This route is a starting point: you can add a cooking class in Marrakech or a night in Chefchaouen, swap Casablanca for Essaouira, and adjust length and accommodation. It is private: no groups and no fixed dates.
10 days · 9 nights · from Marrakech to Casablanca
Airport → Marrakech
Private meet-and-greet at Marrakech airport and transfer to your riad in the medina. The evening is free, so you can arrive at an easy pace and get used to the rhythm of the city. We'll suggest a rooftop for your first mint tea and a place nearby for your welcome dinner, which is included.
Overnight: riad in the medina · Marrakech, 2 nights
Marrakech → full day → local guide
A morning with a private historian guide, before the crowds arrive: the Bahia Palace, the Saadian Tombs, the Ben Youssef Madrasa and the souks of the medina, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The afternoon is free. Optional extras include a hammam, or the Majorelle Garden and the YSL Museum, which sit right next to each other.
Overnight: same riad · Marrakech
Marrakech → Tizi n'Tichka · Ait Ben Haddou → Skoura
You head into the High Atlas and cross it over the Tizi n'Tichka pass, at 2,260 m (7,415 ft). On the other side, you'll walk through the ksar of Ait Ben Haddou, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with its mud-brick houses stacked above the river. Then on to the palm oasis of Skoura, where you spend the night in a restored kasbah. Dinner included.
Overnight: restored kasbah · Skoura
Skoura → Dades · Todra → Merzouga
The Road of a Thousand Kasbahs takes you through the Dades Valley to the Todra Gorge, with time for a short walk between the canyon walls. You reach Merzouga in the late afternoon. By camel or 4×4, you ride into the Erg Chebbi dunes for sunset and your first night in camp, with dinner included.
Overnight: private camp · Erg Chebbi, 2 nights
Erg Chebbi → Khamlia → Erg Chebbi
Sunrise from the top of the dunes. In the morning, you visit a nomad family and the Gnawa musicians of Khamlia, a village of descendants of enslaved people brought from the Sahel. The afternoon is free, with nothing planned, to rest at camp. Dinner by the fire under a sky with no light pollution. All meals are included today.
Overnight: same camp · Erg Chebbi
Merzouga → Ziz · Midelt · Azrou → Fez
The longest day of the trip, heading north. You follow the oasis of the Ziz Valley, pass through Midelt and cross the cedar forests of Azrou in the Middle Atlas, home to Barbary macaques. Arrival in Fez in the late afternoon. If you'd rather take it slowly, the drive can be split with a night in the Ziz Valley.
Overnight: riad in the medina · Fez, 3 nights
Fez → full day → local guide
A full day with a private guide through Fez el-Bali, the medieval medina, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the intellectual heart of Morocco. You'll see the Chouara tanneries, with their dye pits viewed from the workshop terraces, and the Al-Qarawiyyin quarter, around the university founded in 859, one of the oldest in the world.
Overnight: same riad · Fez
Fez → full day → at your own pace
A second day in Fez, free, to go back at your own pace to whatever you liked best in the medina. Optional extras include an excursion to Volubilis, the Roman city with its open-air mosaics, and Meknes, with its imperial walls, or a cooking class in a local family's home.
Overnight: same riad · Fez
Fez → Rabat → Casablanca
You head west to the Atlantic coast. In Rabat, the quiet capital, you'll visit the Kasbah of the Udayas and the Hassan Tower. Then on to Casablanca to see the Hassan II Mosque, built right by the ocean and one of the few mosques in Morocco open to non-Muslim visitors. Overnight at a hotel in Casablanca.
Overnight: hotel · Casablanca
Casablanca → airport
Breakfast and private transfer to Casablanca Mohammed V airport in time for your flight. 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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