Travel Itinerary
Morocco Tour 9 days / 8 nights
Imperial Cities and Desert
The formalities, welcome and assistance from our staff and transfer to the medina. Overnight stay in Riad.
After breakfast, you will meet the authorized guide (French speaking) who will lead you to discover Marrakech, the pearl of Southern Morocco, during the morning (until about lunchtime). Marrakech is one of the most important imperial cities in Morocco.
Located at the foot of the peaks of the High Atlas, like all Moroccan cities, it has two souls : the medina, surrounded by walls, and the more modern one of the new city.
In Marrakech you can breathe the true traditional soul of Morocco, conditioned by the mountains and the desert, rooted in the trade and customs of its inhabitants.
During the exploratory walk of the medina, the guide will show you the Bahia Palace, the Ben Youssef Madrasa (recently restored to its ancient splendor), the Saadian Tombs, the Koutoubia (from the outside) with the minaret that strikes for its elegance in the decoration and balance of shapes.
In the evening, you will stroll through the Souq, breathing in the atmosphere of the Djemaa El-Fna square, the beating heart of the city, populated by storytellers, dancers, snake charmers and musicians.
Afternoon at your disposal to devote yourself to the art of haggling in the souq.After you will go to Casablanca.
Departure after breakfast towards Casablanca, a city of profound contrasts where you will visit the splendid Hassan II Mosque, the only one open to non-Muslims, which alone is worth a stop in the city.
Afterwards, we will continue towards Meknes, one of the less flashy imperial cities ; yet, its architecture, palaces, gardens, warehouses and large stables, enclosed within the ochre-colored walls, distinguish the physiognomy of Meknes, so much so as to justify its inclusion in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
You will explore the picturesque Kasbah of the Udayas, surrounded by red ochre walls, you will cross the Bab el Udayas gate, an example of Almohad art.
Visit Meknes where you will appreciate the el-Hedim Square, animated at all hours of the day and wanted by Moulay Ismail who chose it as the imperial capital and the majestic Bab el-Mansour gate. In the late morning we will head to Fes, the most imperial of the nation’s cities.
After breakfast, the guide (speaking Italian) will meet you in the Riad and will accompany you to discover the intellectual and artisanal capital of Morocco. Considered the pearl of the Arab world, it is also the spiritual and cultural center of traditional Morocco.
During the city tour you will have the opportunity to appreciate the heart of the medina declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
You will visit the Madrasas, the ancient Islamic universities, Bounania and Attarine, the exterior of the Karaouine mosque, admire the Neijarine fountain and, finally, the spectacular tanneries.
You will have lunch in the medina and enter the various souqs where you can find a bit of everything : flowers, handicrafts, fabrics, leather accessories, spices and dried fruit, handicrafts and much more.
You will walk in the new part of the city, Fes Jdid, discovering the exterior of the Royal Palace and the Jewish quarter Mellah.
Afterwards, in 4×4, accompanied by the driver, you will reach a panoramic point from which you can observe the entire medina and the mosques. Fes is a medieval city and here you will have the impression that time has stopped ! you will go to Boulaajoul.
Passing through the Azrou forest, seeing monkeys .Overnight stay riad in Boulaajoul.
After breakfast, we will leave Fes to explore the middle Atlas Mountains, which represent the most beautiful and interesting natural areas of Morocco, as well as a historical and physical barrier between the north and the pre-Moroccan desert, and we will start with Ifrane or Switzerland of Morocco.
Our journey through the cedar forest continues, passing through a variety of forest species on our way to the famous place, which houses endangered barbarian monkeys. Ziz Gorges gives a rocky trail to the Tafilalt oasis as you travel through Tizi Ntalghamtt.
Passage through Errachidia (where you will have lunch and experience Amazighe hospitality outside the border), Erfoud, with panoramic views of the Aziz valley between them.
It is time to relax and feel the desert sightseeing after you riding the camels and watching the sunset, head to the deset camp, magical dinner and berber music will be there and accommodation.
After breakfast in the middle of the desert and the amazing sunrise, your camel guide takes you and comes back to the same place where the driver will be waiting for you for a new beginning of the second day.
This day will be great, from the desert continue the way to Erfoud town is a small and it’s famous for stones ( fossils ) we visit big marble Stones Association, and the people of this town are Berber and Arabic.
From here we take the way to other small villages, then we cross today’s valley through Tinghir a Berber village.
Form here directly to Boumaln dads Etymologically, the name Boumaln Dades and take the way to explore a new place and city, drive across the rose valley and explore the rose city it’s famous for the rose and the people of that town they organizing the flower festival every year.
Then we continue the way to Ouarzazate or (city without noise ); Overnight stay in:
On the last day of the journey, after breakfast, visit the town of Ouarzazate and its monuments, including the Kasbah of Taourirt and the Atlas Studios movie studios, the largest and most famous in all of Africa.
From here, we head to the Fint Oasis, near Ouarzazate. We check in at Ait Ben Haddou to have lunch. Then visit the famous Kasbah, declared a UNESCO World Heritage and which was the scene of films like The Gladiator, Babel, and Lawrence of Arabia.
we continue passing through the High Atlas and the Tizi-n-Tichka pass, along a road that climbs from the plains up to 2260 m above sea level passing through small villages, small waterfalls, through the continuously changing landscape and colors of these beautiful Mountains. We reach Marrakech in the afternoon for the end of the trip, Drop of at your riad.
The 9 days: you will go from riad to Airport.
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