Earthen kasbah architecture in southern Morocco

About us

A Berber family business, at home in the dunes

Desert Morocco Explore has been welcoming travellers to the Moroccan Sahara since 2009. We are guides, cameleers, cooks and drivers — all from Merzouga and the villages around it.

Our story

It started in 2009 with one camel, a tent and a young guide who spent his childhood walking these dunes with his father. Travellers kept asking for one more night, then one more day, and the little operation grew into a small company with its own camp, its own 4x4s and a team of twenty-two people.

We never became a booking platform. Everything we sell, we run ourselves: the camp is ours, the camels are ours, and the person answering your WhatsApp is the same person who will hand you a glass of tea at the edge of the dunes.

We deliberately keep groups small and camps quiet. The desert is not an attraction to be consumed — it is a place to slow down, and our job is simply to make that easy.

2009

Founded in Merzouga

12,400+

Guests welcomed

4.9/5

Average guest rating

7 languages

Spoken by our guides

Traditional Berber tent and rugs in the Moroccan SaharaSilhouetted camels on a dune ridge at sunset

What we stand for

Quiet luxury, honestly priced

Quiet luxury

We believe the desert should feel calm. No loud camps, no crowded viewpoints, no forced shopping stops.

Local first

Guides, cooks, cameleers and drivers are all from Merzouga and the surrounding villages, paid fairly all year round.

Low impact

Solar power in camp, refillable water, no single-use plastic and careful driving that protects the dunes.

Honest pricing

The price you are quoted is the price you pay. Nothing is hidden and nothing is added in the desert.

Comfortable beds

Real mattresses, cotton linen and hot water in the desert.

Local guides

Amazigh and Berber team, fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Leave no trace

We remove every trace of our camps and support dune rehabilitation.

Families welcome

Child-friendly pacing, extra blankets and shorter rides on request.

Browse our journeys
Milky Way above a Sahara desert camp

Plan your journey

Tell us your dates. We will shape the rest.

Send a message with your travel dates, the number of travellers and the kind of desert you are dreaming of. We reply with a clear, all-inclusive proposal — usually within the hour.

We answer within a few minutes, every day from 7:00 to 23:00 (GMT+1).