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12 Day itinerary in Morocco, Africa

Magical Morocco Tour from Casablanca

Morocco's grand tour lasts 12 days grand tour of Morocco through imperial towns, seaside and desert from Casablanca is a must-see tourist trip designed for visitors seeking discovery and culture in Morocco, with balanced steps and a comfortable pace for a complete approach. The Atlas Mountains, popu... Read More

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Overview

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Recommended Age

Everyone

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English, Spanish, French, German, Italian

GUIDANCE

On Some Day Trips

starting point

Casablanca

trip type

Private

trip attributes

Indigenous culture

Meditation

Visit markets

Meet local people

Purposeful Travel

Water & Coastline

Nature & Wildlife

Start

Night

End

Highlights

1

Explore Morocco's capital (Rabat) and its cultural attractions , Explore Morocco's four royal cities

2

Visit Casablanca's largest Hassan II Mosque , Volubilis , Meknes , Essaouira , Chefchaouen , Tangier

3

Camel rides in the Sahara desert are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity .

4

During our trip, take in the breathtaking vistas of valleys and palm trees.

Itinerary

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Day 1

place Casabalanca – Rabat

You arrive at Casablanca International Airport, where we will greet you and bring you through Casablanca, and then to Rabat. The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca is the biggest mosque outside of Mecca. Continuing to Rabat, Morocco's capital, we will travel to Rabat, Morocco's capital, while When you arrive, you will be able to visit Rabat will contain the medina, which houses the Hassan Tower and Mohammed V's tomb. Along with the Chellah, you will also visit the town across the river, Sale, which is pretty attractive. The Chellah was a community that grew up around surrounding freshwater springs. As Rabat migrated north, they grew into the Phoenician, then Roman city of Sale, eventually crumbling into ruins. The Merenid dynasty's sultans decided to bury their dead here, and the Chellah is best known as a necropolis. The Roman Sala remains are uncovered, but it is the tomb complex's minarets, crowned with stork's nests, that give a magnificent backdrop to your stay here before checking into your overnight accommodation in a riad in the heart of the Medina.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Day 2

place Rabat – Asilah – Tanger

We will drive to Tanger through Asilah after breakfast in your riad. The majority of the journey will be along the shore. Our first stop will be at Asilah, where you will be able to explore the city on your own. Asilah is well-known for its yearly art festival, during which majority of the Medina's walls are painted by prominent painters from all over the world. Your tour includes the Skalla stronghold, from where you will get a spectacular view over the Medina and the sea. If time allows, you will take a drive through Tanger. You'll see Cap Spartel, the Sultan's Palace, the Hercules Caves, and tour the Kasbah, medina, and souk. In the souk , you’ll have free time to stroll down its colour and aroma-filled streets and pick up a souvenir Overnight in a traditonal moroccan riad. you’ll have free time to stroll down its colour and aroma-filled streets and pick up a souvenir Overnight in a traditonal moroccan riad.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Kenzi Solazur
  • Luxury: Mnar Castle
Day 3

place Tanger – Chefchaouen

After breakfast in your riad, we will drive to Chefchaouen, Morocco's "blue city." Chefchaouen, located at the foot of two higher mountains, is a stunning distinctive city with white washed buildings and blue doors and windows. Chefchaouen, unlike many other regions of Morocco, was conquered by Spain, hence there is a strong impact of Spanish civilization and Moorish architecture. You will have your own time in the afternoon. This gives you the option to stroll around unguided or simply enjoy some alone time. Spend the night at the riad.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Riad Asilah
  • Luxury: Lina Ryad & Spa
Day 4

place Chefchaouen – Volubilis – Meknes – Fes

Following breakfast in your riad, you will depart for Fes via Ouazzan and the Roman site of Volubilis. After a few hours of driving, you will arrive in Volubilis, a well-preserved Roman empire dating back to 225 BC, where you will view the most exquisite Mosaics in Morocco dating back to the 3rd century BC. You will be taken on a guided tour of the site and will learn a lot about the Roman Empire. Following that, we head to Meknes, Morocco's Ismaili capital. In Meknes, we can view the magnificent gate Bab Mansour, erected by Sultan My Ismail, as well as the granary and the Sahrij Souani, which are utilized for irrigation and planting. The Mulay Ismail Mausoleum is also included in your tour. We next proceed to Fes via the highway. Overnight accommodation at a fancy riad in the medina.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Riad Sara
  • Luxury: Riad Salam fes
Day 5

