Tour overview
On this 10 day trip from Casablanca, you’ll journey to Morocco’s classic destinations, visiting its four imperial cities, amazing days you’ll see the stunning Traditional architecture and palm-lined boulevards of Rabat, the impressive ramparts and monumental gates of Meknes, the craftsmen, markets, tanneries and mosques of Fes, the endless peaks of the high Atlas, the diverse landscapes of Morocco, Middle and High Atlas Mountains, and the storytellers, snake charmers and henna painters of Marrakech’s Djemaa el Fna. Along the way you’ll discover the Sahara desert sand dunes, play drumms with the friendly berbers, walk across the Todra valley gardens, meet and interact with the locals, go back in time to the Roman Empire at the archaeological site of Volubilis, and discover the charming Essaouira coastal town. With each destination having its own unique history, wonders and highlights, this journey through classic Morocco is one unforgettable cultural adventure!
The Atlantic coast is a great setting for a Moroccan beach holiday, but it also allows you to get off the beaten track for a while. At the gates of the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara Desert, the shore invites travellers to escape for a few days or longer! The whole region boasts heavenly natural spaces and an exceptionally mild climate all year long.
Morocco Arts, Culture, History, Old Medina cities trips & Sahara desert and the Atlantic Coast.
Visited Places
- Rabat & Casablanca
- Chefchaouen
- Fes Medina
- Meknes
- Volubilis
- Tizi n’Tichka Pass
- Ait Benhaddou Kasbah
- Ouarzazate
- Dades & Todra gorge & Valley
- Valley of roses & Ziz Valley
- Errissani Traditional Markets
- High Atlas Mountains
- Berber villages
- Sahara Desert
- Atlantic ocean
- Taroudant
- Essaouira
Highlights
- View the stunning contrast of Moroccan Culture
- Deep Introduction to Culture, History,Traditons & Life Philosophy
- Enjoy authentic Berber’s hospitality
- Taste delicious traditional Berber food
- Explore one of Morocco Beautiful Architecture
- Ride in Luxury AC van with AC
- Spend three full days seeing the best of what Sahara has to offer
Quick Facts
- Duration: One Week Morocco Tour
- Pick-up points: From Casablanca, Marrakech, Meknes, Fez Airport or Hotel
- Drop off Point: Your Marrakesh Hotel / Airport
Essential Information:
Why Us?:
– Your hotel Pick-up, so you spend the maximum time exploring real & Authentic, Culture of Morocco, Private tour at your own pace
– Top Rated tour, with 5 star customer feedback and a Excellence reviews from Trip Advisor
– One guide that is with you from the moment you arrive in Morocco until you leave, taking care of your entire trip.
The list below is a suggestion of what you might find useful to take on this trip. It is not an exhaustive packing list. If you need further advice, please contact us or consult your nearest outdoor store.
Travel Experience
- Moroccan Culture & People, Food & History
- Berber Culture
- Camel trekking
- Berber music and animation
- Sleeping in desert camp
Pick Up : Pick up at Casablanca airport /
Drop Off : Drop off Casablanca /
Clothing & Footwear and equipment
- Comfortable walking clothes that are suitable for layering
- Fleece jacket/warm jumper
- Lightweight raincoat/windbreaker
- Comfortable shoes for walking
- Sandals/flip-flops
- Synthetic/woollen socks
- Hat
- Swimsuit
- Sarong/scarf/loose cotton trousers that can easily be pulled on over shorts to cover shoulders/legs when walking through villages.
- 3 season sleeping bag
- Daypack
- Beach towel
- Water bottle/hydration bladder
- Water purification pen/tablets
- Sunglasses
- Head torch
- Camera, memory card and charger
- Spare batteries
- Personal items (including hand sanitiser, lip balm, microfibre towel, sunscreen, toilet paper, toiletries, wet wipes etc)
- Medicine and copy of doctor’s prescription which states medication and quantity carried
- Personal first aid kit (including blister tape, insect repellant, oral rehydration salts, plasters, tweezers, diarrhoea tablets etc)
- Rubbish bag
Included
- A very comfortable and air conditioned Late Model Vehicule
- Fuel for entire journey
- English speaking guides during the tour (you can specify other languages)
- Inside Visit to Hassan 2 Mosque
- All nights accommodations en suite room Hotel
- Camel trekking
- Berber music and animation
- Dinners and Breakfasts during the tour ( vegetarian welcome ) check itinerary for details
- Breakfats daily
- Marrakech, Fes, Rabat, Volubilis city sightseeing with local guides
- Pick up & Drop off at Hotels / Airport • Visi to Oasis Museum
- Visit to Essaouira
- Trekking Atlas Mountains
- Real life experiences
Not Included
- Flights & Travel insurnace
- All Lunches – ( See itinerary)
- Drinks
- Tips & gratuities for your guides and driver
- Extra, Monuments Entrances
Day 1: Casablanca – Rabat
Upon arrival, we’ll collect you and drive to Casablanca where you’ll visit the Hassan II Mosque, the largest outside Mecca and experience the coastal Cornish seaside. Afterwards, we’ll leave for Rabat, the capital of Morocco. Here, you’ll see the Hassan Tower, the Oudaya Kasbah before checking in to your Riad at the heart of the Medina. Overnight in our Hotel/Riad. BB.
