Places we drive through
Morocco, region by region.
Cities and medinas, the green oases and Atlas forests, the kasbahs on the old caravan road, and the sand at the end of it. Everything here is on one of our routes.
The index
Where the road actually goes.
Every stop we make, in four groups, the country changes character at every border, and so do our routes. Jump to a group, or read it top to bottom like a map.
Cities & medinas
Where the journey starts and ends, souks, medinas and Atlantic light.
4 places Marrakech-SafiMarrakechAlmost every journey begins here. Marrakech sits on the plain with the High Atlas rising behind it, close enough that the snow on the peaks is visible from the rooftops on a clear morning.Explore
Casablanca-SettatCasablancaCasablanca is the country at its most modern, a working Atlantic port with Art Deco bones and the Hassan II Mosque standing over the water at its edge.Explore
Fès-MeknèsFesFes el-Bali is the largest car-free urban area on earth, a medina of ten thousand lanes where the only way through is on foot, behind a handcart, or with someone who has lived there all their life.Explore
Marrakech-SafiEssaouiraEssaouira is a walled port town on the Atlantic, where the wind never really stops and the ramparts take the swell head-on.Explore
Green & oases
Palm groves, gorges and Atlas forests, the Morocco that is not desert at all.
3 places Drâa-TafilaletDraa ValleyThe Draa is the longest river in Morocco and, for most of its length, a green ribbon of date palms running between bare hills from Ouarzazate to Mhamid.Explore
Drâa-TafilaletTodra & Dades gorgesTwo river canyons cut into the eastern High Atlas, close enough to drive in one day: the Dades, folded and switchbacked, and the Todra, almost vertical.Explore
Tizi-n-TichkaHigh AtlasThe Tizi-n-Tichka pass crosses the High Atlas at 2,260m and is the road you take to get from Marrakech to the south, switchbacks, cedar and, in winter, snow at the top.Explore
Kasbahs & heritage
Mud-brick ksour on the old caravan road, some of them a thousand years old.
2 places Drâa-TafilaletOuarzazateOuarzazate is the last town before the desert and the gateway to the Draa valley, film crews have used it for decades for exactly that reason.Explore
Drâa-TafilaletAït BenhaddouAït Benhaddou is a fortified ksar on the old caravan road between the Sahara and Marrakech, stacked up a hillside above the Asif Ounila.Explore
Desert
The ergs and the camps: where the road ends and the sand begins.
3 places Draa, south of MhamidErg ChegagaErg Chegaga is the largest dune field in Morocco, about forty kilometres of sand south of Mhamid, past the last road.Explore
Drâa-TafilaletMerzouga & Erg ChebbiErg Chebbi rises straight out of the flat ground at Merzouga, some dunes nearly 150m high. You can see them from the village and then you are inside them.Explore
Drâa-TafilaletZagoraZagora is our home base, the town where the agency is registered and where our guides grew up, at the point where the Draa valley finally gives way to the desert.Explore
Plan a route
Want two of these in one trip?
Tell us which places you want and how long you have. We will put them in an order that actually works on the road.
