Signature Private Tour · 13 Days · 12 Nights

Discover Morocco —
all of it.

Imperial cities, the blue mountain village of Chefchaouen, the Sahara, the Atlas, and the windswept Atlantic coast — Morocco's most complete private journey, hand-built by your team. Start and end anywhere.

13
Days
12
Nights
15+
Cities & sites
2
Coasts
& Sahara
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✦  Free 48-hour proposal.  No deposit until your itinerary is exactly right.

Duration13 days · 12 nights
PaceRelaxed · 2 free days
GroupPrivate · 1–8 guests
SeasonYear-round · any month
FromUSD $3,445 / pp

The journey

Morocco, experienced with the depth it deserves.

If you want to truly understand Morocco — not just visit it — this is the tour. Thirteen days gives you enough time to move at a pace that lets things sink in: the politics of the imperial cities, the Berber culture of the Atlas, the silence of the Sahara, the medieval world of Fes, the French-Moroccan sophistication of Marrakech, and the windswept bohemian beauty of the Atlantic coast.

This itinerary adds experiences shorter tours simply skip: a full afternoon in Chefchaouen's blue medina, the UNESCO-listed Atlantic port of Essaouira with its sea ramparts and argan oil cooperatives, the haunting Portuguese cistern of El Jadida, and the fresh-oyster lagoon of El Oualidia. From the High Atlas to the Atlantic, this is Morocco end-to-end.

Start and finish anywhere. The route below is the most popular Casablanca round-trip — but every itinerary is built around your flights. Fly into Casablanca and out of Marrakech, arrive Tangier and depart Fes — just tell us your dates and arrival/departure cities, and we'll resequence the days to match.

Marrakech medina lantern souk glowing at golden hourMarrakech · medina lantern souk

Six unmissable moments

Tour Highlights

Morocco's greatest treasures — from the Blue Pearl to the Atlantic coast — beautifully sequenced across 13 days.

Chefchaouen — The Blue Pearl

Morocco's most photogenic city, where every wall, staircase, and flowerpot is painted blue. A full afternoon to wander the dreamlike medina before the day-trippers arrive.

Volubilis — Rome in Africa

A UNESCO Roman city covering 40 hectares with extraordinarily preserved 3rd-century mosaic floors, triumphal arches, and olive presses.

Fes el-Bali Medina

The world's largest medieval urban area — entirely car-free, 9,000 alleyways, and the Chouara Tanneries unchanged since the 11th century.

Erg Chebbi Sahara

Camel trek into 50 km of golden dunes at sunset, dine under the stars in a luxury Berber camp, and wake to the most extraordinary sunrise of your life.

Ait Ben Haddou — UNESCO Kasbah

The iconic mud-brick fortress that appeared in Gladiator, Game of Thrones, and Lawrence of Arabia — walked through with a guide who knows every story.

Essaouira — Atlantic UNESCO Port

A fortified blue-and-white port battered by Atlantic winds. UNESCO-listed medina, artisan workshops, Berber argan-oil cooperatives, and the freshest seafood in Morocco.

Suggested route · fully flexible

The Route

North to Chefchaouen, east through the imperial cities, south to the Sahara, west across the Atlas to Marrakech, then north along the Atlantic coast through Essaouira, El Jadida and El Oualidia. The Casablanca round-trip below is the popular default — every itinerary can be reordered to start and end in Marrakech, Fes, Tangier or any other Moroccan airport.

Atlas MountainsSAHARACASABLANCAstart & endRABAT1 nightCHEFCHAOUEN1 nightFES2 nightsERFOUD1 nightMERZOUGA1 nightDADES GORGE1 nightMARRAKECH2 nightsESSAOUIRA1 night

Casablanca → Rabat → Chefchaouen → Fes → Sahara → Marrakech → Essaouira → Atlantic coast → Casablanca · approximately 2,400 km · all transfers in private SUV
✦ Itinerary fully flexible — start/end city is your choice

Thirteen days, one complete journey

Day-by-Day Itinerary

Below is the suggested 13-day sequence — a round-trip from Casablanca. Every day can be reordered, shortened, or extended around your flights. Free time, slow mornings, and unhurried evenings woven through every chapter.

Hassan II Mosque on the Atlantic coast, Casablanca
01Day
Casablanca arrival

Welcome to Morocco's Atlantic Capital

Your private driver meets you at Mohammed V International Airport and takes you to your hotel in Casablanca. Take the afternoon to rest or walk the elegant Maarif neighbourhood, then a stroll along the Ain Diab corniche as the Atlantic turns gold in the evening light. Tonight, you're in Morocco.

