Grand Morocco Tour

Meet your tour guide at Casablanca Airport and transfer to your hotel.  After a short break at your hotel start a short city tour including the visit of Hassan II Mosque and Mohammed V Square. 

Accommodation

Casablanca - Hotel (01 night)

Included Activities

Casablanca -Visit Hassan II mosque (from the outside).
Casablanca - Mohammed V Square

Optional Activities

Casablanca – Dinner  at a local restaurant 

Meals Included

Breakfast
Dinner(optinal)

After breakfast, drive to Rabat, the capital of Morocco, upon arrival visit the Royal Palace (from the outside) the residence of the King Mohammed VI, Mohammed V Mausoleum, Hassan Tower and Chellah Necropolis. After lunch drive to Volubilis, another World Heritage Site declared By U.N.E.S.C.O since 1994 with the most impressive Roman mosaics and ruins in Morocco.  Afterwards, drive to Fes through Sais Plateau.

Accommodation

Riad or Hotel at Fez (01 night)

Included Activities

Rabat - Royal Palace (from the outside), 
Rabat - Mohammed V Mausoleum, 
Rabat - Hassan Tower,
Rabat -  Chellah Necropolis 
Volubilis  

Optional Activities

Rabat – Lunch  at a restaurant 
Fes - Dinner  at a restaurant 

Meals Included

Breakfast
Dinner(optinal)

After breakfast start the city tour of Fez, the spiritual and intellectual capital of ancient Morocco and the first Imperial City founded in the IX century. Among the sites you will discover the impressive medina with its different gates, Tanners quarter, Karaoiuyine Mosque, El-Attarine Medersa and the impressive Fondouk el-Nejjarine with its elegant fountain, the foundouq actually is housing a museum devoted to wood crafts in a beautifully restored 18th century building.

   After lunch in a typical Moroccan Restaurant in the medina finish your city tour by  visiting  the Dar Batha Museum, the Mellah (Jewish Quarter), the King's Palace from the outside and Bab Boujloud. 

Accommodation

Hotel or Riad at Fez 

Included Activities

Fez – Dar Batha Musuem.
Fez - El-Attarine Medersa
Fez – visit of the Jewish quarter.
Fez - Visit tFondouk el-Nejjarine
Fez – The King palace from outside
Fez – Bab Boujloud
Fez – visit of the Medina with a walking tour

Optional Activities

Fes – Lunch  at a Local restaurant 
Fes - Dinner  at a Local restaurant 

Meals Included

Breakfast
Dinner(optinal)

After breakfast depart to Erfoud. Drive through the middle Atlas Mountains with its rich and largest cedar forest in our country. Along the way, stop in the most beautiful city: Ifrane, an alpine town and ski resort, for refreshments. 

Have lunch in Midelt, a town that lies on the border between the High and Middle Atlas Mountains and is the starting point for southern Morocco. After lunch, drive to Er-Rachidia, where the palm groves of the Ziz and Tafilalt begin. Keep driving through the Tafilalet valley known about the production of the best date in Morocco called the royal date or Majhoul in the language of the local.

Accommodation

Hotel at Erfoud (01 night)
Included Activities
Ifrane- Short stop
Midelt  – Short stop 
Tafilalet valley – Enjoy palm groves

Optional Activities

Lunch at a Local Restaurant at Midelt

Meals Included

Breakfast
Dinner

After Breakfast visit a fossil factory center where 500 million year old fossils are extracted, polished and exported around the globe. From Erfoud, drive into the Sahara Desert to Merzouga by 4WD, the site of the Merzouga Dunes, the highest in Africa and one of the film locations for Lawrence of Arabia. On the way visit Rissani, the ancient capital of Tafilalet region; it was a former major caravan center, visit of the mausoleum of Moulay Ali Cherif the founder of Alaouite Dynasty of Morocco in 1631.Lunch at local restaurant, then explore the Berber villages around, including “Khamlia” where you will attend a local Gnawas music performance. Originating from North and West Africa, the Gnawas are not only known for their music, but also their healing rituals. At the arrival have a tea ceremony followed by dinner prepared by a Berber cook and animated by the percussion music of the desert nomads. 

Accommodation

Camp  at Merzouga(01 night)
Included Activities
Erfoud- Visit of the Fossil factory
Erfoud- visit of the Mausoleum of Moulay
Sahara Desert – Enjoy the sunset
Sahara Desert - Amazigh dinner with Gnaoua music

Optional Activities

Sahara Desert -Camel ride
Sahara Desert - Quad

Meals Included

Breakfast
Dinner

Awake before dawn for an optional camel ride to see the sun rise over the sand dunes followed by breakfast at your camp. Departure to Todra Gorges, On the way, stop to learn about the old  irrigation system used  by the local to irrigate their oasis and to produce what they needed to satisfy their daily needs .  Drive to Todra gorges, it is a dramatic 3,200 ft. canyon in the mountains whose massive walls rise steeply, cutting off sunlight from the gravel riverbed far below. Lunch at local restaurant, and then continue to Ouarzazate through the Dades Valley, a spectacularly beautiful area of contrasting colours and terrains, also known as the valley of a thousand Kasbahs.

