Casablanca Trip Overview
Start and end in Casablanca! With the In-depth Cultural tour Marrakech, Essaouira & Desert – 7 Days from Casablanca, you have a 7 days tour package taking you through Casablanca, Morocco and 9 other destinations in Morocco.
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* Duration: 7 days
* Starts: Casablanca, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
Start and end in Casablanca! With the In-depth Cultural tour Marrakech, Essaouira & Desert – 7 Days from Casablanca, you have a 7 days tour package taking you through Casablanca, Morocco and 9 other destinations in Morocco.
Itinerary
Day 1: Casablanca – Marrakech
Pass By: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
Pickup from Casablanca airport, and transfer to Marrakech via the highway. Overnight stay in Marrakech.
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight stay in Marrakech: Riad Anya or similar
Day 2: Marrakech sightseeing
Pass By: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
After breakfast, our licensed local guide takes you for a visit to Marrakech.
Stop At: Jemaa el-Fnaa, 38 Jemaa el-Fna, Rue El Ksour, Marrakech Morocco
Think of it as live -action channel-surfing. You will discover drama already in progress. The hoopla and halpa (street theatre). The daily performance is underway. Snake charmers blast oboes to calm cobras hissing at careening Vespas; henna tattoo artists, water sellers in fringed hats, and musicians tune up their instruments.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Koutoubia Mosque, Rue el Ksour, Derb Sabai, 13, Marrakech 40000 Morocco
The Koutoubia serves a spiritual purpose, but its minaret is also a point of reference for international architecture. The 12th-century 70m-high minaret is the prototype for Seville’s La Giralda and Rabat’s Le Tour Hassan, and it’s a monumental cheat sheet of Moorish ornament: scalloped keystone arches, jagged merlons (crenellations), and mathematically pleasing proportions. When the present mosque and its minaret were finished by Almohad Sultan Yacoub el-Mansour in the 12th century, 100 booksellers were clustered around its base – hence the name, from Kutubiyyin, or booksellers.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Medersa Ben Youssef, Ben Youssef Square, Marrakech 40000 Morocco
The Ben Youssef Madrasa is an Islamic madrasa functioning today as a historical site, the Ben Youssef Madrasa was the largest Islamic college in Morocco at its height. The madrasa is named after the adjacent Ben Youssef Mosque founded in the 14 th century by the Almoravid Sultan Ali ibn Yusuf. “You who may enter my door, may your highest hopes be exceeded” read the inscription over the entryway. This Quranic learning center was once the largest in North Africa, and remains among the most splendid
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Palacio da Bahia, 5 Rue Riad Zitoun el Jdid, Marrakech 40000 Morocco
What you could build with Morocco’s top artisans at your service for 14 years, and here you have it: The Bahia palace. The palace is a 19th century building, consisting of rooms decorated with stunning stuccos, paintings and mosaics palace and a set of gardens located in Marrakech, Morocco. intended to be the greatest palace of its time. The name of the Bahia Palace means in Arabic “brilliance”. As in other buildings of the period in other countries, it was intended to capture the essence of the Islamic and Moroccan styles. There is a 2-acre (8,000 m²) garden with rooms opening onto courtyards.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Saadian Tombs, Rue De La Kasbah, Marrakech 40000 Morocco
Anyone who says you can’t take it with you hasn’t seen the Saadian tombs, near the Kasbah mosque. Saadian Sultan Ahmed Al Mansour Ed Dahbi spared no expense on his tomb, importing Italian Carrara marble and gilding honeycomb muqarnas (decorative plasterwork) with pure gold to make the Chamber of 12 Pillars a suitably glorious mausoleum. Al Mansour died in splendor in 1603, but a few decades later, Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail walled up the Saadian Tombs to keep his predecessors out of sight and mind. It was the French who opened them up again in 1917.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Dar Si Said Museum, 8 Rue de la Bahia, Marrakech 40000 Morocco
A monument to Moroccan maalems (master artisans), Dar Si Said showcases Marrakech’s graceful riad architecture and regional craftsmanship. Grand Vizier Bou Ahmed had the power, but his brother Si Said apparently had the master artisans to make his home a model of quiet elegance.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Jardin Majorelle, Rue Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech 40090 Morocco
Other guests bring flowers, but Yves Saint Laurent gifted the entire Jardin Majorelle to Marrakech, the city that adopted him in 1964 After a sequence of events that included, in rather unfortunate order: launching hippie fashion, and an obligatory stint in the French Military. Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé bought the electric-blue villa and its garden to preserve the vision of its original owner, landscape painter Jacques Majorelle, and keep it open to the public. Per his instructions, Yves Saint Laurent’s ashes were scattered over Jardin Majorelle upon his June 2008 passing.
