Erg Chegaga, Morocco
The real Sahara
No queues of jeeps, no roadside camps. The largest dune sea in Morocco, reached the slow way, with guides who were born here.
Erg Chegaga, Morocco
No queues of jeeps, no roadside camps. The largest dune sea in Morocco, reached the slow way, with guides who were born here.
Lake Iriki crossing
We cross the dry bed of Lake Iriki and the fossil fields by 4x4, then switch to camels for the last light on the ridge.
Berber camp, deep in the dunes
A small camp of real nomadic tents. Dinner by the fire, music until late, your own bed in the sand.
Zero light pollution
When the fire burns down, the Milky Way takes over. This is why travelers come to Chegaga instead of Merzouga.
Tours
10 of 10 tours shown. Every departure is private: your own 4x4, driver and guide.
5 days / 4 nights
The slow road south: Atlas passes, kasbahs, the Draa Valley, then the big dunes.
2 days / 1 nightThe shortest real desert trip: Lake Iriki, nomad country, one night in the big dunes.
from $200 / person
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2 days / 1 nightDown the Draa Valley, past Tamgroute's green pottery, straight into the sand sea.
from $120 / person
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3 days / 2 nightsThe fast version of the classic: Atlas, Ait Benhaddou, then straight to the dunes.
from $560 / person
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2 days / 1 nightAnti-Atlas pass, Draa Valley viewpoint, and a loop back across Lake Iriki.
from $200 / person
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3 days / 2 nightsCoast to sand sea: Taroudant's ramparts, saffron country, then the big dunes.
from $360 / person
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1 dayTajine Mountains, a fossil field, and the dry lake bed, all in one day.
from $80 / person
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10 days / 9 nightsTen days on foot from Lake Iriki to M'Hamid, camels carrying the camp.
from $800 / person
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7 days / 6 nightsA week on foot through the dunes, the nomadic trails and the oases.
from $600 / person
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3 days / 2 nightsNo camp infrastructure: two nights at remote spots no other tour reaches.
from $320 / person
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Reviews
Real reviews from our Google Maps listing, Foum Zguid desert tours 4x4 & Trekking.
10+
years guiding in Erg Chegaga
100%
private tours, never shared convoys
300m
highest dunes in southern Morocco
5.0
average rating on Google Maps
Too many travelers get the wrong desert: herded through in a convoy of identical jeeps, photographed in the same three spots. We built DuneTour around the other Sahara.

Access
No road in. The last 60-90 minutes run off-road across Lake Iriki.
Paved road ends at the dunes, hotels line the edge.
Crowds
Small camps kilometers apart. Most nights, no other fire in sight.
Dozens of camps and shared sunset viewpoints.
Night sky
Zero light pollution. The Milky Way is visible most of the year.
Light from the hotel strip washes the horizon.
Who guides you
Guides born in the region, working their own family desert.
High-volume operators cycling groups through.
Left: Erg Chegaga · Right: Merzouga

Long before DuneTour existed, we lived by the rhythm of the Sahara: moving with the seasons, reading the sky before a sandstorm. For over 10 years we have guided travelers into that same desert. Not the postcard version, the real one.
Read our story
6 min read
Both are Moroccan sand seas. Only one of them has no road, no hotel strip, and no convoy of identical jeeps at sunset.

5 min read
After ten years of guiding in Erg Chegaga, here is the packing list we give every trekker. Most people bring too much of the wrong things.

4 min read
The last village before the dunes is not a resort town. That is exactly why the desert beyond it is still real.

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