When you think of Morocco, you immediately imagine camel caravans crossing the dunes of the Sahara at sunset. So what if you spend your night in Merzouga at the gates of the only Saharan Erg Chebbi. Our road trip through southern Morocco from Marrakech to Merzouga is coming to an end. The trip turned out to be a compendium of landscapes and enriching encounters, certainly one of the most beautiful road trips to do in Morocco. We are now in Merzouga, a small, windswept village at the gateway to the Sahara. The travelers who come here all hope to see these Regs flooded with light, these Wadis invaded by sand, and of course these majestic ocher dunes that make us dream so much. I have this special connection with the desert. Maybe I was a Bedouin in another life, which would certainly explain my choice of being a travelholic today. After visiting the Thar Desert in India, the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the Ocucaje Desert in Peru, and the Simpson Desert in Australia, the time has finally come to discover a tiny little part of the largest hot desert in the world: The Sahara. Click here to book your tour in Merzouga. Discovering Erg Chebbi in Merzouga Erg Chebbi in the Tafilalet valley on the outskirts of Merzouga is, along with Chigaga, the only Saharan erg in Morocco with immense sand dunes (150 meters high on average). For centuries the region of Merzouga has been a real crossroads between the civilizations of the African desert. From the terrace of our Kasbah hotel, we can already see the first sand dunes with voluptuous shapes stretching out towards what seems to be infinity. The desert calls us. Mama Africa is calling us. As soon as the
When you think of Morocco, you immediately imagine camel caravans crossing the dunes of the Sahara at sunset. So what if you spend your night in Merzouga at the gates of the only Saharan Erg Chebbi.
