A local agency in Morocco
We are the Sahara Viajes team, a local Amazigh agency based in Rissani — old Sijilmasa, where the caravans came in off the sand. These are the routes we drive ourselves: day by day, with the real costs and the advice we would give a friend.
Based in Rissani — old Sijilmasa — thirty minutes from Erg Chebbi. We drive these routes ourselves.
Your own vehicle and driver-guide. We never merge you with another booking.
On most routes you pay when you arrive. The quote is closed before you commit.
Where it matters, we build in a full desert day instead of a sunrise and a goodbye.
Choose your length
Every route below is private, starts where your flight lands, and can be reversed or reshaped. Prices are per person, and most routes are paid on arrival.
Who you're booking with
Rissani was not always called that. This was Sijilmasa, founded in 757 in the Tafilalet oasis, and for centuries it was the last city before the sand — where caravans loaded up to cross the Sahara and where they came back months later.
Gold came north through this gate, along with salt from the mines at Taghaza — once worth its weight in gold — and thousands of enslaved people, on a route linking Morocco to what Arab chroniclers called bilad as-Sudan, the lands south of the desert rather than the modern country of that name. The mud-brick ruins still stand outside town, and the souk still opens on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
We are from here. We grew up in the earthen ksour of the Tafilalet and started out driving for other agencies, learning where the sixty-seat coaches stop and how to avoid them. We set up on our own with one rule: show the country the way we would show it to a friend who came to stay.
Whenever you're ready, message us. The tea is on us.
No obligation
We reply in English, usually within the hour. If you're still deciding between routes, say so — helping you choose is the job.
Or message us directly on WhatsApp: +212 670 343 180
