• 10 Breakfast (B)
• 8 Dinner (D)
• 3 Lunch (L)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

• Fes: Join in the fun at a colourful Moroccan feast, complete with music, belly dancers and an array of local delicacies.
• Rissani: Lunch is a real taste of the region with Madfouna known as ‘Berber Pizza’. Traditionally baked in the sands of the Sahara this covered pizza is a delight seasonal fillings and spices.
• Tinghir: Visit a traditional farm in Tinehir’s oasis and see how the local produce is grown. Then savour a seasonal lunch of chicken tagine, vegetable sides and fragrant soup back at the restaurant. This authentic experience offers a true taste of Moroccan hospitality and the region’s slow food traditions.
• Casablanca: You must remember this…a fabulous 4-course dinner with drinks at Rick’s Cafe, made famous by the 1942 film.

• Erfoud: Step inside a traditional Moroccan hammam and experience a cleansing ritual practised for centuries. Discover the benefits of Beldi Black Soap, made from olives and eucalyptus, during an invigorating body scrub in steam-filled chambers.
• Erfoud: Settle in for an evening of astronomy beneath Morocco’s clear desert skies. With no light pollution, Erfoud is one of the best stargazing spots in North Africa. Learn how Berber nomads used the stars to navigate trade routes across the Sahara.

• Dades Valley: Meet the locals at their home and enjoy Berber tea with traditional pancakes.
• Marrakesh: Visit Dar El Bacha, a beautiful palace that has been standing since the 18th century and is a symbol of the city’s rich history and culture. 

Discover Casablanca’s coastal glamour on a city orientation culminating at the Hassan II Mosque, set dramatically on the Atlantic shoreline. Take in the mosque’s soaring minaret—among the world’s tallest—and the refined geometry of its marble courtyards and ocean-hugging esplanade.

Learn how master artisans clad this modern landmark with hand-carved stone, cedar, and intricate zellij. Your drive also reveals the city’s cosmopolitan Corniche and 20th-century boulevards, tracing Casablanca’s rise from French protectorate port to Morocco’s dynamic commercial hub.

Explore Morocco’s capital at its spiritual heart with a visit to the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, a masterpiece of Alaouite architecture. Gilded cedar ceilings, carved stone, and emerald-green tiles honor the monarch who guided Morocco to independence.

Stroll to the Hassan Tower, the vast 12th-century minaret of an unfinished mosque, and view the Royal Palace quarter. The open plaza and arcaded ruins evoke the Almohad dynasty’s grand ambitions and Rabat’s enduring role as a seat of power.

Pause at the monumental Bab el-Mansour Gate on Place el-Hedim—an imperial statement of tiles, inscriptions, and massive arches. Capture photos of its green-and-white zellij and Kufic script that celebrate Sultan Moulay Ismaïl’s 17th-century grandeur.

Hear how Meknès rose as a fortified capital, its granaries, stables, and ramparts projecting power across the Middle Atlas. The square’s bustle frames the gate’s scale, offering a vivid contrast between daily life and dynastic ambition.

Join a guided walk through the medina of Fes—an intricate maze of souks, tannery quarters, and artisan lanes. Step into Medersa el-Attarine, a 14th-century jewel of carved cedar and zellij, and pass the venerable al-Qarawiyyin University, among the oldest in the world.

Meet local craftspeople at a carpet cooperative and see how traditional techniques persist in hidden courtyards. Incense, brasswork, and the rhythm of workshops reveal a city where scholarship and craftsmanship have intertwined for centuries.

Visit the American Fondouk, a non-profit clinic where volunteer veterinarians care for working animals that sustain local livelihoods. Speak with staff about treatment programs, preventive care, and community education.

This hands-on experience supports UN SDG 15: Life on Land and highlights how animal welfare and human dignity intertwine in Fes. Witness daily cases and learn how donations and skills-sharing create tangible, long-term impact for families and their essential companions.

Experience a traditional Moroccan hammam, a centuries-old cleansing ritual that restores body and mind. Attendants apply Beldi Black Soap, rich with olives and eucalyptus, before a kessa glove scrub leaves skin refreshed in steam-filled chambers.

Between warm and cool rooms, the slow rhythm of rinses and exfoliation mirrors the desert’s pace beyond the walls. This is one of your included Choice Highlights in Erfoud—select this serene ritual or choose the astronomy evening instead.

Settle in under pristine skies for desert stargazing where the Milky Way cuts a luminous arc overhead. With virtually no light pollution, guides trace constellations once used by Berber nomads to navigate the Sahara.

Peer through telescopes at nebulae and planets, and learn celestial stories carried across camel caravans. This is one of your included Choice Highlights in Erfoud—select this astronomy session or choose the hammam ritual instead.

Explore the desert town of Rissani, visiting the tomb of Moulay Ali Cherif, forebear of Morocco’s ruling dynasty. Continue to fossil workshops where artisans shape Ordovician treasures from ancient seabeds into polished keepsakes.

Wander the Ksar Oulad Abdelhalim, a fortified complex that recalls trans-Saharan trade days. Corridors of packed-earth walls, palm-shaded lanes, and carved doors reveal how oasis settlements balanced defense, ritual, and marketplace life at the Sahara’s edge.

