Aït Ben Haddou is one of the most photographed places in Morocco — and yet almost no one sleeps inside its walls. After dusk, when the day-trippers have left for their tour buses, the ksar empties of everything except a handful of resident families and the wind off the Asif Ounila river. We are restoring three adjoining 17th-century earthen houses on the lower terraces of the village into a single, fourteen-room maison d'hôte — preserving every internal staircase, every cedar lintel, every painted tataoui ceiling. Stay overnight, and the ksar is yours: dawn over the kasbah, the muezzin from across the river, breakfast on a clay terrace with the High Atlas at your shoulder.

Fourteen rooms across three connected pisé houses, each with original cedar beams, lime-washed walls and tataoui (oleander-and-tamarisk) ceilings. Bathrooms in tadelakt; copper basins and brass taps cast in the medina of Marrakech. A roof terrace at the height of the kasbah's grain-tower.

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