Marrakech – Fes – Sahara
Marrakech · High Atlas · Dades · Sahara · Fes
The route most first-time guests ask for, arranged so the long drives fall on the right days and every arrival ends in a place worth staying.
- Time on the ground
- 10 days / 9 nights
- Travel style
- Classic first Morocco, comfortable and unhurried
- Pace
- Two to three nights in each base, one long driving day
- Best for
- Couples and friends on a first visit
- Best season
- March–May and September–November
Day by day
- Days 1–3Marrakech: airport welcome, riad in the medina, guided souks and gardens, and one free afternoon by the pool.
- Day 4Over the Tizi n'Tichka pass into the High Atlas, lunch with an Amazigh family, night in a kasbah near Ait Ben Haddou.
- Days 5–6Dades and Todra gorges, palm oases, then the drive to Merzouga and a private luxury camp in the dunes.
- Day 7Sunrise over Erg Chebbi, then north through Midelt and the cedar forests to Fes.
- Days 8–9Fes: two full days with a licensed guide in the medina, craft workshops, and a rooftop dinner.
- Day 10Transfer to Fes or Casablanca airport for your flight home.
Included in this itinerary
- Private air-conditioned vehicle and English-speaking driver throughout
- 9 nights in riads, a kasbah lodge and a private desert camp
- Licensed city guides in Marrakech and Fes
- Daily breakfast, dinner in the desert camp, and two hosted dinners
- Airport meet-and-greet, all transfers and monument entries on the plan
