Gateway2Morocco Travel

Website Contact the business

Gateway2Morocco Travel Gateway2Morocco specializes in private, custom Morocco tours designed for your unique travel style.

Headquartered in Vancouver with operations in Marrakech, we offer the perfect blend of North American reliability and authentic cultural immersion. From the Imperial Cities to the Sahara, trust us to curate your unforgettable Morocco tour.

Nobody warns you how fast it gets cold up in the Atlas once the sun drops behind the ridge.In October you can be in a t-...
10/16/2026

Nobody warns you how fast it gets cold up in the Atlas once the sun drops behind the ridge.

In October you can be in a t-shirt at four in the afternoon and reaching for a jacket by six. Up around 1,800 metres the temperature just falls off a cliff the moment the light goes.

Which is why the evening is my favourite part. You come in off the trail, someone drapes a thick wool blanket over your shoulders before you've even sat down, there's a brazier of coals glowing in the corner, and the tagine has been cooking slowly since the afternoon. Outside it's cold and completely dark. Inside it's warm and smells of woodsmoke.

People message me about that evening more than the mountain they climbed that day.

The guesthouse itself belongs to a Berber family we've worked with for years, not to us. What we do is get you there, with a driver who knows the road, and put you with the right family. Want a night like that in your trip? Send me a message.

The Atlas Mountains get sold as scenery. What stays with people is usually a person.These valleys are the homeland of th...
10/15/2026

The Atlas Mountains get sold as scenery. What stays with people is usually a person.

These valleys are the homeland of the Amazigh, the Berber people, and you feel it the moment you reach a village. Flat-roofed houses the colour of the hillside they are built into. Someone says "azul," which is hello in Tamazight, and ten minutes later there is mint tea and warm bread in front of you, pulled from an oven the whole village shares.

Stay a night in one of these villages instead of rushing back to Marrakech, and the trip changes. I will plan the route, and a local guide who grew up in these mountains walks you in. The guesthouse you sleep in belongs to a Berber family we have worked with for years, not to us. That is the point.

Want a couple of nights in the Atlas worked into your trip? Send me a message.

Jemaa el-Fna gets a bad rap from people who only ever saw it at two in the afternoon.In the midday heat, I'll admit, the...
10/15/2026

Jemaa el-Fna gets a bad rap from people who only ever saw it at two in the afternoon.

In the midday heat, I'll admit, the square can feel like a circus laid on for tourists. But come back after the sun goes down. The daytime stalls clear out and it turns into the biggest open-air dinner in Morocco: rows of numbered food stalls, smoke rolling off the grills, a circle of people pulled in around a storyteller who's probably been telling the same tale for thirty years.

We don't run any of those stalls. What we do is tell you which ones are worth it and what time to walk in, so you catch the square at its best instead of its worst. Nine times out of ten, the place people were most nervous about is the one they message me about once they're home.

Come hungry, and ask me how to do a Marrakech evening right.

The best guide you'll have in the Sahara never sends us an invoice. He's a camel man from one of the villages near Merzo...
10/13/2026

The best guide you'll have in the Sahara never sends us an invoice. He's a camel man from one of the villages near Merzouga, and his family has read these dunes for generations.

When the light starts to drop, he's the one who leads the caravan out across Erg Chebbi, sets the pace, and knows exactly which ridge to stop on so you catch the last of the sun from the right place. By the time you reach camp he's already got the tea on.

We don't own the camp you sleep in, and we don't own the camels. Both belong to local families we've worked with for years. What we do is make sure you're with the right ones.

That's the part 25+ years actually buys you.

Send me a message if you want the Sahara done properly.

Here's the part of the job nobody puts in the brochure.A couple we'd planned a week for got turned around deep in the Ma...
10/08/2026

Here's the part of the job nobody puts in the brochure.

A couple we'd planned a week for got turned around deep in the Marrakech medina last spring. Phone dead, no idea which of a dozen near-identical alleys led back. They weren't worried for long. One message to our guide and he had someone to them in about ten minutes.

The medina is a real maze, thousands of little derbs that all start to look the same once the light drops. We don't own a single riad in there. What we do is know the ground, and make sure there's always a real person a phone call away when you need one.

That's usually the thing people remember. Not the planning. The afternoon something went sideways and it turned out fine.

Want a week in Morocco where someone always has your back? Send me a message.