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car:1,5 hours drive.
Day 2: Rabat – Meknes – Volubilis – Fes
After breakfast in your Riad, you’ll start travelling to Meknes, another significant imperial city in Morocco, known as the Ismaili capital of Morocco. In Meknes you’ll see the famous gate Bab Mansour, the Sahrij Souani Bassin and the Moulay Ismail Mausoleum. After lunch, your journey continues on to Volubilis, the well preserved site of Roman ruins, dating to 25BC. Afterwards you’ll continue on to Fes via the foothills of the Rif mountains arriving there in the late afternoon. Overnight in our Hotel/Riad. BB.
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car:6-7hours drive.
Day 3: Exploring Fes
After breakfast in your Riad, you’ll start exploring the oldest city in Morocco browsing its alleys and small streets. Our visit starts by visiting the Royal Palace gate, the Jewish headquarter and the first Mellah ever built in Morocco. We will ensure that you visit all the sites with cultural and historical interest including the famous Al Qaraouine University – the oldest in the region, the Tanneries and the Attarine museum. After lunch, you’ll see the ceramic factory and experience a wonderful panoramic view over the whole Medina of Fes. In the afternoon, we’ll visit the new city” La Ville nouvelle” for a drink. Overnight in our Hotel/Riad. BB.
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car:1 hours drive.
Day 4: Fes – Ifran – Azrou – Midelt: 265km
After breakfast we’ll leave Fes travelling towards Ifrane, a beautiful mountain village, referred to as “the Switzerland of Morocco”. During this journey you’ll experience glimpses of the Middle Atlas and Higher Atlas mountains. Stopping at Azrou – a Berber village in the middle of the famous cedar forest (the largest in Morocco, you may well have the chance to see some Barbary apes. Afterwards we’ll travel through the Tizi Ntalghamt Pass to Midelt and along the magnificent Ziz Gorges carved through volcanic rock. Overnight in our Hotel/Riad. (BB)
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car: 5-6hours drive.
Day 5: Midelt – Errachidia – Merzouga: 240km
After breakfast in your hotel you’ll travel to Merzouga via Errachidia and Erfoud. You’ll be travelling via the Ziz Gorge, taking in views of the High Atlas plateau, noting how the scenery changes to reveal hints of the desert as you approach the city of Errachidia. Here you’ll have lunch and enjoy Berber hospitality. Afterwards, you’ll travel along the luxuriant Ziz Valley, stopping for panoramic views along the way to Erfoud and Rissani. Arriving at Merzouga in the afternoon, you’ll be welcomed with a glass of mint tea before checking in to your hotel (BDB).
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car:5-6 hours drive.
Meals included : Breakfast-Dinner.
Day 6: Merzouga area and the Camel trek
After breakfast in the Hotel you can start exploring the area. You’ll visit the Gnawa people, originally slaves brought from Sudan, to experience their music and lifestyle, whilst not far away there’s the lake of Merzouga with its bird populations. You may also want to visit the nomad wire house where many Berber handicrafts are priced lower than in the big cities. In the afternoon it’s time for your camel trek, guided by an experienced camel man as you set off to explore within the sand sea of Merzouga. Dinner is in front of the tent where you will spend the night (the camp is equipped with flash-toilets and shower). (BDB).
Accommodation : Camp/ tent, Car:4 hours drive, Camel riding 1 hour.
Meals included : Breakfast-Lunch.Dinner.
Day 7: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Valley
Your camelman will wake you up early in the morning to watch what well may be the best sunrise of your life after which you’ll camel-trek back to the village of Merzouga admiring the unique beauty of the spectacular Erg Chebbi sand dunes – changing with the light as the day progresses. After breakfast in the Riad, you’ll leave for Rissani, Tinghir and Todra gorges – the highest, narrowest gorges in Morocco. Lunch in the heart of the gorge precedes a drive through the Dades Valley, where you’ll see the majestic sand castles and the amazing rock formations known as “monkey toes”. Overnight in our Hotel/Riad(BB)
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Camel riding 1 hour, Car:5 hours drive.
Meals included : Breakfast-Lunch.Dinner.
