5-Day Morocco Desert Tour from Tangier
This 5-day private tour offers a captivating journey through Morocco's diverse landscapes and rich history.
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Music-led journeys across Morocco — from four days inside a festival to ten days across the imperial cities and the dunes.
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5-Day Desert Tour from Fes to Marrakech
This 5-day Morocco desert tour takes you from Fes through the beautiful Middle Atlas, cedar forests, and along the Ziz Valley, into the majestic Sahara at Merzouga.
5-Day Northern Morocco Tour from Tangier
This 5-day private tour covers Northern Morocco’s highlights, blending coastal beauty, mountain scenery, and historical cities.
5-Day Private Desert Tour from Marrakech to Merzouga
This private 5-day tour is your passport to Morocco’s most dramatic desert and mountain landscapes.
5-Day Morocco Sahara Tour from Casablanca
This 5-day Morocco tour is designed for travelers seeking a quick but immersive experience.
7-Day Morocco Itinerary from Casablanca
This 7-day Morocco tour blends culture, history, and adventure. Start in Casablanca and Rabat, travel to the blue city of Chefchaouen, wander through Fes’s medieval medina, and journey across the Atlas Mountains to the Sahara Desert.
6-Day Morocco Tour from Tangier to Marrakech
This immersive 6-day private tour offers a journey through Morocco's diverse landscapes and rich history.
7-Day Morocco Tour from Fes
A full-week private journey designed for travelers who want culture, history, and desert all in one grand loop.
6-Day Morocco Tour from Casablanca
This 6-day Morocco tour combines the highlights of Morocco’s culture, history, and desert beauty.
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What a music tour in Morocco actually is
Morocco holds more living musical traditions than almost any country its size — Gnawa carried north across the Sahara, Andalusian nouba brought from medieval Córdoba, Amazigh ahwach in the High Atlas villages, Hassani songs at the desert’s edge, Sufi sama in the zawiyas of Fes. Most of it is still played where it came from, by people who learned it from their families rather than a conservatory.
A music tour here is not a concert schedule. Our journeys are built around time with the musicians themselves — sitting in on a lila that runs until dawn, learning the two bass patterns that hold Gnawa together, recording with a desert blues band in a studio in Ouarzazate. Some trips are timed so a festival sits at the centre of them. Others avoid festivals entirely, because the best playing often happens in a room with eight people in it.
We also run the classic Moroccan routes — the Sahara, the imperial cities, the High Atlas, the blue streets of Chefchaouen — for travellers who want the country first and the music as the thread running through it. Every journey is private or capped small, and any of them can be rebuilt around what you actually want to hear.
Planning a trip to Morocco
Seven is the number most people land on — enough for two or three regions without living in the car. Four to five works if you stay in one area; ten or more if you want the Sahara and the imperial cities in the same trip.
March to May and September to November are the easy answer: warm days, cool nights, and the festival calendar at its fullest. High summer is fine on the Atlantic coast and punishing inland. Winter is quiet and cheap, and it is the best season for the Sahara, though snow can close the High Atlas passes for a day or two at a time.
Late June, over four days. The organisers confirm the exact dates in the spring, which is later than most people want to book flights. We hold rooms in the medina before the announcement and release them if the dates move — the town has a few thousand beds and the festival brings several hundred thousand people.
Yes, and from Tangier, Agadir or Ouarzazate if that is where your flight lands. Every journey on this page lists a start city because a route has to begin somewhere, not because it is fixed. Most can be reversed or re-cut to start where you arrive.
Both. Small groups are capped between eight and twelve, and every journey on this page can be arranged privately for you, your family or your band.
No, and most travellers are not. The workshops are built for people starting from nothing, and nobody is ever asked to perform — listening closely in the right room is the whole point. If you do play, bring the instrument. Sessions tend to find you.
Yes. The Sahara, the imperial cities, the High Atlas and Chefchaouen all run as ordinary journeys, with music as a thread rather than the subject — an evening of ahwach in a village you were passing through anyway. Tell us the balance you want and we will build it that way.
Three to six months for a private journey, and longer if a festival sits at the centre of it, because the good riads in Essaouira and Fes fill first. Small-group departures close on numbers rather than dates, so they can go early. Short notice is always worth asking about — a month out is sometimes possible.
Read before you go
Guides · August 2026 · 2 min read
How to behave in a room where music is happening.
Ten small things that make the difference between being a guest and being an audience. None of them are about music.
Culture · June 2026 · 2 min read
The guembri, in five minutes.
Three strings, a camel-skin face, a body carved from one piece of wood, and a bass line that has not changed in three hundred years.
Essays · May 2026 · 2 min read
Chefchaouen after the day trippers leave.
Between four in the afternoon and ten the next morning it is a different town. On staying two nights in a place designed to be seen in five hours.