
Blue City Escape
A full day north through the Rif Mountains to Chefchaouen, Morocco's blue-washed mountain town, with time to wander and photograph.
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Rabat is the quietest of Morocco’s imperial cities and the easiest to enjoy in a single day. It is a straight run west from Fez on the motorway, and the sights sit close enough together that you can cover the essentials without rushing: the unfinished Hassan Tower and its forest of columns, the royal mausoleum, and the blue-and-white lanes of the Oudayas Kasbah looking out over the river mouth.
The city also gives you something the interior cannot — Atlantic air. Most days end with a walk along the seafront or an hour in the Andalusian gardens before the drive home. Travel is by private air-conditioned vehicle, so you can add the Chellah necropolis or the modern quarter if you have the appetite.
Collected from your riad and west on the motorway towards the coast.
The twelfth-century minaret, the columns of the unfinished mosque and the royal mausoleum.
Roman ruins and a Merinid necropolis sharing one walled garden above the river.
A seafood lunch near the river mouth or in the medina, whichever you prefer.
Blue-and-white lanes, the Andalusian garden and the terrace over the Atlantic.
Return on the motorway, arriving in Fez in the evening.

A full day north through the Rif Mountains to Chefchaouen, Morocco's blue-washed mountain town, with time to wander and photograph.
Free cancellation
Cedar forests, Barbary macaques and the alpine streets of Ifrane — the Middle Atlas in a single day from Fez.
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Roman mosaics at Volubilis, then the imperial gates and granaries of Meknes — two millennia in one loop from Fez.
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