Guide

English-speaking tour driver Local guides in Marrakech, Fes, and Volubilis

Accommodation

Marrakech: Art Place Hotel & Ryad Marrakech or similar Boumalne Dades: Riad Dar Blues or similar Desert camp of Merzouga: Tiziri camp or similar Hotel in Merzouga: Dar Hassan or similar Fes: Riad Fez Mahal or similar Chefchaoun: Dar Echchaouen Maison d’hôtes & Riad or similar Tangier: Palais Zahia or similar Casablanca: Hotel Val D’Anfa or similar Essaouira: Hotel Riad Mimouna or similar

Meals

Breakfast Dinner and breakfast in Boumalne Dades and Merzouga Desert.

Transport

Private Vehicle

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Day 1 Pickup From Marrakech Airport
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Pickup From Marrakech Airport

Meeting at the airport for the pick up to your accommodation in Marrakech. Overnight stay in Marrakech.
Day 2 Marrakech Guided Visit
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Marrakech Guided Visit

An official guide takes you on a journey of Marrakech. The tour allows you to visit many landmarks such as Bahia Palace (The name means "brilliance," a set of beautiful gardens that was built in the late 19th century and intended to be palace at its time). The historic royal necropolis Saadian Tombs that dated to the time of the Saadian dynasty. Koutoubia the largest mosque. Jamaa El Fna, the main square and marketplace square. Etc. Free time and overnight stay in Marrakech.
Day 3 Marrakesh - Boumalne Dades
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Marrakesh - Boumalne Dades

Our tour driver picks you up from your accommodation in Marrakech. The journey takes via the High Atlas Mountains, through many authentic towns and Berber villages.

The journey crosses the village of Telouet visiting Ait Ben Haddou kasbah. A famous 17th Century fortress is classified to date by UNESCO to preserve and protect this renowned site. In past years, its fame built on a film making of Lawrence of Arabia and Jesus of Nazareth and, more recently, the sought out location for Gladiator, Kingdom of heaven, and Prince of Persia. Lunch will be served in a restaurant near the kasbah, followed by a sightseeing tour of Kasbah Taourirt. After this, the drive takes you past Skoura city, through the valley of Roses towards Kalaat Megouna, entering Boumalne Dades. Dinner & overnight stay in Boumalne Dades
Day 4 Boumalne Dades - Merzouga Desert
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Boumalne Dades - Merzouga Desert

After breakfast, the drive takes you to Todra gorge in Tinghir. The breath-taking views of the Gorge views and river attract hikers to the area. The trip crosses the desert towns of Erfoud and Rissani. As the journey ends on the edge of the Merzouga desert, there is an opportunity to enjoy traditional mint tea as prepare for your two-hour camel trek. The trek will take you to your desert camp where you will stay overnight, enjoying dinner, campfires, local desert’s music under the bright stars of the desert night.
Day 5 Desert Culture + Tea With Nomads + Camel Trek
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Desert Culture + Tea With Nomads + Camel Trek

Watching the sunrise amongst the dunes is a magical experience and not to be missed. Your breakfast will be waiting for you upon your return, after which you will have the opportunity to visit the nomadic communities around Merzouga, stopping for tea in the souks and enjoying the traditional Gnawa music. As the mid-day sun wanes, we will mount our camels and trek into the pink sands of the Moroccan Sahara; here, we will have ample free time for you to explore and take in the beauty and vastness of the desert dunes. Once the sun sets, a Moroccan dinner will be served alongside live music around the campfire, after which you are free to explore again - this time in the company of a million stars exploding against the pitch-black sky and the all-encompassing silence of the Sahara at night.
Day 6 Merzouga - Fes
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Merzouga - Fes

After breakfast, we travel to Fes via Errachidia, the tremendous Ziz Valley via its rocky passage, the commercial center of a vast agricultural hinterland Midelt, the Cedar forests that are notable as a habitat for a sub-population of Barbary macaques, Macaca Sylvanus.

