Best for: Food lovers, cooking enthusiasts, slow travelers, families.
Every day can be adjusted to your pace and interests: combine it with another of our journeys, extend it, or reshape it completely.
- Route
- Casablanca → Rabat → Meknes → Fes → Essaouira → Marrakech
- Duration
- 10 days / 9 nights
- Starts
- Casablanca
- Ends
- Marrakech
- Style
- Private, mid-luxury
- Price
- Price on request
Highlights
- Six private cooking classes with local chefs and home cooks
- Market and food walks in Rabat, Meknes, Fes, Essaouira and Marrakech
- Bread-baking in a traditional communal oven (farran)
- Honey tasting and a tea ceremony with a Fes honey master
- Coastal lunch and sardine-grill workshop in Essaouira
- Tea ceremony in a Berber village
- Spice-blend kit to take home
Day by day
Day 1 · Arrival in Casablanca
Welcome dinner at a renowned seafood restaurant on the Corniche: grilled prawns, sea bream, and Moroccan salads.
Day 2 · Casablanca to Rabat
A morning food walk in the Rabat medina, then a hands-on pastilla workshop in a private home.
Day 3 · Rabat to Meknes
Drive to Meknes for the spice souks, then a hands-on tagine class in a riad.
Day 4 · Meknes to Fes
Drive to Fes. Afternoon in the honey souks and a tea ceremony with a local honey master.
Day 5 · Fes — Bread, Olive, and Tagine
Start at the farran, the communal oven, where you bake your own khobz. Then olive oil and pickle tastings. A tagine class in the afternoon.
Day 6 · Fes — Pastries and Sweets
A sweet morning: kaab el ghazal, chebakia, m'hanncha, and a private pastry class. Afternoon at leisure for the souks.
Day 7 · Fes to Essaouira
A long drive west to the Atlantic coast. Arrive in Essaouira and dine on the freshest catch of the day at the port.
Day 8 · Essaouira — Coastal Cooking
A morning at the fish market, then a hands-on sardine-grill workshop on the beach. Afternoon free for the ramparts.
Day 9 · Essaouira to Marrakech
Drive to Marrakech. A tea ceremony in a Berber village en route. Evening food walk in Djemaa el-Fna.
Day 10 · Marrakech — Final Class & Departure
A final morning class: the seven-vegetable couscous of Marrakech. Farewell lunch, then airport transfer.
What’s included
Included
- Private driver and vehicle throughout
- 9 nights in boutique riads and guesthouses
- Daily breakfast, 6 lunches, 7 dinners
- All cooking classes, market tours, and tastings
- Spice-blend kit to take home
- Recipe booklet with all dishes prepared
- 24/7 local support
Not included
- International flights
- Travel insurance
- Personal shopping and gratuities
Good to know
- What You'll Take Home: A custom Moroccan spice-blend kit; A printed recipe booklet of every dish prepared; A signed certificate of completion
Ask about dates and price
Every tour is private and priced for your group size and dates. Send us your dates and how many you are, and we reply with a price and a plan.