Desert tour by jeep: 5 days of exploring desert landscapes
- Price: from €500 per person
- Start: Desert Camp Chraika
- Begins: 10 am on Day 1
- Ends: 5-6 pm on Day 5
5-day desert tour by jeep highlights
- Experience night camping in the desert
- Ride a camel & walk in the dunes
- Visit an oasis
- Try sand boarding in the high dunes
- Drink tea with nomads
- Savour sunsets and sunrises in wilderness
- Listen to desert blues played live by the camp fire
- Try Saharan bread freshly baked in heated sand
- Enjoy the taste of tajines cooked on the camp fire and other hearty meals
Desert tour by jeep 5 days itinerary
Day 1 to 4
Imagine 500 kilometres driving off-road through desert wilderness, stopping at the most interesting, remote places.
Among the most intriguing spots will be ruins of ancient towns, local shrines, abandoned villages and farm fields, wells, riverbeds, oasis, nature reserves and vast areas of ergs. You will also drive through The Iriqui Lake and parts of the Paris-Dakkar route. Such a tour creates a wonderful opportunity to watch the wildlife, too.
We are happy to propose and discuss the exact plan of this tour once we receive your inquiry, hence it will depend on your interests and which season your tour will take place. We usually include spending one night in mighty Erg Chegaga dunes, in a cozy, comfortable camp with toilets and hot showers.
Day 5
In the morning, after breakfast, we embark on the return journey, aiming to be back at Desert Camp Chraika in the late afternoon, 5-6 pm.
The price of the 5-day desert tour by jeep includes:
- All gear needed for 4 nights camping in the desert
- Transport by a 4×4 vehicle (about 500 k off-road driving through the desert)
- 3 wholesome meals a day: breakfasts, lunches and dinners
- Water, hot and cold beverages, snacks (fruits, cookies)
- Camel ride at the sunset, or sunrise
- Good company of our desert guide, a driver and a cook
Things to know before embarking on a 5-day jeep tour through the desert
Here is the list of essentials for the desert tour with wild camping:
- A refillable bottle for water
- Long-sleeved and long-legged, comfortable clothes
- A long scarf or a turban
- Sandals or light trekking shoes
- Sunscreen, lip balm, sunglasses
- A travel towel
- Power bank
- Headlight
You may sort things out and leave the remaining luggage at our camp. It can be safely kept there until your return from the trip.
All supplies like water, beverages and food will be provided, as well as all camping gear: tents, mattresses, toilet paper and blankets.
Best months for desert tours in Morocco are October, November, March and April, when you can expect mild temperatures – around 25-30°C in the daytime, and 10-15°C at night.
February and December are a bit cooler, but with good preparation also very good for a desert trip.
On the other hand, May and September are good for those enjoying temperatures above 35°C, allowing the sand hammam rituals in the daytime and sleeping under open sky at night.
Traditional desert cuisine is very simple, yet wholesome and diverse. Exemplary dishes served on a desert tour are: tajines made on fire, bread baked in hot sand, lentils in tomatoes, beans, various salads with both cooked and raw vegetables, “Berber omelette”. Also, refreshing and energising Moroccan mint tea is an every day treat on a desert tour.
You should be ready to sleep in a tent, as well to sit on a ground cushion. Sightseeing may include walking on an uneven terrain. We can adjust the amount of walking each day to your preferences – it may be several hours every day, or just few shorter walks.
You must also be ready to use the “wild bathroom” in the dunes and to sleep on a 4-centimetre thin mattress.
In order to meet your physiological needs during camping wild in the desert you must be ready to return to the roots and use a wild bathroom, i.e. find a secluded place. Since usually there is nobody in the radius of kilometres, it should be quite easy.
To keep the desert clean, put the toilet paper in a dug whole, and cover thoroughly with sand. The paper can be also burned. Remember not to put any sanitary products other toilet paper into the sand.
The proper toilet paper which is easily dissolved, is provided during the tour.
Yes, of course! From our experience, children enjoy being in the desert. Running in its vast spaces, playing with the sand, learning how to make fire, collecting the wood – all these activities are not only playful, but also educational.
From the age of 5, kids are usually ready for this kind of adventure.
It is good that you have your own sleeping bag with you, but it is not necessary – we provide blankets.
Let's create your best travel story
Salam, friends! If you have any questions regarding your journey, or wish to create your own plan, simply let us know – we will be happy to help.
