Morocco's Desert Region
Recommended Excursions into the Sahara and the Deep South
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MEHAREE DROMEDARY TREKS IN MOROCCCO'S WESTERN SAHARA
Meharee: When you are riding a camel.
Camel Trekking: When a camel is carrying your luggage while you are walking.
‘Meharée’ : Trek with 1 dromedary per person + 1 pack camel.
2 DAYS /1NIGHT - (ref: ITCLFD01z)
DAY 1: ZAGORA-TEGHRAMT N’AÏT SULTAN.
From the small kasbah-like Hotel Fibule Du Drâa in the oasis village of Zagora where we have been since around 2 o’clock, (we need to have the dromedary loaded so as to set out around 3 in the afternoon in winter, 4pm in the summer) for our adventure of some 3 hours towards the south-west into a desert of many small dunes, interspersed with the black gravelly ‘Reg’ stretches of the El Fajia plain in the Nebch region, isolated enough to let your imagination take hold.
As the air has heated up, the winds have risen to make the sand swirl about us. You’ll notice that older dunes appear darker, for the iron in the sand has finally oxidised. Here, some 14km from Zagora, we have our bivouac for the night in a carpeted Bedouin tent at Teghramt n’Aït Sultan set amidst some small dunes and, after a welcoming traditional tea ceremony, we shall have our dinner of vegetable tagine - which, doubtless, you’ll try your hand at preparing – tea, bread and fruit. The sunsets and sunrises in the rarefied air of our desert can simply take your breath away, far more than the hot air has done, so far. This night may be spent in our nomadic tent or out in the open air under an awesome canopy of the starlit heavens.
DAY 2: TEGHRAMT N’AÏT SULTAN – ZAGORA – TAMEGROUTE - ZAGORA.
Having witnessed an awesome sunset the night before, now is the hour for an even more startling sunrise before our Bedouin breakfast of tea, bread, jams and cheeses, after which, our dromedaries saddled, we somewhat reluctantly strike off back towards the north-east and relative civilisation, passing through the lush oases through dangling bunches of dates, accompanied by the scents of oleander, mint and orange, via the ksar Asrir Ignaoûn, with its sun-dried mud and reed buildings known as pisé, tiny Sarte and Douar Amezrou, home to an old Jewish kasbah and where there are still silver shops working Berber jewellery, to arrive finally at the Fibule Du Drâa hotel in Zagora sometime between 9:30 and 10am.
From Zagora this morning, we’ll drive down to visit the Pottery Co-Operative just outside of Tamegroute, to see pottery being produced in the simplest of manners, in the simplest of kilns. If you have been to Fes, or have seen photographs of this Imperial City, here you’ll see the famous green glaze associated with its tiled roofs, for the founders of the XVIIth century Abou Ben Naceur ‘Naciri Brotherhood’ in Tamegroute invited craftsmen and potters to this remote area with the intent to turn it into a thriving caravan hub city to continue on to the Library at Tamegroute, with its XIII century illuminated Koran scrolls written on gazelle hide, some works of Pythagoras and some of Alexander the Great’s original maps, even an ancient maths primer. We should be back in Zagora around midday, for you to continue on with your adventurous holiday in this remarkable Kingdom.
NB: Prices are based on the number of people in your group; each desert trip is an individual reservation.
STANDARD PROGRAMME PRICES PER PERSON IN UK £
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DELUXE PROGRAMME PRICES PER PERSON IN UK £
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PRICES FOR THE STANDARD VERSION INCLUDE:
Experienced licensed bi-lingual desert guide throughout; cook; meals and tented, carpeted accommodation as detailed; trained dromedary & drover, transfer Zagora-Tamegroute-Zagora, visit of potteries and Library at Tamegroute.
PRICES FOR THE DELUXE VERSION INCLUDE:
Experienced licensed bi-lingual desert guide and cook throughout, tented, carpeted accommodation (maximum 6 persons per tent); ‘Portaloo’; trained dromedary & drover; transfer Zagora-Tamegroute-Zagora. Visit of Potteries and Library at Tamegroute. Lavabo, mini shampoo, bath towels, lanterns and candles; dinner includes Moroccan salad or harira soup, kebabs or ‘kefta’ *, Berber vegetable tajine, fruit, mint tea; 1 bottle of wine between 2 people, soda water served by waiters in traditional costume. Bar service.
* Meals consist of vegetables, eggs and fruits (vegetarian) except the first day which has meat (please advise if you wish all vegetarian).
PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE:
Personal medical or accident insurance. Gratuity to guide/drover. Any expenditure of a personal nature. Bottled or gaseous water, nor anything not specifically mentioned in the itinerary.
Customer comments:
"Our camel excursion was very memorable: Youssef who was our guide, was fantastic and had a great sense of humour - he may deal with tour groups every day but he certainly made us feel special."
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