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Randonnée, désert, montagnes et les routes qui les relient — écrit depuis le Maroc, au rythme réel du pays.

11 articles correspondant à sahara

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Saddled camels couched on the sand at a desert camp in low orange evening light, dune slopes and tamarisk behind
Circuits
Morocco

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.

6 min de lecture
Four people sitting cross-legged on the sand around a small fire at night in the Sahara, one clapping a rhythm
Circuits
Sahara & High Atlas

Meditation Travel in Morocco: Where the Silence Actually Is

Retreats sell stillness; the Sahara gives it away. Where in Morocco you can genuinely hear nothing, what the hammam and Sufi traditions offer, and how to build a contemplative trip without booking a package.

6 min de lecture
A clay tagine with the lid lifted, beef with prunes, toasted almonds, sesame seeds and hard-boiled egg inside
Cuisine
Morocco

Moroccan Cuisine Is Not One Cuisine

A Fez tagine and a Marrakech tagine are different dishes. The regional map of Moroccan cooking — Fassi refinement, Marrakchi smoke, Souss argan, Rif mountain food and the Saharan bread baked in sand.

5 min de lecture
Le ksar de terre d'Aït Ben Haddou en fin d'après-midi, maisons de pisé étagées au-dessus du lit de rivière à sec
Circuits
De Marrakech au Sahara

Un itinéraire de 7 jours au Maroc qui ne soit pas épuisant

Une semaine, évaluée honnêtement. La boucle classique Marrakech–Sahara–Atlas, ce qu'elle coûte en heures de route, et les trois façons de gâcher sept jours en ajoutant une ville de trop.

5 min de lecture
A fortified cliff granary built into an overhanging rock face high above a gorge, its stone storeys following the ledge
Randonnée
High Atlas & Anti-Atlas

Trekking in Morocco: Which Route Is Right for You?

Toubkal, the M'Goun traverse, the Anti-Atlas, the Sahara and Jebel Saghro compared honestly — by days, altitude, difficulty and what each one is actually like underfoot.

5 min de lecture
An open field of wind-rippled dunes with scattered tamarisk, the kind of erg terrain a raid crosses on piste
Circuits
Southern Morocco

Raid 4×4 in Morocco: How the Real Thing Works

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.

8 min de lecture
Une caravane de chameaux franchissant une crête de dune à l'heure dorée, longues ombres rayant le sable ondulé au premier plan
Désert
De Marrakech à Merzouga

Circuits dans le Sahara depuis Marrakech : 2, 3 ou 4 jours ?

Le voyage le plus réservé du Maroc, et le plus souvent mal réservé. Ce que chaque durée achète réellement en temps de dune contre temps de route, et pourquoi la version deux jours est une erreur.

5 min de lecture
A line of ski tourers skinning up a broad snow slope in the High Atlas, bare brown ridges and a valley visible far below
Montagnes
High Atlas

Ski Touring and Splitboarding in the High Atlas

Skinning up 4,000-metre peaks with the Sahara on the horizon. The season, the routes off Toubkal and Oukaimeden, avalanche reality, what to bring, and why Morocco is the most underrated touring country in reach of Europe.

7 min de lecture
Vastes dunes ondulées près de Merzouga s'étendant jusqu'à l'horizon sous un ciel pâle
Désert
Sahara

Erg Chebbi ou Erg Chigaga : choisir son Sahara

Le Maroc a deux grandes mers de sable, et elles offrent des voyages réellement différents. On accède à l'une sur le goudron ; l'autre coûte soixante kilomètres de piste.

3 min de lecture
A desert bivouac at dusk — a lit canvas tent, a family sitting by the fire on rugs, dunes behind
Désert
Sahara

What a Bivouac Actually Is

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.

2 min de lecture
Saddled camels resting on the sand at low sun, dune slopes glowing behind them
Désert
Drâa Valley · Sahara

Nomad Trekking: Walking the Desert the Old Way

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.

3 min de lecture