10 Days Morocco Tour from Fes

Day 1: Welcome to Fes, Morocco

Your 10 days Morocco tour from Fes starts at Fes-Saïss Airport, where your driver will be waiting to take you into the city. Check in, settle into your riad, and take the rest of the day at your own pace. In the evening, sit down to a home-style Moroccan dinner before an early night the itinerary picks up properly tomorrow.

Day 2: Explore Fes with a Local Guide

After breakfast, a local guide meets you for a full day inside Fes. Start in the newer part of the city at the Royal Palace, known for its brass-covered gates, then walk through the Mellah, the old Jewish quarter, before stopping at a viewpoint that looks out over the whole medina.

From there, you’ll go into Fes el-Bali on foot the only way to see it. The streets narrow into a maze of souks, dye pits, and workshops where leatherworkers, weavers, and metalworkers still use methods passed down for generations. You’ll pass the Chouara tanneries and the Kairaouine Mosque, one of the oldest working universities in the world, before returning to your riad for the night.

Day 3: Fes – Volubilis – Meknes – Rabat [253 km]

Leaving Fes after breakfast, the drive west brings you to Volubilis, a Roman settlement abandoned over a thousand years ago and still recognizable today. Its mosaic floors and standing columns are some of the best-preserved Roman remains in North Africa.

From Volubilis it’s a short drive to Meknes, built up under Sultan Moulay Ismail as one of Morocco’s four imperial cities. You’ll pass through Bab Mansour, an elaborately tiled gate considered one of the finest in the country, and stop at the sultan’s mausoleum before continuing into Rabat by afternoon. In the capital, you’ll see the unfinished Hassan Tower, the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, and the Kasbah of the Udayas, set above the Atlantic. Dinner and overnight in Rabat.

Day 4: Rabat – Casablanca – Marrakech [327 km]

The road south hugs the coast to Casablanca, Morocco’s largest and most commercial city. Here you’ll stop at the Hassan II Mosque, one of the few mosques in Morocco open to non-Muslim visitors, built partly over the ocean with a retractable roof and a minaret over 200 meters tall.

By late afternoon you’ll reach Marrakech. However tired you are from the road, Jemaa el-Fnaa square is worth stepping into before dinner it’s at its liveliest around sunset, with food stalls, musicians, and storytellers filling the space. Overnight in a riad in the medina.

Day 5: Explore Marrakech with a Local Guide

A full day in Marrakech with a local guide, starting at the Koutoubia Mosque and its 12th-century minaret, then on to the Saadian Tombs, rediscovered only in 1917 after being sealed for centuries. The Bahia Palace follows, with its carved cedar ceilings and quiet, tiled courtyards.

In the afternoon, the souks are yours to explore spices, leather, carpets, lanterns, all of it laid out in narrow covered lanes. If you’d rather slow down instead, the Majorelle Gardens offer a shaded break, with cactus gardens and cobalt-blue buildings once owned by Yves Saint Laurent. Dinner and overnight in Marrakech.

Day 6: Marrakech – Ait Ben Haddou – Ouarzazate – Dades Valley [324 km]

Today’s drive climbs over the High Atlas via the Tizi n’Tichka pass, one of the highest paved roads in North Africa, with Berber villages built into the hillsides along the way. On the far side, Ait Ben Haddou comes into view a fortified ksar of mud-brick towers that’s been used as a filming location for decades, from Gladiator to Game of Thrones.

Ouarzazate follows, sometimes called Morocco’s Hollywood for its film studios, though its own kasbahs are worth the stop too. The route continues through the Skoura oasis and the Valley of Roses before reaching Dades Valley by evening, where a guesthouse overlooking the gorge is your base for the night. If a shorter southern loop suits your schedule better, our 5 Days Tour from Fes to Marrakech hits several of these same stops.

Day 7: Dades Valley – Todra Gorges – Rissani – Merzouga [265 km]

More of the Dades Valley’s rock formations in the morning light before the road climbs into Todra Gorge, where the canyon walls close in to just a few meters apart at points, rising 300 meters overhead. It’s worth getting out to walk the gorge floor before moving on.

Rissani, once a caravan stop on the trans-Saharan trade routes, comes next, and by afternoon you’ll reach Merzouga. From here the desert takes over a camel trek out to the Erg Chebbi dunes, timed to catch the sunset from the sand, then dinner and Berber drumming at your desert camp for the night.

Day 8: Merzouga Desert Experience

A day with no driving. Options include a visit to Khamlia, a small village known for Gnawa music with roots going back to West Africa, or, for those wanting more, quad biking and buggy runs out across the dunes. Either way, the pace is yours to set. You’ll head back to your accommodation by evening for a final dinner near the desert before the return journey north begins tomorrow.

Day 9: Merzouga Desert – Arfoud – Ziz Valley – Azrou – Ifrane – Fes [470 km]

An early start catches the desert sunrise before breakfast and the long drive back to Fes. The route passes through Erfoud, known for its fossil quarries, then follows the Ziz Valley, where palm groves run for miles along the canyon floor.

Crossing into the Middle Atlas, a stop at Azrou’s cedar forest is a good chance to see the Barbary macaques that live there, then on to Ifrane a town built in a French alpine style that looks out of place anywhere else in Morocco. You’ll roll back into Fes by evening for a last night in the city.

Day 10: Transfer to the Airport

A final morning free for last-minute shopping in the medina or just resting before your transfer to Fes-Saïss Airport. This closes out your 10 days Morocco tour from Fes, imperial cities, mountains, and desert, covered at a pace that leaves room to actually take it in.

Looking for something shorter or different? See our 3 Days Fes to Marrakech Desert Tour, 4 Days Tour from Fes to Marrakech, or browse all our tours from Fes. If you’d prefer a slightly longer version with more time in the south, our 8 Days Morocco Tour from Fes is also worth a look.