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.