Foum Zguid desert tours
Desert tours from Foum Zguid
Overnight trip, multi-day tour or a single day out: every tour departs from the village in a private 4x4 with a Saharan guide born in Foum Zguid. The track starts twenty minutes away — Erg Chigaga is two and a half hours out, across Lake Iriqui. Every trip shows its price, inclusions and full itinerary.
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Foum Zguid to Erg Chigaga, 2 days / 1 night
Included : Private 4x4 with driver-guide · Night at desert camp (equipped nomad tent) · Berber dinner and breakfast + 2 more
from 140 € / person based on 2 people View details → -
Foum Zguid to Erg Chigaga, 3 days / 2 nights
Included : Private 4x4 with driver-guide · 2 nights at an equipped desert camp · Full board from day-1 dinner to day-3 breakfast + 2 more
from 260 € / person based on 2 people View details → -
Erg Chigaga day trip
Included : Private 4x4 with driver-guide · Full nomad lunch · Sandboarding + 1 more
from 100 € / person based on 2 people View details → -
Lake Iriqui and the Moroccan Colorado — 4x4 day trip
Included : Private 4x4 with driver-guide · Full nomad lunch · Tea and mineral water + 1 more
from 80 € / person based on 2 people View details → -
Desert trek, 4 days to the gates of Chigaga
Included : Cameleer, cook and caravan (one camel per person) · 3 nights mobile camp, full board · Tents, mattresses, blankets and sleeping bags + 2 more
from 300 € / person based on 2 people View details → -
Grand desert tour, 4 days / 3 nights
Included : Private 4x4 with driver-guide · 3 nights at equipped desert camps · Full board from day-1 dinner to day-4 lunch + 3 more
from 380 € / person based on 2 people View details → -
Erg El Mhazil, 2 days / 1 night
Included : Private 4x4 with driver-guide · Equipped camp night · Berber dinner and breakfast + 1 more
from 130 € / person based on 2 people View details → -
Camel trek, 3 days / 2 nights
Included : Camels (one per person) and cameleer · Cook and full mobile camp · Full board from day-1 lunch to day-3 lunch + 3 more
from 230 € / person based on 2 people View details →
Why start from Foum Zguid?
Because it is the shortest approach to Erg Chigaga: about 2.5 hours of track, versus 3.5–4 from M'hamid. And because the Foum Zguid track is the finest — it crosses the Iriqui dry lake, the Moroccan Colorado and the fossil plateau before reaching the dunes. Coming from Marrakech, Agadir or Ouarzazate, the Taznakht road brings you straight to us, with no detour through the Draa valley.
Prefer a city pick-up? See our desert trips from Marrakech, door-to-door transport included.
How many days?
A day trip shows you the dunes; the 2-day tour adds the night, which changes everything; the 4-day grand tour makes the full loop — two ergs, the lake, the rock carvings — without ever driving the same track twice. In between, 3 days remains the best time-to-immersion compromise.
4x4 or camel?
Both reach the desert, at different speeds. The 4x4 takes you far, fast: Erg Chigaga in 2.5 hours, Lake Iriqui within the morning, with a camp already standing when you arrive. A camel trek moves at four kilometres an hour, without an engine, with a camp that shifts every night. You go less far and see more. If this is your first desert and you have two days, take the 4x4; if you have three days and genuinely want to slow down, take the camels — our treks page compares the walking formats side by side.
Arriving with your own 4x4? The night at the desert camp can be booked on its own, GPS point provided.