Marrakech Trip Overview
This tour gives you a real feel for the history and culture of one of world’s largest walled cities in the world. Step back in time in those ancient cities and medina. Sample the luxury of their hidden superb riads and explore the fascinating markets or souks.
This trip simply opens doors into the country and its culture, allowing you to reach the heart of Morocco.
Additional Info
* Duration: 3 days 10 hours
* Starts: Marrakech, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
This tour gives you a real feel for the history and culture of one of world’s largest walled cities in the world. Step back in time in those ancient cities and medina. Sample the luxury of their hidden superb riads and explore the fascinating markets or souks.
This trip simply opens doors into the country and its culture, allowing you to reach the heart of Morocco.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Jardin Majorelle, Rue Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech 40090 Morocco
Day 1: Marrakech Guided Tour and Transfer to Casablanca
Please be in the lobby at 9:30am. Along with your driver, your tour guide should be there ready for you. You are to be provided with a half day’s walking and driving tour of Marrakesh. We recommend you have lunch around 1:00pm. Once Your sightseeing tour is over, you are to be taken via 3- hour drive to Casablanca. You should at your hotel around 8:00pm. For your information, below are the names of the attractions we will try to show you today:
Duration: 9 hours
Stop At: Jemaa el-Fnaa, 38 Jemaa el-Fna, Rue El Ksour, Marrakech Morocco
1. Kutubiyya Mosque: One of the doors on the east wall is often open, thus allowing tourists to peek into the prayer hall. The rest of the inside is inaccessible to non-Muslims.
2. Dar el-Makhzen Palace: outside only, as the inside is closed to the general public
3. The Kasbah Citadel: It contains the Kasbah Mosque (a.k.a. Mansouria Mosque or Mosque of Moulay al-Yazid). The mosque is not open to non-Muslims.
4. Saadian Tombs: a necropolis dating to the twelfth century
5. Bab Mellah Spice Souk Market & the Mellah Market
6. El Badi Palace: great views from the rampart
7. Palais Bahia (a.k.a. Bahia Palace)
8. Majorelle Garden & the Yves Saint Laurent Museum
9. Souk Semarine Market: features lots of clothing, merchants and trinkets
10. Jemma El-Fnaa Square: Marrakesh’s main square, filled with street vendors and food stalls
11. Souk des Teinturiers Market: featuring dyers’ workshops
12. Souk el-Attarine Market: home to lamp, teapot and mirror shops
Duration: 5 hours
Stop At: Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat
Once your Marrakech guided tour is over, you are to be taken via 3-hour drive to your hotel in Casablanca around 8pm. Dinner is to be served at your hotel around 9pm and it’s included on today’s tour. You have the rest of the evening to yourelf.
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Hassan II Mosque, Blvd Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah, Casablanca 20450 Morocco
Day 2: Visit of Casablanca and Rabat Guided Tour and Transfer to Fes:
Please have your luggage packed and ready, then have your breakfast, which is included on today’s tour. Be packed and ready at 9am. The driver should be there for you. Then you are to be provided with a walking and driving tour of Casablanca. Beginning by the Royal Palace, the Mohamed V square, the residential area of Anfa and the outside of the mosque Hassan II. We recommend you have lunch at 12pm, (not included on today’s tour, then Complete this visit with the old city Medina. Once this tour is over, you are to be taken via 1-hour drive to Rabat city. Upon arrival. You are to be provided with a Guided Tour.
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Rabat, Rabat, Rabat-Sale-Kenitra
In Rabat. Yo u are to visit Royal Palace. “Dar el Makhzen” with its great mosque built by the “men in Fez”. Laterwill visit, the Kasbah of Oudayas, you will enjoy a beautiful panoramic view on the estuary of the Bouregreg river. Then we will stop at the Mausoleum Mohamed V. Next door to it, the Unfinished Mosque Hassan Tower. We will cross the fertile valleys to Meknes. Visit the Meknes Imperial starting with its walls, its magnificent doors such as Bab el Mansur. Then, the Agdal pond. The tour ends at the mausoleum of Moulay- Ismail mosque beautifully ornamented with, stucco, stone and fine porcelain. Once yoir guided tour is over. We will go to Fes. You should be at your hotel around 8am. Have the rest of the evening to yourself.
Duration: 6 minutes
Stop At: Mosque and University Karaouiyn, Fes, Morocco
Day 3: Fes Guided Sightseeing
Enjoy your breakfast and then be in the lobby at 9:00am. Along with your driver, your tour guide should be there ready for you. You are to be provided with a guided walking and driving tour of Fez. We recommend you purchase lunch around 1:00pm. You should be back at your hotel around 3:30pm. You have the rest of the evening to yourself.
For your information, below are the names of the attractions we will try to show you today:
Duration: 7 hours
Stop At: Bou Inania Medersa, Rue Talaa Sghira, Fes 30110 Morocco
1. Rue Bou Ksissat: Home to several jewelry shops, this street used to be the economic and spiritual heart of Fez’ Jewish Quarter (a.k.a. Mellah).
2. Palais Royal Dar El Makhzen (a.k.a. Royal Palace of Dar El Makhzen): outside only, as the inside is closed to the general public
3. Kasbah Cherarda Fortress & its Bab Mahrouk Cemetery & Mausoleum of Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
4. Bab Ftouh Gate (a.k.a. Gate of Victory) & Cemetery
5. Grand Mechouar Gate (a.k.a. Bab Bou Jat Mechouar)
6. Mechouar de Bab Dekaken Gate (a.k.a. Gate of the Benches or Nouveau Mechouar Gate)
8. Al-Attarine Madrasa: From its terrace, it offers a nice view of the Qarawiyyin Mosque courtyard.
9. Musee des Armes (a.k.a. Armory Museum): housed inside a 16th century fortress
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Zaouia of Moulay Idriss II, Fes 30030 Morocco
10. Zaouia Moulay Idriss II: Built in the 18th century, this shrine contains the tomb of the founder of Fez. At least one of the doors is often open, thus allowing tourists to peek into the prayer hall. The rest of the inside is inaccessible to non-Muslims.
11. Funduq al-Najjariyyin (a.k.a. Museo Nejjarine): houses a wooden arts museum and features a nice entrance and courtyard
12. Bou Inania Madrasa
13. Bab Bou Jeloud Gate (a.k.a. Bab Abi al-Jounoud or Blue Gate)
14. Grand Mosque of Fez el-Jdid: It contains the necropolis of Abu Inan. You are to visit the outside only, that is, unless you are Muslim.
15. Marinid Tombs: featuring ruins and offering city views
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
Day 4: Fes Departure and Transfer to Fes
Have breakfast at the riad, and check out, and please be in the lobby at 10:00am. The driver should be there for for you. You are to be taken via 6-hour drive to Marrakech. We recoomend you have lunch at 1pm in a restaurant of your choice, After lunch. Enjoy the beautiful scenic drive and landscape all the the way down to Marrakech. You should be in Marrakech at 5pm.
Duration: 6 hours
