Sunset camel ride in Agadir with transport, tea and cakes.

accueil chaleureux, moment, très agréable, rencontre superbe , prise en charge plus que correct, thé excellent ! balade paradisiaque ! parfait ! a réserver sans hésitation !

This was our last day in Agadir and a really enjoyable end to our trip. The guides were friendly and were happy to take lots of photos and give information on the local area. Overall a good experience. We were on the camels for at least an hour and half which was a good length of time but you definitely began to feel it in your lower back so worth beating in mind. Also make sure you have some notes with you to tip at the end.

The good parts: Our taxi driver was on time and friendly. Seeing the river at sunset was nice. The tea and biscuits afterwards were good. The guide that we had was friendly, but couldn't speak much English or French. The bad parts: I'll start with the worst one as it's most appropriate. In our camel-train, as we were crossing the final road, one of the camels with a tourist on the top got hit by a speeding car. The lady went through the car windshield. Miraculously she was unharmed apart from bruises. The camel walked away from it too. This seems to be a common problem as the first and last parts of the journey are down a service road and you can see the camels freak out when cars go past. I had a bad feeling on the first part of the journey where a camel in our precession was startled and nearly threw it's rider onto a fence at the side of the road. The guides hardly spoke any English and when the husband of the woman who was hit needed to get down to make sure she was okay, it took an intervention from me and several others to get the guide to let him get off. I will say this though - that man driving that car who hit the camel and tourist should be arrested and banned from driving for life. And the people organising the tour need to have proper safety procedures in place for crossing that road. That, or the route should be completely rethought. 2 hours is almost too much time on a camel when you're seeing absolutely nothing. Make it an hour, or make the route better. The ride back was dark and cold as expected just after sunset. Just make the route shorter and different. The eucalyptus forest was not a forest, it was several trees on route. The majority of the journey was down a service road next to what looked like the King's palace or a military installation with guards every 50 feet and cars going past. When we got to the river at sunset, it was overrun by tourists. On the route, we had to stop frequently to let other tour groups through. We were advertised as going on the beach, we were miles away from the beach and couldn't even see it. The language barrier made the aftermath really difficult. We kept getting asked if we had a good time afterwards, obviously as it was the only thing the guides could speak in English. The lady who served us tea afterwards was the only one who 'read the room' and saw we were all a bit shaken. She did as much as she could to communicate to us and the taxi drivers about what had happened. She handled the situation very well. There are many things at play here - The language barrier is the main problem. That contributed to the seeming lack of organisation as we weren't in the loop and also not being able to understand or communicate after the terrible events we witnessed. This was part of a birthday present for my girlfriend and she was seriously shaken up. Fortunately this wasn't on her actual birthday. The tour operator MUST take this seriously to ensure this NEVER happens again.