Marrakech: Agafay Sunset Quad, Camel Ride & Dinner
★ 4.9 · 13 799 reviews
- Six hours, Sunset quad and camel ride
- Fire show under the stars
- Atlas Mountain views
- Free cancellation
A Camel Tour Marrakech booking gives you an Agafay Desert evening with dinner at camp. We compared 13 tours from $17, all with free cancellation, and the top tour rates 4.9 from 13,799 reviews. Your money includes a traditional Moroccan dinner at camp.
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Agafay evening$17
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All 13 tours47
129,398 verified reviews across 13 tours
Start to finish
Shortest to longest2–6h
Shortest: Camel Ride in the Oasis
Longest: Agafay Quad Tour
Choose your tour
Thirteen trips from Marrakech that include a camel ride: Agafay evenings with dinner from $17, a two-hour ride in the Palmeraie, Atlas Mountains day trips and a half-day quad and camel tour. Five of the Agafay evenings are built around sunset in Marrakech’s rocky Agafay Desert, 40 minutes to an hour away by road.
★ 4.9 · 13 799 reviews
★ 4.8 · 40 655 reviews
★ 4.6 · 38 649 reviews
★ 4.8 · 5 902 reviews
★ 4.6 · 5 338 reviews
★ 4.8 · 5 171 reviews
★ 4.8 · 4 743 reviews
★ 4.6 · 3 613 reviews
★ 4.8 · 3 521 reviews
★ 4.6 · 2 382 reviews
★ 4.7 · 1 832 reviews
★ 4.9 · 1 390 reviews
★ 4.5 · 2 403 reviews
Still deciding?
Thirteen listings, but a handful of different days. Searching for a Palmeraie Marrakech sunset? Know this first: the two-hour Palmeraie ride is about palm groves and villages, while the listings that name a sunset are evenings in the Agafay Desert, with a camel, often a quad, and dinner. The rest are mostly Atlas day trips. Pick what matters and we will point at one.
See it before you pay for it
Four photographs from travellers on these trips — the ride on stony ground, camels resting by the palms, riders lining up for the quads, and the fire show after dinner.
Stony, open ground. The listings call the Agafay rocky, and it is.
Want a Marrakech palm grove sunset? The Palmeraie listing names no hour; check start times.
Helmets on, bikes in a row, on stony ground.
Five of the Agafay evenings end with a fire show.
Side by side
These three share a camel ride and little else. The Agafay evening wraps a quad ride, a camel ride and dinner around a Marrakech Morocco sunset, six hours door to door. The Palmeraie ride is two hours among the palm groves. The Imlil day spends 7.5 hours in the High Atlas, with camels along the way.
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| Marrakech: Camel Ride in the Oasis Palmeraie | TOP PICKMarrakech: Agafay Sunset Quad, Camel Ride & Dinner | Marrakech: Atlas Mountains Day Trip with Camel Ride, Imlil | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per person | $21 | $29 | $11 |
| Whole outing, door to door | 2 hours | 6 hours | 7.5 hours |
| Cost per hour, door to door | $10.50 | $4.83 | $1.47 |
| Camel ride, as listed | 1 hour | Length not given | Length not given |
| Where you ride | Palmeraie palm groves | Agafay Desert | Moulay Brahim, on the Atlas route |
| Also on the day | Palmeraie villages, local tea | Sunset quad, dinner, fire show | Imlil Valley, Berber villages |
| Hotel pickup | Listed | Listed | Listed |
| Rating | 4.6 · 5,338 | 4.9 · 13,799 | 4.8 · 4,743 |
| Best for | Camels only, with little time | One full desert evening | Mountains first, camels second |
| Check dates | Book this one→ | Check dates |
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Verdict
It gives you the whole Agafay evening in one booking: a sunset quad ride, a camel ride, dinner and a fire show, with hotel pickup listed. 13,799 reviewers rate it 4.9. Short on time? The two-hour Palmeraie ride costs $21, but if you want a Palmeraie Marrakech palm grove sunset, check its start times first: the listing does not promise one.
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The listings describe Agafay as rocky: vast, stony landscapes with Atlas Mountain views, about 40 minutes to an hour from Marrakech. Picture that, not rolling sand. And read the hours on each listing as the whole outing with the drive: where a listing states the camel part, it is 15 or 20 minutes in Agafay and one hour in the Palmeraie.
Two-minute check
Three things decide it here: how much of the day you can give, whether you want a quad as well, and what you came to see. Answer three questions before you pay.
