Included in this trip

• One night in a private or shared nomad tent in Morocco's biggest dunes. More nights are possible for an additional price. Contact us for more information.

• A warm welcome and Moroccan tea in our home at Bani Hayoune Garden. If desired you can stay here the night before and after your trip.

• Transport by 4x4, departing from Bani Hayoune.

• A visit to the fossil mountains.

• Optional: tea & snack-break with a nomadic family, depending on availability as the family moves.

• Tips for the nomads.

• Visits to several wells, often used by bedouins, camels and goats.

• Long lunch-break at an oasis in the desert, also a popular drinking spot for wild donkeys and goats.

• Breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared by Moroccan cook. Vegetarian or vegan meals possible.

• Possibly a campfire with traditional Saharan music, depending on the weather.

• Language spoken: Arabic, English, Amazigh, Dutch, Danish, French.

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Not included

• Flights to Morocco.

• Transport from the cities to Bani Hayoune.

• Tips for the guide.

• Travel insurance.

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Description of the tour

After having breakfast in our home in Bani Hayoune, we will start our travel into the desert by 4x4 and move slowly towards our destination: Morocco's biggest sand dunes. During the trip we will stop at several places, where you can walk around to enjoy the views and immense silence. Your guide will provide you with interesting facts about the desert during the whole trip, and you are of course welcome to ask anything at anytime. Our guide Said has a lot of old knowledge passed down by his grandmother who used to be a high respected healer and herbalist.

 

On the way, we search for several animals such as white gazelles (addax) or ostriches. We often make a stop at a well where wild animals and nomads with their goats and dromedaries come to find water. There will also be a stop at an oasis, where a small spring rises from the earth. We will try to visit a camp of a nomad family. If they are at home, it is possible to have a short tea & biscuit break with them. Sometimes they serve fresh goat milk. It is depending on the weather and on which route we will drive if these stops will take place in day one or on day two.

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We will have a longer break, either at an oasis or underneath the tamarisk tree, for Moroccan tea and lunch. Here, you will have time to rest and to explore the beautiful surroundings. After lunch we continue our way and we will arrive before sunset in the big dunes, where we will settle down for our night at the camp. It is depending on availability in which camp we will stay. See more about our sleeping arrangements here. There are private tents and toilets and showers. As people here have very little access to water, we ask you to use all water with care.

 

After arriving to a small camp, there will be free time to explore the dunes on your own, or accompanied by us if you desire this. You can explore the wonderful dune landscape around the camp and to try the sandboards. The dunes are all yours. After sunset, we prepare a warm tea for you.

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In the evening we will have a three course meal: in winter this will be in one of the big tents, in the summer outside. After dinner you can enjoy the amazing starry night around the camp, or perhaps see a moonrise. Depending on the weather, it is sometimes possible to make a fire and play music.

 

The next morning you can choose to wake up for an incredible sunrise and have the dunes all to yourself. We will have breakfast between 8 AM and 9 AM and leave shortly after that. On the route back we will visit fossil mountains where you have the possibility to find your own fossils. As mentioned before, it is a bit depending on our route which visits will take place in day one, and which in day two. We will make a few short stops, perhaps spot some animals and to enjoy the surroundings. In the afternoon we will arrive back to Bani Hayoune Garden.

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WHEN:            Daily

DURATION:     1,5 days with the possibility to extend for an additional price.

PRICE:            1 person €300,- p.p.

                           2 persons €250,- p.p.

                           3 persons €210,- p.p.

                           4 persons €180,- p.p.

                           5 persons €150,- p.p.

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