Morocco Explored is a Canada / Morocco tour operator based in Marrakech, and Vancouver. We are a legally registered company in Morocco and have been operating since 2003. With our guides, drivers, hoteliers, restauranteurs, and the many individuals who make up the "desert telephone", we are dedicated to bring the best of Morocco to our explorers. Our private and custom made (bespoke) tours are designed to combine cultural immersion, experience and fun, while allowing your tour to evolve as you wish, with or without a guide. We offer mid-priced small tours and treks as an alternative to cookie cutter package tours, and create unique experiences less traveled by most visitors to Morocco. All meals reflect regional cuisine, and stays are in smaller locally owned hotels, auberge and riads of traditional / interpreted styles and architecture.
We promote environmentally sensitive tours. Read more in Ode Magazine and about our Morocco Plastic Cleanup Get Dirty with Me.
For more information about our tours, click on the icon TOURS+TREKS at the top of this page.
Who Are We?
Morocco Explored was founded in 2003 by Robbin Yager from Canada.
Robbin Yager has been traveling most of her life, exploring across Canada from the Arctic to Pacific to Atlantic Oceans, as well as the USA, Mexico, Central America, Europe, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Mauritania. She first came to Morocco two weeks after 9/11 in 2001 and stayed for 3 months, traveling and trekking independently. Many doors were opened to create something at this time, and incredibly friendly people and diverse traveling opportunities made her return many times researching tourism and itineraries. After returning to Canada and taking several courses in tourism and trip leadership, she folded her design business, returned to Morocco and began Morocco Explored. Robbin still continues to explore Morocco, and plans to travel further into Africa in the near future. Her project Get Dirty with Me is a call for direct action to clean plastic garbage from Morocco's deserts and rivers.
Interview with Robbin Yager. Quote on United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
Essallah Chabaoui, our tour manager was born in Smaala, Morocco, a tiny farming community near Beni Mellal. He also lived with his extended family in Tinehir, exploring and hunting with his uncle in the Sahara desert and High Atlas mountains. His past work experience includes manager in a silver mine, manager of a restaurant in Cascades Ouzoud, and 3 years in Agricultural School specializing in mechanics and cows. Essalah was also the Tai Kwon Do Regional Champion in 1998 and went on to compete in the Nationals. Essalah loves to meet new people, talk about everything, drive, and travel. He went to Mauritania in 2008, Canada in 2009/2011 and the USA in 2011, and wants to travel the world in his lifetime.
Hamou Amgoun is our illustrious and hard working driver and guide, and along with Essalah, takes care of our 4x4 transportation. Hamou's family hales from the region of Dades valley, and in 2008 we found him working in the dunes of Merzouga, stole him away and we're keeping him. Sorry Yousuf!
About Morocco Explored
Morocco Explored is a Canadian registered tour business, and has a registered Tour and Transport counterpart in Morocco. Besides using our own drivers and vehicles, we use only affiliate insured agencies, guides and drivers in Morocco. This is enforced by Moroccan law.
When you choose Morocco Explored, you will be supporting our many Moroccan partners and guides. Our work is diversified among many regions and families, unlike other tour operators who may work exclusively within their own family or with foreigners from outside Morocco. We take advantage of local knowledge and wisdom. We choose to respect, on every level, the unparalleled diversity within Morocco. See also FAQs.
Read about Robbin Yager's direct action to make a difference: Get Dirty with Me PLASTIC CLEANUP in Morocco.
We foster Carbon Neutral travel and responsible tourism; respecting nature, the environment and culture. We also contribute to Education for All, a Moroccan NGO starting to build and run boarding houses near secondary education colleges to allow young women from disadvantaged rural families to continue their education beyond the Primary level.
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Contact
info@moroccoexplored.com
Telephone to Morocco:
GSM: +212 66 770 5212
Telephone from Morocco:
GSM: 0 66 770 5212
Telephone Canada and voice mail:
+1 604 393 3715
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