  • Private airport transfer
  • Ain Diab Corniche
  • Casablanca overnight
Kasbah des Oudayas overlooking the Rabat waterfront
02Day
Casablanca → Rabat

Hassan II Mosque & the Royal Capital

Begin with a guided interior tour of Hassan II Mosque — one of the world's largest, built by 30,000 artisans on a platform above the Atlantic. Continue to Rabat: the Mohammed V Mausoleum (white marble and carved cedar, with Royal Guards on horseback), the Hassan Tower, and the blue-and-white Udayas Kasbah overlooking the Bou Regreg river.

  • Hassan II Mosque (interior)
  • Museum of Moroccan Judaism
  • Mohammed V Mausoleum
  • Udayas Kasbah
Chefchaouen blue-painted medina in the Rif mountains, Morocco
03Day
Rabat → Chefchaouen

An Afternoon in the Blue Pearl

Drive north through the Rif Mountains foothills to Chefchaouen — a mountain city so beautiful it seems imagined. Every surface is painted in blues ranging from pastel to indigo, layered over centuries of repainting. Arrive in the early afternoon with time to wander the medina without a schedule — Plaza Uta el-Hammam, the washing fountain, the Andalusian garden above the kasbah, and the golden hour when the blue walls glow amber.

  • Chefchaouen blue medina
  • Plaza Uta el-Hammam
  • Kasbah & Andalusian Garden
  • Golden hour rooftops
Volubilis Roman ruins triumphal arch and columns, Morocco
04Day
Chefchaouen → Meknes → Volubilis → Fes

Imperial Gates & Roman Splendour

Drive south to Meknes — the imperial city Sultan Moulay Ismail built to rival Versailles. Stand before Bab el-Mansour, the most ornate gateway in North Africa. Continue to Volubilis, a UNESCO Roman city covering 40 hectares, where 2,000-year-old mosaic floors depicting Orpheus and Bacchus still lie exactly where Roman families once walked. Arrive in Fes — Morocco's most rewarding city — at sunset.

  • Meknes Bab el-Mansour
  • Moulay Idriss holy town
  • Volubilis Roman ruins (UNESCO)
  • Fes arrival
Chouara tanneries leather dye pits, Fes el-Bali medina
05Day
Full day in Fes

Inside the World's Most Complete Medieval City

Fes el-Bali was founded in 789 AD and has barely changed. Your licensed local guide — born in the medina — takes you through the Attarine Medersa (a 14th-century theological school whose courtyard is one of the most beautiful enclosed spaces in the Islamic world), the Chouara Tanneries (leather processed in the same stone vats since the 11th century), the Mellah, and the Royal Palace gates. Lunch on a rooftop with panoramic medina views.

  • Al-Qarawiyyin University
  • Attarine Medersa
  • Chouara Tanneries
  • Nejjarine Museum
  • Mellah & Royal Palace gates
Ziz Valley palm oasis on the road to Erfoud, southern Morocco
06Day
Fes → Ifrane → Ziz Valley → Erfoud

Through "Little Switzerland" to the Saharan Gateway

Drive south through Ifrane — the alpine Swiss-style town built by the French Protectorate, with stone chalets and a famous snow-covered lion sculpture. Continue through cedar forests where Barbary macaques roam free, then descend through the Ziz Valley — a river gorge with thousands of date palms creating a green canopy above the arid landscape. Arrive in Erfoud, gateway to the Sahara, at sunset.

  • Ifrane & cedar forests
  • Barbary macaques
  • Ziz Valley date palms
  • Erfoud arrival
Camel caravan crossing Merzouga Erg Chebbi Sahara dunes at sunset
07Day
Erfoud → Rissani → Khamlia → Erg Chebbi

Into the Golden Sahara

Explore Rissani — birthplace of the Alaouite dynasty and once the great terminus of the trans-Saharan trade route. Detour to Khamlia village for a deeply moving Gnawa music performance under a goatskin tent. Then arrive at the edge of Erg Chebbi: 50 kilometres of the most spectacular sand dunes in the world. Mount your camel as the sun begins its descent — the slow rhythm, the dunes turning gold and amber and red. Luxury desert camp awaits: dinner, drumming, ten million stars.

  • Rissani ancient market
  • Gnawa music – Khamlia
  • Sunset camel trek
  • Luxury Sahara camp
  • Desert stargazing
Atlas mountain village along the Dades Valley road, southern Morocco
08Day
Erg Chebbi → Todra → Dades Gorge

Sahara Sunrise & the Canyon Roads

Rise at 5:30am. Climb the dune. Watch the world turn gold. Then travel west through the Berber heartland — past Tinghir's vast date palm oasis to Todra Gorge, where sheer 300-metre limestone cliffs create a slot canyon dramatic enough to stop your breath. Continue to the Dades Gorge, a wider valley of sculpted red rock formations. Spend the night in a lodge perched above the valley floor.

