It can be done in reverse and adjusted in length and accommodation. It's private: no groups and no fixed dates.
12 days · 11 nights · from Casablanca to Casablanca
Airport → Casablanca
Pickup at Casablanca Airport at your flight's arrival time and transfer to the hotel. A first look at the country's economic capital: the Hassan II Mosque, one of the largest in the world, the Corniche promenade, and Mohammed V Square, known as Pigeon Square. If you land at night, the visit moves to the next day.
Overnight: hotel · Casablanca
Casablanca → Marrakech
After breakfast, the drive to Marrakech. The rest of the day is for the medina at your own pace: the souks, where bargaining is part of buying, the quieter corners, and Jemaa el-Fna square, with its musicians, snake charmers, jugglers, and dancers. There's no set tour today, so you can plan the afternoon however you like.
Overnight: riad · Marrakech
Marrakech → Tizi n'Tichka · Telouet · Aït Ben Haddou → Ouarzazate
You'll cross the High Atlas over the Tizi n'Tichka pass, at 2,260 m (7,415 ft), and detour to Telouet, the old stronghold of the Glaoui. Then comes Aït Ben Haddou, a UNESCO World Heritage adobe ksar and the setting for many films, with time for lunch there. In the afternoon, the drive continues to Ouarzazate for dinner and the night.
Overnight: accommodation, with dinner · Ouarzazate
Ouarzazate → Skoura · Valley of Roses · Boumalne → Dades Gorges
Before leaving Ouarzazate, a visit to the Taourirt Kasbah, once a residence of the Glaoui. The road then heads east through the Skoura palm grove and the Valley of Roses, where the roses for rose water are grown, and passes Boumalne before entering the Dades Gorges, with time in the afternoon to explore the area.
Overnight: riad or hotel, with dinner · Dades Gorges
Dades → Todra Gorges → Merzouga
After breakfast, the road heads east with stops at kasbahs along the way to the Todra Gorges, where the river has cut a sheer-walled canyon and there's time to walk between the cliffs. You'll continue to Merzouga in time to watch the sunset over the Erg Chebbi dunes. This is the first of three nights by the desert.
Overnight: hotel by the dunes · Merzouga
Merzouga → Tissardmine · Khamlia → Erg Chebbi
A full day around Erg Chebbi, on the track that skirts the dunes with the mountains of the Algerian border behind. A stop at the Tissardmine oasis, rich in fossils, a visit to a nomad settlement, and a viewpoint over the erg. In Khamlia, a village of descendants of enslaved people brought from the Sahel, you'll have tea with a short concert of Gnawa music. At sunset, a camel caravan to camp, dinner by the fire, and a night in a tent.
Overnight: tent at the desert camp · Erg Chebbi
Erg Chebbi → Rissani → Merzouga
An early start to watch the sunrise from the top of a dune. Back at the hotel, a shower and breakfast, then off to Rissani, the cradle of the Alaouite dynasty, with its large market. You'll explore the isolated oases nearby, the black desert, a plain of dark stones, and the Rissani palm grove with its kasbahs. In the afternoon, back to the Merzouga dunes for dinner and your last night by the desert.
Overnight: hotel by the dunes · Merzouga
Merzouga → Ziz Valley · Meski · Midelt → Fez
Farewell to the desert and the road north through the Ziz Valley, with its palm grove set deep in the canyon, and a stop at the Blue Spring of Meski. Lunch in Midelt, between the Middle and High Atlas, then across the Middle Atlas to Fez, arriving in the late afternoon with time to rest before the next day's tour.
Overnight: riad or hotel · Fez, 2 nights
Fez → full day → local guide
A guided tour of Fez. You'll start in Fez el Jedid, with the Royal Palace and the Mellah, the old Jewish quarter, then go up to the South Tower (Borj Sud) viewpoint to see the whole medina and its minarets. After that comes a walk through the medina of Fez el Bali, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, whose alleys are still organized by guilds of potters, dyers, and other craftsmen, at a pace that has changed little in centuries.
Overnight: same accommodation · Fez
Fez → Volubilis · Moulay Idriss → Meknes
The drive to Volubilis, the Roman city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Next comes the holy town of Moulay Idriss, where Moulay Idriss I, founder of Morocco's first Islamic dynasty, is buried. About 27 km (17 miles) on, you'll reach Meknes, the imperial city of Moulay Ismail, with a visit to the Bab Mansour gate and El Hedim Square in front of it.
Overnight: accommodation · Meknes
Meknes → Rabat → Casablanca
After breakfast, the drive to Rabat, the kingdom's administrative capital. A walk through the medina, the Hassan Tower, and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V. In the afternoon, on to Casablanca, the most cosmopolitan city in the country, known for the Hassan II Mosque and its port, with time to see its modern architecture before checking in at your hotel.
Overnight: hotel · Casablanca
Casablanca → airport
Breakfast and free time until the agreed time for your transfer to Casablanca Airport. We'll help you check your luggage and show you to the boarding gate. End of our services.
Transfer included · any time
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