12-Day Morocco Imperial Cities and Sahara Desert Tour with Atlas

• Meet your guide at the airport.

• Depart for a visit to the Hassan II Mosque.

• Continue to Rabat to visit Morocco's administrative and political capital.

Dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast, depart for Fez via Moulay Idriss, the holy city, and visit the Roman ruins of Volubilis.

• Have lunch and visit Meknes, known as "The Versailles of Morocco".

• Visit the monuments of Meknes.

• Arrive in Fez.

Dinner and overnight at the riad.

• After breakfast, the day is dedicated to discovering Fez, the oldest imperial city and medina, founded by Idriss II and considered a center of Arab-Muslim culture.

• See the Mosque of the Andalusians, the tanneries, the potters' district, and the medina.

• Have lunch in a palace in the medina.

• In the afternoon, continue to visit the Hispano-Moorish buildings and Medersas Nejjarine.

• Wake up early in the morning and have breakfast.

• Starting from Midelt, travel through the Middle Atlas.

• Stop for lunch.

• Continue to Erfoud along the Ziz Valley, passing through a successive series of fortified villages whose architecture announces the pre-Saharan oases.

• Reach the dunes of Merzouga (Erg Chebbi), where you will stay in a kasbah or in a nomad tent.

• After breakfast, take the grand tour through the dunes, visiting the two oases of Merzouga, the wandering deposit, the village of Khamlia (village of the blacks), the MIFISS mines, the desert plateau to meet the Berber nomads, and the oasis of Tisserdmin.

• Back at the hostel, at around 15:00, begin your camel caravan to watch the sunset in the dunes, with about one and a half hours on camelback.

• Spend the night under nomad tents in the dunes and enjoy the silence of the desert beneath a sky full of stars.

Dinner and overnight in a private tent.

• After sunrise, return to the hotel for breakfast and a shower.

• Then depart for Tineghir via Rissani, Erfoud, and Tinejdad, arriving at Todra Gorge.

Dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast, depart for Ouarzazate via Kelâa Gouna, the city where the Rose Festival takes place every year.

• Have lunch and continue to Ouarzazate through the Dades Valley, the Valley of Roses, and Skoura, stopping to visit Kasbah Ameridil.

• Then continue to Ouarzazate.

Dinner and overnight at the riad.

• Visit the city of Ouarzazate, founded in 1928, which became a well-known cinematographic center.

• Stop en route to visit the Kasbah of Aït Ben Haddou, then continue to Marrakech.

• Arrive in Marrakech in the late afternoon.

• After breakfast, the whole day will be devoted to visiting Marrakech, "The Pearl of the South", founded in the eleventh century.

• In the morning, visit the Koutoubia, the Saadian Tombs, the Menara Garden, and the Bahia Palace.

• Return to the hotel for lunch.

• In the afternoon, visit the souks of the old medina and Jemaa El Fna.

• Have dinner in a Moroccan restaurant.

• After breakfast, depart for Essaouira.

• Upon arrival, have fish for lunch.

• In the afternoon, enjoy a city tour and discover the medina of Essaouira, formerly known for its handicrafts, Portuguese fortifications, silver jewellery, and inlaid thuja wood.

Dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast, depart for Casablanca via El Jadida and El Oualidia, with the possibility of eating fish specialties.

• Continue to El Jadida along the Atlantic coast.

• Arrive in Casablanca.

Dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast, transfer to Casablanca Mohammed V Airport.