Explore the best of Morocco in 9 days from Casablanca
Highlights
Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Chefchaouen, Fez, Midelt, Merzouga, Ouarzazate
Locations Covered
Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Chefchaouen, Fez, Midelt, Merzouga, Ouarzazate
cultural, historical, Desert
Private Tour
9 Days
Easy
English
Description
Visit the major attractions of Morocco by making stops at its prominent cities, Casablanca, Chefchaouen, Fes, Ouarzazate and Marrakech. Visit the famous mosques, stunning architectural buildings, beautiful gardens and other prominent landmarks of the country. You will also camp in the Sahara Desert of Merzouga and take a scenic drive through the Dades Valley and Todgha gorges.
Itinerary
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Day 1: Arrival at Casablanca
Be welcomed by your driver /guide at the airport and take you to your hotel in Casablanca.
Overnight stay in the hotel.
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Day 2: Casablanca – Rabat – Chefchaouen
- Start your trip to visit the biggest mosque in Casablanca, Hassan II Mosque.
- Go to the capital of Morocco, "Rabat".
- Start with the Bab Challah, Mausoleum of Mohammed V, the royal palace's main gates, and the Oudaya Kasbah.
- Have lunch in a local restaurant.
- Drive straight to the blue city of Chefchaouen. Pass through many small towns and stop for breaks.
- In Chefchaouen, walk inside the blue alleys of the medina, take pictures and experience the local food of the little city.
Overnight in the hotel.
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Day 3: Chefchaouen – Fes
- Have free time all morning to visit the blue city. It is a city located in the Rif Mountains, northwest of Morocco. It is famous for the remarkable buildings of different tones of faded blue of its old town. Leather and weaving workshops line its steep cobbled alleys. In the shaded central square of Outa el Hammam is the casbah with red walls, fortress and keep of the fifteenth century with ethnographic and artistic exhibitions. The octagonal minaret of the Great Mosque rises not far from there.
- After lunch, continue travelling to Fes.
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Day 4: Fes city tour
- After breakfast in your Riad, you will start exploring the oldest city in Morocco, walking in its alleys and small streets.
- Visit the Royal Palace gate, the Jewish quarter, the first Mellah ever built in Morocco, built during the 14th century. We will ensure that you visit all sites with cultural and historical interest, including the famous Al Qaraouine University, the oldest in the world, the Tanneries and Moulay Idriss mausoleum.
- After lunch, visit the tiles cooperative and then experience a fantastic panoramic view over the whole Medina of Fes.
Overnight at the same Riad.
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Day 5: Fes - Sahara Desert of Merzouga
- After breakfast, you will leave Fes travelling towards Merzouga via Midelt and the Ziz valley.
- Travel via the Ifrane city, a beautiful mountain village named the Switzerland of Morocco.
- Stop at the cedar forest on the middle Atlas Mountains. During this journey, you will experience glimpses of the Middle Atlas and Higher Atlas mountains and stopping at Azrou, a Berber village in the middle of the famous cedar forest – the largest one in Morocco – where you will have the opportunity to see the Barbary apes.
- Continue to Midelt along the magnificent hills and mountains of the Atlas.
- After lunch in Midelt, travel through the fascinating Tiz Ntalghamt pass and the spectacular Ziz Gorge, take in views of the High Atlas plateau, and see how the scenery changes to reveal hints of the desert you approach the province of the south-east Errachidia city.
- Afterwards, travel along the fantastic Ziz Valley, stopping for panoramic views along the way to Erfoud and Rissani.
- Arriving in Merzouga in the afternoon, be welcomed with a glass of mint tea.
- Take a camel ride in the dunes of the Sahara Desert of Merzouga to reach the camp where you will spend the night.
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Day 6: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Valley
- Wake up early in the morning to watch what will may be the best sunrise of your life.
- You will peacefully camel-trek back to the village of Merzouga. Enroute, appreciate the spectacular Erg Chebbi dunes' unique beauty – changing with the light as the day progresses.
- After breakfast and a hot shower in the riad, leave for Rissani, Tinghir, and Todgha gorges – the highest, narrowest gorges in Morocco.
- After lunch in the heart of the gorge, drive through the Dades Valley, where you will see the majestic sand castles and the unique rock formations known as "monkey toes".
Overnight accommodation will be in a fancy guest house overlooking the Dades Valley with dinner and breakfast.
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Day 7: Dades Valley - Ouarzazate – Marrakech
After breakfast in your accommodation, start travelling through the Dades Valley towards Ouarzazate and then to Marrakech. The road through Dades Valley is called the way of the thousand Kasbahs – providing numerous opportunities to take some of your best photographic shots of the trip.
Stop at Kalaat M’Gouna -the centre of rose’s valley-, have the option to visit the cooperative for the roses, to purchase the rosewater, which will make your linen smell good a long time after your trip is over.
Continue to Marrakech via the Ait Benhaddou Kasbah. Built by Et Hami El Glaoui, one of the last Berber chieftains during the 19th century, the Kasbah is a house of many Glaoui people.
Continue through the majestic Tizi n’Tichka Pass (2260 m) over the High Atlas Mountains, where you will have the opportunity to explore the process of producing the Argan oil- existing only in morocco – by Berber women in their cooperative.
Arrive at your overnight accommodation in Marrakech.
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Day 8: Marrakech
After breakfast in the Riad, start exploring Marrakech. See the most important historical and cultural interest sites, including the Majorelle Gardens, the Koutoubia Tower, the Saadian tombs, and the Bahia Palace.
After lunch at a restaurant near the square, walk through the souks and view hundreds of handicrafts.
Have some free time to wander by yourself in the other parts of the city
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Day 9: Departure
Transfer to the Airport.
What's Included
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Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
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This is a private tour |