ⴰⵎⵓⴷⴷⵓAmudduThe journey
Where the tarmac ends
Izil is Tamazight for pure, or noble. We route journeys across Morocco from four gateways — Marrakech, Fes, Casablanca and Tangier. Sahara crossings, Atlas passes, and the long way round.
ⵉⵣⵉⵍIzil
Izil means pure. It also means noble.
The word is Tamazight — the language of the people who were here before the word Morocco was. It is not a marketing adjective. It is what you call a thing that has not been diluted.
That is the standard we route to. Not the version of the country that has been arranged for arrival, but the one already going about its business at six in the morning, when the bread ovens are lit and the piste out of town is still cold enough to hold a tyre print.
Gateways
Four places to start
Every route Izil runs begins at one of them. Where you land decides which Morocco is within reach.
Multi-day
Selected journeys
3days
Marrakech to Merzouga
Over the Tichka pass, down through the kasbah country, and into Erg Chebbi on camelback before the light goes. One night in the Dades, one under canvas.
MarrakechMarrakechfrom Marrakech to Marrakech
4days
Chefchaouen & the North
The Rif in blue. Chefchaouen’s lime-washed medina, the pools and stone arch at Akchour, and the Mediterranean road back to the Strait.
TangierTangierfrom Tangier to Tangier
4days
Fes to Marrakech, the long way
The diagonal crossing: cedar forest above Azrou, the Ziz palmeries, two nights of desert, then the Tichka down into Marrakech.
FesMarrakechfrom Fes to Marrakech
8days
Atlas and Atlantic
South to the sand, then west until it runs out — the Anti-Atlas, the walled town of Taroudant, and the Atlantic wind at Essaouira to finish.
MarrakechMarrakechfrom Marrakech to Marrakech
10days
The Grand Tour
Ten days to join the Atlantic to the Sahara — Essaouira’s ramparts, the blue of Chefchaouen, Roman Volubilis, and Erg Chebbi in the middle of it.
MarrakechMarrakechfrom Marrakech to Marrakech
15days
The Fifteen
The longest route Izil runs, and the only one with room to stop — coast, cedar, gorge, erg, and back up the Atlantic.
CasablancaCasablancafrom Casablanca to Casablanca
Unveiled
Four things this country is
The High Atlas
Villages built out of the hill they stand on, and a snow line that holds into May while Marrakech is already in shirtsleeves.
Agafay
Not sand. Forty minutes from the city the ground turns to grey stone and the whole Atlas range stands up along the horizon behind it.
Chefchaouen
A town in a fold of the Rif that repaints itself blue every spring, lime over lime, until the walls glow at dusk.
The Atlantic
Ramparts taking the swell head-on, and a wind that has crossed nothing whatsoever to reach them.
ⴰⵣⵓⵍAzul
Tell us where you land,
and when.
Every route on this site can be lengthened, shortened or rerouted. Send the dates and the gateway and we will come back with a plan you can argue with.