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A one-night trip
Depature at around 4 p.m. to look for a peaceful and wild territory. A two-three hour camel-ride, we will settle down in the first sand hills, and get the ritual going with mint tea, tagine, and so on. A magic night in the open air under a satrry sky or in a tent will conclud this day, and we will wake up at dawn to enjoy the sunrise, then have breakfast and find our way back to Zagora.

A one-day trip
Deparure early in the morning. After a two or three hour camel ride. We will have a rest in the shade of palmtrees and enjoy a vegetable and meet tagine or a rich salad, mint tea.. At 3p.m., we will trek back across the palmgrove and the kasbah.to get back to zagora late afternoon.

And then you won't resit

A two-day trip
Departure early in the morning, heading Est. Lunch in the shade of a locust tree in the desert and night-bivouac in the Laâgayla sand dunes. Waking up at dawm to enjoy the sunrise. Breakfast. Getting ready and looding the camels. Ridding back to zagora across the Boukhlal, Elmadouria, Tamazirt, Tiouririne ane Zaouite Elfath palmgroves. Lunch en route and arrival at zagora late afternoon.

A three-day trip
Day 1: After dressing up as nomads, departure in the morning, heading south-Est trough Fezwata palmgroves where we discover the life of the villagers and the irrigation system in the palm plantation. Lunch in a shade of a tree and night-bivouac in Tizi-n-Iguido (sand pass)

Day 2: After breakfast we will head North-Est for Hassi Toumiat, have lunch in a shade of locust tree and night-bivouac in Boudhaîr little sand dunes.

Day 3: Waking up at dawn to enjoy the sunrise, the we will have breakfast then back through Ternata palmgroves, have lunch on the way, and arrive at zagora in the late afternoon.

A four-day trip
Day 1: After dressing up as nomads, departure early in the morning. Hiking or riding across the Elfayja flat desert. Lunch in a shade of a locust tree. Night bivouac in Hassi Tjiniya.

Day 2: Trekking across the Jebel Bani at Tjiniya pass (1095meter high), lunch in the desert and night bivouac at Lamraîr sand dunes.

Day 3: After two hours trek in the sand, stop for lunch. In the afternoon we reach Erg Elghool sand hills and put up our bivouac for the night.

Day 4: Hikking or camel-ridding across the sandy desert. Lunch on the way. Leaving the camels and going back to zagora by taxi.

A five-day trip
Day 1 and Day 2: The same route as the former trip (four-day trip).

Day 3: Trekking or camel-ridding across the Bou Amred plateau (the locust tree desert) up to the Oued Naâm (the Ostrich valley) and night bivouac.

Day 4: Between oud Naâm and oued Ben Haqqi in a sandy desert and night bivouac.

Day 5: Two hours walk in the morning. After luch and taking leave of the camels, we go back to zagora in a taxi.

An eight-day trip
Day 1: Departure early in the morning, heading West to the Elfayja flat desert. Night bivouac.
Day 2: Late arrival at the Oum Laâchar pass in the Bani mountains. Night bivouac.

Day 3: Trekking or camel ridding through the pass (1047meter high), lunch on the way, night bivouac in the Diabi Oasis, amidst palmtrees and rose-laurels.

Day 4: Along the Oued Lamhasser valley. Night bivouac.

Day 5: Arrival at the very scenic sandsea with its high ripples.

Day 6: Along the sands up to the Bouguern sandhill. Night bivouac

Day 7: Hiking or camel riding in a flat stony desert, heading for Hassi Oued Naâm.

Day 8: Day in sand dunes, and arrival at the road in the fternoon. Taking leave of the camels and back to zagora by taxi.

A ten-day trip
First route : Th same route as in the eight-day trip up to hassi Oued Naâm. The eighth day across the Bou Amred desert (loccust tree desert), the ninth day across Moulili Oasis an Bani mountains and the tenth day in the Fayja flat desert. Arrival at zagora in late afternoon.

Second route : Departure from zagora, heading south along the Draa valley across the , fields, the kasbahs and fotified villages up to the last palmtree in Ketawa palmgroves. Leaving the valley to trek into the erg (sandy desert), reg (stony desert),Bani mountains and various landscapes alredy mentioned in the preceding trips. Arrival at zagora on the tenth day in the afternoon

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Draa oasis
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Caravan in the sand
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In the desert
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On the mountain
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Ruin on montains
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Bani montains