Welcome to Morocco—a vibrant land where stunning landscapes, rich history, and colorful culture come together effortlessly.
Morocco • 12 Days • Exclusively Private
A journey for Clients who want Morocco in full depth. A journey that moves through every register the country offers, the Atlantic grandeur of Casablanca, the blue silence ofChefchaouen, the medieval labyrinth of Fes, the vast stillness of the Sahara, the Berber highlands of the Atlas, and the sensory intensity of Marrakech. Built for travelers with the time and appetite to see a country properly rather than skim its surface.
Upon arrival in Casablanca, you will be met inside the terminal by your Solaya representative who will assist with immigration procedures, luggage collection, and airport formalities through a personalized meet and greet service.
Transfer by private vehicle to your hotel for check-in and time to rest after your journey.
A welcome aperitif and dinner as the city settles into its evening.
The morning begins at the Hassan II Mosque, one of the largest and most extraordinary mosques in the world, its minaret rising 210 meters above the Atlantic Ocean on a platform built over the sea. The craftsmanship inside, the marble floors, the carved cedarwood, the hand-painted ceilings, is among the finest produced in Morocco in the modern era.
A morning drive north into the Rif Mountains, the landscape shifting from the urban sprawl of the Atlantic coast to the pine-covered hills of northern Morocco.
Chefchaouen sits in a valley in the Rif Mountains, its medina painted in shades of blue that have no single explanation and no equivalent anywhere else in Morocco. The blue that covers its walls, staircases, doorways, and flower pots has accumulated over decades through a tradition that began with Jewish refugees in the 15th century and has never stopped. Your guide walks you through its lanes at a pace that does the place justice, unhurried and without agenda.
For those with energy and the right shoes, an optional hike into the Rif Mountains above the town reveals the valley and the blue rooftops from above, the surrounding landscape as dramatic as the town below.
The evening is yours to sit in one of the town's rooftop cafes, mint tea in hand, the mountains visible on every side.
A day of movement through some of Morocco's most varied and quietly spectacular landscapes. This is a long and scenic driving day, built around the journey as much as the destinations along the way.
The route south passes through the agricultural plains of northern Morocco before reaching Volubilis, the best-preserved Roman ruins in North Africa, its mosaic floors and triumphal arch rising from the farmland with the kind of improbability that makes history feel genuinely strange. A pause at the viewpoint overlooking the Zerhoun plains, where Roman and imperial Morocco intersect in a single frame.
A curated lunch stop in Meknes, the imperial city that the sultan Moulay Ismail built in the 17th century as his answer to Versailles, its monumental gates and granaries speaking the language of power in every stone.
The drive continues to Fes, arriving in time to take an evening stroll through the edges of the medina as the city closes down its day.
The oldest continuously inhabited medieval city in the world deserves a full day and today it gets one.
Your expert local guide takes you into Fes el-Bali, the ancient walled medina, through its nine thousand lanes and corridors that have been operating as a living city since the 9th century. The artisan quarters first, where craftsmen work in the same specializations their predecessors practiced a thousand years ago, brass and copper, leather, ceramics, wood. The Bou Inania Madrasa follows, its carved stucco and zellige tilework among the finest examples of Marinid architecture in the country.
The tannery viewpoints come next, the great vats of dye visible from the terraces above, the colors of saffron, poppy, mint, and indigo arranged in a pattern that has not changed since the medieval era.
The afternoon brings a Sufism experience with a local scholar, an introduction to the mystical dimension of Islam that has been practiced in Fes for centuries and that most visitors never encounter.
The evening closes with a hosted dinner in a private Fassi home, a table set by a local family in one of the medina's traditional courtyard houses. The food is an expression of a culinary tradition that Fes considers its own, and the hospitality is entirely genuine.
A scenic drive south through the cedar forests of the Middle Atlas, the landscape changing register with every hour. Berber villages, mountain passes, the sudden appearance of palm groves signaling the approach of the desert.
The Sahara announces itself gradually and then completely. Your luxury desert camp appears among the dunes as the afternoon light begins its shift toward gold. Sunset over the dunes, the sand turning from ochre to amber to deep red as the light drops behind the horizon.
A private dinner beneath the stars as the desert falls into its nighttime silence, a silence so complete that it changes something in the way you listen.
The morning belongs to the dunes. Sunrise over the Sahara from the camp, the light returning to the desert in shades that the afternoon never produces. A slow breakfast as the day builds around you.
The afternoon brings a nomadic family encounter, tea prepared over an open fire, a conversation through your guide about a way of life that has been moving across this landscape for centuries. The desert here is not empty. It has always been inhabited, and this encounter makes that real.
For those who want movement, optional sandboarding or quad bikes are available across the dunes.
