Inspirational Self Guided Itineraries
Welcome to our self guided itineraries. Our itineraries are meant to be used as a framework, a possible route for you to use in planning your trip.
Our itineraries are guides to how I would spend a week, or more touring a country, trying to see as much as is feasible in the time available. The travelling is part of the experience, I always want to see as much as possible without the actual travelling becoming a chore. Sometimes I think you discover more about a country by spending a few days in one place rather than racing around trying to tick of as many sights as possible.
Each country has a number of itineraries, dependent on the amount of time that you have, together with your interests. Each itinerary has links to our own exclusive detailed guides on the bigger places included on the routes. For smaller places I give a bit more information in the itinerary itself.
So let me share with you, my curated guides , each itinerary includes an interactive google map, links to more detailed guides to each of the cities we visit, a guide to the food, practical notes on the itinerary plus a bonus practical section on important information for independent travellers.
Enjoy the ride!
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Morocco
Our itineraries are guides to how I would spend a week, or more touring Morocco, trying to see as much as is possible in the time you have available. The travelling is part of the experience, I always want to see as much as possible without the actual travelling becoming a chore. Sometimes I think you discover more about a country by spending a few days in one place rather than racing around trying to tick of as many sights as possible.
But it’s your trip and we are all different, so use these itineries as a suggestion. I would urge you to be flexible, Morocco has a way of getting you to change course — an unexpected conversation in a medina lane, a tannery you stumble into by accident, a café that turns out to be the best you have encountered anywhere — and the traveller who holds too tightly to the plan tends to miss the best , most authentic, most unique experiences. What follows, then, is a framework. It gives you a structure and a logic, a way of moving through the country that makes geographical sense. But be flexible and be prepared to alter your plans.
Each itinerary below has been designed with several principles in mind. The journey should flow — each stage connecting naturally to the next, with no unnecessary doubling back. I have tried to make the pace relaxed — two nights in a place is generally the minimum needed to feel it properly. I have tried to balance the famous sites with those less-visited, especially on the longer itineries. So hopefully you should feel that you have managed to scratch below the surface a little and found at least some of the hidden Morocco.
All five itineraries assume that a visitor, either comes over on the ferry from Algeciras in Spain, which I would personally recommend, otherwise flys into and out of Casablanca, Marrakesh or Agadir all of which have good international connections. Specific entry and exit points plus useful travel tips are noted in the practical sections at the end of each itinerary.
So let me share with you, my curated guides to Morocco, each itinerary includes an interactive google map, links to more detailed guides to each of the cities we visit, a guide to Moroccan food, practical notes on the itinerary plus a bonus practical section on independent travel in Morocco.
Enjoy the experience!
The best seasons for visiting Morocco are April to May and September to October; July and August are hot & crowded and in many cities uncomfortable. February brings almond blossom to the south and occasional snow to the Atlas crossings. December and January are genuinely cold at altitude but often beautifully clear and quiet in the cities.
We have five Itineraries in Morocco;
The Chouara Tannery in Fez
One week in the North ; Tangier to Meknés
Morocco is a big country, roughly the size of France, it is not possible to visit the whole country in seven days , so we have created two seven day itineraries, one covering the North of Morocco and the other one the South of Morocco.
The north of Morocco is the part of the country that most tourists heading to Marrakesh never see, which means it is more authentic and many places see only a handful of foreign visitors. This itinerary covers the full arc of the northern experience: the cosmopolitan port city of Tangier, the blue dreamscape of Chefchaouen in its Rif mountain bowl, the overlooked Andalusian medina of Tétouan, and the imperial grandeur of Fez, with Meknès and the Roman ruins of Volubilis rounding out the final days. Seven days is quite a tight schedule, and if you have a few more days I would advise spending them relaxing in Fez or Meknès or both.
Bahia Palace, Marrakesh
One Week in the South; Marrakesh to Agadir
The south of Morocco — Marrakesh and the Atlantic coast and the landscapes between them — is the most visited part of the country, for good reason. It is the quintessential Morrocco, it is an area of great variety that really makes you feel as if you have been transported to a foreign and exotic land, far removed from your home country. This itinerary uses Marrakesh as its anchor and gateway, reaches west to Essaouira on the Atlantic, touches the edge of the High Atlas, and ends in Taroudant — the secret that knowing travellers keep to themselves. It is a journey that moves between the famous and the genuinely unknown, between spectacle and intimacy, between the red city and the blue sea.
Fishing Boats, Essauoria
Two Weeks in Morocco A Single Flowing Route from Tangier to Marrakesh
Morocco is a big country, roughly the size of France. Two weeks is the minimum time in which to see both the North and the South of the country, in which the different regions, north and south, mountain and desert, Atlantic and Mediterranean, start to connect into a single country.
This itinerary runs from Tangier in the north to Marrakesh in the south, covering the imperial cities of the north, the Atlantic coast, the crossing of the High Atlas, the pre-Saharan landscape of kasbahs and palm oases, and the great red city that gives the country its English name. It is not an exhaustive tour of Morocco. It is a journey with a shape and a logic, designed to leave you with a genuine understanding of the country
Fly into Tangier or Casablanca, or better still catch the ferry from Spain. Fly out of Marrakesh.
Let me take you on a two week tour through the heartlands of Morocco.
Three Weeks in Morocco – The Full Arc — Imperial Cities, Atlantic Coast, High Atlas & Desert Edge
Three weeks allows you time to explore. You can give the great cities the time they deserve, reach places that the shorter itineraries cannot accommodate, and venture off the beaten track.
This itinerary follows our two-week itinerary but extends significantly into the south and east — adding the Draa Valley, Ouarzazate and the edge of the Sahara — and includes several off-piste additions that most visitors to Morocco never encounter.
Fly into Tangier or Casablanca, or better still catch the ferry from Spain. Fly out of Marrakesh.
COMING SOON
Camels on the Beach, Essauoria
Four Weeks in Morocco – The Complete Journey — From the Mediterranean to the Sahara
Four weeks in Morocco is a luxury — and a luxury worth taking if you can. In a month you can really get to know the country, you can scratch beneath the surface and get to those places where tourists rarely tread: the Mediterranean coast east of Tétouan, the Middle Atlas lakes and cedar forests, the Anti-Atlas fossil fields, the remote kasbahs of the Dades gorge & the Merzouga dunes at the edge of the Algerian Sahara.
This four-week itinerary begins in Tangiers, visits the Mediterranean east coast, the Rif mountains, the four imperial cities, the modern coastal cities, before heading down to Essaouira, then Marrakesh before heading inland and into the Middle Atlas before reaching the edge of the Great Sahara Desert. It ends back in Marrakesh, as all Moroccan journeys should.
Fly into Tangier or Casablanca, or better still catch the ferry from Spain. Fly out of Marrakesh.
COMING SOON