A private guide will show you the best routes through the maze like alleys where you'll experience a full-on sensory sensation. This is not just a guided shopping trip, your guide will also be able to help you communicate with the vendors, get you to sample the best produce and tell you fascinating stories ranging from historic tales to fantastical folklore.

After lunch, take a historical tour of the city with your guide, including highlights such as the Koutoubia Mosque. By far the tallest point in the medina, the Koutoubia's minaret is a useful reference point and just one example of the beautiful architecture in Marrakech - other examples you'll visit include the 19th century Bahia Palace and the Lezama synagogue.

After breakfast, a private guide will meet you at your hotel in a 4x4 and you will then head out to explore Berber country in the heart of the Atlas Mountains. As you drive, enjoy breathtaking scenery of valleys, villages and mountain peaks, some of which may be snowcapped.

During the course of the day you will stop at a small Berber village to be welcomed by a family for a delicious glass of mint tea, before carrying on to Kik Plateau, where you can explore the unspoiled landscape, rarely explored by tourists. Next your guide will stop in Ansi, in the valley of Marigha, where lunch will be served on a terrace overlooking hundreds of olive groves. After lunch, you have the option to take a walk to the salt vats down the valley before the drive back to Marrakech.

This evening, enjoy dinner in one of our recommended rooftop restaurants and then put those haggling skills to the test once more in the souqs.