How much of the day can you give it?Listing times are the whole trip, hotel pickup included
Do you want a quad bike as well?Seven of the eight Agafay evenings add a quad to the camel
What do you most want to see?This is the answer that picks your listing
You’ll get the one that fits your answers, and the thing about it that catches people out.
What travellers say
Ratings and review counts come from the live listings. The score below weights each listing’s rating by its number of reviews, and the quotes are travellers’ own words.
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All thirteen camel tours on this page, rated on the live listings.
Read all 129,398→Quad, camel and dinner show
$25 · 40,655 reviews
★★★★★
A quad, a 15-minute camel ride at sunset, dinner and a fire show, seven hours with the transfer. Rated 4.8. “100% worth the money!” — Murat, Portugal
Camel, sunset and dinner
$18 · 38,649 reviews
★★★★★
A 20-minute camel ride along an ancient Berber path, sunset, then dinner and Berber music at a desert camp. Five hours in all. Rated 4.6. “…dinner , sunset and the entertainment was breathtaking” — Farah, United Kingdom
Sunset quad, camel and dinner
$29 · 13,799 reviews
★★★★★
Sunset quad biking, a camel ride and a Moroccan dinner in the rocky Agafay, then a fire show with Atlas Mountain views. Six hours with the transfer. Rated 4.9. “The quad was very cool and the camel very chilling.” — Marifer, Mexico
Camel ride in the Palmeraie
$21 · 5,338 reviews
★★★★★
A one-hour camel ride through the palm groves and villages of the Palmeraie, with local tea, on a shared tour. Rated 4.6. “The kids loved it and so did the adults from start to finish” — Chantelle, United Kingdom
Double quad and camel
$21 · 3,521 reviews
★★★★★
A double quad you can ride as two, a 20-minute dromedary ride on rocky Agafay ground, then dinner, live music and a fire show. Rated 4.8. “Overall excellent value for money and a great day out.” — Natalie, United Kingdom
Atlas day with a camel ride
$11 · 4,743 reviews
★★★★★
Seven and a half hours: the Imlil Valley, Berber villages and views of Mount Toubkal, with a camel ride in the day. Rated 4.8. “the car was very comfortable, and the price is incredible.” — Aiden, United States
What it really costs
Every listing names hotel pickup, and its hours cover the whole trip. Agafay evenings with a camel start at $17. The Atlas day trips at $11 and $14 cost less, but there the camel is one stop in a long day.
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| What you book | Price | What that buys | How long, with transfer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmeraie camel ride | $21 | An hour on a camel in the palm groves, local tea, pickup | 2 hours |
| Agafay camel, sunset and dinner | $18 | A 20-minute camel ride, dinner and Berber music at a camp | 5 hours |
| Agafay quad, camel and dinner | $17–$39 | A quad, a camel ride, dinner, and on most a fire show | 6–7 hours |
| Half-day quad and dromedary | $68 | A dromedary ride among the palms to a Berber village, then a quad | 4 hours |
| Atlas day trip with a camel ride | $11–$28 | Berber villages, Imlil or waterfalls, a camel ride along the way | 7.5–9 hours |
The honest answer
For most people, yes, if you know what you are buying. In the Agafay the camel is 15 to 20 minutes of a five-to-seven-hour evening that also brings dinner, and usually a quad and a show. Want longer on the camel itself? The Palmeraie ride gives you an hour of it.
The evening, hour by hour
Pickup is named on every Agafay evening. The times below follow the one listing that gives each part a length; yours may run in a different order.
Forty minutes to an hour from the city, the listings say. Some stop on the way: an argan oil cooperative, or Lalla Takerkoust on our top pick.
Forty minutes on a quad across stony ground, with the Atlas Mountains along the skyline. On the double quad listing, two of you share one bike.
Fifteen to twenty minutes on a dromedary where the listing states it, timed for the late light.
The timed itinerary gives the sunset thirty minutes. The listings plan for it; the weather decides what it looks like.
A traditional Moroccan dinner, an hour on the listing that times it.
Berber music, a dance show or a fire show, depending on the listing; the timed itinerary gives the show thirty minutes.
Five to seven hours after pickup, depending on the listing, you are back in the city.
Best time of day
If you are after the best sunset Marrakech has to offer from the back of a camel, the Agafay evenings are built around the end of the day: five of the eight name the sunset in their own description, then dinner and the show follow. The sky decides the colours, so take it as a bonus rather than a promise. The Palmeraie ride is two hours in all and fits around the rest of your day; the Atlas trips fill the whole day.
