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Sand, dust and full throttle.
Reviews of the best quad, ATV and dune-buggy rides on earth, destination by destination. Dubai’s red dunes and the Agafay desert, Punta Cana’s jungle mud and Cappadocia’s valleys. Find the ride that fits your trip, then book the operator that actually delivers.
Worth the airfare
Three rides that belong to one place only.
You can rent a quad almost anywhere now. But bashing the Red Dunes outside Dubai, crossing the stony Agafay below the Atlas, and tearing through Dominican jungle to Macao beach are terrain those three places own outright.
The Red Dunes
Dune Bashing in Dubai
Nowhere else puts dunes this big this close to a skyline. You drop off the tarmac into the Red Dunes south of the city, climb soft faces that fall away on the far side, then take a quad out across the open sand. Most rides end at a desert camp as the light goes amber, with the engines off and the dunes glowing.
- 1 Dubai: Desert Safari, Quad Bike, Camel Ride & Al Khayma Camp
- 2 Dubai: Desert Safari, Quad Bike, Camel Ride and Sandboarding
- 3 Dubai: Safari, Quad Bike, Camel Ride, and Buffet Dinner
The Agafay desert
Quads Across the Agafay
Half an hour from the Marrakech medina the city stops and the Agafay begins: a stony, lunar desert of rolling hills with the snow-topped Atlas on the horizon. You ride quads over hard-packed tracks and dry riverbeds, past Berber villages and camel trains, then pull in for mint tea where the only sound is the wind.
- 1 Marrakech: Agafay Desert Quad & Camel Rides with Dinner Show
- 2 Marrakech: Agafay Desert Quad Biking Tour with Dinner-Show
- 3 Marrakech: Quad Bike Tour to Palm Oasis and Jbilat Desert
Jungle and surf
Buggies in Punta Cana
This is mud, not sand. You take a buggy or quad off the resort strip and into the Dominican backcountry: cane fields, rutted jungle tracks, a cacao or coffee stop, a swim in a cave cenote, and a finish on the wide sand of Macao beach with the spray coming over the dunes.
- 1 Punta Cana Dune Buggy Adventure and Amazing Water Cave
- 2 Half-Day Adventure 4×4 ATV, Water Cave and Dominican Culture
- 3 Half-Day Buggy Tour to Water Cave and Macao Beach
The ride everyone books
If you only do one ride.
More travellers reach for this one than anything else on the site. A safe first booking when you want sand under the tyres and a story to take home.
The classics
The World’s Most Booked ATV Rides
Dubai, Punta Cana, Marrakech, Hurghada. The dune safaris and jungle buggy runs travellers reach for first, in the places built for getting off the road.
Where to ride
Pick the place that fits the trip.
Dubai for big red dunes. Marrakech for the stony Agafay. Punta Cana for jungle mud and beach. Hurghada for desert sunsets, Cancun for cenote trails, Cappadocia for the fairy-chimney valleys. The standout ride in each, all in one place.
Know the terrain
What do you want under the tyres?
The ground decides the ride. Three kinds of terrain to pick from, depending on whether you want soft sand, hard rock, or wet jungle and a beach to finish on.
The Red Dunes
Where the dunes meet the skyline.
Dubai is the easiest place on earth to go from a city hotel to serious sand in under an hour. The Red Dunes south of town rise in soft, steep faces made for bashing, and a quad lets you carve your own line across the open desert. Most rides fold in camel rides, sandboarding and a Bedouin camp, and time it so the engines cut just as the sun drops.
See the best Dubai desert rides →Marrakech & the Atlas
A desert that starts at the medina.
Twenty minutes past the souks, Marrakech runs out and the Agafay begins: a stony, sand-coloured desert of low hills with the snow on the High Atlas behind it. Quads handle the hard tracks and dry riverbeds, threading past Berber hamlets and camel trains, before the mandatory stop for mint tea where the wind is the only sound.
See the best Marrakech quad tours →The best part
Throttle, dust, and a grin you can’t shake.
A good ride is never just the machine. It is the briefing that actually keeps you safe, the guide who knows which line down the dune holds, and the moment the engines cut at the top and there is nothing out there but sand and silence. You come back filthy, sunburnt and already planning the next one.
Browse every ATV tour →Into the green
Southeast Asia is the muddy one.
From Bali’s rice-terrace tracks around Ubud to the rubber plantations of Phuket and the hill trails near Chiang Mai, this is jungle riding: red mud, river crossings, a cave or waterfall stop, and a quad that comes back a different colour. A local guide keeps the slippery bits fun rather than frightening.
- 1 Ubud: Guided ATV Quad Bike Jungle Adventure with Lunch
- 2 Bali: Ubud Gorilla Face ATV and Ayung Rafting Trip with Meal
- 3 Phuket: Paradise Trip ATV Jungle Adventure
By intensity
How hard do you want to send it?
Some days you want a short, easy blast with a guide on the radio. Some days you want to open it up across the open dunes. And some days you want to ride until the map runs out. Pick the energy, we’ll point you at the ride.
A first blast
Ease into the throttle.Short jungle and beach loops with a guide on the radio: enough mud and speed to grin about, gentle enough for a first time on a quad.
A proper ride
Open it up on the dunes.Red-dune bashing and quad runs across the open desert: steep faces, long sightlines, a Bedouin camp and a sunset when the engines cut.
The full expedition
Ride until the map runs out.Big-Sahara crossings out toward Erg Chebbi: hours in the saddle, dunes the size of buildings, and a night under more stars than you can count.
The Eastern Desert
Egypt rides between the Red Sea and the dunes.
From the resort strips of Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh, the desert starts the moment you leave the coast road. Quad and buggy safaris run inland across hard sand and gravel flats to a Bedouin camp: a camel ride, sweet tea, a stargazing finish, and the engines opening up on the way back as the sun drops behind the hills.
See all 45 Egypt desert rides →By destination
Pick a place and pin the throttle.
Dubai for the red dunes. Punta Cana for jungle and beach. Marrakech for the stony Agafay. Hurghada for the Eastern Desert at dusk. Ubud for Bali’s rice-terrace mud. Cancun for the Yucatan backcountry.
By country
Every country with sand worth riding.
Morocco’s deserts, the dunes of the UAE, Mexico’s jungle and coast, Egypt’s Eastern Desert, Turkey’s valleys, the volcanic islands of Spain, and the green of Indonesia and Thailand. Start with the country you’re heading to.
Warm-up to sunset
A perfect day off-road.
New to a quad and want the full arc? Here is how a great day runs, from the gentle warm-up loop to the main terrain to the moment the engines cut at golden hour.
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