Package Detail

Plan your new year trip in Morocco with our local Moroccan specialists. Discover all our traditions in this special time.

Celebrate New Year’s Eve around a campfire in the Erg Chigaga Desert Camp and dance under the stars to the rhythms of Touareg musicians. Wake early to watch the sunrise over the dunes.

Discover the absolute beauty of the landscapes, the particular spirit of a Moroccan New Year’s Eve party, and the experience of nomadic desert life, the emotions we share amongst this landscape… and the memories we will share, take with us, and treasure.

Note: We change and modify this program according to your needs. We also organize Morocco tours from different places in Morocco.

30 Dec: Marrakech – Ait Benhaddou – Draa Valley – Zagora

Desert tours from Marrakech: Departing early in the morning from your riad/hotel in Marrakech, we drive through the High Atlas Mountains over the Tizin’Tichka Pass (2260 m), the highest road pass in Morocco, offering spectacular panoramic views of mountains, valleys, and colorful Berber villages. Traveling southwards, we stop on the way to visit the kasbahs of Tamnougalte and Ait Benhaddou. With its UNESCO-listed spectacular Kasbah, Ait Benhaddou is a famous site for Hollywood movies shooting such as Gladiator. The trip continues through the palm-lined Draa valley with a stop in Zagora for a tea break before heading towards the desert of M’Hamid, where you can spend the night in a hotel in Zagora.

31 Dec: Zagora – M’Hamid – Erg Chigaga

After a nice breakfast, you do a 2 hours camel ride in the midst of the desert. Around 10:30, you are picked up there from the 4×4 and you will travel through a beautiful desert landscape to Oasis Sacrée (holy oasis) for a lunch break. The Oasis Sacrée consists of a small group of palm trees around a source in the midst of the desert, with running water the whole year. The nomads come with their herds for soaking. At 16:00, departure. After a further 15 km, we reach the dunes of Chegaga. This largest group of dunes in the region reaches a height of 300 m on a length of 40 km. We spend the night directly in nomad tents at the dunes after a New Year’s Eve party, dinner with entertainment. A night that comes alive to the rhythms and chants of the drums, castanets, and guitars played by nomads, Sahara traditional music. Inspired by the African spirit of dance combined with Arabic rhythm… In the core of the Berber campsite, we will have a big fire, where we gather to share food, laughter, celebration, and friendship.

1 Jan: Erg Chigaga – Marrakesh

After a leisurely breakfast at the luxury Sahara desert camp, the adventure continues off-road in your 4×4 vehicle. Crossing the dried Lake Iriqui, through river beds and rocky desert for about 3 hours on the old Paris-Dakkar rally route until you reach the main tarmac road from Tata at FoumZguid. Here we will stop at a delightful guest-house in the oasis at the foot of the Jbel Bani mountain ridge. You can enjoy the pool and have a light lunch before continuing to the village of Tazenakht, famous as a regional center for Berber hand-woven carpets from different tribes of the High Atlas. Then heading back to Marrakech passing by the High Atlas Mountains Tizi N’Tichka. We arrive in Marrakech in the late afternoon to your riad.

Includes:

• 3 days Jeep & driver included fuel
• 1 night in Mhamid
• 1 overnight in tent in Erg Chegaga
• 2 dinners & 2 breakfasts
• 2 hours camel ride

Excludes:

• Drinks
• Personal spending