  • Sahara sunrise dune climb
  • Todra Gorge 300m walls
  • Road of a Thousand Kasbahs
  • Dades Gorge overnight
Aït Ben Haddou UNESCO mud-brick fortress on the Atlas road
09Day
Dades → Aït Ben Haddou → Marrakech

Hollywood Kasbahs & the Atlas Crossing

Travel the legendary caravan route through Skoura's palm oasis and Ouarzazate's film studios to Aït Ben Haddou — the UNESCO mud-brick fortress filmed by Ridley Scott, Iñárritu, and dozens of others. Walk its thousand-year-old alleys with your guide, past grain stores still in use and craftspeople still making pottery and jewellery. Cross the Tizi n'Tichka Pass (2,260 m) and descend to Marrakech as the evening lights begin to sparkle below.

  • Skoura palm oasis
  • Aït Ben Haddou (UNESCO)
  • Tizi n'Tichka Pass (2,260m)
  • Marrakech arrival
Madrasa Ben Youssef zellige tilework courtyard, Marrakech
10Day
Marrakech guided tour

The Red City — Palaces, Souks & the Great Square

Full-day guided discovery of Marrakech with your licensed local expert. The Saadian Tombs — discovered behind a sealed doorway in 1917. El Badi Palace — stripped of its 360 carved marble columns by a later sultan, its empty ruins now haunted by storks. The opulent Bahia Palace. The dyer's souk. The lantern market. As dusk falls: Djemaa el-Fna — storytellers, Gnawa musicians, acrobats, and the rising smoke of a hundred food stalls.

  • Saadian Tombs
  • El Badi Palace
  • Bahia Palace
  • Medina souks & Mellah
  • Djemaa el-Fna at night
Essaouira UNESCO Atlantic port — sea ramparts and blue fishing boats
11Day
Marrakech → Essaouira

The Windy City of the Atlantic

Drive west through argan tree forests (where you'll see goats climbing in the branches) to the Atlantic coast. Essaouira is a UNESCO-listed fortified port of extraordinary beauty: blue-painted fishing boats bob in the ancient harbour, sea ramparts overlook the grey-green Atlantic, and inside the medina woodworkers craft thuya root furniture while women press argan oil at a Berber cooperative. Walk the ramparts at sunset with the wind at your back.

  • Argan tree forest goats
  • Essaouira UNESCO medina
  • Sea ramparts & port
  • Argan oil women's cooperative
  • Atlantic sunset
El Oualidia Atlantic lagoon — Morocco's famous oyster bed coastline
12Day
Essaouira → Safi → El Jadida → El Oualidia → Casablanca

The Atlantic Coast — Pottery, Cisterns & Fresh Oysters

Drive the Atlantic coast road north, stopping in Safi — Morocco's ceramics capital, where pottery workshops line the hillside below the old Portuguese fort and artisans hand-paint dishes in the same patterns their grandparents used. Continue to El Jadida, a UNESCO-listed Portuguese coastal fort whose magnificent underground cistern (a vaulted chamber with a shallow pool reflecting Gothic arches) is one of Morocco's most haunting spaces. Lunch at El Oualidia, a sheltered lagoon famous for the best oysters in Africa. Then back to Casablanca for your final evening.

  • Safi pottery workshops
  • El Jadida Portuguese cistern (UNESCO)
  • El Oualidia oyster lunch
  • Atlantic lagoon
  • Casablanca final night
Hassan II Mosque on the Atlantic coast, Casablanca — final morning before departure
13Day
Departure

Morocco — Fully Discovered

A final Moroccan breakfast, then your private driver takes you to Mohammed V International Airport. You've seen Morocco from its mountains to its deserts to its Atlantic shores — imperial cities, blue mountain villages, medieval medinas, golden dunes, Hollywood kasbahs, windswept port cities, and the best oysters in Africa. That's Morocco, completely discovered.

Where you'll stay

Hand-picked riads, hotels & camps

Every property selected for character, comfort, and location. Choose your tier — we'll match you to the right rooms in every city.

Comfortable · 3–4★

Comfortable riads & tented camps

Authentic 3–4★ medina riads and brand-name properties with rooftop terraces, traditional tilework, and warm hospitality. Comfortable Berber tented camps in the Sahara with private bathrooms.

