Morocco Itinerary 14 Days: Cities, Coast, Mountains & Desert
- 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
- Two Sahara nights and a full desert-safari day between them
- A guided hike and home-cooked family lunch in the Dades valley
- Guided medina days in Fes and Marrakech, plus free days in both
From Casablanca, this fully private 14-day route costs from €2100 per person, with your own driver and licensed guide throughout — no group departures. Key stages: Rabat, Fes and Meknes.
| Duration | 14 Days |
| Price | From €2100 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 |
Fourteen days that cover the whole compass — northern cities, a two-night Sahara stage with a full desert day between, a hike and a family lunch in the Dades valley, guided days in both Fes and Marrakech, and a two-night seaside coda in Essaouira. This is the ‘everything, properly’ itinerary: each region gets the nights it needs rather than a drive-through.
Two entirely free days — one in Marrakech, one in Essaouira — keep the second week from ever feeling like a schedule. They are not padding; they are where the trip becomes yours.
Fully private throughout: your vehicle and driver-guide, licensed local guides in the medinas, an ensuite desert camp, riads inside the old walls. First-time visitors with two weeks need nothing added — only dates.
Fourteen days that add breathing room to the grand tour, from €2100 per person: the imperial north — Casablanca, Rabat, Chefchaouen, Volubilis, a guided Fes — then the Erg Chebbi with a camel night AND a full desert safari day, the Todra Gorge with a Dades valley day on foot, Aït Ben Haddou, a privately guided Marrakech, and the coast to finish.
The difference between this and a 10-day loop is not more places — it is second days: a second day in the desert, a walking day in the Dades, real time in Marrakech. Fourteen days is where a Morocco tour stops being a survey and starts being a stay.
It suits travellers who know this is their one Morocco trip and want it done without regret. Private throughout, on your dates — send them on WhatsApp and the full quote, hotels named, comes back within the hour.
This is the maximal loop — the itinerary for the traveller who may not come back and refuses to arbitrate: all the imperial cities, Chefchaouen, a two-day desert chapter at Erg Chebbi, a walking day in the Dades, double guided-and-free days in Marrakech, and an Essaouira finale before the coast road closes the circle at Casablanca. The two free days are the design, not the slack: fourteen days anywhere demands room to wander off-plan.
- Two Sahara nights and a full desert-safari day between them
- A guided hike and home-cooked family lunch in the Dades valley
- Guided medina days in Fes and Marrakech, plus free days in both
- Chefchaouen overnight and the Volubilis–Meknes road
- Two nights in Essaouira to end on sea air — one of them entirely free
- No stage over seven hours, and the long ones are the beautiful ones
Photos from the tour
Itinerary
Open a day to see the detail: transport, accommodation, meals and activity time.
Day 1 Casablanca and the great mosque
Arrival in Casablanca and the essential first visit: the Hassan II Mosque, guided, inside — 25,000 places under a cedar roof that opens to the sky, glass floor panels over the moving Atlantic. Check-in, the Corniche at dusk, and an ocean-side dinner to open the fortnight.
Day 2 Via Rabat to the blue city
North with a capital pause: Rabat's Kasbah of the Oudayas and the Hassan Tower at midday, then the Rif road through olive country to Chefchaouen. The blue city receives you at the hour it photographs best; the evening belongs to the rooftops and the mountain air.
Day 3 Volubilis and Meknes to Fes
A blue-hour morning in the lanes — empty, luminous, yours — then south to Fes by way of Volubilis, the best-preserved Roman city in Morocco, its mosaics open to the sky, and Meknes for the great gate of Bab Mansour. Fes by evening, riad inside the walls.
Day 4 Fes, guided
Fes el-Bali with a licensed local guide: the madrasas' carved cedar, the tannery terraces, Al-Qarawiyyin's doorways, the coppersmiths' square ringing like an orchestra. The afternoon stays open — a rooftop, the mellah, or the Marinid tombs at sunset.
Day 5 To the Erg Chebbi, camels at dusk
The great crossing south: cedar forests and Barbary macaques near Azrou, Midelt under the Ayachi massif, the Ziz palm gorges. At Merzouga the camels are saddled for golden hour, and your first Sahara night lands at an ensuite camp — dinner under lanterns, drums by the fire.
Day 6 Desert safari day
A full desert day, the stage most two-week itineraries cut and the one guests rank first afterwards: sunrise from the crest, 4×4 lines through the dune sea, gnawa music with the musicians of Khamlia, tea with a nomad family, and a second night when the silence truly arrives.
Day 7 Tinghir and the Todra Gorge to the Dades
West at desert pace: the fossil towns near Erfoud, Tinghir, and the Todra Gorge for the classic walk between 300-metre walls. The day settles in the Dades valley among the kasbahs, at a guesthouse above the river.
Day 8 A Dades valley day on foot
A morning on foot in the Dades — a guided village-to-village walk among figs, walnuts and mudbrick hamlets — ending at a family table for a home-cooked lunch that outranks every restaurant on the route. The afternoon is a short hop down the valley of kasbahs.
