We don't sell desert tours. We share a homecoming.
Private & group journeys through Erg Chebbi, Merzouga — led by those who call the Sahara home.
Your host, Ali Ouras
Before the desert tours, before the camels and the campfires — there was a guesthouse. And a man who simply loved welcoming strangers like family. Ali Ouras is an Airbnb Superhost. Not the kind you earn by ticking boxes. The kind you earn by showing up, again and again — with fresh mint tea at midnight for a delayed arrival, with a story when the power cuts out, with the quiet instinct that knows when a guest needs company and when they need silence. Five-star reviews. Countless return visitors. But the real measure of a Superhost isn't the rating. It's the moment a guest says, "I came for the desert, but I'll come back for you." That same warmth now shapes every Trips Nomad experience. Whether you're on a private camel trek or sharing tea under the stars, Ali is the thread that holds it all together. Not as a guide — as a host. As someone who has spent his life perfecting the art of making you feel like you belong. Come as a traveler. Leave as a friend. That's how it's always been.
Born around a fire in Merzouga:
Trips Nomad was born not in an office, but where the dunes rise like sleeping giants from the earth and the stars don't just shine, they arrive.
Ali Ouras grew up in this land. He learned the dunes before he learned school. As a boy, he would walk barefoot across the cooling sand at twilight, listening to the camels settle and the tea being poured from a height, watching the same golden light his father watched, and his grandfather before him.
Strangers came to the desert with cameras and itineraries and tight schedules. They saw the Sahara. But they didn't always feel it.
So Ali built something different. Not a tour company — an invitation.
What We Do:
We're a small, family-run tour operator based in Merzouga. Every tour is private and fully customizable — no big buses, no fixed schedules, no scripted commentary. Just you, your group, and a guide who treats you like family.
We offer:
- 3 to 10-day desert tours across Morocco.
- Camel treks at sunset and sunrise
Overnight stays in luxury desert camps. - Imperial city tours (Marrakech, Fes, Casablanca, Rabat).
- Atlas Mountain drives, gorges, kasbahs, and Berber villages
- Pickup from anywhere — Marrakech, Fes, Casablanca, or Rabat.
What you'll experience
Private desert journeys — Just you, your people, and the vast quiet of Erg Chebbi. No strangers. No fixed script. Every trip shaped around your pace. Group tours with heart — Small, intimate groups where the desert becomes a shared secret. Arrive as travelers, leave as something closer to family. Sunset that stays with you — Not the photograph. The feeling. The moment the last sliver of sun disappears and the entire desert exhales — that's what you carry home. Moroccan hospitality, unfiltered — Meals cooked slow over open flame. Bread baked in the sand. Music drifting from behind the tents. This is not a performance. This is how we live.
Why Merzouga?
This is the Sahara at its most honest. Erg Chebbi is not the easiest place to reach — it takes intention, winding roads, a willingness to leave the highway behind. But when you crest that final rise and the dunes appear — towering, golden, impossibly vast — you'll understand.
This is the desert that teaches you to breathe again.
Come as you are
You don't need to be an adventurer. You don't need to speak the language. You only need to be willing — to sit in the quiet, to let the pace of the desert become your own, and to accept a second glass of tea when it's offered. Because out here, the kettle is always warm.
Find us in the Sahara
📍 Errachidia, Merzouga 52202, Morocco
📞+212-634-087-126
Trips Nomad — Private & group desert Tours around Morocco .