Questions · Planning the route
Is the 3-day Marrakech–Merzouga tour worth it, or is it just driving?
It is a lot of driving: travellers report roughly 9 hours each way over the High Atlas, so of three days, about one night and one sunrise are in the dunes. People who loved it treated the drive as part of the trip (Ait Benhaddou, the Todra and Dades gorges); people who hated it expected two days in the sand.
If you have only 2–3 days and want sand, Zagora is closer but its dunes are small, and Agafay near Marrakech is a stony desert, not dunes. For Erg Chebbi's tall dunes, give it 4 days, or fly to Errachidia, or end the trip in Fes instead of driving back.
Fair prices for shared and private trips: The desert.
What travellers say goes wrong
Long days in a minibus, stops at shops that pay the driver, and camps that vary a lot. Nearly every answer online comes from someone selling a tour.
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