The big western erg is a continent of dunes. At the verge of the big erg and the arid cliff foot a rosary of palm grove forms a stream of greenery. Is born Timimoun, the oasis most important of the Gourar, of this green torrent. It is characterized by an architecture of Sudanese type.
Dunes of the big western erg can reach until 120 ms of height and can culminate of 673 ms. This one is delimited at the north by the Saharan Atlas, at the East by the Me Zab, to the south by the tray of the tadmaït and to the west by oases of the Touat and the Saoura wadi.
To the foot of Timimoun spreads the sebkha, old salty lake, today in dry, fields of harvest and beautiful roses of sands. To the heart of the erg, many villages oases with often of big chùs nowadays again, is maintained one ancestral life style.
The architecture, the legendary hospitality, the handicraft... make of the Gourar a region that attracts many visitors. A region where the displacement in camel racing is customary.

Day 1:
Reception to the airport of Timimoun. You are transported directly in 4x4 toward your first bivouac to Aghlad where is camel driver and camels.

Day 2 to 6:
Formation of the caravan and departure through the big western erg culminating to more than 600 ms where dunes appear grouped soon in compact massifs, soon aligned in parallel linkages separated by big passageways. You will nearly discover in a silence palpable, most beautiful oases and ksourses where fashions of ancestral lives are preserved. The itinerary is suggested thus: Annoys Sandjane, Tanza, Bordj Aïssi, Teghnaya and end of El Mabruk for the last bivouac in dunes.

Day 7:
Return on Tmimoun in 4x4 and set-up to the camp. Visit of the city (Ksar, museum, oases). Night at Timimoun.

Day 8:
Morning in city then transfer to the airport of Timimoun for the embarking.

Training French-speaking touaregs.
Mattress foams well stocked.
Portage: by camels
Level: for all (about 4 HS of march per day)