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Description
Experience a private day trip from Marrakech to the scenic city of Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. This journey includes visiting a women's argan oil cooperative and exploring Essaouira's historic sites, renowned for inspiring artists globally with its ocher-coloured walls. Stroll through the local souks, visit the harbour, savour a fish lunch at the port, and enjoy a beach walk.
Highlights
- Visit an argan oil cooperative with a private guide
- Explore the vibrant medina, where local craftspeople produce traditional arts and crafts
- Enjoy a fish lunch
- Watch fishermen haul in their catches in the harbour
- Gain insight into Essaouira’s Portuguese colonial heritage
- Visit the old Jewish town and the old medina of Essaouira
- Visit of old Portuguese sekkala
- Enjoy a walk in the narrow streets of the town
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- Take a day trip to Essaouira, the former Mogador built on a rocky peninsula, with its ramparts in a vigil on the ocean, its medina in white and blue tones, its busy port and its long sandy beaches. Visit Argan Oil Cooperative on your way. The history of Essaouira dates back to the 8th century BC. The Phoenicians stopped there on the road of the equator. The real founder of the city was the Alaouite Sultan Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, who entrusted the construction to Theodore Cornut, architect and student of Vauban Essaouira is now a nice little fishing port very lively at the arrival of the boats where sardines and crustaceans are sold at the auction. On the docks, fishermen repair the red nets.
- Enjoy the sardine grilled outdoors in the harbour's small restaurants, then discover the Sqala du Port, a crenellated bastion built to protect the harbour and the city. It consists of two fortified wings behind the Navy gate. Leaving the port of Sqala, enter Moulay Hassan square. Discover the kasbah, a district surrounded by ramparts with foundations anchored in the rock.
- Walk along the ramparts taking the street that leads to the Sqala of the Kasbah, where the famous guns of Essaouira line up. Orson Welles chose this place to turn the exterior sets of his Othello. At the heart of the Kasbah, the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions is the mirror and the collective memory of the province of Essaouira.
- You will discover the ritual or profane musical instruments of the Aissaoua, Hamadcha and Gnaoua brotherhoods. Every year in June, the world-renowned Gnaoua Festival of Essaouira takes place.
What's Included
- Pick up and return from your Hotel/Riad
- English-speaking driver/guide
- Fuel/Gas
- Bottled water
What's Excluded
- Personal purchases
- Tips
- Food and Drinks
Meeting Point
Marrakech, 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 150 Per Person |
| Infant | |
| 1 To 1 | EUR 0 Per Person |
This is a private tour | |
Starting From
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USD 166 / person