The most famous kasbah in Morocco, a mud-brick fortified village above a river on the old caravan road.
Ait Ben Haddou is a ksar, a fortified village of earth and straw, built in the 17th century on the trade route between the Sahara and Marrakech. It has been a UNESCO site since 1987 and a film set since Lawrence of Arabia. A handful of families still live inside; a guided walk up to the granary at the top takes about an hour.
It is a stop on every desert tour from Marrakech and the highlight of our Ouarzazate day trip.
3 days · 2 nightsMulti-day tour
Cross the High Atlas, sleep under the stars in Erg Chebbi and return to Marrakech by the Draa Valley.
3 days · 2 nightsMulti-day tour
The one-way route: Atlas, kasbahs, a night in the Sahara and the cedar forests on the way to Fes.
4 days · 3 nightsMulti-day tour
The slower Sahara loop: more time in the gorges, a sunrise in the dunes and a night in the Draa Valley.
5 days · 4 nightsMulti-day tour
The desert, the imperial city of Fes and the Middle Atlas in one loop that ends back in Marrakech.
10 days · 9 nightsMulti-day tour
The full circle: Casablanca, Rabat, Chefchaouen, Fes, the Sahara at Merzouga and the kasbah road back to Marrakech.
14 days · 13 nightsMulti-day tour
Two weeks, the whole country: the north, Fes, the desert, the kasbah road, Marrakech and the Atlantic at Essaouira.
8 days · 7 nightsMulti-day tour
Casablanca → Marrakech → kasbahs → Merzouga → Fes → Casablanca. The essentials in eight days.
10 days · 9 nightsMulti-day tour
The complete northern loop: Rabat, Chefchaouen, Fes, the Sahara, the kasbah road and Marrakech, back to Casablanca.
12 days · 11 nightsMulti-day tour
Everything in the 10-day tour plus two nights in Essaouira on the Atlantic coast.
Full day · 13 hoursDay trip
Over the High Atlas to the UNESCO ksar and Morocco's Hollywood, and back the same day.
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