Essaouira Trip Overview
6-Days private tour that starts from Essaouira by picking you up from Essaouira airport or your accommodation. We explore the hidden gems of The Red city Marrakech and we travel south-east to the desert through many Berber town and villages. We visit Telouet & Ait Benhaddou kasbah, Atlas cinema studio, Tora gorge and much more. Enjoy a camel ride crossing the sand dunes, and spend an unforgettable night in a luxurious desert camp with local live music under the bright stars. The tour ends in Fes by drop off at your accommodation.
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* Duration: 6 days
* Starts: Essaouira, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Essaouira, Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
6-Days private tour that starts from Essaouira by picking you up from Essaouira airport or your accommodation. We explore the hidden gems of The Red city Marrakech and we travel south-east to the desert through many Berber town and villages. We visit Telouet & Ait Benhaddou kasbah, Atlas cinema studio, Tora gorge and much more. Enjoy a camel ride crossing the sand dunes, and spend an unforgettable night in a luxurious desert camp with local live music under the bright stars. The tour ends in Fes by drop off at your accommodation.
Itinerary
Day 1: Transfer from Essaouira to Marrakech
Pass By: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
Transfer from Essaouira airport or from your accommodation to Marrakech. free time and overnight stay in Marrakech.
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Riad Anya or similar
Day 2: Marrakech guided visit
Stop At: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
An official guide takes you on a journey of Marrakech. The tour allows you to visit many historically rich landmarks.
Free time and overnight stay in Marrakech.
Duration: 5 hours
Stop At: Palacio da Bahia, 5 Rue Riad Zitoun el Jdid, Marrakech 40000 Morocco
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).
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Saadian Tombs, Rue De La Kasbah, Marrakech 40000 Morocco
The historic royal necropolis Saadian Tombs that dated to the time of the Saadian dynasty.
Duration: 30 minutes
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: 2 hours
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: 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.
Duration: 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Riad Anya or similar
Day 3: Marrakech
Pass By: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
Free Day. Overnight stay in Marrakech.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Riad Anya or similar
Day 4: Marrakech – Ait Ben Haddou kasbah – Ouarzazat – Boumalne Dades
Pass By: Tizi n Tichka, Imlil Village, Ouarzazate 45000 Morocco
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. We cross the Tizi N Tishka pass that 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
We visit Telouet Kasbah along the former route of the caravans from the Sahara over the Atlas Mountains to Marrakech. The kasbah was the seat of the El Glaoui family’s power, thus sometimes also called the Palace of Glaoui. Its construction started in 1860 and it was further expanded in later years.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Ait Ben Haddou, Ait Ben Haddou, Souss-Massa
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.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Taourirt Kasbah, Avenue Mohammed V, Ouarzazate 45000 Morocco
Venture off into the edge of Ouarzazate and discover one of Morocco’s most spectacular historical legacies of wealth and power. Just on the edge of this quiet Moroccan city, you’ll find Taourirt Kasbah, a citadel set against the backdrop of the Atlas Mountains. As far as fortifications are concerned in Morocco, this is one of the most impressive of its kind. With almost 300 rooms and a true maze of passageways, steps, and keylock doors, it’s easy to feel lost within this immense structure that only connects to the outside world through a narrow entrance doorway.
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: Boumalne Dades, Boumalne Dades, Souss-Massa
We reach Boumalne Dades for an overnight stay.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Riad Dar Blues or similar
Day 5: Boumalne Dades – Todra Gorge – Merzouga Desert
Stop At: Todgha Gorge, R 703 near the town of Tinerhir, Tinerhir 45520 Morocco
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.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Merzouga, Merzouga, Draa-Tafilalet
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.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Tiziri camp or similar
Day 6: Merzouga Desert – Fes
Pass By: Fes, Fes, Fes-Meknes
After breakfast, 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.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
