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10 days in Morocco: how to spend them well
Long enough for two real regions, still tight enough that every day needs a job.
Written by Morocco Tailored Tours.
This is one of our trip-length guides. For the full picture of how long to spend and where to go, start with the ultimate Morocco itinerary guide, or browse our private Morocco itineraries by trip length.
Ten days is the sweet spot for a lot of first and second-time visitors: long enough to combine the desert with either the imperial cities or the coast, without the trip feeling like a checklist of everywhere at once.
A common shape: Marrakech to start, over the Atlas and into the Sahara for two nights, north through the gorges to Fez, with a day or two in the Fez medina before flying home or looping back. That's roughly what our Grand Morocco routes are built around.
An alternative for travellers less drawn to the desert: Casablanca or Rabat, the imperial cities circuit through Meknes and Volubilis, Fez, then south to Marrakech with time for the Atlas foothills: a trip built on architecture and cities rather than landscape.
What we'd avoid: trying to add Chefchaouen or Essaouira on top of a desert-and-imperial-cities route in the same ten days. Either is a full extra region, and squeezing it in usually means shortening the part of the trip that mattered more to begin with.
Want to see how this works on a real route? Our 10-Day Morocco Tour from Marrakech and 10-Day Imperial Cities and Sahara Tour from Casablanca to Marrakech are private itineraries we can adjust to fit.
Planning around Volubilis? Read the Volubilis destination guide, or see 10-Day Morocco Tour from Marrakech, a sample itinerary that includes it.
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