Ornate Moroccan mosaic tilework and carved stucco around a tiled fountain

Desert · Morocco

Marrakesh

Riad Courtyards & Sahara Nights

Best time
March to May
Location
Morocco

About Marrakesh

Marrakesh was founded in 1070 as the Almoravid capital, and the red pisé walls, the palm groves and the medina's nine thousand lanes are all still where they were put. The city works by inversion: blank walls on the street, and then a door opens onto a courtyard with a fountain, orange trees and four floors of carved cedar and hand-cut zellij. It is also the obvious door into the rest of the country — the High Atlas starts an hour out, the Dadès and Todra gorges a day beyond that, and the Erg Chebbi dunes on the Algerian side of the range, which is where Morocco stops being a city break. March to May is the best of it, with the Atlas still under snow and the medina not yet at forty degrees; October and November run a close second.

Good to know

Flight time
9h from Delhi via Doha or Istanbul
Currency
Moroccan Dirham (MAD), closed — buy on arrival
Language
Arabic and Tamazight; French widely, English in tourism
Visa
Visa required for Indian passports, apply 3 – 4 weeks ahead

What you'll do

The four we'd book first

  1. Jemaa el-Fna at dusk

    The square turns over completely at sunset — orange juice carts out, food stalls up, gnaoua drummers and storytellers working the crowd.

  2. The Ben Youssef medersa

    A fourteenth-century college of 130 student cells around a courtyard of zellij, carved cedar and stucco cut so fine it looks like lace.

  3. A night on Erg Chebbi

    Camels in over the last dunes at sunset to a camp with rugs and lanterns, then a sky with no light within a hundred kilometres.

  4. Bread at the neighbourhood oven

    Every medina quarter still has its communal furnace, and the loaves go in on wooden paddles marked so families get their own back.

Curated itineraries

Marrakesh packages

Zellij courtyards behind an unmarked medina door, the Atlas crossed in a morning, and one night in a camp out on the Erg Chebbi dunes.

  • Signature7D | 6N

    Medina & Dunes

    • Riad in the medina, walking distance from the square
    • Camel in to a camp on Erg Chebbi
    • Aït Benhaddou and the Dadès gorge
    • Marrakesh
    • Dadès
    • Merzouga

    Per person, starting from*

    ₹1,24,900, reduced from ₹1,77,400

    Medina & Dunes — Marrakesh, 7D | 6N, from ₹1,24,900
  • Honeymoon8D | 7N

    Morocco for Two

    • Private dinner under Agafay's dark sky
    • Riad suite with its own plunge pool
    • Hammam and rose-oil ritual for two
    • Marrakesh
    • Agafay
    • Essaouira

    Per person, starting from*

    ₹1,64,900, reduced from ₹2,34,200

    Morocco for Two — Marrakesh, 8D | 7N, from ₹1,64,900
  • Family8D | 7N

    Morocco with the Family

    • Camel ride and camp night on Agafay
    • Ourika valley waterfall walk and lunch
    • Beach horses and kites at Essaouira
    • Marrakesh
    • Ourika
    • Agafay
    • Essaouira

    Per person, starting from*

    ₹1,49,900, reduced from ₹2,12,900

    Morocco with the Family — Marrakesh, 8D | 7N, from ₹1,49,900
  • Luxury9D | 8N

    The Riad & the Erg

    • A riad held privately, with its own chef
    • Two nights in a suite tent on Erg Chebbi
    • Private plane from Errachidia to Fes
    • Marrakesh
    • Skoura
    • Erg Chebbi
    • Fes

    Per person, starting from*

    ₹3,14,900, reduced from ₹4,47,200

    The Riad & the Erg — Marrakesh, 9D | 8N, from ₹3,14,900
  • Adventure9D | 8N

    Atlas, Gorge & Erg

    • Toubkal summit at 4,167 m
    • Bolted limestone climbing at Todra
    • Two-day walk in to the Erg Chebbi camp
    • Imlil
    • Toubkal
    • Todra
    • Erg Chebbi

    Per person, starting from*

    ₹1,54,900, reduced from ₹2,20,000

    Atlas, Gorge & Erg — Marrakesh, 9D | 8N, from ₹1,54,900
  • Culture10D | 9N

    Imperial Cities & Craft

    • Roman mosaics at Volubilis
    • Chefchaouen's blue medina at dawn
    • Zellij cutting and a tannery walk in Fes
    • Marrakesh
    • Rabat
    • Chefchaouen
    • Fes
    • Meknès

    Per person, starting from*

    ₹1,84,900, reduced from ₹2,62,600

    Imperial Cities & Craft — Marrakesh, 10D | 9N, from ₹1,84,900

*Per person on twin sharing. Prices move with season and availability — we confirm yours in writing before anything is booked.

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