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Deserts
Désert d'Agafay
A trail worth the early start · Agafay, Morocco
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Oct–Apr. Summer daytime runs 38–42°C on open stone with no shade at all — in Jun–Aug only late afternoon and evening are survivableBest time
The experience
A reg — a stone desert of rubble-covered hills in white and ochre, not a sand desert — spread over several hundred hectares about 30 km from Marrakech on the first rise of the High Atlas. It was a caravan crossing on the old routes out of the city, and a seven-hectare oasis of eucalyptus, olives and vines survives in a wadi in the middle of it. You reach it from Marrakech on the P2014 toward the small town of Tameslouht. Walking is along the dried riverbeds and over the rolling plateau; the Atlas wall closes the southern horizon.
Half an hour from Jemaa el-Fnaa, a genuine stone desert with the whole High Atlas laid out along its far edge.
stone desertwhite and ochre hillsdry wadi bedsAtlas on the horizon
It's only worth the detour Oct–Apr. Summer daytime runs 38–42°C on open stone with no shade at all — in Jun–Aug only late afternoon and evening are survivable. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Agafay, Morocco · Agafay plateau, via Tameslouht (road P2014). Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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