From Marrakech to Tangier in 8 days

Pick-up at Marrakech airport with a Morocco Pulse Travel sign and transfer to your riad. Depending on your time, you can visit the Majorelle Garden, by Yves Saint Laurent, with its famous blue. A free afternoon at Jamaa el-Fna for a drink and the sunset from a terrace. Overnight at a superior riad.

• Marrakech
• Majorelle Garden

Around 8:30-9:00 the local guide collects you for the Marrakech tour: Djemaa el-Fna square, with its juice stalls, dried fruit, henna, snake charmers and storytellers; the Secret Garden, an Islamic paradise watered from the Atlas; the Koutoubia, the Bahia, the Ben Youssef Medersa, the Saadian Tombs and the souks.

• Marrakech

Around 8:00 we head to the Dades Valley over the Tizi n'Tichka Pass and the High Atlas, among Berber villages. A visit to Ait Ben Haddou (UNESCO) and lunch with kasbah views. Ouarzazate (Atlas studios, optional) and the Skoura oasis with the Amridil Kasbah. Along the "road of a thousand kasbahs" and the Valley of Roses to the Dades. Dinner and overnight at a riad.

• Marrakech
• Ait Ben Haddou
• Ouarzazate
• Dades Valley

A drive among kasbahs and Berber villages of the Dades canyon to Todra, a palm valley with grey-and-pink rock walls. On to Merzouga and the Erg Chebbi dunes: a 1h30 camel ride to camp, with a sunset stop and sandboarding. Dinner, Berber music and a night under the stars in a tent.

• Dades Valley
• Todra Gorges
• Erfoud
• Merzouga

Optional sunrise and back to Merzouga centre. Out of the desert toward Fez via Errachidia, with a stop at the Ziz valley viewpoint. Through Midelt and Azrou (with its macaques) and Ifrane, the "Moroccan Switzerland," to Fez. Overnight at a charming riad.

• Merzouga
• Ziz Valley
• Errachidia
• Ifrane
• Fez

A guided tour of Fes el-Bali (UNESCO), from the 9th century, with the world's oldest university, its tanneries, artisan workshops and roughly 9,000 alleyways. In the afternoon, north to Chefchaouen, the blue city. Overnight at a charming riad.

• Fez
• Chefchaouen

A guided tour of Chefchaouen, the charming blue city, with its whitewashed houses with turquoise doors, the Tarik-Ben-Ziad Mosque, its Andalusian-style kasbah and its crafts (the djellaba, basketry, pottery) and souk. Then on to Tangier, the princess of the north: a visit to its old medina and a drive along the coast to Cape Spartel, where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic. Overnight in Tangier.

• Chefchaouen
• Tangier

Breakfast and transfer to Tangier airport or port, depending on your departure. End of our services.

• Tangier
• Airport