Morocco family short-break day-to-day itinerary

Marrakech is wonderfully exotic city, the bustling twisting streets enticing you in and surrounding you with scenes straight from the storybooks. The cobbled streets are lined with stalls piled high with ornate silverware, mounds of spices, intricately etched leather goods, embroidered slippers and much more.

You can spend hours wandering through the markets (don’t worry if you get lost, the stall-holders will always point you in the right direction when needed). Stop for a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice or a mint tea, and perhaps a plate of tagine or a snack of lemony olives. Catch a glimpse of gorgeous mansions hidden behind carved wooden doors, tiny mosques squeezed into narrow alleyways, boutique galleries and steaming hammans.

Day 2 Marrakech
This morning your guide will take you on a walking tour of Marrakech. This will finish in a rooftop restaurant where you will enjoy a delicious lunch.

The afternoon is free for you to further explore by yourselves. Children will enjoy a caleche (horse and buggy) ride around the old city or you could visit the beautiful Jardin Majorelle.

In the evening make sure that you head to the night market in Djemaa al Fna, Marrakech’s great square. This comes to life in the evening, with a huge food market where you can sit down at a long table and tuck into a plate of calamari, piping hot flatbread, spicy kebabs and delicious salads. There are old Berber ladies keen to draw a henna tattoo on your arm, snake charmers who will drape a snake around your neck before you know it and colourful water-carriers asking to have their pictures taken.

Day 3 Marrakech – Imlil
After breakfast your driver will pick you up and take you into the High Atlas Mountains, to Imlil. You will spend two nights in a small hotel with beautiful views of the mountains. This afternoon perhaps take a wander into the village of Imlil or walk to the waterfall in the hills above the town.

Day 4 Imlil
A beautiful day out in the countryside on either a walk or a mule ride into the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. Follow quiet trails through villages, passing small terraced fields of fruit trees (a riot of colour in spring), old stone houses and gushing rivers. You will stop for lunch with a local Berber family, feasting on freshly cooked flatbreads and hot sweet mint tea.

The length of the excursion can be varied depending on the ages of your children; many families find that it works well for the parents and older children to walk and then get a mule for younger children. They don’t need to ride all the time and you can ‘mix and match’ so that all the family can have a turn on the mule if of interest.

If you are interested, we can alternatively arrange an overnight trek into the Atlas mountains, spending the night in simple accommodation in a Berber village. Please let us know if this is of interest.

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