Morocco Imperial Cities & Sahara Desert Tour

Day 1: Casablanca Airport – Casablanca City

You will be welcomed by your driver /guide in the airport of Mohamed 5 in Casablanca and take you to your hotel in Casablanca. Overnight in the hotel.

🏚️ Hotel Option: Hotel Campanile Casablanca Centre Ville or similar.

Day 2: Casablanca – Rabat – Chefchaouen

In the morning you will start your trip to visit the biggest mosque in Casablanca, Hassan 2 Mosque. Then you will go to the capital of Morocco “Rabat”. We will start with the Bab Challah, the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, and one of the main gates of the royal palace and the Oudaya Kasbah. Lunch in a local restaurant. Then we drive straight to the blue city of Chefchaouen. Of course on the way, you will pass through many small towns and stop for breaks. Getting Chefchaouen a bit early to have time to walk inside the blue alleys of the medina, take pictures and experience the local food of the little city. Overnight in the hotel.

🏚️ Hotel Option: Hotel Ras El Maa or similar.

Day 3: Chefchaouen – Fez

Today in Chefchaouen You will 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. Then after lunch continue traveling to Fez.

🏚️ Hotel Option: Riad La Perle De La Médina or similar.

Day 4: Fez City Tour

After breakfast in your Riad, you will start exploring the oldest city in Morocco, walking in its alleys and small streets. Our visit starts by visiting 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 one in the world, the Tanneries, and the Moulay Idriss mausoleum. After lunch, you will visit the tiles cooperative and then experience a wonderful panoramic view over the whole Medina of Fes. Overnight at the same Riad.

🏚️ Hotel Option: Riad La Perle De La Médina or similar.

Day 5: Fez – Ifrane – Azrou – Midelt – Merzuga

in a total un Moroccan style built by the French in the 1930s to resemble a Swiss village; we visit the cedars forest in Azrou you will see the monkeys, drive across the Middle Atlas Mountains. Most of the day will be spent winding your way through the beautiful Depart early from fez you will begin your ascent We pass through Ifrane, a winter ski resort forests, springs, jagged rock faces, and Berber villages as you cross the Atlas Mountains and begin to descend towards the Sahara Desert. Halfway, you will stop for lunch in the town of Midelt, famous for its fossils and rocks, then we continue towards Merzouga in the road we will stop in panoramic views to see the huge oasis of palm tree we reach to Merzouga in the afternoon, diner with Saharan music and overnight in a traditional Berber camp.

🏚️ Hotel Option: Azawad Desert Camp or similar.

Day 6: Merzouga – Rissane – Todra Gorges – Dades Gorges

We will wake up early to see the spectacular sunrise over the dunes before making our way back to the hotel/riad for breakfast and a shower. We will go and see the Rissane market and cross the palm-lined valleys of Tourog and Tinjdad to arrive at the Todra Gorge. We will take a walk in the Todra Gorges and have lunch in a local restaurant before continuing to our accommodation in the Dades Gorge.

🏚️ Hotel Option: Auberg Atlas De Dades or similar.

Day 7: Dades Valley – Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Hadou – Marrakech

After breakfast in your accommodation, you will start traveling 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. You will stop at Kalaat M’Gouna -the center of rose’s valley-, where you will 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, now the Kasbah is a house of many Glaoui people. Your journey will 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, before arriving at your overnight accommodation in Marrakech.

🏚️ Hotel Option: Riad Dar Nadwa or similar.

Day 8: Marrakech Sightseeing

After breakfast in the Riad, you can start exploring Marrakech; «the red city of Morocco”. We will ensure that you see the most important sites of historical and cultural interest, including the Majorelle Gardens, the Koutoubia Tower, the Saadian tombs, the Bahia Palace. After lunch at a restaurant near the square, you will walk through the souks and view hundreds of handicrafts. In the afternoon, you will have some free time to wander by yourself to the other parts of the city.

🏚️ Hotel Option: Riad Dar Nadwa or similar.

Day 9: Marrakech (Free day)

Free day to relax in Marrakech and explore extra sightseeing on your own. There are so many extra things and activities to enjoy in Marrakech like Hammam, Massage, and Spa, etc… You can also explore the suburbs of Marrakech. There are so many nearest amazing places to explore like Valles, waterfalls, and landscapes.

🏚️ Hotel Option: Riad Dar Nadwa or similar.

Day 10: Marrakech – Transfer to Airport of Marrakech or Casablanca

After Breakfast Transfer to the airport of Marrakech or Casablanca, The itinerary of the tour can modify as much as you like.