
5 Days
Morocco Stargazing
The desert exists for this. Zero light pollution, air so dry stars don't twinkle. Astronomers travel here because the Milky Way looks solid enough to touch. You'll understand why the old navigators trusted the sky.
Your Route

Day 1
Marrakech
The souks spiral inward by specialty—leather, brass, carpets, spices. Each turn narrows. Bahia Palace holds its painted ceilings in afternoon shadow. The hammam strips you down to quiet. By evening, Jemaa el-Fna transforms. Smoke rises from a hundred grills. Storytellers gather crowds. The square has done this for centuries. It doesn't need your permission.

Day 2
Marrakech → Ouarzazate
The road climbs until the city disappears. Stone villages cling to slopes where light shifts by the hour. Switchbacks tighten around you like a held breath. By afternoon, the mountains release you into ochre silence. Ouarzazate waits—not as a destination, but as a threshold. The air here tastes different. Drier. Older. You've crossed something.

Day 3
Ouarzazate → Merzouga
East into the pre-Sahara. The road stretches through country that empties as you go. Tinghir's palms, then Todra—canyon walls vertical and close, afternoon shadow pooling at the bottom. Beyond Erfoud, the hammada ends. Erg Chebbi rises. The dunes turn gold, then orange, then colors without names. Camp appears. The sand is still warm from the day.

Day 4
Merzouga
A day without roads. The dunes shift color as the sun moves—pink at dawn, gold at noon, orange by evening. You can walk to nomad tents where tea is poured without ceremony. Or drive to Khamlia where Gnawa music rises from the sand. Or do nothing. The desert doesn't require your participation. It just asks that you notice.

Day 5
Merzouga → Marrakech
You leave before sunrise. Sand still holds the night. Nine hours through country that changes every hour—Todra's vertical walls, Dades' twisted rock, the slow climb back over the Atlas. Light shifts across stone in colors without names. By evening, Marrakech reappears. But you move through it differently now. The desert hasn't left you.
This journey is a starting point.
These itineraries aren't fixed. They're designed to bend. Add a day in the desert. Skip the city. Stay longer where something pulls you. This is your journey—we shape it around what matters to you.
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