Adventure - great adventure experience. Unique place to be with friends. A "luxury" in a desert location, with the benefit of no telephone network

Sahara Desert camel ride & overnight camp in the sand dunes! - This amazing experience was part of our amazing Morocco Tour. It’s an absolute bucket list event that just made our journey so much fun. We were met at Merzouga by our fabulous guide who showed us to our camels. I have to say, it was effectively, “your ride, madam”! It was awesome. So off we went with our 3 beautiful camels that apparently had no name, so being Australians, we named them Frank,Kevin & Bruce hahahaha! Made our day! The photos are absolutely iconic, the experience will remain one of the highlights for me. Absolutely superb views of the stunning sand dunes on the way to our overnight camp. Just an amazing sight & experience! Would do it again in a heartbeat!

Better hold on to your fantasies - First if all this is probably the best thing to do in Morocco. Speak to other travellers and they will tell you the same. Rode camel to the camp. Spent one day touring. Then next day was driven back to Merzouga town. Best bit? The camel ride and seeing the desert. The rest are tourist traps like visiting local communities. Should you do it? Absolutely. Theres nothing like it. But better hold onto your fantasies. Let me explain. If you think you are on the edge of the great Sahara desert, on the edge of the empire, the border of civilisation behong which lays the barbarians (reminds me of Waiting for the Baebarians by Coetzee), then you are 100% wrong. Look up google earth and you will see its a small patch of sand close to Merzouga. You think you are travesering the great plains of the desert to a remote camp. In reality you can drive to the camp by car in 15min. So it is actually like a desert theme park. Artificial. The desert is ruined by car tracks and 4x4 tyre tracks. Voom voom 4x4 bikers all around you. So if you think you are traversing across virgin desert sand with only camel tracks in your photos you are 100% wrong. Sorry, its really a theme park. Nevertheless its a good one. Hold on to your fantasies.