Northern Morocco Tour – 10 Days: Tangier, Chefchaouen, Fes & Rabat
- Private vehicle & driver — Pick-up at your riad, pace set by you
- Local licensed guide — Licensed guide nº2898 · since 2011
- Book on WhatsApp — Reply within 1 hour · no payment at this stage
- Guided street-food tour through Tangier's markets and legend cafés
- Asilah's murals and ocean ramparts in one unhurried day
- The Akchour waterfall hike and a traditional hammam the same evening
10 days out of Casablanca, fully private, from €1500 per person — your own vehicle, driver and licensed guide, plus every night’s accommodation. Highlights: Tangier, Asilah and Chefchaouen.
| Duration | 10 Days |
| Price | From €1500 per person — car, driver and accommodation included |
| Departures | Your dates — every departure is private, never a shared group |
| Languages | English- and French-speaking driver-guides; licensed city guides where included |
| Booking | WhatsApp +212 661 454 738 — written quote within 1 hour, no payment at this stage |
Ten days entirely in the north — the Morocco of sea light, white towns and deep history that most itineraries race through in two. Casablanca’s great mosque opens it, then Tangier with a proper street-food tour, a day for Asilah’s ocean ramparts, blue Chefchaouen with the Akchour waterfall hike, and Fes given three nights — including a completely free day, the rarest luxury on any Moroccan route. Rabat closes the loop on the way back to Casablanca.
No desert transfer, no long southern haul: the whole tour lives above the Middle Atlas, which keeps every driving stage under four and a half hours and lets the food thread run all the way through — from Tangier’s grills to Fes’s pastilla to a last café on the Casablanca corniche.
Private vehicle and driver-guide throughout, licensed local guides in Tangier and Fes, and riads inside the old walls wherever the medina allows.
Ten days in the north, no desert, no long hauls, from €1500 per person: Casablanca and the Hassan II Mosque, a Tangier food tour, Asilah’s ramparts, four slow days around Chefchaouen — including the Akchour falls and a hammam — then Volubilis, a guided day in Fes plus a free one, and Rabat before departure.
This is our slowest-paced cultural route, and deliberately so: two- and three-night stays instead of nightly moves, walking days instead of driving days, and the north’s food — Tangier’s markets, Fes’s table — treated as a main attraction rather than fuel.
It suits travellers on a second visit, food-minded couples, and anyone who reads “10 days, 9 hotels” on other itineraries with horror. Private car, driver and guides throughout — dates on WhatsApp, full quote within the hour.
- Guided street-food tour through Tangier's markets and legend cafés
- Asilah's murals and ocean ramparts in one unhurried day
- The Akchour waterfall hike and a traditional hammam the same evening
- Three nights in Fes — guided medina day plus an entirely free day
- Volubilis and the Rif road woven between the cities
- Every driving stage under 4h30 — a northern route, at northern pace
Photos from the tour
Itinerary
Open a day to see the detail: transport, accommodation, meals and activity time.
Day 1 Casablanca and the Hassan II Mosque
Arrival in Casablanca and the one visit that justifies the city on any itinerary: the Hassan II Mosque, guided, inside — the ocean beneath the glass floor panels, the roof that opens like a ship's deck. The evening warms up the trip's food thread with dinner on the Corniche.
Day 2 Casablanca — Tangier, food tour
North along the motorway to the strait, where Africa looks at Europe across fourteen kilometres of water. The afternoon belongs to Tangier's guided food tour: market stalls and grill counters, the right msemen griddle, café culture in the Petit Socco where half of twentieth-century literature sat down, and mint tea at Café Hafa's terraces above the sea, poured as it has been since 1921.
Day 3 Tangier and Asilah
A full day for the white towns. Asilah first — ocean ramparts, commissioned murals, morning light that painters cross continents for — with lunch by the water. Back in Tangier, the kasbah museum and the lanes below it fill the afternoon, and the evening is yours among the cafés.
Day 4 Tangier — Chefchaouen
Into the Rif to the blue city. The road climbs through Ouazzane's olive country, and Chefchaouen delivers its famous first impression in the late afternoon — powder-blue lanes, mountain air, rooftops made for sunset. The Spanish Mosque viewpoint, twenty minutes' walk above town, owns the last light.
Day 5 Akchour falls and a hammam
Talassemtane National Park is 45 minutes away, and the Akchour hike is the north's best half-day outdoors: a river gorge trail past pools and path-side cafés to the great waterfall, three to four hours round trip. The reward is staged for the evening — a traditional hammam back in town: steam, black soap, the full scrub, and legs that forgive you.
