Auberge Sahara – English

Sahara Inn “Auberge Sahara” is an hotel built on the edge of Erg Chebbi dunes by Bourchok brothers. The hotel is located on the most well-known and attractive oasis in the region of Merzouga owing to its special characteristics of having the highest dates palm trees and to be the preferred site for quite a lot of international movies like “The Secret of Sahara”, “Marrakech Express”, “Operation Condor”…

The dunes of Merzouga, Erg Chebbi Dunes are a natural oasis which by word means a remote area of vegetation in a desert, usually nearby a natural spring or water source. Ancient stories tell that the creation of the biggest dunes of Morocco, Erg Chebbi, come up by God’s punishment of local wealthy families that although having a festivity eating couscous, meat, fruit, washing hands with milk, while having a prosper and enormous feast, refused to help a poor woman and her children and let them come into the party. From that time on and until the dunes got their permanent form, continuous sand storms and extreme heat brought sand at what are today’s serene dunes of Erg Chebbi, that arrive at its highest point at 160m altitude. In the summer this is the ideal place to relax in the shade or alleviate yourself from rheumatism with a sand hot bath, where you stay covered by pure sand for a few moments.