6 Days Fes, Chefchaouen & Sahara (round trip)

The medina of Fes, the blue city, Roman Volubilis and two nights in the dunes, starting and ending in Fes. Want to change something? Every tour can be adapted: more days, other stops, other hotels.

Highlights

• Guided visit of the medina of Fes and its tanneries
• Sunset over the blue city of Chefchaouen
• Roman ruins of Volubilis and imperial Meknes
• Cedar forests of the Middle Atlas and a night in the Erg Chebbi dunes
• 4x4 day around Erg Chebbi, Khamlia and the nomad families
• Cedar forests of the Middle Atlas and Ifrane

Day-by-day itinerary

1. 1

   Day 1Fes – Guided visit of the medina

   Full day in Fes el Bali, the largest medieval medina in the world, with a licensed local guide: the Bou Inania madrasa, the Al Quaraouiyine university, the Chouara tanneries and the artisans' souks. Afternoon at leisure.

   Riad or hotel in Fes · Breakfast
2. 2

   Day 2Fes – Chefchaouen

   Morning drive through the green hills of the Rif to Chefchaouen. Afternoon to get lost in the blue alleys of the medina, visit the Kasbah and climb to the Spanish Mosque for the sunset over the blue city.

   Riad in Chefchaouen · Breakfast
3. 3

   Day 3Chefchaouen – Volubilis – Meknes – Fes

   Morning walk in the blue medina. We drive south to Volubilis, the best preserved Roman city in Morocco, and the imperial city of Meknes with its monumental Bab Mansour gate. Arrival in Fes in the late afternoon.

   Riad or hotel in Fes · Breakfast
4. 4

   Day 4Fes – Ifrane – Midelt – Merzouga

   We leave Fes through the Middle Atlas: Ifrane, the cedar forest of Azrou with its Barbary monkeys and the high plateaus of Midelt. Then the Ziz Valley and its palm groves lead us to Merzouga, where camels take us into the dunes for a night in a Berber camp.

   Desert camp in Erg Chebbi · Dinner and breakfast
5. 5

   Day 5Merzouga – A full day in the Sahara

   A whole day in the desert by 4x4: around the dunes of Erg Chebbi, the Gnawa village of Khamlia and its music, nomad families, the black desert and the old kasbahs of Rissani. Optional sandboarding or quad. Evening at the camp around the fire.

   Desert camp in Erg Chebbi · Dinner and breakfast
6. 6

   Day 6Merzouga – Ziz Valley – Midelt – Ifrane – Fes

   Sunrise over the dunes and camel ride back to Merzouga. We drive north through the palm groves of the Ziz Valley and the plateaus of Midelt, then cross the cedar forests of the Middle Atlas, home of the Barbary macaques, and Ifrane, the 'Switzerland of Morocco', before reaching Fes.

   Riad or hotel in Fes · Breakfast