Merzouga Hotels - Reviews and Rates

im an american living in the Sahara desert with my berber nomad boyfriend . we create very special journeys in morocco with the highlight being the sahara .
together we mix the modern ideals with the old berber cultures of morocco . call us modern nomads . 
travel through maroc in a caravan of 4x4 to unique locations that we discovered . s...

I finally made it to my destination! Merzouga is a very small village on the eastern border of Morocco on the western edge of the Sahara desert. Some of the largest dunes in Morocco are here in Merzouga called Erg Chebbi. This is home to my tour guide Zaid Boulaaouan of www.boulaaouantours.com he and his Berber ancesters have resided in this are...

§So we spent a night in the desert near Erfoud, it's called Erg Chebbi and apparently is the only one authentic Erg (sand dune desert) before the Sahara proper starts 30 Ks east on the Algerian side of the border. It was beautiful, but also quite distressful and maybe the whole desert thing has been a bit overestimated - at least by me. We leave...

I finally detached myself from the toilet and sink and managed to shower. Couldn't even contemplate breakfast. I was cold through to my bones and felt like death. Staggered onto the coach to the sound of gasps at the sight of my white face and obvious discomfort. Kim was there already, with matching white face. She had suffered the same fate as ...

Our flight from Quito to Casablanca (Morocco) was via Madrid. The connecting flight was in 8 hours so we did our best investigating the terminal. The good thing for Amber in Madrid airport was that it contained stores such as Mango and Zara but the bad thing was that they were not in our terminal. Anyhow after a long wait we flew into Casablanca...

From Casablanca we headed to Marrakech - the heart of Morocco. Here, there are endless things to see and do... so the first thing we did was immediately book a trip out of town! If you've been keeping up to date with our blog, you know that we've seen a TON of animals since we've been in Africa, but there was one animal that we still hadn't seen...

Left Fes on a bright, sunny morning with three Brazilian lads we met upon our arrival in the city, packed ourselves into a small rental car, 5 big backpacks in the trunk and 5 smaller ones up front with us, good ol' Bob Marley playing as we began our trip across the Atlas mountains and into the Sahara. The drive alone was worth the expense of th...