Morocco

Over Thanksgiving break, a friend and I decided to take a last-minute trip to Marrakesh on a whim just three weeks later. We booked our flight to Marrakesh without overplanning and trusted that the experience itself would guide us. One of my blogger friends had recently traveled to Marrakesh with her family, so I asked her for her advice on a local tour guide and driver. The trip had a few bumps, but with only three weeks advanced planning, it turned out great. It also reinforces why spontaneous travel can be so rewarding.

If Marrakesh was vibrant, historical, and intensely sensory, then the Agafay Desert was quiet, expansive, and quietly breathtaking. When I first read about it, I honestly didn’t know what to expect. I knew we were headed into something different than the medina, something open and wide, and something that felt far more relaxed. But until I stood there, watching the sun dip behind rolling rocky ridges with a glass of mint tea in my hand, I did not truly understand how magical it would be.