8-Day Yoga & Desert Journey in Erg Chigaga

Met at the airport and taken to a traditional riad inside the old Medina. The afternoon is a guided walk through the souks, the artisan quarters and Jemaa el-Fnaa, with time to settle in before the road south. No yoga today, the journey starts tomorrow. Dinner and the night in the riad.

An early start south across the High Atlas, with photo and tea stops in the Berber villages below the pass. After lunch the country dries out towards Foum Zguid, the last village before the Sahara, where the group swaps the minibus for prepared 4x4s and crosses fossil plains and the edge of Lake Iriqui on desert tracks.

Camp by late afternoon, the first yoga session before sunset, then dinner and stories around the fire. First night in a nomadic-style tent.

A relaxed walk at the group's own pace through sandy plains, acacia and small dunes, on the paths nomads actually use. The support 4x4 stays close all day with water, picnic, luggage and a seat for anyone who would rather ride.

Walking beside local nomads is the point of the day: their hospitality, how they read the land, how a family lives out here. Lunch in the shade of desert trees, camp by evening, yoga before sunset, music after dinner.

The walk keeps moving towards Erg Chigaga while the guide explains how the Sahara has always been crossed, stars, wind, the silhouette of distant mountains, without roads or maps.

In the afternoon the cooking: sand bread baked under hot sand and embers, and a Madfouna, the Berber pizza, made and eaten with the nomadic team. Sunset yoga at the new camp, then fire, storytelling and silence.

Onto the dunes themselves: the widest sea of sand in Morocco and the quietest ground on this route. The walking stays gentle, with stops to sit, meditate or do nothing much, and the 4x4 always within reach.

Yoga from one of the highest dunes as the sun goes down; after dinner the guide reads the sky and shows how nomadic families have navigated by these stars for centuries. Night in the heart of Erg Chigaga.

A slow walk to small seasonal settlements where families live with their goats and camels: mint tea, questions, the crafts that keep a camp running. The guide covers edible and medicinal plants, desert wildlife, and the balance that lets life hold on here.

Free afternoon for meditation, journaling or another session among the dunes, then the farewell dinner with traditional music around the fire.

Sunrise on the dunes, then the 4x4 across the dry bed of Lake Iriqui and the off-road country to Foum Zguid, where the minibus is waiting. North through the changing country with lunch and photo stops in the High Atlas, and into Marrakech by late afternoon.

Riad in the Medina, and a free evening for a last dinner or a walk through the city.

A last morning in the Medina if the flight allows, a walk, coffee, shopping for whatever was forgotten, then the private transfer to Marrakech airport and the end of the journey.