The single most useful thing to understand about desert tours from Marrakech is that two very different things are sold under the same name. One is Agafay, a stony desert close to the city that you can visit in an afternoon. The other is the Sahara, with the tall...
Three day trips from Marrakech are worth the road: the High Atlas foothills at Imlil or the Ourika Valley, the Atlantic town of Essaouira, and the Ouzoud waterfalls. Each is a genuinely different landscape, and each takes a real chunk of the day in a car. This is what...
The most comfortable times to visit Marrakech are spring, roughly March through May, and autumn, roughly late September through November. Days are warm rather than punishing, evenings are pleasant, and the mountains are often visible. Those are also the busiest...
The souks of Marrakech are the covered markets that fill the blocks north of Jemaa el-Fnaa, and they are organized by trade rather than laid out on a grid. Metalworkers are together, leather is together, dyers are together. Once you understand that, the maze becomes...
