill 4x4 option if you would rather ride shotgun. Sandboarding follows, which is mostly falling over and loving it. Pool and shade through the heat of the day, then sunset yoga and an easy social night at the lodge. You will sleep well.
Breakfast on a dune at first light, the market town of Rissani, then a slow walk through the oasis.
Early alarm for a sunrise viewpoint breakfast on the dunes, which is the photo everyone sends home. Then we head into Rissani, a proper desert market town: dates by the crate, spices, a donkey parking lot, and a kasbah or two. Local lunch, then back to the lodge for the pool. When the heat drops we walk the Hassi Labied oasis, a strip of palm groves and gardens fed by ancient irrigation channels right at the edge of the sand. Slow, quiet, grounding. Sunset yoga and journaling to close it out.
Gnawa music with a local family, a 4x4 into the erg, and your first night under canvas.
Workout, breakfast, and check out of the lodge. We drive to Khamlia, a small village at the door of the desert, for live Gnawa music with hosts who have played it for generations, plus tea and lunch. Then 4x4s carry us and the bags deep into the dunes to our desert camp. Golden-hour dune walk, camp dinner, and a guided stargazing session under a sky with zero light pollution.
A sunrise dune hike, a long shaded rest, then the White Party: farewell dinner and a DJ under the stars.
Sunrise guided dune hike, route and pace set for the crew, topping out with the whole erg glowing beneath you, then a guided meditation on the ridge. Back to camp for a long shaded break through the heat and a siesta in your tent. Sunset yoga and a closing journaling session, then everyone changes into white for the farewell dinner and the White Party, with a DJ playing under more stars than you have ever seen. It tends to run long and loud.
A pre-dawn start and the 6:15am flight back to Casablanca, landing 7:30am.
An early one. We leave camp before sunrise, 4x4 to the road, then the group vehicle carries you to Errachidia airport for the 6:15am domestic flight back to Casablanca, also covered by us. You land in Casablanca at 7:30am, so book your flight home leaving at noon or later. Then the group chat starts, and in our experience it never really goes quiet again.
Every day is optional. Do all of it, or sleep in and meet us at lunch.
Three stays, each one deeper into the desert than the last.
This is not a hotel-and-day-trips kind of week. You land at a proper hotel with a pool, move to a kasbah-style lodge sitting right at the foot of the dunes, then go all the way in and sleep in a camp inside the erg itself. Six nights, three very different beds, and the sand gets closer every time you move.
Night one is Kenzi Rissani in Errachidia. Nights two to four are Kanz Erremal, a dune-side lodge in Merzouga. Nights five and six are the Sahara Desert Luxury Camp, a tented camp out in the Erg Chebbi dunes with real beds and real bathrooms in the middle of the Sahara.
ERRACHIDIA · NIGHT 1
A four-star desert hotel with stone walls, palm gardens and an outdoor pool, a short drive from the airport. You land late, so this one is all about a key in your hand, a proper bed and a late breakfast by the pool before we roll south.
MERZOUGA · NIGHTS 2 TO 4
A traditional kasbah-style lodge built at the base of Erg Chebbi, so the dunes start where the pool ends. Air-conditioned rooms with dune views, terraces for sunset, a restaurant doing proper Moroccan food, and a pool that becomes the whole crew's living room between ATVs, camels and the market.
ERG CHEBBI · NIGHTS 5 AND 6
Our final two nights are in a tented camp deep in the dunes, reached by 4x4. Every tent has real beds and its own bathroom with a hot shower. There is a restaurant tent, lounges out on the sand, drums around the fire at night, and more stars than you have ever seen in one place.
Shared spot is a twin room or twin tent, two separate beds, matched with someone of the same gender.
Private spot is the room or the tent to yourself at every stay.
