Most Morocco itineraries you read online are just lists of city names. They leave out the thing that actually decides whether a trip feels relaxed or rushed: how far apart those places are, and how many hours you sit in the car between them.
So we drew a map for every tour we run. Each one shows the real route, where you sleep, where the road turns south into the Sahara, and which legs are long driving days. Pick the shape that fits the time you have, then read the day-by-day itinerary behind it.
All of these are private trips in our own 4x4s, run from our base in Rissani on the edge of Erg Chebbi. If none of the shapes below fits your dates, we will redraw one for you – see all Morocco tours or tell us what you want.
Marrakech, Ait Benhaddou, Dades Valley, Todra Gorge, Erg Chebbi, then the southern road home. 2 nights.
Same road out, but two nights in the dunes instead of one, plus the Rissani souk. 3 nights.
Adds the north: Erg Chebbi, then Ifrane, Fes and Chefchaouen, finishing in Casablanca. 4 nights.
Lands in Casablanca and ends in Marrakech, taking Chefchaouen, Fes and the Sahara on the way. 5 nights.
The classic loop, about 1,500 km: Dades Valley, Erg Chebbi, two nights in Fes, then Chefchaouen. 6 nights.
The 7-day route with a full day in the Sahara added, so the desert stops being a photo stop. 7 nights.
Fes and Marrakech at three nights each, a Berber village trek at Imlil, and the kasbah at Ait Benhaddou. 8 nights.
Marrakech, two nights at a Sahara camp, Fes, Meknes and Volubilis, Chefchaouen, out of Casablanca. 9 nights.
The same country the other way round: imperial cities first, desert in the middle, Marrakech at the end. 9 nights.
A full loop with the Atlantic coast added: Essaouira, Oualidia, Tangier, Chefchaouen, Fes and the Sahara. 13 nights.
The solid line is the outbound route. A dashed line is a return leg or an airport transfer, so you can see straight away which days repeat road you have already driven. Small open circles are stops along the way; the ringed circles are where you sleep, with the number of nights written beside them. The numbered orange dots are day numbers, and the scale bar in the corner is there because Morocco is bigger than it looks on a phone screen – Marrakech to Merzouga is a real day of driving, not an afternoon.
If a map shows two nights in one place, that is deliberate. A trip that moves hotel every single night looks efficient on paper and feels exhausting in the car. For more on pacing, read our guide to planning a Morocco trip and when to go.
On the desert runs, days one and two are the long ones: roughly 6 to 8 hours from Marrakech to the Dades Valley and on to Erg Chebbi, with stops at Ait Benhaddou and Todra Gorge built in. The northern legs are shorter, usually 3 to 5 hours. We drive our own 4x4s, so the timings on these maps are measured, not estimated.
Yes. The 6-day and the classic 10-day maps start in Casablanca, and the 9-day cultural route starts in Fes. Any route on this page can be reversed or re-anchored to the airport your flight actually lands at – tell us the airport and the dates and we will redraw it.
Seven or eight days. That is the shortest shape that gets you a proper night in the Sahara and time in Fes without every day becoming a driving day. Three and four days work well if you only want the desert and are already in Marrakech.
They are the plan, not a timetable. Weather in the Atlas passes, a souk day worth catching, or a group that wants a slow morning all change the shape of a day. The overnight stops stay fixed unless you ask us to change them.
Please do. Save them, print them, send them to whoever you are travelling with. They are our own drawings of our own routes, so if you want a version with your dates or your own stops marked on it, ask and we will make one.
Tell us how many days you have, which airport you fly into and what you actually want to see. We will draw the route, tell you honestly if it is too much driving, and send it back with a price. Start with a message, or browse all our Morocco tours first.