8 DAYS TOUR FROM IMPERIAL CITIES TO DESERT
8 DAYS TOUR FROM IMPERIAL CITIES TO DESERT
8 DAYS TOUR FROM IMPERIAL CITIES TO DESERT
Experience the best of Morocco’s history, culture, and natural beauty on this captivating 8-day tour. Start your adventure in the imperial cities—exploring the ancient medinas of Fes, Meknes, and Marrakech—before heading south to the breathtaking landscapes of the Sahara Desert. Traverse the High Atlas Mountains, visit the cinematic city of Ouarzazate, and journey to the golden dunes of Merzouga, where a camel trek and an overnight stay in a traditional desert camp await.
- Arrive at Casablanca International airport.
- Meet with our representative, and transfer to the Hotel in Casablanca.
- Check-in at hotel and overnight.
- Breakfast at the hotel, and start the sightseeing tour of the main attractions such as the seacoast, Anfa neighborhood, Mohamed 5th Square, and United nation Square that fronts the ramparts of the Medina.
- Visit the splendid Mosque of Hassan 2,
- Leave towards Rabat one of the fourth of the Imperial cities and the actual capital of the kingdom.
- On arrival, Time free for lunch
- Start the visit the Hassan Tower and Oudayas Kasbah.
- Continue to Fes, the first imperial city founded on the 7th century.
- Check-in at the hotel, and overnight
- After breakfast, start the city Tour, the morning will be devoted to discovering Fez, the oldest of the Imperial Cities, which is well known for its spiritual and educational contributions to the Moroccan culture. Starting from the Northern borj: Majestic fortress dating back to 16th century, the traditional ceramic and pottery industry.
- Inside the Medina, you will explore the famous souks where craftsmen still labo in the age-old oriental tradition, also visit Bou Inania Madrasa; quranic school, and the University of Al- Karaouine: mosquereligious school / college was founded by Fatima al-Fihri in 859.
- Lunch free in a typical Moroccan restaurant (riad) inside the Medina.
- Continue your visit through the Alleys to Chouara Tannery.
- Fez is also famous for its leather products and most of it comes from the leather bazaar (souq).The souq is home to three ancient leather tanneries, the largest and oldest being the Chouara Tannery, which is almost a thousand years old, visit one of the several terraces that has a good view to the Tannery.
- Back to the Riad and free time for your own discovering or to relax at the Riad
- Overnight
- Breakfast, checkout from the hotel
- Day dedicated to the crossing of the Middle Atlas Mountains, diagonally, from the Imperial city of FES to the oasis of Erfoud, called the “door of the desert.”
- Stop in the beautiful and unusual mountain town of IFRANE, the site of a major international university and a summer resort but mainly winter (has ski lifts).
- We then proceed to the nearby forest of the Cedars of AZROU, a wonder of nature and one of the green lungs of Morocco’s UNESCO. In this forest live many colonies of monkeys (macaques) who have become accustomed to fraternize (cautiously) with tourists, especially if they come well equipped with fruits and nuts. Stop and familiarization with the monkeys in the forest.
- Breakfast at the Camp, departure to Ouarzazate via Dades valley and spectacular rock mountains along the way.
- Free time for lunch in Todra Canyon
- Continue to the Kelea M’gouna City, which is known with annual rose’s festival on May, then towards Ouarzazate city or Hollywood of Morocco how we call it.
- Arrival to the Hotel/ Riad, check-in,
- Dinner at the Hotel and overnight.
- After breakfast at hotel we will start our guided tour in city of Ouarzazate , including Taourirt Kasbah, is a historic fortified residence complex built in the 17th century by the Imzwarn, a powerful local family.
- Then to a film studio (Oscar) intended for the production of cinematographic or television films including the sets.
- Continue to Famous Ksar of Ait ben Haddou, is a striking example of traditional southern Moroccan architecture, on the side of a hill at the top of which is a collective granary.
- Free lunch at restaurant near the Kasbah
- Continuation to the High Atlas Mountains, and along the crossing you will enjoy a wonderful view and will be provided for some photo stops. (Anaconda Road)
- A stop at Argan Oil Cooperative., the miraculous oil that is produced from olives that grow only in Morocco, whose properties and virtues’ rejuvenating the skin and in preparation for the hair regrowth are famous worldwide.
- Arrival to Marrakech and check into hotel.
- After breakfast, the guide will be waiting for you with the driver in front of the hotel to start the visit of Marrakech or as we call it the red city, the second oldest Imperial City and the “Pearl of the South”. Founded by the Almoravids at the end of the 11th century, MARRAKESH sits in a lush oasis nestled at the foot of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains.
- Start your visit to Koutoubia Mosque, then to Bahia Palace, and continue through the alleys in the old Medina till Ben Youssef Medrssa (Koranic School),
- Free time for lunch at the famous Jemaa El Fna.
- Visit the famous Majorelle Garden.
- Back to the hotel, for leisure (Pool or SPA)
- Free dinner and overnight at hotel
- After your Early breakfast, and accordingly to the flight timing, you will transfer back to Marrakech airport for fly back
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