Day 8: Dades Gorge – Ouarzazate: 140km
After breakfast in the hotel we’ll drive through the Dades Valley towards Kalaa M’gouna and Ouarzazate. The route through Dades Valley is the way of the thousand Kasbahs – providing numerous opportunities to take some of your best photographic shots of the trip. We’ll stop at Kalaa Mgouna, “the rose city”, to purchase the rosewater, which will make your linen smell good a long time after your trip is over. Continuing on to Skoura and the dirds valley you’ll visit the Kasbah Ameridil, a well-preserved kasbah in this area. After some hiking in the valley lunch is in a restaurant overlooking the whole valley. The tour continues to Ouarzazate, “the Hollywood of Africa”, whose geography and beautiful landscapes has attracted many world class movie producers. Here you may choose to visit the studios, containing props used in movies, you may have already seen, such as The Mummy, Gladiator and the Last temptation of Christ. Overnight accommodation will be in a local Riad (BB)
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car:5-6 hours drive.
Meals included : Breakfast-Lunch.Dinner
Day 9: Ouarzazate – Taroudant
After breakfast, we’ll head to Taroudant via Taznakht, stopping at Taliouine to visit the Safran co-operative. If your visit coincides with the Safran harvest, you will have the opportunity to meet the Berber women with their families harvesting the safran in their fields. We should arrive at Taroudant in the afternoon, where you’ll see the ramparts and walk within the small alleys in the Medina. Taroudant is often referred to as “the little Marrakech” because most of its walls were built by the Saadian dynasty in the 16th century before they moved to the great “Red City, overnight (BB)
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car:6-7 hours drive.
Meals included : Breakfast-Lunch.Dinner.
Day 10: Taroudant – Essaouira
After breakfast we’ll head for Essaouira, travelling via Agadir, where we’ll stop for lunch. Agadir has a large beautiful beach and has been a big tourist destination for many years. There we’ll take a small walk on the Promenade before continuing to Essaouira, the coastal route offers beautiful scenery, an area famous for the Argan. Along the way you’ll see herds of goats climbing the Argan trees in the quest for riper food. Your overnight accommodation is at a Riad in the Medina(BB)
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car:5-6 hours drive.
Meals included : Breakfast.
Day 11: Exploring Essaouira
Breakfast is in your Riad, before a tour of the town. You’ll visit the Skala Fortress, the port, the souks and see Thuya wood carved by artisans, walking through the alleys of the medina and past the hundreds of handicrafts. Essaouira is known for its strong winds most of the year so it is known as the “City of the wind” thus it attracts surfers from all over the world. Essaouira knew many civilisations – including the Portuguese occupation, which affects much of its architecture – however, it remains a small village with much history. Because of its size and its characteristic blue doors and washed walls, it is also regarded as Morocco’s “Jewel of the Atlantics. Our visit includes the Mellah – the Jewish headquarter, and the beach. There is an annual festival of “Gnawa music”, where many musical groups come from different parts of Africa and the world. Usually it starts in the third week of June, so if your trip coincides with this, you have the option to extend your stay for an extra day. Today you will have lunch in a Moroccan way, bought fishes ‘cooked to order’. The afternoon’s free to walk and explore by yourself. Overnight accommodation is in Riad in the Medina(BB).
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel.
Meals included : Breakfast.
Day 12: Essaouira – Marrakech
After breakfast in your Riad, we’ll depart for Marrakech. On our way – since this is the land of Argan culture – there’s an opportunity to visit the women’s co-operative of Argan oil where they extract the oil that is famous for its culinary, cosmetic and medical properties. After several stops to take photographs, you will continue your travel to Marrakech before checking in to your Riad. After dinner you will enjoy walking in the famous square of Jemaa El fna, entertained with magicians, story tellers, musicians and snake charmers. Overnight be in a Medina based Riad(BB).
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car:3 hours drive.
Meals included : Breakfast.
Day 13: Exploring Marrakech
After breakfast, you can start exploring Marrakech ” the red city of Morocco”. Your guide will ensure that you see the most important places of historical and cultural interest, including the Saadian tombs; the Palace of El Bahia and the Ben Youssef Coranic School. Lunch is at a restaurant near the square, then in the afternoon you can visit the “Majorelle Gardens” and Koutoubia tower. Overnight in our Hotel/Riad. (BB).
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel.
Day 14: Marrakech Day trip to the Atlas Mountains at Imlil
After breakfast in your Riad, we’ll drive to the village of Asni and the village of Imlil at the heart of the high Atlas mountains. Here you’ll enjoy the scenic views through the gorges of Moulay Brahim and the village of Imlil, a small berber village with a strong culture. You’ll have the opportunity to hike in the villages and experience the real Berber culture. If you chose to have lunch at the Kasbah Toubkal, the view of the Toubkal mountains, the highest in north Africa is quite breathtaking. In the afternoon, you’ll travel back to Marrakech. Overnight in our Hotel/Riad. BB.
Accommodation : Riad/ Hotel, Car:3 hours drive, Walking : 2-3 hours( optional).
Day 15: Marrakech – Airport Transfer
Today, depending on your departure time, we will drive you to the airport for your departure flight.
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