Shaped by wind. Where the Sahara meets the Atlantic.
23°41′N · 15°56′W
The Chapters
TIVELA Dakhla · Chapter I — The Wind
Opening 2028 · Founding Season
Twelve wind-shaped keys on the lagoon's edge. Roofs that lean with the trade, tables that follow the tide, and a sky that returns at night to the age of sailors.
Discover the Estate
TIVELA Atlas · Chapter II — The Cedar
In Preparation
The collection's next chapter: cedar forests above the clouds, cold light, and the same quiet. In preparation — Ifrane, High Atlas.
The Collection
The Experiences
Four programs, one grammar — the day is written by the wind.
tivela kite
Forty kilometres of flat water and a trade wind that has blown since before maps. Dawn sessions, guided downwinders, clinics for riders who outgrew the camps.
tivela sails
The White Dune at dusk, the Imlili sebkha, camel treks on the quiet side of the peninsula — and dinners lit by fire beneath an unmapped sky.
tivela table
Oysters lifted this morning, the day's catch, vegetables from the garden. One long table, no menu, the lagoon for a horizon.
TIVELA Dakhla · The Estate
Sail rooms on timber decks, dune suites in sheltered masonry, and one long core under a tensile sail roof that flexes in the gusts — by design.
The Philosophy
“We built a small hotel the way you trim a sail — taking exactly what the wind gives, nothing more.”
The Journal
November 12, 2026
Why Dakhla's trade wind sets the clock for everything we do — and how to read it like a local.
November 2, 2026
The lagoon has farmed oysters for decades. We lift ours at dawn, and serve them by noon.
October 21, 2026
A field guide to the peninsula's quietest monument — and the ninety minutes that reset a week.
October 10, 2026
Why we built a kite cabin, not a kite school — and what changes when riders and guests share the same roof.
September 28, 2026
Why TIVELA's second chapter will be the cedar forest of Ifrane — and what the Atlas learns from Dakhla.
TIVELA Dakhla · Opening 2028
Six keys at first light. Twelve at build-out.
Founding-season enquiries are open — tell us when the wind should expect you.
