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 are grateful to Ovos Photography for allowing us to share some of their work. They took a short trip with us recently from Marrakech to Erg Chigaga great dunes, in the Moroccan Sahara Desert, and the images of their desert trip through the Iriqui National Park are breathtaking; we…
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.
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.
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…
On our many journeys into the Sahara desert, we have been fortunate enough to observe lots of bird life there, some species are resident, some are migrant visitors. Our featured image (left) is a white-crowned black wheatear, which you’ll also find once South of the High Atlas mountains in the…
