A loop from Casablanca that can run in either direction and be adjusted in length, pace, and lodging. It is private: no groups and no fixed dates.
16 days · 15 nights · from Casablanca to Casablanca
Airport → Casablanca
Pickup at Casablanca airport at your flight's arrival time and transfer to your hotel. A first look at the country's economic capital: the Hassan II Mosque, built at the ocean's edge with one of the tallest minarets in the world, the La Corniche seafront, and the Square of the Doves. If your flight lands at night, this visit moves to the next morning.
Overnight: hotel · Casablanca
Casablanca → Rabat · Ouezzane → Chefchaouen
Drive to Rabat, the capital, to see the Kasbah of the Udayas above the mouth of the Bou Regreg, the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, and the Hassan Tower, the unfinished minaret of a 12th-century mosque. After some free time in the city, you continue north through Souk Larbaa and Ouezzane to Chefchaouen, a white and blue mountain town inside a biosphere reserve.
Overnight: hotel · Chefchaouen, 2 nights
Chefchaouen → full day → at your own pace
A full day in Chefchaouen, in the heart of the Rif, with its Andalusian-influenced architecture and whitewashed houses in shades of indigo. You'll walk the medina, Outa el-Hammam square, and the Ras el Maa spring, where water runs down from the mountain. There is time for tea on a terrace, for wandering the craft streets, and for taking in the town's slow pace.
Overnight: same hotel · Chefchaouen
Chefchaouen → Volubilis · Moulay Idriss → Fez
Heading south, you stop at Volubilis, the best-preserved Roman ruins in the country and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with mosaics still in place, and take in the view of Moulay Idriss, the holy town spread across its hill. You reach Fez in the afternoon, with time to walk the medina walls and gates at sunset or have tea on the hotel terrace.
Overnight: hotel · Fez, 2 nights
Fez → full day → local guide
Guided tour of Fez. You start outside the old medina, at the Royal Palace and the Mellah, the old Jewish quarter, then climb to the South Tower for a view over the whole medina and its minarets. Next, on foot, Fez el Bali, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with alleys organized by guilds of potters, dyers, and other artisans, and the 14th-century Dar al-Magana water clock.
Overnight: same hotel · Fez
Fez → Ifrane · Midelt · Ziz Valley → Merzouga
Heading south across the Middle Atlas, you stop in Ifrane, with its stone lion recalling the Atlas lion, and in the cedar forest of the Gouraud cedar, home to Barbary macaques. After Midelt the land turns arid and the Ziz Valley opens up with palm groves and mud-brick kasbahs. Past Erfoud you reach the Merzouga dunes, with welcome tea and a climb up a dune for sunset.
Overnight: hotel at the foot of the dunes · Erg Chebbi, 2 nights
Merzouga → nomad family → Tisserdmine
A day around Erg Chebbi, heading south near the Algerian border, with stops to take in the landscape. You visit a nomad family, who invite you for tea in the shade of their tent. Then on to the Tisserdmine oasis, a palm grove set between bare hills and crossed by a river where you can swim. At sunset you return to the hotel at the foot of the dunes.
Overnight: same hotel · Erg Chebbi
Erg Chebbi → Khamlia → camp
A loop around Erg Chebbi on the desert track, with the mountains of the Algerian border in the distance. You stop to see local fossils, visit a nomad settlement, and take in the dunes from a viewpoint. In Khamlia, the Gnawa community, descendants of enslaved people brought from the Sahel, plays its music for you over tea. In the afternoon, a camel caravan takes you to camp for sunset and dinner by the fire.
Overnight: tents at the camp · Erg Chebbi dunes
Merzouga → Rissani · Todra → Dades Valley
An early start to watch sunrise from the highest dune nearby, then back by camel for breakfast at the hotel. If it is a market day, Tuesday, Thursday, or Sunday, you stop at the Rissani souk. Then Erfoud and the palm groves of Touroug and Tinejdad to the Todra Gorge, with a half-hour walk between its sheer walls. In the afternoon, Boumalne Dades and the rocks known as monkey fingers.
Overnight: hotel in the valley · Dades
Dades → Boutaghrar · Skoura → Ouarzazate
A viewpoint over the Dades Valley and its kasbahs. The road continues to the Aït Youl kasbah, where you leave the pavement for a track into the High Atlas and the Boutaghrar valley, to visit a nomad family that still lives in caves. You stop in the Valley of Roses and, in the afternoon, cross the Skoura palm grove before reaching Ouarzazate.
Overnight: hotel · Ouarzazate
Ouarzazate → Aït Ben Haddou · Tizi n'Tichka → Marrakech
Morning in Ouarzazate: the Taourirt kasbah and the film studios. Then Aït Ben Haddou, a fortified mud-brick ksar and UNESCO World Heritage Site, used as a set for films such as Gladiator and The Jewel of the Nile. You cross the High Atlas over the Tizi n'Tichka pass, at 2,260 m (7,415 ft), with a stop at an argan oil cooperative, and reach Marrakech around 6 p.m. with free time in Jemaa el Fna square.
Overnight: hotel · Marrakech, 3 nights
Marrakech → full day → at your own pace
A free day to explore the city at your own pace. You can stroll the medina without hurry, try your hand at bargaining in the souks, and step into whatever corners catch your eye. It is a good day to rest after the southern route and get to know the city before the guided tour the next day.
Overnight: same hotel · Marrakech
Marrakech → full day → local guide
Your local guide picks you up at the hotel for the medina tour: the Koutoubia Mosque, whose 12th-century Almohad minaret is a landmark across the city, the Ben Youssef Madrasa, and the Majorelle Garden. The afternoon is free to rest and head back to Jemaa el Fna square at night, when it fills with food stalls, musicians, and storytellers.
Overnight: same hotel · Marrakech
Marrakech → Essaouira
Drive to the Atlantic coast and Essaouira, the former Mogador, where Romans, Portuguese, Arabs, and Berbers all left traces in its monuments and customs. You'll walk the medina, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the sea walls, with time left for a stroll or a swim at the beach.
Overnight: hotel · Essaouira
Essaouira → Safi · El Jadida → Casablanca
The road runs north along the coast, with the ocean on your left and undeveloped beaches along the way. You pass through Safi and stop in El Jadida, the former Portuguese Mazagan, whose fortified city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Then you continue to Casablanca for the last night of the trip.
Overnight: hotel · Casablanca
Casablanca → airport
Breakfast and free time until the agreed hour for your transfer to Casablanca airport, where we walk you to check-in. End of our services.
Transfer included · any time
We’ll adapt it to your dates, your pace and the style of accommodation you prefer.
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