Here's the one Marrakech decision that changes your whole trip: where you sleep.Most people book a big hotel out in the ...
09/02/2026

Here's the one Marrakech decision that changes your whole trip: where you sleep.

Most people book a big hotel out in the new town and taxi in and out of the old city all day. I'd do the opposite. Stay inside the medina walls, in a riad down one of the quiet derbs, and the city stops being a day-trip and starts being where you live for a few nights.

You wake up to the call to prayer off the Koutoubia. Breakfast is msemen and amlou on the roof while the rooftops go from grey to gold. Then you walk out your door and you're already in it. No taxi, no gate, just the souks waking up.

We don't own the riads; the ones we put our travellers in belong to partners we've worked with for years, and we're picky about which derb and which rooftop. That matters more than the star rating.

Want me to build you a few nights inside the walls? Send me a message.

It's about three in the afternoon. The souks are still going outside, and you're not in them.You're in the courtyard of ...
09/02/2026

It's about three in the afternoon. The souks are still going outside, and you're not in them.

You're in the courtyard of your riad instead. Feet up, a pot of mint tea gone lukewarm beside you, the little fountain doing its thing, the light sliding down the zellige tiles as the walls throw shade across the tiles.

Honest truth after 25+ years of planning these trips: the thing people email me about weeks later usually isn't a monument. It's this hour. The one we left empty on purpose.

Of course you want to see Marrakech, Fes, the desert, and you should. But pack every hour and you go home tired instead of changed. So we build in the pause. A riad our partners run in the medina, a real afternoon with nothing on it, and the souks waiting for you again at five when it cools.

Want a trip with room to breathe in it? Send me a message and we'll map it out.

Most people plan a Morocco trip around places. I'd plan at least one day of it around a meal.There's a dish in Marrakech...
09/01/2026

Most people plan a Morocco trip around places. I'd plan at least one day of it around a meal.

There's a dish in Marrakech called tangia: lamb, preserved lemon, garlic and a little cumin, sealed in a clay urn and buried in the warm ash of the neighbourhood hammam furnace for half a day. Nobody stands over it. The heat does the work while everyone's off at the souk, and by the time you get back it falls off the bone.

You won't find the best version in a restaurant. You find it at a table someone set for you: a rooftop, a courtyard, a family kitchen we've known for years. That's the afternoon I'd build your trip around.

Want a few food days worked into your route? Send me a message and I'll map it out.

- Brahim, Gateway2Morocco (25+ years)

People come to Fes for the tanneries and the tangle of lanes in the medina. What gets me, every time, is the quiet fact ...
08/31/2026

People come to Fes for the tanneries and the tangle of lanes in the medina. What gets me, every time, is the quiet fact underneath all of it: this is the oldest living city I've ever set foot in.

Walk far enough into the old town and you reach al-Qarawiyyin, a university founded in the year 859 by a woman named Fatima al-Fihri. People have been studying on that exact spot for over eleven hundred years. You don't get that from a plaque. You feel it in the worn stone under your shoes.

So when we plan a Fes day, I don't rush it. A licensed local guide, the right lanes at the right hour, and time to just stand still somewhere older than almost anywhere you've been.

Want a Fes day that isn't a checklist? Send me a message and we'll map it out.

There's a moment in Fes I never get tired of. You climb a few flights of stairs above the leather souk, someone hands yo...
08/30/2026

There's a moment in Fes I never get tired of. You climb a few flights of stairs above the leather souk, someone hands you a sprig of mint to hold under your nose, and then you look down onto the Chouara tanneries — a honeycomb of stone vats, men working dye the colour of saffron and poppy, exactly the way it's been done here since the 11th century.

It isn't a two-minute photo stop. It's one of the oldest working places on earth, and standing over it early, before the tour groups arrive, is the kind of morning people tell me about for years afterward.

If Fes is on your list, send me a message and I'll build a morning around it — the right terrace, the right hour, a licensed local guide who actually knows the families down in the pits.

25+ years arranging private Morocco trips. gateway2morocco.com

Address

Burnaby, BC

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 9pm
Tuesday 8am - 9pm
Wednesday 8am - 9pm
Thursday 8am - 9pm
Friday 8am - 9pm
Saturday 8am - 9pm
Sunday 8am - 9pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Gateway2Morocco Travel posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Gateway2Morocco Travel:

Shortcuts

Share

Category