
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


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.

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).
