Marrakech Trip Overview
Start and end in Marrakesh! With the In-depth Cultural tour Morocco Grand Tour – 12 Days, you have a 12 days tour package taking you through Marrakesh, Morocco and 9 other destinations in Morocco. Morocco Grand Tour – 12 Days includes accommodation in a hotel as well as an expert guide, meals, transport.
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* Duration: 12 days
* Starts: Marrakech, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
Start and end in Marrakesh! With the In-depth Cultural tour Morocco Grand Tour – 12 Days, you have a 12 days tour package taking you through Marrakesh, Morocco and 9 other destinations in Morocco. Morocco Grand Tour – 12 Days includes accommodation in a hotel as well as an expert guide, meals, transport.
Itinerary
Day 1: Pickup from Marrakech airport
Pass By: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
Meeting at the airport for the pick up to your accommodation in Marrakech. Overnight stay in Marrakech.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
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 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.
Duration: 5 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Riad Anya or similar
Day 3: Marrakesh – Boumalne Dades
Stop At: Imlil, Imlil, Marrakech-Safi
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
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Dar Blues or similar
Day 4: Boumalne Dades – Merzouga Desert
Stop At: Merzouga, Merzouga, Draa-Tafilalet
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.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Tiziri camp or similar
Day 5: Merzouga – Fes
Pass By: Fes, Fes, Fes-Meknes
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.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Riad Ahlam or similar
Day 6: Guided visit of Fes
Stop At: Fes, Fes, Fes-Meknes
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.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Riad Ahlam or similar
Day 7: Fes – Meknes – Volubilis – Chefchaoun
Pass By: Chefchaouen, Chefchaouen, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
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.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Dar Echchaouen or similar
Day 8: Excursion to Akchour waterfalls
Stop At: Chefchaouen, Chefchaouen, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
After breakfast, an official guide will escort you to visit Morocco’s lost paradise Akshour waterfalls, a stunning turquoise waterfall oasis at the end of an easy 5.5km drive in the Rif Mountains, near Chefchoauen. After an enjoyable day, free time, an overnight stay in Chefchaouen.
Duration: 5 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Dar Echchaouen or similar
Day 9: Chefchaouen – Tangier – Asilah
Stop At: Tangier, Tangier, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
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.
Duration: 4 hours
Pass By: Asilah, Asilah, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
The journey ends in the well-preserved 15th century Asilah. An art hub, ramparts, and gates built by colonial Portuguese. The town has much to see like the paintings that fill the whitewashed walls of the medina, the 15th-century ramparts, the Church of San Bartolome, El Hamra tower. Etc. Fee time and overnight stay in Asilah.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Riad Oasis D’Asilah or similar
Day 10: Assilah – Rabat – Casablanca
Pass By: Casablanca, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat
The visit includes Rabat 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.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Hotel Val D’anfa or similar
Day 11: Casablanca – Essaouira
Pass By: Essaouira, Essaouira, Marrakech-Safi
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.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Riad Mimouna or similar
Day 12: Essaouira – Marrakech
Pass By: Marrakech, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi
Transfer from Essaouira to Marrakech. Overnight stay in Marrakech.
Transfer to the airport is provided according to your departing flight.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