Taste Madfouna ‘Berber Pizza’, a Saharan specialty of hand-rolled dough stuffed with spiced meat, onions, and herbs, then baked beneath embers for a gently smoked crust. The aromatic spice blend and tender crumb capture desert comfort food at its most soulful.

Hear how travelers and traders once relied on this hearty staple before crossing the hamada. Served with mint tea, the dish’s warmth reflects oasis hospitality and the ingenuity of cooking with limited fuel and abundant flavor.

Walk beneath the Todra Gorge’s towering limestone walls, where the river threads a narrow defile fringed by oasis palms. The canyon’s cool shade, echoing birdcall, and streaks of mineral color create a natural cathedral.

Learn how tectonics and water carved this ravine up to 400 meters deep, shaping lifeways in nearby Tinehir. Photographers prize the shifting light that ignites orange cliffs and illuminates tiny kasbahs perched on fertile terraces.

Visit a traditional oasis farm to see how date palms shelter figs, olives, and vegetables nourished by ancient irrigation channels. Meet growers who tend parcels by hand, then savor a farm-to-table lunch that celebrates slow food traditions.

Expect seasonal salads, fragrant soup, and tagines that showcase the valley’s produce. The meal, prepared with familial warmth, pairs village recipes with the generosity of desert hospitality at Restaurant Yasmine.

Pause for sweeping views across the Dades Valley, where castellated mudbrick ksour rise among orchards and terraces. The valley’s serrated ochre ridges and ribbons of green tell a story of water husbandry and fortified life along caravan routes.

Learn how families still restore adobe ramparts with earth and straw, sustaining earthen architecture adapted to extreme climates. This vantage invites wide-angle photography and a deeper look at southern Moroccan lifeways.

Step inside a traditional nomad house to share Berber tea and warm conversation with your hosts. Watch mint leaves steep and froth as tea’s triple pour balances sweetness, hospitality, and grace.

Hear stories of seasonal movement, weaving, and animal husbandry that have anchored desert life for generations. Simple flatbread pancakes and the rhythm of everyday tasks reveal a culture finely tuned to landscape and kinship.

Discover Ouarzazate, a desert crossroads whose ochre lanes and kasbah silhouettes have framed epics from Lawrence of Arabia to modern blockbusters. A city orientation reveals adobe quarters, palm-lined avenues, and the light filmmakers prize.

Hear how studios and artisans collaborate to recreate ancient worlds against Saharan backdrops, and how local architecture—earthen walls, timbered ceilings—shapes both daily life and cinematic illusion in Morocco’s “door of the desert.”

Explore the fortified Ksar of Aït Benhaddou, a desert stronghold of earthen towers and alleyways overlooking the Ounila River. Within UNESCO World Heritage Site walls, families once stored grain, traded goods, and sought refuge from raiders.

Trace earthen architecture techniques that keep interiors cool and exteriors resilient. From terrace viewpoints, admire the Atlas foothills and caravan-era paths that linked oases to Marrakech and the Sahara beyond.

Visit Dar El Bacha, an 18th-century palace that epitomizes Marrakesh elegance with zellij courtyards, cedar ceilings, and riad gardens. Today a museum, it curates the city’s crossroads of cultures and craftsmanship.

As you wander grand salons and tiled porticoes, learn about Pasha Thami El Glaoui, diplomatic salons, and the revival of heritage arts. The palace offers a calm counterpoint to the medina’s energy just beyond its carved doors.

Join a guided walk through Marrakesh’s medina to the Koutoubia Minaret, a perfect Almohad landmark that punctuates the skyline. Continue into Jemaa el-Fnaa, where storytellers, musicians, and spice merchants fill the square with sound and color.

Navigate souks perfumed with cumin and orange blossom while learning how guilds, fondouks, and caravanserais shaped commerce. Your Local Specialist decodes the maze so you can focus on texture: hammered brass, woven wool, and sunlight on terracotta walls.

Explore Essaouira’s breezy ramparts and working harbor, where blue boats bob below the cannons of the Skala de la Kasbah. The white-and-blue medina blends Portuguese bastions with Moroccan lanes scented by sea air and spice.

Learn how Gnawa rhythms, cedar marquetry, and Jewish-Andalusian influences knit this bohemian town together. Fishermen mending nets and artists opening ateliers set an unhurried pace along the Atlantic coast.

Dine at Rick’s Café, the atmospheric homage to the 1942 film Casablanca. A four-course dinner pairs Moroccan flavors with classic Continental touches, while a pianist conjures the film’s golden-era mood with “As Time Goes By”.

Archways, lanterns, and sepia stills set the scene for a playful nod to cinema history. It’s a convivial finale where great storytelling, fine cooking, and carefully mixed drinks meet on Morocco’s modern stage.

Venture into desert tracks by 4×4 to watch sunset over the dunes, as amber sands shift to rose and violet. Pause to pause for photos and reflection while the day’s heat softens into desert hush.

Guides share insights into local geology and nomad routes before starglow replaces the last light. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to weather and local conditions.

Join an atmospheric dinner near the square as musicians set a festive tempo and performers whirl through candlelit routines. Sample mezze, tagines, and citrus desserts while watching belly dancers and listening to live music above the Jemaa el-Fnaa spectacle.

The blend of flavors, rhythm, and rooftop views captures Marrakesh after dark. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

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