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Erg Chebbi dunes near Merzouga at golden hour, with footprints across the sand.

12 days · Option A is the default

12-day Grand Morocco

Casablanca to Marrakech, the Atlas, Essaouira before the desert, then Merzouga, Fes, Chefchaouen, and back to Casablanca. The Sahara on this route is Erg Chebbi at Merzouga.

$2,695 per person, airfare not included

Start
Casablanca Mohammed V (CMN), then Riad Bab Atlas
End
A stop in Rabat, then CMN for an evening flight
Driver
A private driver is included for the trip. Airport pickup and drop-off included with your driver.
Riad
4 free nights at Riad Bab Atlas with free breakfast and free lunch.
Other nights
Nights away from the riad are booked and paid by you. A local guide is an optional add-on at $50/day.
Sahara
Merzouga. Agafay is not this route.

All packages · 10-day tour · Local guide, $50/day

Choose the shape of the 12 days

The extra-night list includes Option B, one night in Essaouira. On Option A the extra night defaults to a second night in Merzouga. You can move it to Ait Ben Haddou, Dades, Fes, or Chefchaouen.

Day by day

The terrace and garden at Riad Bab Atlas in the Palmeraie, Marrakech.

Day 1

Casablanca to Marrakech

  • Land at Casablanca Mohammed V (CMN).
  • Private driver to Riad Bab Atlas in the Palmeraie.
  • Overnight at Riad Bab Atlas, one of the 4 free nights, with free breakfast and free lunch.
  • Airport pickup and drop-off included with your driver.

Day 2

Marrakech

  • Day in Marrakech. A local guide is optional at $50/day.
  • Overnight at Riad Bab Atlas, one of the 4 free nights, with free breakfast and free lunch.
The Ourika River running through the green Ourika Valley below the High Atlas, south of Marrakech.

Day 3

Ourika Valley / Atlas

  • Day in the Ourika Valley and the High Atlas, then back to the riad. This is the Atlas, not the Sahara.
  • Overnight at Riad Bab Atlas, one of the 4 free nights, with free breakfast and free lunch.
Blue wooden fishing boats moored in the port of Essaouira on Morocco's Atlantic coast.

Day 4

Essaouira day trip

  • Essaouira and back to the riad the same day. There is no Essaouira night on Option A.
  • Overnight at Riad Bab Atlas, one of the 4 free nights, with free breakfast and free lunch.
The earthen kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou.

Day 5

Tizi n'Tichka to Ait Ben Haddou

  • Cross the High Atlas by Tizi n'Tichka.
  • Overnight at Ait Ben Haddou.
  • Lodging booked and paid by you.
Poplar trees in the Dades Gorge.

Day 6

Ouarzazate, Skoura, Dades

  • Ouarzazate, the Skoura oasis, then the Dades Gorges.
  • Overnight at Dades.
  • Lodging booked and paid by you.
Todra Gorge
A camel caravan walking the ridge of the Erg Chebbi dunes near Merzouga.

Day 7

Todra, then Merzouga

  • Todra Gorge, then Merzouga.
  • The Sahara on this trip is Erg Chebbi at Merzouga, not Agafay.
  • Overnight at Merzouga.
  • Lodging booked and paid by you.
Footprints across the Erg Chebbi dunes near Merzouga at sunrise.

Day 8

Extra night

  • Extra night: a second night in Merzouga, with an open day in the Sahara.
  • Lodging booked and paid by you.
Barbary macaques in the cedar forest at Ifrane.

Day 9

Ziz, Midelt, Ifrane, Fes

  • Ziz Valley, Midelt, the Ifrane cedars, then Fes.
  • Overnight in Fes.
  • Lodging booked and paid by you.
The blue-tiled Bab Boujloud gateway into the medina of Fes.

Day 10

Fes medina

  • Day in the Fes medina. A local guide is optional at $50/day.
  • Second night in Fes.
  • Lodging booked and paid by you.

Day 11

Chefchaouen

  • Drive to Chefchaouen.
  • Overnight in Chefchaouen.
  • Lodging booked and paid by you.

Day 12

Rabat, then CMN

  • Stop in Rabat, then Casablanca Mohammed V for an evening flight.
  • Airport pickup and drop-off included with your driver.

What is included

Included

  • Private driver for the 12 days
  • Airport pickup and drop-off included with your driver
  • 4 free nights at Riad Bab Atlas with free breakfast and free lunch

Not included

  • Flights, including the evening flight from CMN
  • Nights away from Riad Bab Atlas
  • Meals other than free breakfast and free lunch on the 4 free riad nights
  • Optional local guide, $50/day
  • Monument entry, tips, and personal expenses

Request this route

Choose the shape of the 12 days

Photo credits

Erg Chebbi, Ait Ben Haddou, Dades, Todra, Ifrane, and Riad Bab Atlas photographs are from this site. Essaouira, Ourika, and Fes photographs are from Wikimedia Commons.