Awesome 7 days Morocco itinerary | Sahara, Blue City, Bazaars

I went with my boyfriend to Morocco for a week in November. I completely fell in love with the country and due to its diversity I really need to get there again one day.

Because Morocco is a huge country and there is so much to see, you should really know a bit in advance what do you want to see and what is not a must: you simply can’t see everything in one week (not even half).

What is good to know about the itinerary is that we flew to Casablanca and actually flew back from Spain: by crossing by boat from Tangier.

That way we could see much more instead of wasting time of traveling all the way back to starting point.

Crossing to Spain was also safe and easy.

So this 7-day Morocco Itinerary starts from Casablanca and ends in Tangier.

Before even checking anything more about Morocco than Instagram, I definitely wanted to get to Sahara Desert and ride camels and to get to Blue City Chefchaouen.

If you don’t just want to go with the flow, you should decide beforehand which things you want to see in Morocco and which ones you can leave for next time.

Otherwise you’ll be just sitting in bus/taxi/train all week.

This article gives you a great, quick overview of Moroccan destinations and must sees:

Must-see destinations in Morocco | 14 Best Places to visit in Morocco

No matter if you fly to Marrakesh, Casablanca, Rabat, Fes or Tangier, it’s a long trip by car to get to Sahara desert of Morocco.

If you want to prioritize this (which I definitely think you should) you may need to push aside a couple of other places you wanted to go to.

NO MATTER WHERE YOU FLY TO, IT’S A LONG CAR TRIP TO SAHARA DESERT

We arrived in Casablanca late in the evening.

Because the airport is 35 kilometres from the centre, we took a taxi to our hotel.

We stayed in this awesome, newly built hotel 2 kilometres from centre through Booking.com.

It was also cheap and had great breakfast and helpful staff. I would definitely recommend this hotel called Campanile Casablanca Centreville.

Otherwise there are dozens of other options in Casablanca as well.

Casablanca is a big city and we were mainly wandering around and were amazed of the daily life of people.

We went to bazaars which sold everything you can ever imagine from Moroccan shoes to Chinese clothes to chickens that they would kill there for the buyer.

These labyrinthy bazaars were full of life, and I need to admit I was very aware that I was a white woman.

Would have been easier as a male but it was not as harassing as walking around in Egypt.

We stayed just one day in Casablanca and flew at 22.40 to Errachidia.

Although it may sound scary to fly internally in Morocco with Royal Air Moroc, I seriously suggest considering that option.

The flight cost around 40 euros, so a lot less than a bus/car would have cost.

We also saved one day's time and got to go to the desert sooner.

In Errachidia we stayed in absolutely cute accommodation Auberge tinit.

As desert itself was such an amazing experience, you can read the whole experience in my other blog post below.

You can read more about camel riding to desert and about enjoying the magical experience under the stars and running up in the dunes.

Western Sahara Travel Blog: Two nights in the Sahara Desert of Morocco

To easily organize much more authentic and lovely experience instead of going with a tour operator and wasting your time and money, I recommend booking the accommodation directly by yourself.

We simply booked a hut in the desert via Booking, and got to choose later on if we wanted food, camel rides, etc included.

You do not need a mass tourism tour for a great experience of Sahara Desert.

The problem with organized safari tours to Sahara is that they actually spend very short time at the desert itself.

We saw big groups passing our hut with camels, arriving late in the evening.

Next morning, they already left back early.

So in reality, the organized tours take you to so many souvenir shops on the way, that you miss out on sunset, sand surfing, berber dinner and staring at milky way with Moroccan music at the desert.

Those were our activities for da 2 at Sahara, as we wanted to enjoy it a little bit longer after making a long trip all the way there.

And I recommend you to do the same, as Sahara is such a magical and unique place.

We spent one full day in car, from 10am to 10pm, as we decided to go all the way to Blue City Chefchaouen.

We preferred doing it in one day, instead of wasting many days sitting in a car.

We took a shared taxi from Merzouga to Fes, and from there we continued with another shared car to Chefchaouen.

If you have one more day, I recommend spending a night in Fes.

It is a cool Moroccan destination with its colors and history.

To give you a bit of an idea of the shared taxi, how much it cost, from Merzouga to Chefchaouen we got by 74€ total for two people.

Not a bad price for a 673-kilometer ride on a Mountain road with beautiful and diverse scenery.

I’m blue dabadida…This stunning Blue village is a must-visit if you are into travel photography.

I want to tip you with two great and budget-friendly stays in Blue City.

First night we spent in Princess Ilham, which was completely new hotel with an awesome view from rooftop.

Second night we stayed as well in budget-friendly hotel, which was less than 30€ per night and it was in great location.

You can find this hotel Dar Zman and all hotels in Blue City here.

We spent our last day sharing a taxi from Blue City to Tangier.

In Tangier, we enjoyed one more Moroccan lunch and ended up by half-accident to a very big market outdoors.

It was full of people and everything was very cheap.

After last zigzagging through fruits, veggies, lotions, goats and chickens, we took a taxi to Tangier Harbour.

There are two different harbours in Tangier from where you can cross to Spain.

Other one is in Tangier centre and there is once a day boat crossing to Tarifa.

If you’re thinking of this option, you can see the schedule and prices here.

From other Harbour, Tangier Med, there are several ferry companies operating between Algeciras and Tangier.

We chose to go from there since the prices were a bit cheaper and if we missed one ferry, there would be next one in 1,5 hours.

Bear in mind that you need to buy the tickets from the correct operator: every single boat is operated by different brand and they have their own ticket booths in Tangier Med harbour.

More info here.

The boat trip turned out to be more awesome than I assumed: I saw several dolphins jumping in the ocean on the way to Spain.