Morocco's half of these trips comes in two flavours. The classic runs the imperial cities — Rabat, Fez, Marrakech, with Casablanca as the gateway and stops like Volubilis' Roman ruins or the Atlas foothills on the road between. The northern version instead loops Tangier, Tetouan, Chefchaouen's blue lanes and Fez. Egypt's half is the familiar decision: Cairo plus Luxor, the overland run down to Aswan, or the full cruise.

TourDaysEgypt gives youMorocco gives you
Trip to Morocco and Egypt10Cairo plus Luxor, with a dawn balloonCasablanca and a full day in Marrakech
Egypt & Morocco Holiday12Cairo, Luxor and Aswan overland — Philae and a Nubian villageRabat, Volubilis, Fez, the Middle Atlas road and Marrakech
Morocco and Egypt Itinerary13The same Cairo–Luxor–Aswan coreThe north: Tangier, Tetouan, Chefchaouen, Fez and Rabat
Egypt & Morocco Tour Package15Cairo plus the full Luxor-to-Aswan Nile cruiseRabat, Fez, the Atlas road, Marrakech and Casablanca
Morocco, Egypt & Jordan Tour19Cairo and the Nile cruise, mid-tripThe imperial cities first — then Jordan's Petra, Jerash and Dead Sea to finish

Routes above are read from each tour's stored programme. Note the one structural difference: the triple starts in Morocco and ends in Jordan, with Egypt as the centrepiece.

How the two halves balance

In practice, Egypt is the half that awes and Morocco the half that charms. Egypt's days are built around monuments; Morocco's are built around places you wander — medinas, tanneries, mountain roads, a blue town photographed from a rooftop café. The combination works because the two halves use different muscles; neither steals the other's thunder.

If Morocco's half is what you are weighing, the choice between the imperial-city classic and the northern loop is really a choice between icons and atmosphere: Marrakech and Fez carry the famous names, while Chefchaouen and Tangier carry the photographs. The thirteen-day shape is the one for the second kind of traveller.