Accommodation

Hotel at Ouarzazate(01 night)
Included Activities
Rissani - Visit of the irrigation system
Todra Gorges – Short break 
Enjoy the Dades Valley

Optional Activities

Lunch at a Local Restaurant at Boumalne Dades or Kalaat Mgouna
 Dinner at a typical Restaurant at Marrakech

Meals Included

Breakfast
Dinner

After breakfast you drive to Marrakech. En route, stop to visit the Kasbah of Ait Benhaddou, a World Heritage Site. During the visit of the Kasbah, stop for a while for a mint tea with a Berber family inside the Kasbah. Stop for lunch before heading to Marrakech crossing the High Atlas Mountains with its beautiful landscapes. 

Accommodation

Hotel at Marrakech (01 night)

Included Activities

Ouarzazate – Short break 
Visit of Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou

Optional Activities

Ait Benhaddou - Henna Tattoo
Ouarazate - Atlas Movie Studios 
Ouarzazate - Kasbah Taourirt 

Meals Included

Breakfast

After breakfast begin your tour of the Red Pearl city of Morocco. The city tour includes the Koutoubia Mosque (from outside), Saadian’s Tombs, Bahia Palace, Medersa Ben Youssef, a private museum, the colourful souks (markets) inside the medina. After lunch, have a tour with browsing and shopping inside the souk beginning and ending at Jamaa El Fna Square, a World Heritage Site. Here you will see a medieval scene, complete with jugglers, fortune tellers, snake charmers, dancers, herbalists, food and juice vendors, experience all of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and contrasts of this exotic place. 

Accommodation

Riad or Hotel at Marrakech (1 night)

Included Activities

Marrakech - craft co-operative
Marrakech- Koutoubia Mosque
Marrakech- entrance Saadian Tombs & Bahia Palace*
Marrakech- Medersa Ben Youssef
Marrakech – Walking Tour
Marrakech - Djemma el Fna square

Optional Activities

Lunch at a Typical restaurant
Dinner at a Typical restaurant

Meals Included

Breakfast

After breakfast, have a new experience then drive west to the picturesque coastal town of Essaouira located on the Atlantic Ocean. Overlooking a scattering of wave-ravaged offshore islands, it offers a sandy beach stretching for miles to the south, while richly forested hills extend to the east. Ancient and narrow alleys wind through the medina and among the souks, a World Heritage Site. Artists, fishermen, farmers, craftsman all live peacefully in this enchanted coastal town. On the way we stop at an Argan Oil cooperative. Enjoy a fresh seafood lunch in Essaouira and after we visit the Skala and stroll through the medina.

Accommodation

Riad or Hotel at Essaouira(1 night)

Included Activities

Essaouira - Guided walking tour( Skala)
Essaouira - Argan Oil cooperative

Optional Activities

Essaouira -  Wine Tasting at the factory
Essaouira – Hammam and/or  Berber Massage 
Essaouira - Horse Riding 
Essaouira - Seafood Market Lunch 
Lunch at a Typical restaurant
Dinner at a Typical restaurant

Meals Included

Breakfast

After breakfast, leave the city of Essaouira to depart for Casablanca, crossing the different fertile plateau of Doukkala and Abda.   On the way, stop in Safi, a fishing city where the Portuguese influence is seen in the ruins of the Ksar El Bahr fortress. Stop for lunch in El Oualidia,  after lunch  explore El Jadida, once the main Portuguese port in North Africa, and the center of all Portuguese operations in the Atlantic ocean . Mazagan, as it was called by the Portuguese, was under their control until the 19th century when Morocco re-conquered and renamed it El Jadida. The influence of the Portuguese remains, especially in the walled city left by the Portuguese visit the cistern which could hold enough water for 5,000 people for two months.

Accommodation

Hotel at Casablanca(01 night)

Included Activities

Safi – Short visit
Oualidia  – Short stop
Eljadida-  Visit of the Portuguese cistern 

Optional Activities

Eljadida -  Lunch at a Typical restaurant
Casablanca -  Dinner at restaurant

Meals Included

Breakfast

After check out, you will be transported to the Casablanca airport for your return flight. 

This concludes the services of Moroccan Club Travel.