New Year's Eve Party in Sahara Desert, Morocco

Every New Year's Eve, we have a big party in the desert hotel or camp site in Sahara Desert, Morocco. Here's one of them, a party in Hotel Nasser Palace in Merzouga.

Fire in the courtyard

The party starts in the big courtyard with a swimming pool. The desert night is so cold, but doon't worry! Fire in huge drum cans make us warm.

New Year's Eve Dinner table

To celebrate the New Year's Eve, we have the dinner at a traditional style restaurants. The menus are harira soup, Moroccan salad, lamb tajine, and many sweets and fruits. Wines are also included.

Santa Claus appears

In the desert, Santa Clause comes on the New Year's Eve to give us presents. He will hand you a gift to each one of you!

Belly dancers

Belly dancing is also one of the highlights of the party. This time, 3 dancers arrived from Spain!

Traditional music

And don't forget our traditional music. You can never experience the same thing anywhere but here in the world. Please join them for playing drums, singing, or dancing.

Coundown fireworks

At the end of the countdown, the fireworks spark in the sky with the clear moon and stars.

New Year's Day

When the night is over, the desert is as quiet as usual and you can spend your New Year's Day in this cozy courtyard as long as you want.

New Year's decoration

At the end and the beginning of the year, the desert is always in the festive mood. In this place at this period, you will have a lifetime experience you will never forget for the rest of your life. This year end, come and join us to spend your last day of the year!

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New Year's Eve Party 2013 - 2014 in a Morocco Desert Hotel

Every year on 31 December, we're having New Year's Eve parties in hotels and camp sites in the Sahara Desert of Morocco.
Here's one of them, a desert hotel Nasser Palace's New Year's Eve party 2013 - 2014.

Couryard of the hotel

Once you get into the courtyard, it's so different.
This is the biggest night of the year in a desert town Merzouga.

Restaurant with New Year's decoration

We have a special New Year's Eve dinner in the restaurant. People from Europe, America, Asia, together enjoy traditional Morrocan food.

Berber music show

Berber music show with drums. Local Moroccans easily join the band. Why not you!?

Traditional tajine dish

Today's mail dish is tajine with ramb and prune. Usually Moroccans don't drink, but this tajine goes very well with red wine.

Cake for the New Year celebration

At the moment of countdown, celebration with fireworks and a big cake and fruit.

Music and dance never ends

Local Moroccans are good dancers. Music and dance goes on until the morning of the New Year Day comes!

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Morocco in Autumn, Desert, Marrakech, and Chefchaouen!

We've got a good feedback from our customers again!
Here's what they say:

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It was our first visit to a country in Africa, and we really enjoyed it.
We had the same driver all through our tour and he was very helpful.

When we wanted to go to a supermarket, he just came with us.
During the driving, he always stopped where we wanted to take photos.
He also explained what the places are, where we are going.
Thanks to him, we enjoyed all the places we visited. Sightseeing, shopping, everything was wonderful.

In Marrakech, we got lost often but it was an exciting experience.
At the shops in souk, we negotiated the prices and we could buy more than we expected.
Also we enjoyed food stalls in Jemaa el Fna.

Desert Dune in Merzouga

In Merzouga, we enjoyed our first camel trekking!
At the camping site, we climbed up high on the dune and the camel boy helped us get to the top. From there, we had a great view of the sunrise.

In Chefchaouen, we walked around with a local guide and he actually took us all the places we needed to see. We had a chance to talk with some locals and now we are Facebook friends!

Thank you for making our tour great and something special.

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Luxury Desert Tent with Shower and Toilet

Interested in spending a night in a desert camp.
But no way for a 1 or 2 hours camel ride.
And it doesn't sound so good, "no shower, no toilet."

If you think like this, why not trying a "VIP tent" near desert hotels?
You can get here by 4x4 car.
They have water, so you can wash your hands, take a shower, and the toilet flushes.
In this way, you're still in the middle of desert!


This is how the VIP tent looks like. It has doors!


Among tents, there's a way made by carpets and bright with candle lights at night.


You sleep in a big bed in the tent. So comfortable, just like a hotel room.


Toilet, shower, and you can wash your face and hands.


If you visit another tent, the color is different.


A big tent for dinner and you could enjoy music show here. If you add poles, Berber tents can get bigger just like you want.

You can try VIP tent with our desert tours such as:
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Meet Our Camels! Funny Guys in the Desert

Camels are our important assets. Usually camel trekking is so popular among tourists and in the busy time, we could be in short of camels even hotel rooms are still available!


Camels in Morocco are rather small and quiet. Easy to ride even for children.


They follow the directions of camel boys just like dogs. So clever!