Day 6 Chefchaouen — Volubilis — Fes
South out of the mountains with the day's great pause at Volubilis: Morocco's finest Roman site, mosaics in place under the open sky, guided at strolling pace. Fes arrives by evening — three nights here, because this city is the reason the whole route exists.
Day 7 Fes, guided
Fes el-Bali, guided: Bab Boujeloud, the Bou Inania and Attarine madrasas, the Chouara tannery from a leather terrace, the coppersmiths' square, the mellah and its balconied houses. Your guide reads the medina like a text; by evening you will start to read a little of it yourself.
Day 8 Fes, free day
The free day — deliberately empty. Wander back to whatever pulled at you yesterday, haggle slowly for the thing you pretended not to want, take a cooking class or the Marinid tombs at sunset, or do gloriously little from a rooftop. The best Fes stories always come from this day.
Day 9 Fes — Rabat
West to the capital: the Hassan Tower and mausoleum, the Kasbah of the Oudayas with its Andalusian garden, and an Atlantic evening in a city that never feels crowded. Rabat is the north's quiet reward — orderly, green, sea-scented.
Day 10 Return and departure
An easy final morning — the medina or the beach promenade — then the short coastal hop to Casablanca for your flight, or a last nostalgic coffee first. Ten days, one region, done properly.
Spring to autumn is this route's season; the Akchour hike swaps for a scenic Rif drive on rainy days. Ferry arrivals from Spain can join at Tangier on day two — tell us your sailing and we fold the route around it. Summer works beautifully here when the south swelters.
Included in your tour
- Private air-conditioned 4×4 or minivan with English/French-speaking driver-guide — 10 days
- Pickup at Casablanca airport or your hotel
- Night 1: Casablanca hotel — half-board
- Night 2: Tangier hotel — half-board
- Night 3: Asilah hotel — half-board
- Nights 4–5: Chefchaouen riad (2 nights) — half-board
- Nights 6–8: Fes riad (3 nights) — half-board
- Night 9: Rabat riad — half-board
- Guided visit of Fes with a licensed local guide (Day 7)
- Guided visit of Casablanca with a licensed local guide (Day 1)
- Guided visit inside the Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca
- Traditional hammam session
- Guided food tour
- Drop-off at your Casablanca hotel or at the airport
Not included
- International flights
- Lunches and beverages
- Entrance fees to monuments and historical sites (optional — pay directly)
- Tips for guide and driver
- Personal expenses
- Travel insurance (recommended)
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Questions travellers ask
How much does Northern Morocco Tour – 10 Days: Tangier, Chefchaouen, Fes & Rabat cost?+
From €1500 per person, per person. The price includes private air-conditioned 4×4 or minivan with english/french-speaking driver-guide — 10 days, pickup at casablanca airport or your hotel, night 1: casablanca hotel — half-board. You receive a written itemised quote before paying anything — no hidden fees.
How long is this tour and when does it depart?+
10 Days, departing on the dates you choose — there is no fixed schedule, because every departure is arranged for you alone.
Is this a group tour or private?+
Fully private: your own vehicle, driver and licensed guide, never seat-in-coach and never mixed with other travellers. The daily pace flexes around you.
When was Chefchaouen painted blue?+
The blue is a 20th-century tradition that deepened over the decades — histories often credit the town's Jewish community in the 1930s with spreading the wash — and today residents repaint their lanes regularly, which is why the colour always looks fresh. Earlier Chefchaouen was largely whitewashed, as Rif towns typically were.
What is Chefchaouen known for?+
The blue-washed medina above all — but also its Rif-mountain setting, a famously relaxed pace compared with the imperial cities, the sunset view from the Spanish Mosque, cold spring water at Ras el-Maa, and wool weaving you will see drying on the walls. It is Morocco's most photogenic small town.
What does Chefchaouen mean?+
The name comes from the Berber word for 'horns' — chaouen — after the twin mountain peaks that rise directly above the town. Locals simply say 'Chaouen'.
What is there to see in Chefchaouen?+
The blue lanes themselves are the sight: give them an unhurried morning. Beyond them, Uta el-Hammam square and the kasbah, the Ras el-Maa spring where the medina meets the mountain, the Spanish Mosque viewpoint at sunset, and — for walkers — day hikes into Talassemtane National Park. One overnight covers it beautifully.
More answers in the “Chefchaouen & the Rif” chapter of our Travel FAQ →
Itinerary and prices last updated October 2026.
