October 14, 2019

Just Back: The Best of Marrakesh, Morocco

Artisans of Leisure arranges private insider tours of Marrakesh, Morocco, featuring architecture, design, food, shopping, hiking, and exclusive excursions to the Atlas Mountains and nearby Agafay Desert.

April 25, 2019

Interview with Mike Korn: Conde Nast Traveler’s Top Morocco Specialist

Artisans of Leisure travel specialist Mike Korn, named Conde Nast Traveler’s Top Travel Specialist for Morocco, shares his top picks for Morocco and beyond.

August 23, 2018

Insider Marrakesh & Atlas Mountains

Ashley Isaacs Ganz, founder & CEO of Artisans of Leisure, recently returned to Morocco to visit some of her favorite places, including Marrakesh and the Atlas Mountains. We hope you enjoy this interview with her. Q: Where did you visit on this trip? On this trip I decided to return to Marrakesh and the nearby Atlas […]

October 31, 2017

The Beautiful Gardens of Marrakesh

Marrakesh’s beautiful gardens are some of the city’s lesser-known highlights and make for a perfect day of luxury touring.

April 7, 2017

Volubilis: An Ancient Roman City outside Fez, Morocco

One of our favorite excursions in Morocco is to the ruins of Volubilis, an ancient Roman city founded more than 2,000 years ago. Located outside Fez and more than 1,000 miles from Rome, the ruins provide a tangible sense of the impressive scale of the Roman Empire at its height. The best-preserved Roman ruins at […]

March 17, 2016

Off-the-beaten-track Morocco: Beautiful Chefchaouen

Chefchaouen is a traditional town nestled in the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco. Established in 1471, it became a refuge for Jews and Muslims fleeing the Spanish Inquisition in Europe. Today, Chefchaouen—or Chaouen, as the locals call it—is best-known for its beautiful and unmistakable medina, an accretion of alleys, stairs, houses and doors painted in […]

May 10, 2015

Insider Rabat: Morocco’s Peaceful Coastal Capital

Situated on the northern Atlantic coast of Morocco, Rabat is a refined capital city that blends the modern and historic in its attractive and well-planned ville nouvelle, relaxed medina and distinctive seaside kasbah. In 2012, Rabat received UNESCO World Heritage status as a “modern capital and historic city.” Yet it remains off the beaten track […]

April 1, 2009

A night in the Moroccan desert

One of the most-requested activities we arrange in Morocco is an overnight stay in the Sahara desert. We bring our travelers to the most scenic part of the Moroccan desert—near the most spectacular dunes—for an overnight stay in a private tented camp. The experience is authentic Bedouin-style camping (above), with carpets on the ground of […]