As darkness falls, a fire-lit private dinner with traditional Berber music performed in the camp. The stargazing above the Sahara, with no light pollution for hundreds of kilometers in any direction, is one of the great night experiences available anywhere in Morocco.
A journey through some of Morocco's most cinematic landscapes, the road north from the Sahara passing through palm groves, ancient kasbahs, and the dramatic gorges of the Dades and Todra valleys.
A curated lunch stop en route as the landscape transitions from desert ochre to the green terraces of the High Atlas foothills.
You arrive in the Atlas Mountains as the afternoon light softens over the peaks. Check-in at your mountain kasbah and the evening is yours to absorb the silence of a landscape entirely unlike anything that preceded it.
A guided walk through the villages and terraced fields of the High Atlas, the trails cutting through a landscape that Berber communities have been farming for centuries. Your guide introduces you to a local family, a visit that offers a glimpse into daily life at altitude that no monument can replicate.
The afternoon is yours to rest at the kasbah, the mountains visible from every window.
As evening arrives, a fire is lit outside. Traditional storytelling, local music, and a stargazing experience under an Atlas sky that the city never offers. One of the most quietly affecting evenings in the entire journey.
A descent through the mountain landscapes toward Marrakech, the ochre plains of the city visible long before you arrive.
Check-in at your riad in the Medina. The afternoon offers a rooftop above Djemaa el-Fna as the square begins its nightly transformation, the storytellers and musicians and food vendors taking their positions as the light fades.
A curated culinary evening in Marrakech, the city's cuisine presented at its most honest and its most refined.
Morning at Majorelle Garden, the cobalt blue villa and its surrounding botanical gardens that remains one of the most beautiful urban gardens in North Africa.
The Yves Saint Laurent Museum follows, its collection offering an insight into a creative vision that drew deeply from Morocco and gave back to it in equal measure.
The afternoon moves into a private artisan atelier, access that is not available to the general public, where master craftsmen demonstrate techniques in leather, wood, and metalwork that have been practiced in Marrakech for centuries.
Lunch at a social enterprise restaurant whose kitchen is run by women rebuilding their lives through culinary training. The food is outstanding and the meal carries a weight that most restaurant lunches do not.
The evening closes with drinks and dinner in a private riad courtyard, the fountain and candlelight doing what Marrakech courtyards have always done.
The final full day moves through the Marrakech that exists beyond the tourist circuit.
Hidden neighborhoods whose lanes the guidebooks have not yet found. Markets where the clients are locals rather than visitors. Cafés where the tea is served without performance. A hosted lunch experience with a local family, the table generous, the conversation genuine.
The flexible afternoon is yours to spend as the city suggests.
his morning belongs to you. A late breakfast, a slow coffee, a last look at the courtyard from your riad.
When the time comes, your Solaya team handles everything. Transfer to the airport and assistance that takes the friction out of leaving.
Morocco will do the rest of the work of staying with you.
Curated by Solaya
Let your imagination take flight and dream of incredible destinations, meaningful experiences and the memories you'll make.
Chefchaouen, the Blue That Has No Explanation
The blue of Chefchaouen's medina has been accumulating for centuries through a tradition that began with Jewish refugees and never stopped. There is no single reason for it and no equivalent anywhere else in Morocco. Walked without agenda, at the pace the lanes demand, it is one of the most quietly extraordinary urban experiences in North Africa.
A Private Table in Fes
The culinary tradition of Fes is considered the most refined in Morocco. A hosted dinner in a private Fassi home, prepared by the family who welcomes you in their courtyard, is the most direct access to that tradition available anywhere in the city. It is not a restaurant experience. It is something older and more generous than that.
Two Nights in the Sahara
One night in the desert is a taste. Two nights is an immersion. The second morning, when the novelty has settled and the silence becomes simply the way things are, is when the Sahara begins to do its real work on a traveler. We build in two nights because one is never quite enough.
Nomadic Family Encounter
The desert has never been empty. A tea ceremony with a nomadic family in the Sahara, prepared over an open fire on ground that has no fixed address, is the encounter that reminds a traveler of that fact. Your guide bridges the conversation. The hospitality needs no translation.
The Atlas at Night
A fire, traditional storytelling, local music, and a sky above the High Atlas that the city has never reached. The Atlas at night is one of the most complete sensory experiences available in Morocco, and one that most itineraries treat as an afterthought. We treat it as a destination in its own right.
Marrakech Beyond the Map
Three days in Marrakech and on the final one we leave the map behind entirely. Hidden neighborhoods, local markets, cafés where the tea is served without performance, a hosted lunch with a family whose table has never appeared in a guidebook. The Marrakech that exists when the tourist circuit ends is the one worth finding. We know where it is.