After the guided visit, free time & overnight stay in Marrakech
Duration: 20 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight stay in Marrakech: Riad Anya or similar
Day 3: Excursion to Essaouira
Stop At: Essaouira, Essaouira, Marrakech-Safi
Free day to explore the costal wind Essaouira or Taros in Berber. The city attracts plenty of windsurfers between April and November. The city is well known also with its fortified medina and its art galleries and boutique, or watch the fishing nets and traditional boats constructed in the hugely atmospheric port. The city also has a vibrant cultural mix. Overnight stay in Marrakech.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight stay in Marrakech: Riad Anya or similar
Day 4: Marrakech – Zagora
Pass By: Tizi n Tichka, Imlil Village, Ouarzazate 45000 Morocco
Early morning departure from our riad in Marrakech, we cross the High Atlas passing through the Tizin’Tichka pass (2260 m), the highest pass of Morocco, offering a spectacular panoramic view of The mountains, valleys, and colorful Berber villages.
Tizi n Tishka connects Marrakech with pre Saharan oases. the road ascends and takes a turn for the scenic amid oak trees, walnut groves, and oleander bushes. Past the village, if Taddert, the landscape is stripped of color. Atop the Tizi n’Tichka that is 2962m altitude, we gradually descend into the lunar landscape of the Anti Atlas and the desert beyond.
Stop At: Telouet Kasbah, Telouet Morocco
The once-glorious stronghold has been left to crumble, but the best indication of Telouet’s former position as the centre of a trans-Saharan trading empire is the ornate 2nd-floor reception rooms. No less than 300 artisans worked on salons faceted with stucco, zellige (colourful geometric mosaic tiles), and painted cedar ceilings that make Marrakesh’s royal Bahia Palace seem like an amateur artisanal effort. After independence, Pasha Glaoui was ousted from the Bahia Palace and died shortly thereafter of cancer in exile in Telouet.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Ait Ben Haddou, Ait Ben Haddou, Souss-Massa
The Unesco protected kasbah seems suspiciously frozen in time: with Hollywood touch-ups, it still resembles its days in the 11th century as an Almoravid caravanserai. Movie buffs recognize this red mudbrick kasbah 32km from Ouarzazate from Lawrence of Arabia, Jesus of Nazareth (for which much of Ait Benhaddou was rebuilt), Jewel of the Nile and Gladiator.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Tamnougalt, Tamnougalt, Souss-Massa
Tour the Kasbah’s maze of rooms with one of the descendants of the original qaid (chief), including his office and hammam, light-filled courtyards and dark secret passageways. It’s attached to the ksar (fortified village) where 300 families once lived, including 35 Jewish families – just 20 remain – along a warren of alleyways lit by skylights. See if you can distinguish between the Moorish, Amazigh (Berber) and Jewish motifs that blend so seamlessly here, or recognise a backdrop from award-winning films like Babel.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: M’Hamid, M’Hamid, Souss-Massa
The drive from Agdz to Zagora takes three to four hours, though the more scenic Circuits Touristiques route follows the piste through the oasis. Beyond that, a road takes you 96km further south to M’Hamid, a town 40km short of the Algerian border that marks the end of the road and the start of the desert proper.
Duration: 10 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Dar Paru or similar
Day 5: Erg Chebbi Dunes
Stop At: Erg Chebbi, Erg Chebbi, Meknes-Tafilalet Region
After breakfast, we begin our exploration of the old village of M’hamid el Ghizlane, the village called at the end of civilization with its 7 kasbahs and between small surviving palm farms. We return to the hotel to enjoy our lunch in the restaurant or by the refreshing pool. At 4 pm, We are transported to the camp with 2 hours 4 × 4 driving along a deserted track. After getting our tent we go to see the sunset experience on the camel. Finally, dinner with entertainment will be served under the sky full of stars. Night in the tent or outside under the sky.
Duration: 4 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Luxurious camp Le Caravan Du Sud
Day 6: Mhamid Desert – Marrakech
Pass By: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
We admire the sunrise on the dunes and enjoy breakfast before leaving with 4 × 4 vehicles in Foum Zguid via the old Paris-Dakar road that crosses Lake Iriqui. We then stop in the Berber village of Taznakht for lunch before taking the itinerary back to Marrakech. Overnight stay in Marrakech.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight stay in Marrakech: Riad Anya or similar
Day 7: Marrakech – Casablanca
Pass By: Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat
Transfer to Casablanca airport
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
