When keen birdwatcher Ollie Wright contacted us to book a tour through the Sahara desert to finish at the Coast, he had several bird species on his wish-list. Importantly, north of Agadir, the Tamri estuary offers one of the best places in the world to see the endangered Northern Bald…
We’ve blogged before about desert bird life, which is so varied and very rewarding when one is able to catch sight of it. The desert is also home to a host of fauna, most of which is nocturnal and few in numbers. This makes it exceptionally difficult for us to come…
We first took the idea from seeing friends’ pictures from the Bolivian salt flat – imaginative use of bottles, books, cartons, toys, even the transport vehicle itself – to create brilliant optical illusions.
Created in 1994, Iriqui National Park was established to protect the biodiversity, flora and fauna across 123,000 hectares of south-eastern Morocco, and in particular to preserve the temporary wetlands of Lake Iriqui, at the heart of the desert.
Recent desert trekking clients are travel writers and have since blogged about their 3 day/2 night desert trek, made with us in February. Rather than mention their blog link in our Guest Book, we think it deserves a special mention in our blog!
Despite many trips out to the Erg Chigaga region, we haven’t encountered the crested lark in the desert before, and certainly not in close proximity to the tents at camp.
A long time in production, but we recently finished our Map of the region west of M’hamid El Ghezlane, which should show clients what to expect on a desert trek in this region of the Moroccan Sahara.
We did not include this bird in our previous blog post about Sahara Desert bird life, as we haven’t seen one up close. However, on our last client trip at the end of November, it was one of our clients who spotted the Houbara Bustard! It was whilst en-route to…
