Morocco Tours:
where adventure begins
If you’re in search of an unforgettable journey encompassing hiking, 4×4 tours, camping, and photo tours tailored to your preferences, then look no further than Wild Morocco. As one of the leading Moroccan tour operators, we’re committed to ensuring you have the optimal Moroccan adventure.
Tailor-made Morocco
Wild Morocco organises tailor-made tours and activity holidays, specialising in Sahara Desert experiences.
Wild Morocco is a registered Amazigh-Anglo operator organising private tailor-made tours and activity holidays in Morocco, including photography holidays. We specialise in the Sahara Desert, connecting you with nature through desert hiking and camping in Morocco’s unique outdoors. Read about our purpose-driven travel goals here.
Discover our best-selling tours in the Sahara Desert with a range of guided desert 4×4 trips starting from Marrakech, the North or the Coast (or optional self-drive packages). Experience the Sahara in as little as 3 or 4 days excursion. We offer the chance to hike or camel trek in the Iriqui National Park, with wilderness camps in the seclusion of isolated dunes. Enjoy a variety of desert camping options in Morocco, at the Erg Chigaga dunes and the Erg Chebbi dunes; from glamping sites, or en-suite tents, to mobile camps that will truly take you off-grid.
Whatever your interest or your reason to explore Morocco, take inspiration for your adventure holiday from our site and contact us.
Our Camps
Our aim is to take you camping away from the crowds and provide you with the ultimate desert safari. We offer small desert camps in the Moroccan Sahara and the location of the camps is key.
Camp Al Koutban
The Berber desert camp ‘Al Koutban’ is at the base of the remote dunes of Erg Chigaga, the longest ‘erg’ (sand sea) in Morocco, and off the beaten path. The camp Al Koutban is encircled by smaller, rolling dunes for privacy which offer a great vantage point for sunset and sunrise.
Nomadic Camping
A private, wild encampment in the Erg Sedrar dunes, to the east of Erg Chigaga great dunes. Two hours off-road drive from civilisation. The stay at the camp can be combined with a bespoke self-drive adventure in Morocco or with a tailor-made tour.
Deluxe Camp
One of the finest tented accommodations in Morocco’s Sahara Desert, the desert camp offers pure luxury at every level but retains the spirit of the culture of the Sahara Desert, given it is run exclusively by a Berber team who all originate from the area.
Travel With Purpose
Our team are the last generation to have grown up as children in the desert, previously practising a way of life that was unchanged in centuries. Our parents kept farms and livestock in the desert when water was freely available. That way of life became untenable two decades ago when the river to this region (Draa) was dammed near its source and the desert encroached on farmland.
Our responsible travel goals, purpose-driven, aim to support a very poor region of Morocco, educate visitors on the nomadic way of life, and care for our very fragile desert environment.
Tourism is the mainstay in this region of Morocco. Young people normally have to move away from the local village (Mhamid El Ghizlane) to find work elsewhere.
However, we aim to put local knowledge and skills to work locally through employing local guides, local cooks, local camel-handlers and local drivers. Young men who are often the main breadwinners of their extended families will be the source of funding all living costs for 3 generations of their families.
Employing local men ensures that they in turn benefit their own community by contributing money there.
- We pay fair wages and garner loyalty from our team through fair and equal treatment.
- We buy all of our food from local shopkeepers. Fruit and vegetables are seasonal only.
- We donate to animal welfare charities.
- We aim to care for our very fragile environment and show visitors the beauty of the desert wilderness.
- Having grown up in this region of the desert we are acutely aware of the scarcity of water.
- We only transport enough water on our desert hikes for food preparation and hand-washing. We do not transport water for ‘showering’ which is non essential for responsible travel. We don’t encourage desert hiking trips longer than 6 days, again to conserve water.
- We customise desert hiking on a private basis, and certainly for group sizes no larger than 16. Most of our hiking trips are arranged for couples and individuals who want peace and quiet.
- We encourage our visitors to collect litter whenever they find it in the desert, as we instruct our local guides and camel-handlers to do so.
- We ask that our visitors take their litter out of the desert with them or hand it over to their guide who will bring it out of the desert.
- We do not encourage the rental of quad biking which is harmful to the environment.
- We offer our visitors information on the flora and fauna of the desert environment in the Iriqui National Park before they visit the region.
- We encourage our visitors to travel by public bus to the desert frontier. ctma.ma
- We encourage our visitors to visit Jarjeer Mules and/or SPANA if they are staying in Marrakech.
- We reuse paper and recycle card/plastic in the office. We do not produce printed brochures.
We aim to offer authentic, simple experiences which are unique to this part of the world. We aim to educate visitors on the nomadic way of life.
Please refer to the introduction on our background. We are passionate about sharing our nomadic background and desert experience with our visitors. The majority of our team are indigenous Amazigh, or Sahrawi (whose forebears migrated from much further south). The local guide will act as a bridge between the visitors and the cook and camel-handler.
On the desert hikes, our team wear traditional dress and we give our visitors each a desert turban to protect from the sun/wind when hiking.
Examples of the nomadic experiences we offer – walking for several hours each day accompanied by a camel caravan; preparing tea on the campfire; preparing sand-bread in the embers of the fire; singing traditional songs in the evening at camp; using the stars to navigate.
We provide detailed Frequently Asked Questions pages to visitors once they confirm a desert trip. We promote responsible travel/packing tips.
We encourage our visitors to visit one of the remaining ‘Ksar’ (series of earth-built dwellings) at Mhamid, on the Draa Valley.
It is possible to visit a local family and take tea with them in their home, if so our guide will offer a small donation to the family.
“I did a three day trek through the desert, ending up at Erg Chigaga. Really fantastic experience, exceeded expectations. It was very well organised, the guides were very friendly, knowledgable and fun to spend time with. The food was fantastic. The whole desert experience is a unique one. Would highly recommend.”
News From The Desert
Explore captivating articles that unveil the beauty, culture, and adventure awaiting you in Morocco’s majestic desert landscapes.
Morocco earthquake 8 September
A powerful earthquake (mag. 6.8) struck Morocco shortly after 11pm on Friday 8 September. Its epicentre was in the Atlas mountains, south-west of Marrakech, north-east of Taroudant. Its force was...
Facts and Stats Morocco – Did You Know?
The Arabic name given for Morocco by medieval historians and geographers is “al-Maghrib al-Aqsa”, translated as Furthest Westerly Kingdom (of the Maghreb countries, in North West Africa). Morocco is...
Self-Drive Adventure – through the heart of the High Atlas & Sahara Desert
For those who want to get off the beaten path and experience a desert safari We've tailored a 4x4 self-drive itinerary down to the Erg Chigaga region, with the highlight of the tour being a private...
Our Newsletter