Fez

There is no single best month to visit Fez; the right timing depends on the experiences you want there. Your Forest Travel advisor matches the dates to moments such as a private hour in a zellige or brass master's workshop, a hidden riad in the heart of the medina, and a private rooftop as the call to prayer rises over the oldest medina on earth. The journey is then reshaped entirely around you.

Most Fez journeys run 3–4 days, enough for The Living Medina or The Artisan Journey, with closed-door workshops, hidden riads and private commissions with master craftsmen. Fez for Families runs 4–5 days, bringing the medina, crafts and rooftops alive for every generation. To weave Fez, Meknes and Marrakech into one seamless journey, Imperial Cities takes 6–8 days. Each is a point of departure your advisor reshapes around you.

Yes. Forest Travel's Fez journeys are points of departure, not packages, and your advisor reshapes each one entirely around you. Private moments include an hour with a zellige or brass master, a hidden riad behind a blank wall opening to a courtyard of cedar, tile and silence, and a private rooftop as the call to prayer rises over the medina. Artisans' workshops closed to the public are opened for you, and imperial Fez becomes one seamless journey.

Yes. In Fez, Forest Travel opens artisans' workshops closed to the public, so you can spend a private hour with a zellige or brass master whose craft has remained unchanged in a thousand years. These closed-door workshops sit within the oldest medina on earth, and on The Artisan Journey they extend to time with master craftsmen and private commissions in the trades of a thousand years.

A hidden riad in Fez begins with a blank wall in the heart of the medina that opens onto a courtyard of cedar, tile and silence. These riads sit behind plain facades, unseen from the labyrinth outside. Forest Travel unlocks these hidden courtyards as one of the signature moments of a private Fez, alongside closed-door workshops and the rooftops above the medina.

Both Fez journeys run 3–4 days, but they lean differently. The Living Medina is about culture and craft: closed-door workshops, hidden riads and the medina's labyrinth opened by name. The Artisan Journey goes deeper into making, with master craftsmen, private commissions and the trades of a thousand years. Choose the first for the full sweep of the medina, the second if the crafts themselves are the reason you travel.

In Fez, the call to prayer is best heard from a private rooftop above the medina, as it rises over the oldest medina on earth. Forest Travel arranges this rooftop moment privately as one of the defining experiences of the city, turning the sound that has carried over Fez for centuries into a quiet, unhurried pause between workshops and hidden riads.

Yes. Imperial Cities, a 6–8 day journey, weaves Fez, Meknes and Marrakech into one seamless, private journey with a focus on culture. Fez remains the anchor, with its closed-door workshops, hidden riads and rooftops above the oldest medina on earth. Like every Forest Travel journey to Fez, Imperial Cities is a point of departure rather than a package, and your advisor reshapes it entirely around you.

Yes. The Artisan Journey in Fez, a private 3–4 day journey, is built around master craftsmen, private commissions and the trades of a thousand years. It suits travelers for whom the crafts themselves are the reason to go. A defining moment is a private hour with a zellige or brass master in a workshop closed to the public, where the craft has remained unchanged in a thousand years.

Fez is described as the Middle Ages, alive: the world's greatest living medieval city, set around the oldest medina on earth. Its trades continue much as they have for a thousand years, with zellige and brass masters still at work in workshops closed to the public. Riads hide behind blank walls, and the call to prayer still rises over the rooftops of the medina.