Ifran, which is known for its alpine-style architecture and nearby ski slopes and forests and the lion status, you reach your accommodation in Fez by early evening. Overnight stay in Fes.
Day 7 Guided Visit Of Fes
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Guided Visit Of Fes

After breakfast, a full-day guided tour to discover the historical heritage of Fes city. The tour allows you to explore historical sites such as Madrasa El Bouinania (founded in AD 1351–56 by Abu Inan Faris. It is widely acknowledged as a high point of Marinid architecture and historic Moroccan architecture generally.). El Quaraoiyin mosque and university ( the oldest existing, continually operating higher educational institution in the world according to UNESCO and Guinness World Records and is occasionally referred to as the oldest university by scholars.). South tower, pottery village, Nejjarine square, and the residence of the king. Free time and overnight stay in Fes.
Day 8 Fes – Meknes – Volubilis – Chefchaoun
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Fes – Meknes – Volubilis – Chefchaoun

After breakfast,we travel to Chefchaoun, visiting Meknes that is known for its imperial past, with remnants and its beautiful gate Bab Mansour that is famous with arches and mosaic tiling. The excavated ancient city Volubilis was also the ancient capital of the Mauretania kingdom. Arriving in Chefchaouen, blue-washed buildings of its old city. It is known with its shady main square of Place Outa el Hammam that is the red-walled Kasbah, a 15th-century fortress and dungeon, Ethnographic Museum, the octagonal minaret nearby. Free time and overnight stay in Chefchaouen.
Day 9 Chefchaouen - Tangier
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Chefchaouen - Tangier

After breakfast, We continue the tour to Tangier. Its whitewashed hillside medina is home to the Dar el Makhzen, a palace of the sultans that’s now a museum of Moroccan artifacts. The American Legation Museum, also in the medina, documents early diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Morocco in an 1821 Moorish-style former consulate. We also visit Hercules caves shaped in the African continent, a cavern where Hercules allegedly rested during his labor with an opening in the shape of the African continent, as well as the 1000ft site above sea level at the entrance of the strait of Gibraltar. The visit also includes the kasbah museum that used to be the house of the former sultan’s palace of Dar El Makhzen from prehistoric times to the 19th century enjoying the charming Andalusian garden. Overnight stay in Tangier
Day 10 Tangier - Asilah - Rabat - Casablanca
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Tangier - Asilah - Rabat - Casablanca

After breakfast, we drive to visit Asilah, then we continue to Rabat to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site Oudaya, and Hassan tower, a minaret of an incomplete mosque that built by the third Caliph of the Almohad Caliphate in 1195, along with Mohammed V mausoleum that has the tombs of three kings (Mohammad V, Hassan II, and Prince Abdallah). Our tour driver takes you to Casablanca. The journey includes the visit of Mohammad V square, an Airy square built-in 1916 amid French Colonial buildings, with a statue & pigeon-covered fountain. And Hassan II mosque was completed in 1993, designed by Michel Pinseau and built by Bouygues. The mosque is considered the second-largest in Africa after the Algiers grand mosque, and 7th in the world. The mosque also has the world’s second tallest minaret at 210 meters. Overnight stay in Casablanca.
Day 11 Casablanca – Essaouira
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Casablanca – Essaouira

Drive from Casablanca to Essaouira to discover many interestinging places such the fishing port of Essaouira, Skala Kasbah, which was a citadel in the times of war, the Medina of Essaouira which can be explored easily as the streets are aligned opposite to every other Medina streets in Morocco, which look like a maze, and Walk down the beach etc.. Overnight stay in Essaouira.
Day 12 Essaouira – Marrakech
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Essaouira – Marrakech

Transfer from Essaouira to Marrakech. Overnight stay in Marrakech.

Transfer to the airport is provided according to your departing flight.

12 days tour

Morocco Grand Tour - 12 Days From Marrakech

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Itinerary of your trip Morocco Grand Tour - 12 Days From Marrakech

Pickup From Marrakech Airport

Marrakech Guided Visit

Marrakesh - Boumalne Dades

Boumalne Dades - Merzouga Desert

Desert Culture + Tea With Nomads + Camel Trek

Merzouga - Fes

Guided Visit Of Fes

Fes – Meknes – Volubilis – Chefchaoun

Chefchaouen - Tangier

Tangier - Asilah - Rabat - Casablanca

Casablanca – Essaouira

Essaouira – Marrakech

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