Day Excursion

Dakhla sits on a narrow peninsula with the Atlantic on one side and a shallow lagoon on the other, about forty kilometres long, which is...

Half a day on foot inside the walls of Marrakech with an official city guide, which is how the medina is best understood: it has...

A full day from Marrakech across the High Atlas to the two best known sights on the southern side: the fortified ksar of Ait Ben...

The Ouzoud falls drop about 110 m in three stages into a gorge of the El Abid river, in the Middle Atlas foothills some 150...

Agafay is not sand but stone desert: a landscape of bare grey hills about thirty kilometres from Marrakech, with the High Atlas as a backdrop....

From M'hamid El Ghizlane the great dune field of Erg Chegaga is about sixty kilometres away, all of it off the tarmac, and it can...

Lake Iriki was once a shallow inland lake fed by the Draa; today it is a dry plain of cracked ground, fossil beds and scattered...

The Draa is the longest river in Morocco and its valley carries the largest continuous palm grove in the country, with fortified villages built in...

Fes el Bali is the oldest walled part of Fes and one of the largest car-free urban areas in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage...

Essaouira is an eighteenth-century port on the Atlantic, laid out on a grid behind sea walls, with a medina listed by UNESCO and a fishing...