On the ground
Forty minutes on the quad, where the listing states it.
Every Agafay evening here ends with a Moroccan dinner.
Two Atlas day trips list waterfalls; one adds a guided hike.
The Imlil day trip lists views of Mount Toubkal.
What it's like
Most camel tours from Marrakech are really evenings out. A pickup from your hotel, a quad bike, a short camel ride, dinner and a show, and you are back in the city the same night. It helps to know that before you compare prices, because the hours on a listing are the whole evening, drive included, not the time in the saddle.
The evening happens in the Agafay, a stony desert that the listings put forty minutes to an hour’s drive from Marrakech. The ground is gravel and bare hills, and the Atlas Mountains stand along the horizon. Several trips stop on the way out, at an argan oil cooperative or, on our top pick, at Lalla Takerkoust.
Then the quad, if your listing has one: forty minutes where the listing gives the time. The camel ride is shorter than people expect, fifteen minutes on the most reviewed evening and twenty on two others. One reviewer from Portugal called the camel ride the dull part and the quad the best of the day, which is worth knowing if the camel is why you came.
Five of the eight Agafay evenings name the sunset in their own description, and two call their camel ride a sunset camel trek. Dinner follows, with live Berber music, a fire show or both, and the listings that mention the stars set the meal under them.
If the camel is the point, the Palmeraie is the better answer. The ride there lasts an hour, the longest camel time any listing on this page names, through palm groves and orange trees on the edge of the city, with mint tea in a nomadic area. The whole outing takes two hours. One reviewer from the UK booked it after an Agafay evening because her daughter wanted a longer ride on the camels.
The Atlas day trips are a different day altogether: seven and a half to nine hours in the mountains, Berber villages, the Imlil Valley, a waterfall hike on one of them, and a camel ride as one stop along the way. Two of them carry the lowest prices on the page, and the camel is the smallest part of what you pay for.
There is a shorter mix as well: a half-day tour of four hours that starts with a dromedary ride among the palms to a Berber village, with a tea break, and then puts you on the quad. At $68 it is the highest price on the page.
So the choice is less about the operator and more about the kind of day. An Agafay evening if you want the quad, the sunset and the dinner; the Palmeraie if you want time on the camel; the Atlas if the mountains are the reason you came.
While you're in Marrakech
These three swap the desert evening for a full day in the High Atlas: Berber villages, the Imlil Valley or waterfalls, and a camel ride as one stop along the way.
7.5 hours · ★ 4.8 (4 743)
$11See dates
9 hours · ★ 4.8 (5 171)
$14See dates
8 hours · ★ 4.9 (1 390)
$28See datesPractical
The thirteen listings fall into four kinds of trip. Choose the kind first, then the listing: the hours, the time on the camel and what comes with it differ far more between kinds than within them.
Eight listings take you to the Agafay for the evening, five to seven hours door to door, from $17 to $39.
The listings put the Agafay 40 minutes to an hour’s drive from Marrakech. Hotel pickup is listed on all eight.
The listings describe stony, rocky ground with the Atlas Mountains on the horizon. It is open country, not soft sand.
Five of the eight name the sunset in their own description. The other three centre on dinner under the stars and the show.
Each of the eight ends with dinner, with live music, a fire show or both.
Some stop on the drive: an argan oil cooperative on several, Lalla Takerkoust on our top pick.
Where a listing gives the quad time, it is 40 minutes: the most reviewed evening and the double quad tour both say so.
The camel ride on those evenings is shorter: 15 minutes on the most reviewed listing, 20 on the double quad tour.
One listing offers a double quad bike, so two people can share one machine on the same ride, at $21.
A four-hour quad and dromedary tour at $68, with a ride among the palms, a Berber village and a tea break.
The starlit dinner listing names a camel in its title but not in its description. Book it for the quad, the dinner and the music.
The lowest-priced Agafay evening, at $17, names a pool in its title next to the quad, the sunset camel trek and the fire show.
The Palmeraie listing names a one-hour camel ride, the longest camel time any listing on this page states.
The whole outing, drive included, is two hours, so it fits around a day in the city.
The route runs through the palm groves and villages of the Palmeraie, past orange trees, on the edge of Marrakech.
The listing stops for mint tea in a nomadic area.
It runs as a shared tour, at $21.
An Agafay evening gives you 15 to 20 minutes on the camel where the listing says; here the camel is the whole outing.