Day 9 Aït Ben Haddou and the Tichka to Marrakech
The road day earns its keep: Aït Ben Haddou in strong morning light, guided to the granary viewpoint, then the Tizi n'Tichka pass and the long descent into Marrakech. Evening free — Jemaa el-Fna at dusk, ten minutes from your riad.
Day 10 Marrakech with a private guide
Marrakech with a private guide: the Bahia Palace, the Saadian Tombs, the Koutoubia gardens, the souks decoded lane by lane. By evening you will have a mental map and a shortlist of stalls to revisit.
Day 11 Marrakech, free
The first free day — deliberately blank. Majorelle with timed tickets, a hammam, a cooking class, the photography museum, or a courtyard and a book. We can arrange any of them the evening before; the point is that nothing is mandatory.
Day 12 To Essaouira
The argan road west, with a stop at a women's cooperative to see the oil made and buy the real thing. Essaouira announces itself with gulls and wind: ramparts, blue boats, a flat calm medina. The first evening is for the sea walls and grilled sardines at the port.
Day 13 Essaouira, free
Essaouira's free day. Horses on the beach at first light if you ride, gallery lanes and thuya workshops if you wander, a cooking class if the market tempts you — or the town's favourite activity, which is watching the Atlantic do its work from a rampart café.
Day 14 Return and departure
The return: three hours to Marrakech and your airport transfer — or, with morning flights, an Essaouira dawn first. Fourteen days, every region given its due, and a shortlist already forming for the return trip.
Fourteen days is the route's natural size: nothing is rushed, and the two free days absorb weather or whim. March–May and September–November are prime; winter runs beautifully with warm layers for desert and mountain nights. The route reverses cleanly if your flights prefer Marrakech first.
Included in your tour
- Private air-conditioned 4×4 or minivan with English/French-speaking driver-guide — 14 days
- Pickup at Casablanca airport or your hotel
- Night 1: Casablanca hotel — half-board
- Night 2: Chefchaouen riad — half-board
- Nights 3–4: Fes riad (2 nights) — half-board
- Nights 5–6: luxury ensuite desert camp (2 nights) — half-board
- Night 7: Boumalne Dades hotel — half-board
- Night 8: kasbah hotel, Dades Gorges — half-board
- Nights 9–11: Marrakech riad (3 nights) — half-board
- Nights 12–13: Essaouira riad (2 nights) — half-board
- Guided visit of Fes with a licensed local guide (Day 4)
- Guided visit of Marrakech with a licensed local guide (Day 10)
- Guided visit of Casablanca with a licensed local guide (Day 1)
- Guided visit inside the Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca
- Guided visit of the Aït Ben Haddou ksar (UNESCO)
- Camel trek in the dunes
- Traditional hammam session
- 4×4 desert excursion
- Gnawa music visit in Khamlia
- Drop-off at your Marrakech 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 Morocco Itinerary 14 Days: Cities, Coast, Mountains & Desert cost?+
From €2100 per person, per person. The price includes private air-conditioned 4×4 or minivan with english/french-speaking driver-guide — 14 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?+
14 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.
Where is the desert in Morocco?+
South and east of the Atlas mountains. The named destinations, in order of distance from Marrakech: the Agafay stone desert 45 minutes away (no sand dunes), the Zagora dunes down the Draa valley at 360 km, Erg Chigaga beyond M'Hamid where the tarmac ends, and the great Erg Chebbi dune sea at Merzouga, 560 km out — the Sahara of the photographs.
How much of Morocco is desert?+
Broadly, everything south and east of the Atlas watershed is arid or Saharan — roughly half the country by area. The photogenic sand seas are actually small pockets of that expanse: Erg Chebbi and Erg Chigaga are each a day's drive apart, islands of dunes in a vast landscape of stone, oases and kasbah valleys.
What should I wear on a Morocco desert tour?+
Layers, always: desert days can hit 30°C while nights drop near freezing outside summer. The working formula is light long sleeves and trousers for sun and camels, a warm fleece or jacket for the camp evening, closed shoes for sand and stones, sunglasses, and a scarf (a cheche) — bought in any souk for a few dirhams — for sun, wind and the photograph. Luggage stays in the vehicle; you carry a small overnight bag to the camp.
How far is the Sahara desert from Marrakech?+
The honest ladder: the Agafay stone desert is 45 minutes away (no sand dunes, but real desert scenery); the first true Sahara dunes at Zagora are 360 km — about 6 hours over the Tizi n'Tichka; the great Erg Chebbi dunes at Merzouga are 560 km — 8 to 9 hours, which is why serious itineraries take 3–4 days. There is no Sahara 'day trip' from Marrakech worth the name — anyone selling one is selling Agafay.
More answers in the “The desert experience” chapter of our Travel FAQ →
Itinerary and prices last updated October 2026.