place Guided Tour of Fez

After breakfast in your riad, you will start exploring Fes the “the Sprititual City of Morocco”. You will spend the whole morning exploring the Medina and its alleys; visiting most of the sites with cultural and historical interest – including the famous Al Karaouine Mosque and University (the oldest in the world), the Medrasa Bouanania, the Tanneries and the Najjarine fountain. After lunch, we will drive you outside the Medina to see the Royal Palace gate, walk through the Jewish quarter “the Mellah”, and then visit the pottery cooperative. In the afternoon, we will drive you to one of the fortresses to experience an amazing panoramic view of the whole Medina of Fes. Overnight accommodation at the same riad.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Riad Sara
  • Luxury: Riad Salam fes
Day 6

place Fes – Azrou – Midelt – Ziz Valley – Merzouga

After breakfast in your riad, you’ll start travelling southeast to Merzouga via Midelt and Errachidia. Your first stop will be at Ifran, referred to as “the Switzerland of Morocco”, and then to Merzouga via Midlet and the Ziz Valley. During this journey you’ll experience glimpses of the Middle Atlas and Higher Atlas mountains. Stopping at the famous cedar forest – the largest in Morocco – where you may well sight Barbarian apes. You’ll notice how the scenery changes to reveal hints of the desert as you approach the city Er Rachidia. After lunch in Midelt, your journey continues along the luxuriant Ziz Valley, stopping for panoramic views along the way. We will drive through welcoming Berber villages to Erfoud, and then Rissani, the foundation of the Alaouite dynasty – the current ruling royal family in Morocco. Arriving in Merzouga at the end of the day, you’ll be welcomed with a glass of mint tea before you check in to your hotel.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Hotel Café du Sud
  • Luxury: Riad Azawad
Day 7

place Merzouga Area And The Camel Trek

After breakfast in the riad you will start an explorative journey of the area. You’ll visit the Gnawa people, originally slaves brought from Sudan, to experience their music and lifestyle. After that, we will drive in desert area where you will have the opportunity to meet the nomad families still living in berber tents and explore their way of life. Today our lunch will be local meal ( berber pezza ) with a local family. You may also visit the souk in Rissani, a traditional town which was the origin of the ruling family in Morocco and the meeting place of the Caravans trading as far as Timbuctou in Mali. Here you will see a lot of men hooded and women veiled. In the afternoon you will start your guided camel ride, led by an experienced camel man to explore within the sand sea of Merzouga. Overnight at our desert camp where you will have your dinner. For your convenience, the camp is equipped with flush toilets.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Nomad Palace Hotel
  • Luxury: Sahara Stars Camp
Day 8

place Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Gorges

Early in the morning your camel guide will wake you up to watch what well may be the best sunrise of your life. Afterwards you will trek back to the village of Merzouga, enroute you couldn’t fail to appreciate the unique beauty of the spectacular Erg Chebbi sand dunes – changing with the light as the day progresses. After breakfast in your riad, you’ll leave for the Dades Valley, visiting Todra Gorges – the highest, narrowest gorges in Morocco. After lunch within the valley, you will have an optional hour’s hike through the fields where you will enjoy visiting an old mud village, meet locals and learn about the culture. On through Dades Valley, where you will have the opportunity to see majestic sand castles and the amazing rock formations known as “monkey toes”. Overnight accommodation will be in your hotel overlooking the Dades valley.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Dar Ahlam Dades
  • Luxury: Auberge Chez Pierre
Day 9

place Dades Gorges – Rose Valley -Ouarzazate – Ait benhadou kasbah – Marrakech

After breakfast, we’ll continue tour from Fes and we drive through the Dades Valley towards Kalaat Mgouna and Ouarzazate. The route through Dades Valley is named the way of thousand Kasbahs – providing numerous opportunities to take some of your best photographic shots of the trip. We’ll stop at Kalaat Mgouna, “the rose city”, to purchase the rosewater, which will make your linen smell good a long time after your trip is over. Continue to Ouarzazate, “the Hollywood of Africa”. Lunch will be at the famous Ait Ben Haddou kasbah, the largest Kasbah in Morocco. It is recognized by UNESCO as a world patrimony. It is famous as a backdrop for many films, including ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, ‘Gladiator’. Our journey will continue through the majestic Tizi ‘n’ tichka pass (2260 m) over the High Atlas Mountains where you can stop also to explore the process of making the argan oil at the women s cooperatives before arriving to your accommodation in Marrakech.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Riad & Spa Bahia Salam
  • Luxury: Riad Palais des Princesses
Day 10

