Imperial Cities and South Tour From Tangier

Morning arrival at Tangier, start a leisured day andstart the city tour including the Cap Spartel facing the Spanish coastlines. The Cap Spartel itself is the meeting point between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
After this external tour,drive to discover the Medina of Tangier at the beginning, visit the Kasbah Museum founded in the seventh century by the Sultan Moulay Ismael. In the beginning of the XX century, the palace was converted to a National Museum characterised by the exhibition of the different items like wood, Roman Mosaics, jewellery …..
Stop for lunch and discover the Medina of Tangier, including grand Socco,petit Socco, ending the tour next the port.
Dinner and overnight atyour hotel in Tangier.

Day2: Tangier/Rabat/Casablanca
After breakfast, drive to Rabat the administrative and political capital of the countrysince 1912. Start the city tour of Rabat, including the Royal Palace fromthe outside, Mohammed V Mausoleum, Hassan Tower, Challah Necropolis. Stop for lunch, afternoon drive to Casablanca.
Dinner and accommodation at your hotel in Casablanca

After breakfast, drive to Rabat the administrative and political capital of the countrysince 1912. Start the city tour of Rabat, including the Royal Palace fromthe outside, Mohammed V Mausoleum, Hassan Tower. Stop for lunch,Afternoon drive to Casablanca.
Dinner and accommodation at your hotel in Casablanca.

After breakfast, start to visit the city of Casablanca, the largest city in Morocco. It’s also the economical capital of the whole country.The city tour is including Hassan II Mosque from outside, Mohammed V Square, the Habous neighborhood, the Central Market and the Anfa area. Stop for lunch, Afternoon drive to Marrakech.

overnight and dinner at your hotel in Marrakech.

After breakfast, the entire day will be devoted to the city tour of the red city including theKoutoubia Mosque, Saadian’s Tombs and Bahia Palace. Stop for lunch, and then learn about Moroccan crafts from workers at a craft co-operative inside the medina. Later, have a tour inside the souk (market) 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.
Dinner at one of the finest and most authentic Moroccan restaurants at Marrakech.
Overnight at your hotel in Marrakech

After breakfast departure to Ouarzazate crossing the High Atlas Mountains with the visit of Kasbah of AitBenhaddou, which is an exceptionally well-preserved site declared by the UNESCO in 1987 as the World Heritage. Ouarzazate is the base for film studios where many famous films were made, such as Gladiator, the Four Feathers, Romancing the Stone, Cleopatra, the Sheltering Sky, Jewel of the Nile and Lawrence of Arabia. Stop for a mint tea glass with a Berber family in their home. After lunch, Continuation to Zagora which was the starting point for the sultan Ahmad al-Mansour’s legendary desert crossing toconquer Tombouctou in 1591.The route was used before and after that to trade Atlas mineral salt for African gold. Today, a sign post At Zagorainforms you that the trip is 52 days by camel, camel caravans from the south were able to break their journey and rest before heading to the east and north of Africa. Even today the town continues to be the main marketplace of the south.
Dinner and overnight at your hotel.

After breakfast, departure to Erfoud via Tazzarine and Alnif through the Saghro Mountain via Rissani, the home town of the present dynasty.
Visit the shrine of Moulay Ali Cherif and Ksar Ouled Ibn Abdelhalim dynasty.
Dinner and overnight at your hotelin Erfoud.

After breakfast drive into the Sahara Desert of MerzougaDunes, the highest in Africa and one of the filming sites for Lawrence of Arabia. Take an optional camel trek to watch the sunset behind the Sahara dunes.
Camp overnight in a deluxe tent, furnished inside with a comfortable clean cot, fresh linens and blankets set on colorful Moroccan carpets.
Enjoy dinner at your encampment and later, the breathtaking sight of stars in the desert sky. Or, if you prefer, you may have dinner and overnight at your hotel in Erfoud.

After breakfast, drive through the high and the middle Atlas Mountains known with its rich Forest of cedar trees. Stop in Midelt for lunch. The city is famous about the production off apples. Annually the city organizes the apple festival. Along the way, stop in Ifrane an alpine city and Sky resort surrounded by many lakes and beautiful cedar forest.
Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Ifrane.

After breakfast have a free time to discover the alpine city. Drive to visit another imperial city called Meknes, the 17th-century city founded by Moulay Ismail, classified by the UNESCO as the World Heritage Site. Stop for Lunch, in the afternoon start the visit of the city including the Sultan’s Stables, Moulay Ismail Mausoleum, the majestic Bab Mansour, and El-Hdim Square. Drive to Fez via the fertile Saiss plateau.
Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Fez.

Breakfast at your hotel, then set out for a city tour of Fez, the spiritual and intellectual capital of ancient Morocco. Fez was the first Imperial city, founded in the 9th century. Among the sites you visit the impressive medina with its different gates, mosques, tanneries, El-Attarine Medersa and the impressive Fondouk el-Nejjarine with its elegant fountain, the latter is housing a Museum devoted to wood crafts in a beautifully restored 18th century building. Lunch in a typical Moroccan restaurant in the Medina. After lunch, visit the Wood Museum, the Mellah (Jewish Quarter), the King’s palace from outside and Bab Boujloud.
Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Fez.

After breakfast, drive to the blue city of Chefchaouen, a picturesque hillside town built by refugees from Andalusia as a haven from the invading Christians. Chefchaouen, with its Spanish character, whitewashed houses, tiny balconies, blue-painted doors and alleyways is a lovely place to stroll. We visit the Kasbah in heart of the town (Outa Hammam) founded in the XVII century.
Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Chaouen.

Drive to visit the city of Tetouan, built by the Moors fleeing Spain was once the capital of the country's Spanish zone. The town’s Andalusian heritage can be seen in its medina, its culinary traditions, architecture, music and embroidery. Tetouan was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
After lunch visit the Archaeological Museum enclosing beautiful mosaics dating back to the Roman period, Visit the king’s palace from the outside then cross the medina of Tetouan mainly the old quarters with its traditional Andalusian style. Drive to Tangier.
Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Tangier.

After check out, you will be transported to the airport for your return flight home. This concludes the services of Moroccan Club Travel.