索维拉过夜

Essaouira is two hours and forty minutes west of Marrakech through argan country, and the day trip version spends most of it on the road. Staying the night gives you the two hours that matter: late afternoon on the Skala ramparts as the wind drops, and the harbor early, when the night's catch is auctioned on the quay.

You arrive by late morning and walk the medina with a guide who knows which thuya workshops still cut by hand. Lunch is whatever came in that morning, grilled at the port stalls. The night is at Heure Bleue Palais, inside the walls, with the roof pool for the hour before dinner.

The wind here is constant, which is why the kite schools came. The second morning is left unstructured, then the drive back, arriving in Marrakech in time for tea at La Mamounia.