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Journey to the Sahara

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Luxury desert camps, Berber culture, and endless landscapes.

10 days

from £3,550 pp

Morocco with Teenagers

Family Adventure + 2 more + 3 more

The best of Morocco, designed for all ages.

10 days

from £2,640 pp

Imperial Cities by Rail

Foodie Culture & History + 1 more + 2 more

Ride the rails on a journey through Morocco’s historic heart.

12 days

from £3,320 pp

Marrakesh, Mountains & Ocean

Classic Beach + 1 more + 2 more

A classic Moroccan trio: Marrakesh, the Atlas Mountains & Essaouira.

11 days

from £2,455 pp

Morocco Summer Sun

Family Classic + 2 more + 3 more

Our perfect Morocco escape for the summer months.

11 days

from £2,460 pp

Morocco Express

A fast track adventure around Morocco's highlights

8 days

Express Beach

from £2,230 pp

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Ifrane & The Middle Atlas

Moroccans love the Middle Atlas and it’s hard to understand why it’s not as popular with foreign visitors. The contrast with the rest of Morocco is marked: gently rolling green foothills are dotted with attractive lakes, verdant woodlands and picturesque walking trails. The university town of Ifrane was built by the French in the early 20th Century to deliberately emulate an Alpine resort, and the neat chalets and ordered parks seem incongruous after the intensity of somewhere like Fez! Slightly further into the Middle Atlas is the town of Azrou, a Berber town which still has a slightly Alpine feel , and if you visit on a Tuesday you’ll catch one of the largest weekly markets in the area, notable for its carpets.

Day in the Life of a Local Family

This morning you will be met at your riad guided across the labyrinthine streets of the old Medina and provided with a list of Arabic phrases to help you communicate with the local family you're about to spend the day with. After reaching the local home and being introduced to the family, you will start your experience with traditional bread-making which will be baked at the communal oven. You will then walk together to the nearby food market to buy fresh ingredients for an authentic lunch, a great opportunity to practice some simple Arabic words and phrases. Back at the house your hosts will teach you how to prepare the traditional Moroccan Tagine (Fez-style), seasonal salads, preserved lemon and the special basic sauce for marinating. Discover the secrets of Fez cuisine and how it differs from other regions. After lunch you can relax with the family, and learn more about their lives over a cup of Moroccan mint tea.

Bhalil & Sefrou

A short drive from Fez, Bhalil is a Berber town with more to it than meets the eye: many of the attractive and colourful houses extend back into the cliffs over which the town is spread, utilising troglodyte dwellings dating back centuries. While you’re hear you’ll undoubtedly be invited into one of these homes to see for yourself and enjoy a refreshing mint tea. Close by lies the town of Sefrou and the two are typically visited together. There is evidence that a Jewish settlement was here before the advent of Islam in the 8th Century. The medina has achieved UNESCO World Heritage listing, enabling some attractive restoration, and the mellah (Jewish quarter) is a real warren of narrow streets overlooked by intricate wooden balconies typical of Jewish architecture in Morocco.

Fez el-Jadid

Fez El-Jadid (“New” Fez), is new relative only to its immediate surroundings, Fez El-Bali (“Old” Fez); Fez El-Jadid is a walled medina built in the 13th Century by a sultan distrustful of the inhabitants of neighbouring Fez El-Bali. Much of the area is taken up by the Royal Palace, not open to visitors, but with a vast and imposing front gate that is one of the classic Fez backdrops. Fez El-Jadid is also notable for its Jewish heritage. In common with most Moroccan cities, Fez had a thriving Jewish community until relatively recently, packed into mellahs (Jewish quarters). The mellah in Fez is typical, with outward looking balconies (in contrast to the blank-faced outer walls of Moroccan medina dwellings), a beautiful restored synagogue and a melancholy Jewish cemetery. A respite from the towering walls and narrow streets of the medina, the Jnan Sbil gardens are a peaceful green space punctuated with mirroring pools, splashing fountains and gurgling water channels. Your tour concludes north of the city at the Borj Nord, a 16th century fort built on the hills overlooking the city, and today affording a wonderful panorama of the sprawling, dense, chaotic and confusing labyrinths of Fez El-Bali and Fez El-Jadid.

Fez Food Tasting Tour

This is a fun, foodie experience which will take you to different food markets in the old city of Fez, accompanied by an English-speaking guide who will be helping you to discover and taste the different Fez delicacies whilst interacting with the locals. During the first half you will wander around the market stalls near the Blue Gate, and can sample Moroccan crepes, different types of traditional breads in a public bakery, dates and olives, preserved meats, and many kinds of honey, You will see the butchers specialising in preparing and selling camel meat, and the ladies making the phyllo used for the preparation of the Pastilla, a famous Moroccan recipe of Andalusian origins. There will also be a short presentation of the different spices used in Moroccan cooking. Continue exploring to find a whole quarter of eateries where you will be invited to sit in one of the tiny stores serving the broad bean puree cooked with garlic and served with olive oil and tasty warm homemade bread. The guide will also make a selection of the best of each stall, such as the Makouda which are little deep fried potato balls and spicy fried sardines. You will visit a traditional mint tea café to see the tea making and taste this Moroccan traditional hot drink, followed by a quick stop in the colourful quarter specialising in local pastries with almonds, honey and orange blossom water. Finally, you'll end up on the outskirts of the old city, where you can find ladies making a special crepe called Trid which the local people eat for breakfast, as well as the popular stalls selling snails with lots of herbs and garlic.