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11-Day Tour Of The Imperial Cities From Casablanca
  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Nature, History, Desert

  • Duration

    11 Days

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English

Description

Discover Morocco's old medieval imperial cities, starting from Casablanca with a city tour to visit the biggest mosque. Continue to Rabat to see Hassan tower, mausoleum Mohamed V, and Kasbah Odayas. Go to Meknes for the Moulay Ismail Mausoleum and Fes for its colourful labyrinth souks. Explore the Berber villages in the Atlas mountains and ride a camel in the desert of Merzouga.

Highlights
  • Explore Marrakech city and visit the main monuments and landmarks
  • Discover the hidden Berber villages in the desert and meet the nomads
  • Ride a camel in the desert and enjoy a sunset over the dunes of Erg Chebbi
  • Marvel at the oasis and the old kasbahs in the southeast
  • Visit the gorges and canyons of dades and toudra gorges
  • Explore the city of Fes and Meknes
  • Day 1: Casablanca expand_more
    • Arrive at the airport, and transfer to the hotel.
  • Day 2: Casablanca expand_more
    • After breakfast and at your hotel, we will start the city tour of Casablanca. The economic capital of Morocco and the big city; a very modern city, full of life and industrial capital of the country.
    • Visit the exterior of the Royal Palace, with its immense doors, the elegant district of Anfa and the Corniche, and visit the Mosque of Hassan II the biggest mosque after Mecca. 

    Dinner and overnight at the hotel

  • Day 3: Casablanca - Rabat - Meknes - Fes expand_more
    • After breakfast, we will leave to visit the political capital of the country: Rabat. 
    • We began with the Mausoleum, a prestigious building built in the memory of His Majesty Mohamed V, made of white marble and cedarwood and adorned with chiselled bronze. 
    • We will also visit the Mosque and the Hassan Tower, with its 200 columns and its Minaret, made of pink stone of great beauty. 
    • We will visit the Royal Palace if time allows and the old Kasbah Odaya. After free time for lunch. 
    • Next, we will drive to the city of Meknes. The vast palaces, the forty kilometres of wall and the bastions next to its monumental doors give this city an immense aspect. The visit ends at the Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail, the city's founder. 
    • After the city tour of Meknes, we will head to Fez. 

    Dinner and accommodation in the hotel

  • Day 4: Fes World Heritage City Tour expand_more
    • After breakfast in your hotel, we will start an explorative guided city tour of Fes in a full day of visiting the oldest of the imperial cities, Fez founded in 808 as the first political, religious and cultural capital. The visit begins at the Golden Gates of the Royal Palace. 
    • Later, we will climb to a high place from where you can see the wall and inside its impressive Medina, and then we will continue the city tour on foot, to discover a thousand sensations, mosques and medersas, and religious places until we reach the tanners. 
    • Free time for lunch, and then visit the artisan’s workshops using their knowledge to invent the best handcrafts that give Fez the well-deserved name of the city of artisans. 

    Dinner and accommodation in the hotel

  • Day 5: Fes - Ifrane - Beni Mellal - Marrakech expand_more
    • After breakfast, we will go through the Middle Atlas, through villages, mountains and agriculture, forming a beautiful landscape where the most famous rivers of Morocco are born. 
    • Arrival in Ifrane where a very clean small city called small Switzerland, for its houses with pointed roofs in black slate, its lake in the center. 
    • Next, we will go to the city of Beni Mellal, with free lunch and free time to explore it. 
    • Then, we will continue to Marrakech. 
    • Arrival, dinner and accommodation in Riad or hotel.
  • Day 6: Marrakech - Telouet - Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou - Ouarzazate expand_more
    • Departure, after breakfast, through the High Atlas Mountains by the Ticka pass with an altitude of 2260M. We will take an off-road from these mountains to reach the Kasbah of Telouet and the Ait-Ben-Haddou, marked by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. 
    • In this spectacular setting, films of such renown as Gladiator or Jewel of the Nile have been shot. Free time for lunch.
    • Then, we will go to Ouarzazate, considered the gate of the great desert and the place from which the great expeditions started in the past time, and where the Kasbah of Taourirt stands out, and the main palace of the Glaoui, the great Pacha of the South of Morocco.

