Organised Tours



The tours are organized and led by Sidi Ahmed himself. They are all-inclusive whether from the airport or from the camp. For your trips you will be provided with: camels or SUVs, individual tents for the night, a cook to prepare meals with locally sourced products to be enjoyed under the Sahara sky, and a trained guide to walk you through the desert and its culture.

For your trekking tours, you will be accompanied by camels to carry the material and people who cannot walk during the entire tour. And for your motored trips, you will ride through dunes in SUVs.
You will discover over your trip the various dimensions of the nomadic life, meeting herd owners looking for food for their animals, learn about their way of life and habits, and see the various faces of the desert far from the typical clichés.

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Trekking - 6 days:

The tour starts with the historical city of Chinguetti, a UNESCO world heritage site of major importance in Muslim history. Holding Mauritania's former name, Chinguetti was the meeting point of pilgrims before making their way to Makkah through the Sahara. As a formal nodal point of trans-Saharan trade, the city was a high place for trade, culture and education. In Chinguetti, you will discover the libraries of ancient families and learn how they used to make and conserve their books. From there, your trip will take you through plains, dunes, oasis and valleys for an authentic experience of the nomadic life to the rhythm of the sun, enjoying the changes in the colours of the sky and the land. Your trip will end under the luxurious palm trees of the oasis of Terjit where many African princes were crowned.

Trekking - 15 days:
Nature and adventure lovers can enjoy additional adventures on the sandy white dunes stretching far across the horizon before completely changing their environment and rhythm while crossing black mountains burnt by the sunlight, enjoying a different unique feature of the Sahara Desert. The tour will then take you through the palm grove of Legietat where you will enjoy some fresh air and learn to make the famous Saharan tea under the palm trees. Afterwards, the Amatlich dunes will dive you back in the atmosphere of the desert before getting to the agricultural lands of Erich where you will learn how semi-nomads grow crops in the desert. Finally, the tour will end on the massive Grande Dune of Azoueiga, major sightseeing sport for Sahara lovers.

SUV - 7 days:
The SUV tour will immerse you in the daily life of nomads who travel through the desert with their herds looking for water and food for their beasts. This trip will get you to travel at a fast pace over the dunes of the Adrar, to live a Hollywoodian Indiana Jones-like experience.
It starts with the remains of the city of Ouadane, where the ruins are in a good enough condition to imagine how life went by inside the walls of this city at its height in the 16th century. You will then drive through Galb Richet, a massive 100 million years old asteroid impact called the Eye of Africa. The landscape then completely changes for a colourful and luxurious palm grove where you will enjoy a green space for a break before getting to the former cultural nodal city of Chinguetti. The SUV will then roll across the Mharez valley, taking you in-between high rock mountains before getting to the sandy horizon of the White Valley, reminding you of the coastal decorum of the beaches.