place Exploring Marrakech

After breakfast in the riad, you will start exploring Marrakech “the Red City of Morocco”. Your guide will ensure that you see most of the sites with historical and cultural interest – including the famous Jemaa El Fna square, the Koutoubia Mosque, the Saadian tombs; the Palace of Bahia and the Ben Youssef Coranic School. Lunch at a restaurant near the square, then in the afternoon visit the Majorelle Gardens, and have a short visit to the new city of Marrakech. Overnight accommodation will be at the same riad.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Riad & Spa Bahia Salam
  • Luxury: Riad Palais des Princesses
Day 11

place Excursion to Essaouira From Marrakech

The hustle and bustle of Marrakech quickly slips away as you travel to and enter into the peace and beauty that is Essaouira. This ancient city on the West Atlantic coast of Africa literally means “wall” in the Berber language, and you’ll soon discover why. Travelers from all over the world come here to experience the very special weather, and explore its diverse and unique history.As we leave Marrakech, we drive through lush valleys filled with orange groves, ancient olive trees and working farms on the drive to the coast. After a short while, we arrive in Chichaoua, where we can take a short break for a coffee or snack. Once you have had the chance to refuel a bit, we will continue on, soon coming upon our first signs of the Argan trees. These special trees are valued for their nutritive, cosmetic and numerous medicinal properties. The tree, a relic species from the Tertiary age, is extremely well adapted to drought and other environmentally difficult conditions of southwestern Morocco, and because they are now endangered, they are under the protection of UNESCO. After all of your morning travels, you arrive in Essouira,where you have the chance to wander the ancient streets and can imagine what life existed here in the past. The streets have a genuinely Portuguese feel, after they renamed the city in the 16th century and used it as a port city of their own afternoon we comback to Marrakech. Overnight in authentic riad.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Standard: Riad & Spa Bahia Salam
  • Luxury: Riad Palais des Princesses
Day 12

place Marrakech to Casablanca Airport

After breakfast in your riad, we will drive you to the airport for your departure flight. Your tour ends at the airport.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

What’s Included

Accommodation expand_less

  • Kenzi Solazur
  • Riad Asilah
  • Riad Sara
  • Hotel Café du Sud
  • Nomad Palace Hotel
  • Dar Ahlam Dades
  • Riad & Spa Bahia Salam
  • Mnar Castle
  • Lina Ryad & Spa
  • Riad Salam fes
  • Riad Azawad
  • Sahara Stars Camp
  • Auberge Chez Pierre
  • Riad Palais des Princesses

Meals expand_less

  • Breakfast (12)
  • Dinner (3)

Transport expand_less

  • Private Transport by an A/C vehicle

Activities expand_less

  • Explore the capital of Morocco (Rabat) and its cultural sights
  • Explore the 4 imperial cities of Morocco: Marrakech, Meknes, Rabat & Fes
  • Tour the ancient walled medina of Meknes and the beautiful gates
  • See the Roman ruins at Volubilis
  • Stroll the streets of Casablanca & explore its main attractions Hassan II Mosque
  • Explore the beautiful beaches of Atlantic Essaouira & Casablanca
  • Explore the old Portuguese city of Essaouira mogador & enjoy a Moroccan fish lunch at the old harbor
  • Ride camels in the Sahara desert in an unforgettable experience
  • Sleep and enjoy an exceptional overnight in desert camp
  • Visit and explore the world heritage unesco Kasbahs
  • Discover the berber culture and the lifestyle of the berbers of Morocco
  • Stroll the labyrinth souks of Marrakech & Fes with your guide

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  • Entrance fees
  • The flights tickets to and from your homeland
  • Personal expenses
  • Lunches and drinks
  • Anything not mentioned in the program

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