Music-led journeys across Morocco — from four days inside a festival to ten days across the imperial cities and the dunes.
Journey from Marrakech into Morocco’s most dramatic landscapes. Cross the High Atlas via the Tizi n’Tichka Pass, explore the iconic Aït Ben Haddou and Ouarzazate, witness the lush Rose Valley, hike Todra Gorges, ride camels across the golden dunes of Merzouga, and experience imperial Fes.
Leave the bustle of Marrakech behind and travel northeast into the Atlas foothills to experience the natural beauty of Ouzoud Falls.
This private 3-day desert tour packs Morocco’s most iconic landscapes into a short but rich itinerary.
Depart early from Marrakech on a full-day private journey through the High Atlas Mountains via the famous Tizi-n’Tichka Pass.
This private 5-day tour is your passport to Morocco’s most dramatic desert and mountain landscapes.
This 4-day private desert journey offers a condensed but rich experience of Morocco’s most dramatic landscapes.
Escape the heat and intensity of Marrakech on a private day trip to Essaouira, Morocco’s laid-back Atlantic gem.
This 8-day tour is curated to let you experience the essence of Morocco in comfort and style.
Escape the hustle and bustle of the city for a day and retreat to the lush beauty of the Ourika Valley.
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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.
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.
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