Three listings spend 7.5 to 9 hours in the Atlas Mountains; the camel ride is one stop of the day.
The $11 trip goes to the Imlil Valley and Berber villages, with views of Mount Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa.
The $14 trip joins both: Imlil, the Kik Plateau, tea and a camel ride in the Agafay, then Lalla Takerkoust.
The $28 trip adds a guided hike to waterfalls and a meal in a local home.
The Atlas and Agafay trip serves a meal on a rooftop overlooking the Imlil Valley.
The same trip is limited to 12 participants, the one group size any listing here states.
Best time
What you choose here is the time of day rather than the month. The bars show how much choice each slot gives you among the thirteen listings.
Sunset and dinner
Eight listings, five to seven hours door to door: a quad or a camel ride towards the end of the day, then dinner with music or a fire show.
Two hours
One listing: an hour on the camel through the palm groves, with mint tea on the way, and the rest of your day left open.
All day
Three listings, 7.5 to 9 hours, with Berber villages, mountain roads and a short camel ride as one stop of the day.
Four hours
One listing: a dromedary ride among the palms to a Berber village, a tea break, then the quad. Four hours in all.
Worth knowing
The hours on a listing are the whole outing. Six hours for an Agafay evening covers the drive both ways, the quad, dinner and the show. The camel part, where stated, is 15 to 20 minutes.
If the camel matters most, book the Palmeraie. Its one-hour ride is the longest camel time any listing here states, and the outing is two hours in all.
The Agafay is rocky. The listings say so themselves. Expect gravel, bare hills and the Atlas on the horizon rather than deep sand.
Nobody stays the night. None of the thirteen includes a night in the desert; each trip brings you back to Marrakech the same day.
Argan oil is a common stop. Several Agafay evenings stop at an argan oil cooperative on the drive out, and the double quad tour gives it 30 minutes in its route.
Send your exact hotel address. Pickup is listed on all thirteen, but one reviewer’s hotel sat just outside the pickup zone and paid extra to be collected.
Not an evening out
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Common questions
An Agafay evening starts at $17: a quad, a sunset camel trek, dinner and a fire show, six hours with the drive. The two-hour Palmeraie ride is $21. Two full-day Atlas trips cost less, $11 and $14, but there the camel ride is a short stop in a day in the mountains.
It depends on what you want from the camel. The Palmeraie ride is an hour on the camel through palm groves, two hours in all, at $21. An Agafay evening gives you 15 to 20 minutes on the camel where the listing says, but adds a quad, the sunset, dinner and a show over five to seven hours.
Shorter than the listing hours suggest. Where a listing states it, the camel ride is 15 minutes on the most reviewed evening and 20 minutes on two others. The five to seven hours on an Agafay listing cover the whole evening: the drive, the quad, the ride, dinner and the show.
No. The listings describe it as rocky: gravel plains and bare hills with the Atlas Mountains on the horizon. If you are picturing deep sand, this is not it, and none of these thirteen trips includes a night in the desert.
The listings put it 40 minutes to an hour’s drive from the city. That drive is counted in the hours each listing quotes, so an evening of five to seven hours includes up to two hours on the road, there and back.
Yes: all thirteen listings show pickup included in their key details, and the drive is counted in the hours they quote. Pickup areas differ by operator, so give your exact address when you book.
On one listing, yes. The Agafay quad tour with camel ride, dinner and show offers a double quad bike, so two people ride one machine. It runs six hours at $21, with 40 minutes on the quad and a 20-minute ride on a dromedary.
The Agafay quad and camel rides with dinner show, with 40,655 reviews at 4.8; the next listing has 38,649. Our top pick is a different one: the Agafay sunset quad, camel ride and dinner at $29, rated 4.9 across 13,799 reviews.
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Why trust this page
Prices, ratings, durations and what each trip includes are read off the live listings, and updated with the page.
Thirteen camel tours bookable from Marrakech are on this page, from the Palmeraie to the Atlas. Nobody pays to be featured.
A listing’s hours cover the whole outing, drive included. Where a listing names the minutes on the camel, we quote them; where it does not, we say nothing.
The Agafay is a stony desert, and we describe it that way rather than sell a picture the evening will not match.
The answer
A quad, a camel ride, the sunset and dinner with a fire show, and you are back in Marrakech the same night. Our pick is the sunset quad, camel ride and dinner at $29, rated 4.9 across 13,799 reviews. If you would rather spend longer on the camel, the Palmeraie ride is two hours in all.
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