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Ask us for one number and we will say ten — ten days is where a Morocco trip stops being a sampler and becomes a story. Here is the shape of that story, day by day, as we most often build it.
Days 1–3: the imperial opening
Land in Casablanca, see the great mosque, sleep in Rabat’s calm. Then Fes — two full days, because the medieval city punishes hurry and rewards a licensed guide with stories in every derb.
Days 4–6: the crossing
Over the Middle Atlas cedar country to the desert’s edge, then the trip’s beating heart: the Erg Chebbi night — camels into the sunset, dinner by the fire, dawn on a dune crest. Day six runs the Todra Gorge and the Dades valley, the kasbah road at its most cinematic.
Days 7–8: Aït Ben Haddou and the pass
The great earthen citadel early, before the buses, then the Tizi n’Tichka’s 2,260 metres down into Marrakech — with two nights to give the red city its due: the square at dusk, gardens in the morning, a courtyard dinner.
Days 9–10: the exhale
Essaouira — sea air, blue boats, grilled sardines at the port — because every great itinerary needs a decompression chamber before the flight home.
Making it yours
This shape exists ready-made as our 10-day imperial-and-desert grand tour (from €1500), or in its finer-hotels version, Royal Morocco. Both are private — so the dream bends: more desert, more coast, a birthday in the dunes. Tell us on plan your journey.
Meryem Chami — Meryem writes itineraries with a planner's eye for the second visit — the routes for people who have already seen Marrakech and the dunes and want the country between them. She specialises in loops that avoid backtracking, coast-to-desert combinations, and the unglamorous logistics (fuel stops, prayer-time closures, market days) that make a route actually flow.
