Agafay Desert Lodge & Camp

Only 40 minutes drive of Marrakech lies the desert of Agafay. It isn’t sand dunes like the Sahara. Yet layer after layer of rock dunes instill a similar feeling of remoteness. Of nothingness. Only troubled by the occasional douar, local hamlets with their mud houses which seem to slowly return to the adobe they’ve been molded from. There is no living soul in sight, if not for the solitary camel grazing by. It is one of the few places in Morocco where near- total desolation manifests with such exquisite beauty. Although some in- the- know travelers pass through the desert as part of a 4x4  day trip from Marrakech into the High Atlas mountains, not many are aware that it is also possible to spend the night in Agafay desert, without necessarily roughing it up.