Our private 7 Day Grand Morocco Tour From Marrakech offers an immersive Moroccan experience. A week to see the whole south and finish on the Atlantic. Our 7 day Grand Morocco tour from Marrakech is a private, one-way journey from Marrakech to Casablanca — the High Atlas, Ait Ben Haddou, the gorges, two Sahara nights, and the great Hassan II Mosque on the coast to finish.
You cross the Tizi n’Tichka to the kasbahs of Ouarzazate, sleep in the Dades, walk the Todra Gorge, and give the Merzouga dunes two nights of camel treks and a camp run by people we know. The road north takes in Rissani, the Ziz Valley, and the imperial cities before Casablanca, where the sea comes right up to the prayer hall of the Hassan II Mosque. Private 4×4, English-speaking Berber driver, hand-picked riads.
Prefer to end in Fes? Our 5-day Marrakech to Fes desert tour crosses the desert the other way.
Our private 7 Day Grand Morocco Tour From Marrakech offers an immersive Moroccan experience. This 7-day grand Morocco tour from Marrakech to Casablanca covers an extraordinary range of landscapes, cultures, and experiences.
| Day | Highlights | Overnight |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Marrakech → Tizi n'Tichka → Ait Ben Haddou → Ouarzazate → Dades Valley | the Dades Valley |
| Day 2 | Dades → Todra Gorge → Erfoud → Merzouga (sunset camel trek) | desert camp at Erg Chebbi |
| Day 3 | Sahara sunrise → Rissani → Ziz Valley → Midelt | Midelt |
| Day 4 | Midelt → Azrou cedar forest → Ifrane → Fes | Fes |
| Day 5 | Fes — a full guided day | Fes |
| Day 6 | Fes → Volubilis → Meknes → Rabat | Rabat |
| Day 7 | Rabat → Casablanca — Hassan II Mosque and farewell |
Pickup at 7:30 AM from your Marrakech hotel or riad. We climb south over the High Atlas on the Tizi n’Tichka pass (2,260 m), through Berber villages and switchbacks, with a stop at a viewpoint across the range. Down to the fortified Ait Ben Haddou — the UNESCO kasbah of Gladiator, Game of Thrones and Lawrence of Arabia — which you walk with your guide. After lunch near Ouarzazate we take the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs east through the Rose Valley and the Skoura oasis into the Dades Valley.
Accommodation: hotel or riad in the Dades Valley (dinner and breakfast).
The Dades hairpins, then the Todra Gorge, where 300-metre walls close around the river. East through Erfoud, the fossil town, to Merzouga and the Erg Chebbi dunes. A 1.5-hour sunset camel trek takes you into the sand as the sky turns amber and violet, to a desert camp with en-suite tents and a fire — dinner, Berber drums, and a Sahara sky full of stars.
Accommodation: desert camp at Erg Chebbi (dinner and breakfast).
Up before dawn for the sunrise, then camels back for breakfast (sandboarding if you like). The souk at Rissani, then north through the Ziz Valley — Morocco’s grand canyon — and its overlook above a million date palms, through Errachidia to the apple town of Midelt.
Accommodation: hotel in Midelt (dinner and breakfast).
North through the Middle Atlas to the Azrou cedar forest and its Barbary macaques, then Ifrane, the Alpine-looking Little Switzerland — a surreal green day after the dunes — into Fes in the early afternoon, with time to start wandering.
Accommodation: hotel or riad in Fes (dinner and breakfast).
A whole day in Fes el-Bali with a licensed local guide, through the medina’s nine thousand lanes: the Chouara tanneries dyeing leather in stone vats the old way, the Bou Inania madrasa with its carved cedar and zellige, and the Al-Qarawiyyin, the world’s oldest university (859 AD). We wind through the coppersmiths, the spice market, and the weavers, with a rooftop lunch over the green roofs, then the Royal Palace gates and the Mellah.
Accommodation: hotel or riad in Fes (dinner and breakfast).
We drive to the Roman ruins of Volubilis — Morocco’s best-kept Roman city, with standing columns and floor mosaics still bright after eighteen centuries — then imperial Meknes, the Versailles of Morocco, for the great Bab Mansour gate, the vast granaries, and the mausoleum of the sultan Moulay Ismail. In the afternoon we reach Rabat: the Hassan Tower, the marble mausoleum of Mohammed V, and the blue-and-white Kasbah of the Udayas above the Atlantic.
Accommodation: hotel in Rabat (dinner and breakfast).
Down the coast to Casablanca for a guided visit of the Hassan II Mosque, the largest in Africa, built out over the Atlantic — a 210-metre minaret, a retractable roof, and a glass floor that shows the sea beneath your feet (one of the few mosques here open to non-Muslim visitors). Then the Corniche, the 1930s Art Deco downtown, and, if you like, Rick’s Cafe from the film. We finish with drop-off at your Casablanca hotel, Mohammed V airport, or the Casa Voyageurs train station.
When you are ready to put this week together, send us a message — we will plan it around you, and the.
Our private 7 Day Grand Morocco Tour From Marrakech offers an immersive Moroccan experience. Your 7-day grand Morocco tour from Marrakech to Casablanca includes everything you need for a comfortable, worry-free grand journey.
Our private 7 Day Grand Morocco Tour From Marrakech offers an immersive Moroccan experience.
Our private 7 Day Grand Morocco Tour From Marrakech offers an immersive Moroccan experience.
See the full route of our 7-day grand Morocco tour from Marrakech to Casablanca on the map below:
Route: Marrakech → Tizi n’Tichka → Ait Ben Haddou → Ouarzazate → Dades Valley → Todra Gorge → Merzouga (Erg Chebbi) → Rissani → Ziz Valley → Midelt → Azrou → Ifrane → Fes → Volubilis → Meknes → Rabat → Casablanca
Total distance: ~1,500 km (one-way)