Errachidia · Merzouga · Erg Chebbi, Morocco
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Because most desert trips are one night in a tourist camp and a long drive home. This is seven days built around the erg itself: three nights at a lodge at the foot of the dunes, two nights sleeping inside them, and every day filled with something you cannot do anywhere else. Camels, ATVs, sandboarding, a sunrise hike, live Gnawa music, an oasis, a market town, and a crew of people who said yes to all of it. Active, social, and nothing like a package tour.
Last year's Morocco was a greatest-hits tour: the souks of Marrakech, surf in Taghazout, and a quick taste of the dunes on the side. Fun trip. But the desert was a cameo.
This year the Sahara is the whole show. We skip the cities and the coast, fly straight to Errachidia and spend all seven days at Erg Chebbi, the biggest sea of dunes in Morocco. Less time on buses, more time on camels, ATVs and sandboards. Sunrise hikes up dunes over 500 feet tall, two nights sleeping inside the erg, and a sky so full of stars it looks fake.
We went all in because one night in the desert only makes you want more. So this time you get the whole thing.
Not even slightly. Most of the crew books solo. By the time you have shared a camel, an ATV and a fire pit under the stars with the same twenty people, it already feels like a crew you have known for years. Shared spots are matched with someone of the same gender, and private spots exist if you want your own room or tent.
Late 20s to 40s, sometimes 50s. Active, open-minded, culturally curious people who want to see the real Sahara and are up for early alarms, sandy shoes and a lot of laughing. If your idea of a holiday is a sun lounger and a novel, this is not the one. If it is that plus a quad bike, keep reading.
Moderate to high, and every single thing is optional. There is a workout every morning and yoga, meditation and journaling every sunset, a guided ATV outing, sandboarding, a camel trek, a sunrise dune hike and an oasis walk. We schedule the sweaty stuff early and late and keep the middle of the day for pools and shade. You do not need to be an athlete. You need to want to move.
Very social. Very active. Very fun. Think a desert adventure crossed with a summer camp for adults, with the odd moment where the whole group goes quiet because the sky is doing something ridiculous. Two theme parties (The Playa Goes Sahara on night two, the White Party with a DJ on the last night), big dinners, live music, fire pits and stargazing. And every day ends with yoga, a short meditation and a few minutes of journaling, because this trip is built to be as good for your head as it is for your camera roll.
Book your international flight into Casablanca (CMN) landing by early afternoon on Tuesday, May 25, and meet us at the airport by 3pm. We hang out in Casablanca for a few hours, then fly to Errachidia together on the 10pm domestic flight. At the end we fly you back to Casablanca on Monday, May 31, landing at 7:30am, so book your flight home leaving at noon or later. Both domestic flights are covered by us and included in your trip price, plus the pickup when we land in Errachidia. Hold off on booking your international flights until we email you that the trip is confirmed.
It is the Sahara, so days are hot and nights are cool. That is exactly why the active stuff happens at sunrise and sunset, the middle of the day is pool and shade time, and the hotel and the lodge both have a pool and air conditioning. Bring a hat, real sunscreen and a layer for the nights, which drop a lot more than people expect.
With us, it is. Every activity runs with experienced local guides, the ATV outing comes with helmets, a briefing and guided waves, the desert camp has proper 4x4 transfers, and our SYB leaders are with you all week. We have run Morocco trips since our early days and work with partners we trust.
Yes. Our photographers and videographers shoot the whole week so you can stay in the moment instead of behind your phone. Expect the full drop a few weeks after the trip, and expect your camera roll to be embarrassing anyway.
1. Pick your dates. 2. Book your spot with a 20% deposit and pay the rest in instalments. 3. Hold off on flights until we email you that the trip is confirmed, then book into and out of Casablanca. The domestic flights to Errachidia and back are on us. 4. Fill out the pre-trip form six weeks before departure. 5. Get your trip guide three weeks out, pack your sunglasses, and land in the desert.
All payments are non-refundable.
Cancel more than 45 days before the trip and you get a one-time trip credit for the amount paid, usable within 12 months on any future trip date.
Cancel within 45 days and your payment is non-refundable and non-transferable.
Travel and medical insurance is required.
