Marrakech Casablanca Tour 10 days
Day 1: Marrakech « Arrival Morocco »
Up arrival at Marrakech our driver will transfer you to your hotel to take some rest. In the evening you will take with our driver an orientation Tour ,Dinner and overnight in the Hotel .
Day 2: Marrakech “ Medina Guided Tour”.
After breakfast, you will have full day tour to visit Marrakech. The visit will include: the Menara gardens, a magnificent pool surrounded by flowers, the Koutoubia Minaret, the Saadian Tombs, the museum of Dar Si Said with the best display of Berber arts and crafts, and the Bahia Palace…lunch will be in local restaurant, after that we walk through the colorful Souks of Marrakech.,Dinner with spectacle in nice restaurant.overnight in the Hotel .
Day 3: Marrakech /Ait ben haddou /Ouarzazate /Gorge Dades
After breakfast we will go towards the High Atlas through the Tizi-n-Tichka pass, along a road that climbs from the plains up to 2260 m above sea level passing through small villages, small waterfalls, through the continuously changing landscape and colors of these beautiful mountains. We can to make a stop on the pass for a cup of refreshing mint tea and admire the scenery before taking the road to the Ait Benhaddou Kasbah, where we will arrive in time for lunch.
Here we can visit the famous Kasbah, declared UNESCO World Heritage and which was the scene of films like The Gladiator, Babel, Lawrence of Arabia, The Legionary, The Sheltering Sky, and many others. will visit the town of Ouarzazate, the Kasbah of Taourirt and the Atlas Studios movie studios, the largest and most famous of all Africa.Then we will go through Ouarzazate, the famous Valley of Roses and the Dades valley, reaching the Dades Gorge in time for sunset where we will stop in a very traditional and romantic hotel for dinner and overnight in the Hotel.
Day 4: Gorge dades/ Tinghir /Merzouga
In the morning, after breakfast, you may take a walk through the Dades Gorges, and then take the car to drive the road of the 1000 Kasbas, go through Tineghier village , and the Jewish Kasbah, arriving to the Todra Gorges in time for lunch, take a walk in the Gorges before taking the road to the Merzouga desert by way of Erfoud and Rissani arriving before sunset. Dinner with Saharan drums and overnight in the Kasbah “hotel” in the foot of the erg-chebbi dunes.
Day 5: Merzouga
After ,Breakfast ,shower & Rest we take Tour of approximately 4 hours the desert to see the different faces of desert dunes with its black volcanic rocks, passing through small villages, where we will stop to lunch with a Berber family in their tent, along the road used by the Paris Dakar rallye We will reach a cave where you can discover how the local people extract the fossils from the heart of the earth,after lunch in the afternoon we will start off by Camel into the Erg Chebbi Dunes for an incredible and unforgettable night in a Berber tent where we will have dinner accompanied by the rhythm of drums and songs of Berbers, take the Camel Back to the Hotel for Overnight .
Day 6: Merzouga / Medilt /Azrou /Ifran / Fez
After Breakfast depart towards fez we will pass through Rissani and ziz valley ,we stop for lunch in Medilt apple village we continue the way crossing the Middle atlas mountain and cedars forest we pass ifran , a winter ski resort in a totally un Moroccan style built by the French in the 1930's to resemble a Swiss village, reach fez in the afternoon,dinner in Restaurant near the Blue gate and overnight in the Riad .
Day 7: Fez “Guided Tour”
After Breakfast you will begin your guided tour of the medina, one of the world’s largest walled in cities. You will explore the narrow streets lined with fresh fruit, mounds of spices, intricately woven Berber carpets and many other art objects of Morocco. you will visit Mosques including the Quaraouiyine Mosque founded in 859 by Fatima el Fihri and the Andalusian Mosque dating back to 860.
Entry is not permitted to non-Muslims ,Fountains including the Nejjarine fountain,Medersas (Koranic schools) founded as early as the 13th century ,Batha Palace now a museum of arts and traditions,Chouwara Tanneries ,Souks including Souk Attarine, one of the liveliest in the city ,Bab Boujloud with its green and blue ceramics ,Mellah and the 17th century Ibn Danan synagogue,also the Kings Palace ,Dinner with spectacle in nice restaurant and overnight in the Riad .
Day 8: Fez / Volubilis / Meknes / Rabat / Casablanca
Depart early after breakfast towards Casablanca ,we will stop to visit the ancient Roman ruins Volubilis ,we will spend a few time exploring the 2000-year-old ruins and getting a picture of life during the Roman Empire. Upon arrival in Meknes, one has a magnificent view of the Medina. The tour begins with a tour of the walls with monumental gates dating from the seventeenth century Berdaïne Bab, Bab Khemis. We continue exploring the city by the stables (Rua), attics (HERI), and Stud. Stop needed at the Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail was for a long time the only mosque that non-Muslims could visit in Morocco. It then exits through the famous Bab Mansour El on the vast square Hedim. On the other side of the square, the Museum of Moroccan Art "Dar Jamai" offers a wide variety of handicrafts. we will stop also for lunch and to visit Rabat the capital politics of Morocco, and also overlooks the sea, we will see the crenellated red ocher walls, more than 5 km long in total and built in the period of ruling the sultan Yacoub El-Mansour, .
Then we visit Hassan tower, where 4 facades are decorated different from each other,three in shades of pink and one in the gray because of the sea breeze, the remains of the old mosque and the Mohamed 5 mausoleum next to the tower,we reach Casablanca in the late afternoon .dinner and overnight in the hotel .
Day 9 : Casablanca / Marrakech
After breakfast ,you will visit the Hassan II Mosque. As it is the second largest mosque in the world and indeed a beautiful work of art, it is one of the rare mosques opened to non-Muslims ,we continue to Marrakech for Dinner & Overnight in the Hotel .
Day 10 : Marrakech “ Depart Morocco “
After Breakfast transfer to the airport in Marrakech for the End of the Trip .