9 Days Tour in Morocco from Casablanca or Marrakech

Overview

Day by day itinerary

1. 1Casablanca 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. Our driver will wait for you in the door outside of the airport of Casablanca following your flight arrival time.

   Overnight: Overnight at the Hotel in Casablanca.

2. 2Casablanca - Rabat - Chefchaouen⌄

   We will meet in your hotel, and start our journey to Rabat, we will visit the unfinished Mosque Hassan, the Oudayas Kasbahs, and then have lunch in the old city of rabat. After lunch, we will drive through the Rif Mountains to reach the blue city Chefchaouen. Evening at leisure and overnight in Chefchaouen.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at the Hotel in Chefchaouen.

3. 3Chefchaouen – Rif Mountains – Volubilis – Meknes – Fes:⌄

   Morning at leisure in Chefchaouen and after we drive toward the Roman Ruins (Volubilis), we will visit the Ruins and then move drive through Meknes to Fes where we will spend the night. Overnight in Fes.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at a Riad in Fes

4. 4Guided city tour of Fes⌄

   Today, you will have a full day guided visit of the old city of Fes with our official local guide (10am to 4 pm). You will visit the all the historical monuments of Fes, the local markets, the tanneries, and discover Fes’s handcrafts. Overnight in Fes . Fes is the best place to buy Leather and souvenirs except Rugs and Argan oil ( the Atlas Mountains).

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at a Riad in Fes

5. 5DAY 5: Fes – Ifrane – Azrou forest – Midelt – Arfoud – Merzouga Sahara Desert⌄

   After breakfast, you will leave Fes travelling towards Merzouga via Ifran, Midelt and the Ziz valley. Today you will travel via the Ifrane city, a beautiful mountain village, named the Switzerland of Morocco.

   Time for lunch in Midelt. Lunch is not included.

   Departure early morning from your hotel in Fes and drive all the way to the Sahara Desert through the following: Ifrane city, Midelt city or the city of apples, and the gate to the desert Arfoud city. We will arrive a hotel in the dunes lines where you will ride your camels inside the desert to get to your luxury desert camp. Overnight in a desert camp (Berber music live show around the fire included)

   Meals: Breakfast · Dinner

   Overnight: Overnight at the Berber Camp in Sahara Desert of Merzouga Erg Chebbi Dunes.

6. 6Sahara Desert of Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Valley⌄

   Your camel guide will wake you up early in the morning to watch what will may be the best sunrise of your life. You’ll drive back to the village of Merzouga with your 4*4 . 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.

   Todgha gorges – are the highest, narrowest gorges in Morocco. After lunch in the heart of the gorge we’ll drive through the Dades Valley

   Dades Valley, is the place where you’ll see the majestic sand castles and the amazing rock formations known as “monkey toes”. Overnight accommodation will be in a fancy Hotel / Riad overlooking the Dades Valley with diner and breakfast.

   Meals: Dinner · Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at the Hotel / Riad in Dades.

7. 7Dades Valley- Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Hadou – Marrakech⌄

   After breakfast in your accommodation, you will 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. You will stop at Kalaat M’Gouna -the centre 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

   Ouarzazate is a city south of the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains, known as the gateway to the Sahara Desert. Its huge Kasbah of Taourirt, home to a 19th century palace, offers a view of the surrounding rocky landscape, which appears in several films. As well as you can visit Cenima Musem. To the northwest is the fortified city in the red earth of Ait-Ben-Haddou

   This is a striking example of traditional southern Moroccan architecture, on the side of a hill at the top of which was a collective attic. The village is a group of earthen buildings surrounded by walls, the ksar, which is a type of traditional pre-Saharan habitat. The houses are grouped within its defensive walls reinforced by corner towers. Some of its dwellings seem to be small castles with their high towers decorated with raw brick designs. The oldest constructions date from the seventeenth century.

   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.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at the Hotel / Riad in Marrakech.

8. 8Marrakech - Marrakech Sightseeing.⌄

   After breakfast in the Riad / Hotel, you will 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. On the afternoon, you will have some free time to wonder by yourself the other parts of the city.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at the Hotel / Riad in Marrakech.

9. 9Airport transfer⌄

   Transfer to Casablanca Airport Or Marrakech Airport depends on your flight back location and time.

   Meals: Breakfast