    Dinner and overnight in Riad

  • Day 7: Ouarzazate - Gorges of Todra - Erfoud - Merzouga Desert expand_more
    • After breakfast, we drive along a road of 1000 Kasbahs. 
    • After several stops for photos, including a visit to an old Kasbah from the 16th century, we will reach one of the strong points of the South: the Gorges of Todra. The channel of the Todra River has formed a gorge of vertical walls of enormous proportions and great beauty; It is a paradise for climbers and a unique place. Free lunch and then we will continue to the city of Erfoud, in this town we will stop to visit a fossils site to discover how it was extracted and how they make it, to get different objects.
    • From this town, we will drive east to reach the town of Merzouga, where you will be welcomed by a mint tea and prepare to start a new adventure but this time with camels. You will ride a camel for an hour and a half to enjoy the sunset over the golden dunes of Erg Chebbi. 
    • Overnight in desert camp with dinner and breakfast animated by Berber music of the Touareg.


  • Day 8: Ouzina - Ramlia - Lac Maider - Zagora expand_more
    • If you want to enjoy a wonderful moment of sunrise over the dunes, wake early in the morning to enjoy this rare sunrise. Then ride the camel back to the hotel. 
    • After breakfast, we will drive along the road Paris-Dakar track towards Zagora. 
    • We will stop to visit the ruins of an Old Portuguese village, and we will pass through several Berber villages with their houses built in adobe. 
    • After a stop for lunch, we will continue through the most extended part grove, over 150km, to reach the city of Zagora in the afternoon. 

    Dinner and overnight at the hotel


  • Day 9: Zagora - Ouarzazate and Kasbah - High Atlas - Marrakech expand_more
    • After breakfast, we will start our journey towards Marrakech. 
    • We will go through the green palm area and leafy Draa Valley, known as the largest palm grove in Morocco, where we will stop at the viewpoint to take some photos of the beautiful landscape. 
    • We will cross the High Atlas mountain range by the Tizi-n-Tichka pass with 2260 meters of height. 
    • Please open your eyes well because, along the way, we will find amazed by the different Berber villages on the foothills of the High Atlas Mountains. 
    • Arrive in Marrakech, dinner and accommodation in Riad.
  • Day 10: Marrakech Guided City Tour expand_more
    • After breakfast in your accommodation, we will start an explorative guided city tour to discover the city of Marrakech, the old capital of many empires and dynasties. 
    • We will start from the Koutoubia mosque to discover the fantastic architecture of the mosque. Then we will continue not far to the Saadian tombs where the founders of the Saady dynasty meet.
    • Then continue to Bahia Palace, the residence of the former vizier; our journey continues to visit the Berber markets (souks) to explore the artisans' workshops and finish in the famous Jamaa el Fna square, in the morning a grand souk, and in the night a magical spectacle. 

    Dinner and accommodation in Riad

  • Day 11: Marrakech - Airport Transfer expand_more
    • After breakfast, at the scheduled time, transfer to the airport for a flight back home. 

    Billing and boarding procedures. End of the trip and our services.

What's Included
  •  Transport in 4x4 or minibus
  •  Driver
  •  Gas
  •  Camel Trek
  •  Night in desert camp with dinner and breakfast
  •  Half-board hotels: Dinner and Breakfast
  •  Possible to sleep twice in desert camp
  •  Entrance fees to Kasbahs in the south east
What's Excluded
  • Drinks
  • Lunch
  • Tickets (monuments fees)
  • Tips
  • Personal expenses
Meeting Point

Casablanca, Maroc

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
Adult
1 To 50 EUR 1449.99 Per Person

This is a private tour

Starting From

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USD 1598 / person