Le Mirage Desert camp 3.19

With it’s lavishly decorated Caidale tents, the Luxury Desert Camp, used to access wild parts of Southern Morocco, is probably one of the more beautiful Sahara desert camps you’re likely to find anywhere, however it still retains a refreshing simplicity with a design aimed squarely at supporting exciting safaris journeys. The camp is set up privately for you and can be used to great effect to explore off the beaten track in the Atlas, Anti Atlas, the desert regions close to the Algerian border and along the Atlantic coast. Compared to the simpler Desert Light Mobile the camp is altogether more substantial, with proper beds, sheets and duvets and large Caidale sleeping tents with coloured linings and space to walk around (and swing a good sized cat) in side.
The trade off that comes with this scale is, unsurprisingly, portability. While the camp is still a mobile one, the equipment is too bulky to be carried by mule or camel, so this camp isn’t one that can be used anywhere that can’t be accessed by 4x4. However this still leaves extensive stretches of tantalizingly beautiful wilderness and wont impinge on the plans of any but the most intrepid. The camp is staffed by a small team of Berbers who are hospitable and immensely proficient at running the camp. As it turns out they’re also very good at football, despite the apparent handicap of the djellaba which surely can’t have been designed with ball sports in mind. Food is of a good standard, but simple and typical for this part of Morocco; harira soup, Tagines, flat bread and fruit from Agadir on the coast.