7-Day Morocco Itinerary with City Exploration

We meet you at the airport or station and drive you to a riad inside the walls of Fes el-Bali. The evening is free to settle in over mint tea.

Your licensed guide leads you through the lanes: Bab Boujloud, the Bou Inania Madrasa, the doorway of Al-Qarawiyyin, the coppersmiths' square and the Chouara tannery seen from above. Watch the sunset from the Merenid Tombs.

A long, scenic day heading south. Stop for the macaques in the cedar forest near Azrou, pass through Ifrane and Midelt, and follow the palm-filled Ziz Gorges down to Erfoud. At Merzouga, ride a camel into the dunes for sunset and your first night in camp.

Sunrise from the top of a dune, then a 4×4 day around the erg. Visit the old market at Rissani, where donkeys still wait in rows outside, hear Gnawa music in Khamlia, and take tea with a nomad family. In the afternoon you have time to rest or sandboard before a second night under the stars.

Head west through the oases to Tinghir and walk into the Todra Gorge. Continue to a kasbah hotel deep in the Dades Gorges, where the road twists above towers of red rock.

Follow the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs through the Valley of Roses and Skoura to Aït Ben Haddou, where you'll climb the ksar. Cross Tizi n'Tichka at 2,260 m and descend to Marrakech by evening.

A guided morning in Marrakech: the Bahia Palace, the Saadian Tombs and the souks. Then comes a private transfer to the airport, or we can help you plan more nights in the city.