
What Everything Costs, Part 2: Desert, Cities and Culture
Sahara tours, camel treks, 4×4 raids, cooking classes, hammams, guides and transfers — real prices in dirham and euro, with the per-vehicle logic that makes desert pricing work differently.
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Sahara tours, camel treks, 4×4 raids, cooking classes, hammams, guides and transfers — real prices in dirham and euro, with the per-vehicle logic that makes desert pricing work differently.

A packing list built around the actual problem: one trip that may include a 45°C medina, a 4,000-metre summit and a desert night near freezing. What earns its place in the bag.

Real numbers in dirham: riads, meals, guides, transfers and desert camps at three budget levels — plus where the money quietly leaks out of a trip.

Not a desert excursion with a driver — a multi-day convoy crossing the ergs on piste, navigating by GPS and roadbook. Routes, vehicles, sand technique, permits and what it actually costs.

The most-booked trip in Morocco, and the one most often booked wrong. What each duration actually buys you in dune time versus road time, and why the two-day version is a mistake.

Morocco has two great sand seas and they offer genuinely different trips. One you drive to on tarmac; the other costs you sixty kilometres of off-piste to reach.

The word covers everything from a rug on the sand to a tented suite with plumbing. Knowing which one you have booked is the difference between a good night and a long one.

Before the 4×4 transfer and the fixed camp, the desert was crossed on foot at the pace of a loaded camel. A handful of routes still work that way.