Choose your Sahara Package Tour to Morocco to suit your pocket. Experience nights in the world's largest desert; visit Berber villages and camel rides.

Package Tours in the Sahara Starting out from Morocco

The Sahara is the world's largest desert measuring nearly 9 000 000 square kilometers (3 500 000 square miles). That’s roughly the size of the United States. In fact, the Sahara covers almost 30 percent of the African continent.

Only small parts of the Sahara are fertile, where corn, dates and other fruits grow, fed by underground rivers and streams. About 75 percent of the Sahara’s population lives in oases. The date palm is the most characteristic vegetation that grows there. The word Oasis comes from an Egyptian word meaning “fertile place in the desert".

Sunrise and sunset on the dunes in the Sahara Desert are sights you’ll remember forever. And at night, the desert is transformed into a fantasy wonderland, with crisp cold air and brilliant stars – the dunes seeming to be in constant motion. A good place to explore the Sahara is in Morocco.

Sahara Trek - Customised, Affrodable Sahara Package Tours

Moroccan Sahara Trek offers affordable, private package and customized Sahara package tours of Morocco for couples, families and small groups.

These are round-trip deals on Air Maroc from JFK - eight or ten-day holidays to Morocco with variables in destinations and activities. Most involve Sahara desert camping, 4x4 rides in the Sahara, Camel riding, a walking tour of a Kasbah and time spent in the actual desert. Sahara Trek also offers tours focusing on Moroccan Cooking, Saharan Team Building and a Classic Crafts Tour.

Heritage Tours - a Range of Sharara Package Tours

"Tea in the Sahara" is a 10 day, 9 night private tour with a Heritage Tours-qualified guide.

This Sahara package tour kicks off in Casablanca where the guide is waiting. The day starts with a visit to the Grand Mosque Hassan II, then the tour proceeds via Rabat to Fes, Morocco's spiritual capital and then into the desert to the Auberge Kasbah Derkaoua where the Auberge's inn-keeper will serve Moroccan tea with fresh desert mint on a silver tray - Tea in the Sahara...

After a 4x4 adventure in the Sahara desert it's on to Marrakesh through the High Atlas Mountains and the dramatic pass of Tizn Tichka. Well there is plenty more, but that’s the condensed version. Heritage also does custom-designed itineraries and camel tours.

Adventure Centre - Burget Tours of Morocco, Including Family Holidays in the Sahara

Adventure Center offers a range of budget tours of Morocco, including Sahara Camel Trek (15 days), Marrakech & The Sahara (eight days) and Saharan Sands Family Holiday (eight days) - all come with camel rides and camping in the dunes of the Sahara. They also offer an interesting Kasbahs & Camels tour – 11days in Southern Morocco.

Bukima Tours - Budget Saharan Tours Kicking off in Marrakesh

Bukima Tours is another budget company, which offers an eight day tour of Marrakech and the Sahara, starting and ending in the city, referred to as the “Pearl of the South”.

Travelers can prepares themselves for days filled with camel treks, dune boarding, magic nights under the Saharan stars, Berber camps, authentic Moroccan cuisine, the scenic Atlas Mountains and a full day of sightseeing in Marrakech. Two nights are spent camping (one in khaima -a Berber tent) and transport is by Nomadic Overland Expeditions tour vehicle and on foot.

But, look around when you are looking for a good camel tour in Morocco. Remember when you're comparing pices - some Sahara package tours include flights, others depart from Moroccan destinations.

Note: Both Marrakesh and Marrakech are correct, the first being the more accepted Western spelling.

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