Unforgettable Sahara: 3-Day Marrakech Desert Odyssey

It was extraordinary trip to Marzouga with helpful and very professional driver Ahmed. I heartly recommand his company SAHARA TOURS MARRUECOS if you want to spend unforgettable days from the beginning until the end.

Abdul is an amazing guide! He made the long journey fun and gave lots of fun facts about all our stops! All the sites are breathtaking and you really get a feel for the culture. Worth every penny! Highly reccommend!

We had an unforgettable 3-day trip to the desert with AbdouL as our guide, and we couldn’t have asked for a better experience. He is incredibly kind, warm-hearted, and always made us feel comfortable and safe throughout the journey. AbdouL’s driving was excellent – smooth, careful, and very professional – which allowed us to relax and enjoy the breathtaking landscapes of Morocco without any worries. Beyond being a great driver, he is also a wonderful person: always smiling, attentive, and ready to help with anything we needed. Thanks to him, our adventure through Morocco was not just about the places we saw, but also about the positive energy and kindness he brought to the trip. We truly recommend AbdouL to anyone looking for a guide who combines professionalism with genuine care and friendliness.

It was a great experience. Youssef was very kind and always open to answer our questions. My girlfriend and I loved the desert merzouga views

The trip was excellent from begging to end. Mohammed and hassan where super fiendly snd attentive. 100% recommend . If you have a chance do it.

We did a 3 day trip to the Merzouga desert with Hassan Ngassa and had the best time with him. The trip started in Marrakesh and we did beautiful stops along the way. Hassan was very caring and friendly. He looked after us well. He took loads of photos for us, took time to spend with each one of us, let us play music and tried to accommodate as best as he could each one of us. The night at the camp, he played the traditional drums. He had so much laughter. 100% recommended!!!

Hassan Ngassa has been an amazing guide and he is also an excellent and fun person. This trip has been an incredible experience for me and my three friends, thanks to the wonderful places we have been to, but mostly, to the great people we have met. Thanks Hassan and the group for making this experience something unique that we will never forget.

A lot of traveling, but was worth it once we arrived at the Sahara. Beautiful scenery and fun camel rides. AC in the luxury tent was ideal! Food and accommodations as expected for the price.

Its was so amazing experience. We highly recommend to travel with them. They are so good and safe and enjoyable..place .

This tour was pretty chaotic from start to finish, there was a complete lack of communication throughout, we were Ignored by our tour guide who exclusively spoke in French (even though we knew he could speak English) and that we could speak conversational French. There were Spanish and Italian speakers on the tour as well; of whom he could communicate just fine with. The stop at Ait Ben Haddou was amazing, as well as the stop at the Berber village, because we had a fantastic guide for both, but basically every other stop was a 5 min stop, where we were dumped on the side of the road, told to take a picture, given no information and then told to get back on the bus. 2 days of this, before the desert. The hotel on the first night was absolute pot luck. We ended up with a perfectly pleasant hotel but others were not so lucky. One thing to bear in mind is that there were around about 10-15 mini busses with multiple different tour groups. We discovered from talking to people from other buses, that everyone had booked through different operators, paid different prices and bought different “luxury” levels but everyone ended up doing essentially the same tour with the same accommodation, food and experience etc. When we actually got to the desert… the bit we had all been waiting for, we were dumped on the edge of the dune, with literally 0 explanation/plan, then shouted at and rushed around at 1,000,000 miles an hour on to the camels, again of which there was no explanation nor was there any safety. They didn’t even check to see if we were the right people or even supposed to be on the tour! The “sunset camel ride” was in fact a half an hour walk, that dropped us half way to our camp, with the sun still very much high in the sky. We got off our camels, confused as to how we would get to the camp, as we were in the middle of the dunes! Once again, 0 communication or questions answered, we were then hastily ushered into the truck bed of a pick up (after witnessing … no exaggeration… a head on collision of two land cruisers going up opposite sides of the dunes at serious speed, with a huge amount of tourists fleeing out of the two cars (more tourists than there were seatbelts!) That must have hurt! As you can imagine, we were hesitant to get in the rear of a pick up truck after witnessing that. We grabbed one of the “guides” and he stared at us and the scene absent mindedly, and said “SAHARA SAHARA” and with that, off we flew over the dunes, bouncing on the hard truck bed. Anyway… so much for a sunset camel ride. We were then dumped at the camp and pointed to a room and told dinner was at 9. It was currently 7:15pm. The dunes were admittedly stunning, a very surreal landscape but frankly the magic was ruined by the fact that literally every inch of dune was crawling with tourists, jeeps, quads, tire tracks and footprints. It wasn’t particularly “magical”. We then got to eat. Average at best., but somehow still some of the better food we had on this experience. Literally everything was extra on this tour and the prices were made up on the spot as I know people paid anywhere from 20-50 dhiram for a bottle of water at the camp. In our room the shower didn’t work and there were no plug sockets. The bed was perfectly comfy however the door didn’t work properly, we woke up at 3am to our door being wide open because the lock had broken. Exposed to the desert. Breakfast was a buffet but had pretty much ran out by half way through the queue of people. The entertainment of the evening was a few teenagers banging on drums around a camp fire. Which is fine I guess but it was sold as an “experience of Berber music”. Not too sure… Now… on to the final day. 5am start. Hour camel ride home (there were other options you could take at a additional cost but after the crash we had witnessed yesterday and the general lack of any safety concern we opted to stick with the camels!) So anyway the “sunrise camel trek” was not that either as we were walking away from the sunrise with no stops etc we just were hastily told to get on the camels and whisked away back to the bus where our “securely held” baggage was just dumped in a pile on the side of the road. Then ensued a rather painful 12 hour bus journey back to Marrakech with yet another tourist trap lunch stop and a stop to look at the “fossil museum” which was just a shop where they once again got rather irate if you didn’t buy anything. We arrived back in Marrakech at 7:30pm. Miraculously our guide could suddenly speak English after constantly telling us that we must write a 5 star review! A few warnings if you don’t want to read the whole review! ❌ it is horrendously organised ❌do not eat the lunch at the restaurants where they take you. Literally go next door or slightly down the road as the prices are 3-4x less than that of the prices in the tourist restaurants. For example on the last day we had a 2 starter 2 main 2 pudding 2 sodas 2 Moroccan tea and a big water for 110 dhiram at a local restaurant. The food at the places the tour takes you will be a set menu for 130 dhiram minimum and will be bad! ❌Everything is a sales pitch!! Do not be hustled into buying anything as we were. We were pressured at every turn to buy things we did not want and at massively inflated prices. Just remove yourself from the situation before the sales pitch. They will try to sell you something!! ❌warning there will be 0 communication we spoke to people from all the different busses and they all seemed to have the same experience ❌ the “guide” is just a driver they give you 0 information ❌the places they stop for breaks are a HUGE scam my recommendation would be to stock up on food and water when you’re in one of the larger towns ❌if you’re on a budget this tour is fine but don’t expect ANY bells and whistles or personal experience because it simply doesn’t happen. All in all, we were able to visit some incredible places and landscapes, unlike anything we had seen before, but for £150 please don’t expect it to be luxury!