A full circle from Fes: Chefchaouen, Tangier, Rabat, Marrakech, the kasbahs and the dunes of Merzouga.
This is a private tour of 12 days · 11 nights: the vehicle, the driver and the timing are only yours, so you can stop for photos, change hotels or add a night wherever you like. Below you will find the day-by-day itinerary.
Welcome at Fes-Saiss airport or the train station and transfer to a traditional riad in the medina. Depending on your arrival time, enjoy a first stroll to Bab Boujloud, the blue gate, and dinner on a rooftop.
With an official local guide, enter Fes el Bali, the largest car-free medina in the world: the Bou Inania and Attarine madrasas, the Al Quaraouiyine university, the Chouara tanneries seen from the terraces and the artisans' souks of copper, leather and pottery. Free evening.
Visit Meknes and its Bab Mansour gate, walk among the Roman mosaics of Volubilis and continue north through the Rif to Chefchaouen for the night.
Through the Rif to Tetouan and its Andalusian medina, then to Tangier: Cape Spartel, the Caves of Hercules and a walk in the kasbah with views over the Strait of Gibraltar.
Morning in Tangier's kasbah and Cape Spartel, then south along the Atlantic to Rabat for the night.
Drive to Casablanca to visit the Hassan II Mosque, then south by motorway to Marrakech, arriving in time for an evening at Jemaa el-Fna.
Discover the red city with a licensed guide: the Koutoubia mosque, the Bahia Palace, the Saadian Tombs and the Ben Youssef madrasa, then the souks of spices, lanterns and leather. The afternoon is free for the Majorelle Garden or a hammam.
Leave Marrakech in the morning and climb over the High Atlas by the Tizi n'Tichka pass. Explore the ksar of Ait Ben Haddou with a local guide, pass Ouarzazate and the Skoura oasis and follow the Valley of Roses to the Dades Gorges, where you sleep in a kasbah hotel.
Drive up the famous zigzag road of the Dades Gorges, then on to Tinghir and a walk in the narrow Todra Gorge. Through Erfoud and Rissani you reach Merzouga in the afternoon, where camels carry you over the dunes of Erg Chebbi to your camp for sunset, dinner and drums.
Sunrise on the dunes, breakfast at the camp and a drive north along the Ziz Valley, with viewpoints over its palm-filled canyon. Lunch in Midelt at the foot of the Ayachi mountains, then the cedar forests of the Middle Atlas and Ifrane before arriving in Fes in the evening.
A free day to shop for ceramics and carpets, take a cooking class, relax in a hammam or visit the Merinid tombs for the panorama over the medina. Your driver can take you anywhere you like.
Breakfast in the riad and private transfer to Fes-Saiss airport or the train station. End of our services.
All our tours can start on any day and from any hotel, riad or airport. We can add nights, change the order of the stops or choose a more comfortable category of hotels and camps.
Ask us for your price: it depends on the number of travellers, the season and the accommodation. A small deposit confirms the booking and the rest is paid in Morocco.
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