Memorable and authentic experience.  - Our guide was Ismail and he is very charismatic, friendly, and organized. We had a lot of fun exploring the charming Ait Ben Hadou village, although it would’ve been nice... read more to have more time. It was still enough though.

The camel ride was enjoyable because it’s very different from riding a horse and it’s also beautiful as they make sure to take you during sunset. After the sun sets, we arrived just on time to our Berber camp (the people indigenous to Morocco). There, they treated us to an epic tagine, good company, and Berber music around the fire. We finished the night with star gazing before sleeping in a luxury tent (compared to regular camping ofc). The next morning, it’s mostly driving back except for a very enjoyable lunch on a balcony with mountains hovering over you. I’m glad we did it and next time will probably do a 3-4 day trip.

Disclaimers you should know:
1. it’s a LOT of driving about 6 hours each day total. The first day is broken up with stops to a mountainside cafe, a town that’s been around since the 12th century and where they filmed many famous movies including the gladiator.

2. The camel ride is a lot of fun but be warned that the dunes are pretty small since we only get to the tip of the Sahara desert. If you want to get deep into the desert, you have to do a 3 or 4 day trip.

3. Bring layers if you’re going in the winter cuz it cools down a lot. I wore two layers of pants and two sweatshirts. I recommend a hat and gloves too.

Worth every single penny! - This tour was worth every penny! It should be in everyone's bucket list. We were 8 people in a nice, clean van with Ismael, from Marrakesh to Fes, with several... read more stops during the 3-day tour. Ismael is an excellent driver. It was awesome how everything was planned and on time at all the stops. We learned a lot about the Berber culture and visited different communities and Kasbahs. On the second day of our stop, we had a walking tour with Said, a beautiful morning walk around Tinghir. We stopped in a Kasbah to learn about the berber’s carpets, colors, and symbol meanings. We did not enjoy the food at some of the stops, so we went to other places nearby, and we found better prices and a more authentic experience than in the traditional “tourist traps”. The food stops for lunch are something that they need to improve. Of course, the best part is on the second night when we rode the camels to see the sunset and then arrived at our tents in the desert. If you have issues with your back or shoulders, I suggest you try to go to the tents by car. Everything in the desert was perfect. The food was abundant and delicious (when we were full and ready to go, they gave us the best Lamb Tahine we had on our whole trip. The tents were incredibly comfortable, with running water and an Occidental toilet. We had a firepit at night with live music under the stars. The sky was fantastic!!! Stargazing was very easy, even near some of the lights in the camp. We went in December, so you need to be prepared for a very cold night/morning.

Trip to Zagora desert - I'm really impressed ... It was behond my expectations. The guides are really friendly and the food is amazing. The bathroom are really nice what is impressive when your are... read more camping. It was 5 stars for me. Next time I will definetly repeat with the same staff,?

Marrakesh to Fes via Sahara - Our driver, Ismail, has been lovely for the entire trip, explaining us things along the way and being super helpful.
The tour was great and although there’s a lot... read more of driving it’s definitely worth it (especially if you have such a great driver as Ismail!!!).
Totally recommend!

perfect Houssine - I went with 10 friends for five days and we had a great time. Everything very well organized by Houssine, the guide. We spent a night in the desert, went... read more camel riding and quad biking. The rest of the days they took us to various excursions and tourist places. I recommend going to Mareuecos with a guide because of the issue of communication with natives. Every day we slept in different hotels, all very good and very clean. We loved the experience

I highly recommend this tour company.
They picked up us on time and also they dropped us in the same place.
The trip took around 2h and half from... read more Marrakech to Essaouira. We did stop where is the goats in argan tree and also to the argan production shop to see how they transform the argan fruit to other products.
Then we arrived in Essaouira were our guide was waiting us. We had around 1h and half with him and he left us in the local restaurant. That’s the only thing that I didn’t like. Even though, food was good I preferred to chose the place I go to eat.
After this lunch stop, we had few hours by our selves to discover the city.
At 16:00 we met our driver to go back to Marrakech.
Before arriving Marrakech we did stop in a small local restaurant where you can have some drinks or go to toilet. Looks like all the tour company’s stop at the same restaurant.
In general it was really nice day tour and the service we’ve paid was worthy.

A trip made by the people - I went on a 2-day trip to Zagora desert and the highlight of the entire experience was our driver and guide, Ismael.

Sat in the front, Ismael was incredibly... read more friendly and talkative, happy to explain everything to do with Morocco from his perspective, and offered a really honest view of tourism, politics, the experience of people during the lack of rain, and more! Ismael is really funny and we made jokes throughout the journey, making it seem much shorter than it was.

Ismael showed us really interesting stops along our journey and has a great understanding of the land. He also worked well with the Berber people running out desert camp, who were all fantastic and really engaging.

I cannot recommend this enough- Discover Sahara Tours is Ismael's own business and he was so excited to give tourists his version of the desert experience! Here are some photos.

An awesome action packed adventure!  - This was such a fun and action packed trip. We saw so many interesting and beautiful sights and had so many adventures! Rene & Ismail were fantastic tour guides and... read more great company, Ismail was an excellent and safe driver (very comfortable van). There were many highlights but top ones include the most delicious lunch in a Berber family kasbah (best bread ever), seeing how Berber rugs are made at a cooperative and haggling for a small one, camel ride, tented camp, sand surfing and quad bikes in the Sahara, visiting Nomads in the desert and eating Nomad pizza, walking (& climbing) through the Monkey Fingers in the Dades Gorge, Ait Ben Haddou & the Atlas Studios .I could go on! We loved every minute and arrived back in Marrakech exhausted but very happy. If you are doing this trip we advise a day or two to relax afterwards!! We would thoroughly recommend Discover Sahara Tours and loved the fact that they could bespoke the tour for us. Thank you Rene & Ismail!

Me and my friend we book a trip to Essoura and we been pick up from Ismail. This guys was so nice in the way how treated us and how... read more knows his country! We really enjoy the trip and we will definitely return to book a tour with him. Thank you Ismail!