Examples: Riad Mazar (Fes), Marriott Jnan Palace (Fes), Xaluca (Sahara), Riad Kalaa (Rabat)

Boutique · 5★

Boutique heritage riads

Storied riads with plunge pools, restored 18th-century courtyards, and award-winning restaurants. Luxury glamping in the Sahara — private bath, Persian rugs, four-poster beds.

Examples: La Maison Arabe (Marrakech), Riad Kniza (Marrakech), Palais Faraj (Fes), Riad Fès Relais & Châteaux

Elevated · ultra-luxury

Elevated palaces & private villas

Iconic palace hotels — La Mamounia, Royal Mansour, Dar Ahlam — with full butler service, private hammams, and the most refined Sahara glamping in Morocco.

Examples: La Mamounia (Marrakech), Villa des Orangers (Marrakech), Dar Ahlam (Skoura), Royal Mansour (Marrakech), La Sultana (Marrakech)

Transparent · No surprises

What's Included & Excluded

Included

  • 12 nights premium hotels, riads & luxury desert camp (daily breakfast)
  • Private luxury SUV with English-speaking driver
  • Licensed local guides in all major cities
  • All entrance fees for included sites
  • Camel trekking at Erg Chebbi
  • 3 specialty dinners (Sahara & Dades)
  • Private airport transfers (arrival & departure)
  • 24/7 concierge support during your trip

Not included

  • International flights to/from Morocco
  • Most lunches and dinners
  • Beverages
  • Driver & guide gratuities
  • Optional experiences (balloon, cooking, hammam)
  • Personal travel insurance

USD / per person

Tour Investment

Per-person pricing based on two travelers sharing. Solo and group rates available — request a custom quote for your exact dates and party size.

★★★ – ★★★★
Budget
$265
per person / day
From $3,445 total

Entry-level — comfortable 3–4★ hotels & tented Sahara camps. Excellent value for a complete 13-day tour.

★★★★★
Luxury
$350–$450
per person / day
From $4,550 total

5★ properties with a dedicated private guide & driver. Luxury Sahara glamping & signature riads.

★★★★★ ✦
Ultra Luxury
$650+
per person / day
From $8,450 total

Exclusive estates — fully bespoke VIP service. La Mamounia, Royal Mansour, palatial private villas.

Add to your free day

Optional Experiences

🎈

Hot Air Balloon at Sunrise

Drift above Marrakech's palm groves and rooftops as the city wakes below.

🍳

Moroccan Cooking Class

Shop the spice souk with a local chef, then cook authentic tagine and bastilla.

♨️

Traditional Hammam & Massage

Black soap steam scrub and argan oil massage — deeply restorative after the desert.

🌿

Majorelle Gardens & YSL Museum

Yves Saint Laurent's legendary cobalt-blue garden — one of Marrakech's great pleasures.

Quick answers

Frequently Asked

The 13-day tour adds three things shorter itineraries simply don't have time for: a full afternoon in Chefchaouen (the Blue Pearl), the Atlantic coast (Essaouira, Safi, El Jadida and the oyster lagoons of El Oualidia), and a more relaxed pace throughout. You cover Morocco end-to-end — imperial cities, blue mountain villages, Sahara, Atlas, and the Atlantic. Past travelers consistently call the Atlantic coast days a favourite part of the journey.
Essaouira is one of Morocco's great pleasures — a UNESCO-listed fortified Atlantic port with blue-and-white buildings, sea ramparts overlooking the Atlantic, thriving artisan workshops, fresh seafood, and Berber argan oil cooperatives. Cooler, windier, and more bohemian than the inland cities. The 3-hour drive from Marrakech passes through argan tree forests where goats famously climb in the branches — beautiful in itself.
Anywhere you want. The route shown is the most popular round-trip from Casablanca, but every Gateway2Morocco itinerary is fully flexible. Start and finish in Casablanca, Marrakech, Fes, Tangier or any other major Moroccan airport. Tell us your arrival/departure cities and we'll resequence the days.
Yes — many travelers extend the Essaouira portion to two nights to experience the city across different times of day. A morning beach walk before the crowds and the evening sunset on the ramparts are both unforgettable. Just mention it when you request a quote and we'll build it in.
Yes. Morocco is a wonderful solo destination, and traveling with a private driver and licensed guides makes it one of the safest and most rewarding solo experiences available. Solo pricing is offered on all tours. Many of our most enthusiastic past clients have traveled alone.
Not at all. Your driver and licensed local guides speak fluent English and handle all interactions on your behalf — hotel check-ins, restaurant orders, medina navigation. Language is never something you have to worry about.

Thirteen days. Morocco, fully discovered.

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