Origins: Morocco is the 2025 Leakey Foundation Fellows Tour. The journey will take travelers from Casablanca to Marrakech, traversing Berber villages, the Atlas mountains, and archaeological sites. Our tour includes unique access visits to heritage sites, exchanges with specialists and grantees working on active sites throughout the country, and talks from experts who will bring to life the anthropological landscape and archaeological research today, to understand Morocco’s ancient and pre-history.

This tour is sold out.

Early access to Leakey Foundation Fellows Tours is a benefit for donors who support our mission by giving at the Fellows level or higher. Email Sharal Camisa Smith for more information about becoming a Fellow or to be notified about the 2026 tour.

Highlights include:

• Visits to the Hominid Cave at Thomas Quarry and the Grotte des Rhinoceros
• Guided tour of the Roman ruins of Volubilis and the walled city of Meknes
• Explore Fes and its historic university, meeting with professors and archaeologists
• Visit the Middle and Late Stone Age sites of Taforalt: the Grotte du Chameau and the Grotte des Pigeons with expert guides
• Visit the Middle and Late Stone Age sites of Temara outside of Rabat
• Cultural immersion in Marrakech, including a fabulous private collection visit
• An excursion into the Atlas Mountains to see cave art and traditional Berber homes