Erg Chigaga

Draa-Tafilalet · Morocco

Erg Chigaga, Morocco
Photo: Sergey Pesterev, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
October to April for bearable daytime temperatures
Budget
$$
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
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Morocco's largest and wildest dune field, reachable only by 4x4 or multi-day camel trek from M'Hamid. Dunes rise up to around 60 meters across a roughly 40-kilometer expanse, and remote desert camps here offer some of the darkest night skies in the country.

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