After the morning sunrise tour, also breakfast time for camels. One is waiting for the other one to finish. Maybe this one is polite.


Or they are just so close.


Camels' legs are very thin and long. And their neck is rather long, it reaches the ground. They are so carefree, never mind who is around them, just like Moroccans :-)

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More about Desert with Merzouga 4WD Driving!

Desert camping with camel is not the only attraction in Merzouga.
If you get in there with a 4WD car, you'll fine more about amazing desert nature.
Let's go deep into the desert with us!


Petrol station with a supermarket in the desert. Our 4WD with filled petrol will take us to the desert, with no one around!


Some people have heard about this strange place. There's a big lake in the middle of the desert and you can see birds arrving here, sometimes it's flamingos. No tree. Only some short grasses are around there.


Stop by an African village to enjoy gnawa music show. Gnawa is an African Islamic traditional music and now it's quite popular in Morocco.


When it rains, there's a river here. But usually, it's just dry like this, something called wadi (dried river).


Over the great view of the dried river, local boys are selling stones and minerals on top pf the hill. Precious stones and minerals are local specialties of this area.


Modern Merzouga town was firstly developed by European military. Now the town was moved and the old place is still there just like ruins.


Here's a big mine in the desert. Various kinds of precious stones are minerals are digged and processed here.


This worker has very specific skills of taking our precious stones. You can actually see how they work.


Time for lunch! Berber tent is cool even in the shiny desert weather.


Salad, brochette (broiled meat) or tajine are served here. Very relaxing afternoon time is passing in the shadowy Berber tent.


And a long driving before you get to the Merzouga town. There are no roads and no signs in the desert but the drivers somehow know how to get the right directions. They are naturally trained in the desert.

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Desert City Erfoud, Our Hometown

Erfoud is located at the entrance of the vast Sahara desert.
Desert sunrise and sunset tours start here and you can enjoy nice relaxing holidays along a hotel pool side.
Here I'd like to show you a little about our town, where local people live.


This is the gate to our souk. In each city, souk is surround by walls and it has gates. Each one is unique, just like this one.


You can find an orange juice stall near the souk. In Morocco, fresh juices taste better than ice creams.


Inside the streets, local people's houses are there. Many of them are painted in rose color. Take a look at the window decorations!


Usually entrance doors are worth watching. Beautiful bright green.


This is a hotel entrance. Also the doors are very impressive.


Just 15 or 20 minutes walk from the center, you'll see a vast desert in front of you. And you realize you're now exactly in the middle of the desert.

Let's go and find the desert with us!
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Walk on the Fossils in the Desert!

Our city Erfoud is world-famous for its fossil mines & quarries, and small factories in town are processing fossil stones everyday to make tables, trays, and accessories.
If you have a chance to stay in Erfoud, please experience the fossil world!


Many of the fossil processing is still a hand-made work. If you go to one of the factories, you can actually see how the stones are cut, and how to shape tables and trays.


Gift products are sent to shops all around Morocco from Erfoud factories. None of them has the same shape or the same pattern. if you buy one, that's the only one in the world!


When you go ahead to mines and quarries in the desert, you'll see big mountains and sometimes kasbahs which were built long time ago. This one was made for some kind of military purposes. It's totally a ruin but we can still get to the half of the watch tower.


Near the mines and quarries, you can find a traditional Berber style guesthouse. Have a tea for a break!


Near the quarry, ancient ammonites and squids are everywhere, just under your steps.


Sunset in the desert is always amazing, the sky changes the color a little by little. You can feel lucky just by seeing these beautiful sunsets.

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Don't Miss the Pyramid in Morocco!

Just by half an hour drive from Erfoud in Morocco, you'll find great monuments which you may never have seen before. We'll show you around!


In the middle of the desert, you'll find several huts which have stairs to the underground.


In the underground, you'll find big pipes where water was running a long time ago. Berber people brought water with these underground pipes to their oasis to make plants and vegetables.


If you go further into the desert this underground waterpipes, you'll meet huge monuments in the desert. It actually is artificial, but it's in the middle of nowhere! Who made this? For what? How?


This is an art of work by a German artist, Hannsjörg Voth. It had been his dream to complete his artworks in the vast desert and he did it in Morocco. He also made his rooms in this artwork, "Sky Stairs." You could actually live here if you find electricity and water.


And this is not the only thing! He made another two! This is called "Golden Spiral." It also has rooms inside but it's not open to public.


And the third one is here, "The City of Orion." This is a complex of different style buildings and some of them look like watchtowers.

This is a very interesting unique experience. Why don't you visit there with us?
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And Hannsjörg Voth's website is here.

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