Tour Details
Enjoy culture, history, adventure and relaxation on this 2-week Morocco grand tour. Explore the imperial cities of Rabat, Meknes, Fes, and Casablanca. Venture into the desert a few days exploring kasbahs, caravan routes, and the Saharan dunes. Cross up and over the high atlas mountains and spend a couple of days hiking between small villages, spending the night with a local family. End your trip by relaxing in Essaouira before continuing along the coast back to Casablanca.
Tour Highlights
- Visit Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca & explore Rabat’s sites of interests
- Explore Fes, ancient Madrassa, leather tanneries, Royal Palace
- Experience camel trekking, the desert sunset, taste dinner, & sleep in nomad tents
- Explore brick-mud Berber villages & learn about the daily life of the locals
- Wander the Dades Valley & walk alongside the riverbank or go for a hike around the Toudgha Gorges
- Visit Kasbah Amredhil, tour the famous Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou & Telouet Kasbah
- Travel over the Atlas Mountains and via the Tizi-n-Tichka pass & capture photos of splendid views
- Explore Marrakech Sites of interests: beautiful gardens, ancient Madrasas, royal palaces, & the jamaa El Fna
Itinerary
14 Days Grand Morocco tour from Casablanca starts today and after Meet you in Casablanca Airport or in your Hotel/riad we’ll visit Hassan II Mosque, the biggest mosque outside Mecca and experience the Cornish coast before departing for Rabat, the capital of Morocco. Here you’ll see the Mausoleum, the Hassan Tower and the Oudaya Kasbah. Overnight in our Hotel/riad. Bed and Breakfast.
Our private Morocco Tour starts today and we drive through the Rif mountains, Tétouan. We will enjoy the views of the Rif mountains. We reach Chefchaouen where we will spend this night in a riad / hotel Bed and Breakfast.
After breakfast, our private Morocco Tour continues today towards Volubilis, where we explore Romain ruins. Then we head to Meknes to this 17 th century heritage. After lunch here we explore the historical medina, also Bab el-Mansour and Moulay Ismail’s shrine. Then we will drive to Fes, where we will spend the night in a local riad.
After breakfast in your riad, you will start exploring the oldest city in Morocco, walking in its alleys and small streets. Our visit starts by visiting the Royal Palace gate, the Jewish headquarter, the first Mellah ever built in Morocco, built during the 16th century. We will ensure that you visit all sites with cultural and historical interests including the famous Al Qaraouine University, the oldest in the region, the Tanneries, the Attarine museum and Mausoleum of Moulay Idriss. After lunch, you will visit the tiles cooperative and then experience a wonderful panoramic view over the whole Medina of Fes.
Today our private Morocco Tour from Fes starts traveling to Ifrane, called also as “the Switzerland of Morocco”. We continue to Azrou, where we stop at the cedar forest where we may watch Barbarian apes. Then we drive towards Middle and overnight in riad/hotel.
After breakfast, our private Casablanca Tour continues towards Merzouga Desert via Errachidia and Erfoud. You will be traveling through the fascinating Tiz Ntalghamt pass and the Ziz Gorge, taking in views of the High Atlas plateau, you’ll notice how the scenery changes to reveal hints of the desert as you approach the city of Errachidia, here you will have lunch and enjoy the Berber hospitality. Afterward, you will travel along the luxuriant Ziz Valley, stopping for panoramic views along the way to Erfoud and Rissani. Arrive at Merzouga in the afternoon. You’ll be welcomed with a glass of mint tea overnight in riad/hotel with dinner and breakfast.
After a hearty Moroccan breakfast, we’ll begin our 4×4 back to the dunes around Erg Chebbi, region populated desert sand: Among the many stops that await you will discover how and where nomadic families in the area live, wild oasis in the middle of nowhere, spectacular desert landscapes and small villages, palm groves. Inevitable stop as we passed through the village of Khamlia where live people originating in Mali, which will make us enjoy a nice concert of Gnawa music, while we enjoy a delicious tea. Back at the hotel, we expect from our camels for a half hour route, wading through dunes to the heart of the desert to watch the beautiful sunset. Tucked behind the Great Dune, and enjoying the music of drums, Moroccan dinner and tea, you can see the vast sky of stars and sleep in nomadic tents.
Today we watch the sunrise in the desert and then we ride camels back to the village. After breakfast in the riad, you’ll leave for Rissani, Tinghir, and Todgha Gorge the highest, narrowest gorges in Morocco. After lunch in the heart of the gorge, we’ll drive through the Dades Valley, where you’ll see the majestic sand castles and the amazing rock formations known as “monkey toes”. Overnight accommodation will be in a fancy hotel overlooking the Dades Valley.
After breakfast in the hotel, you will travel through the Dades Valley towards Kalaa M’gouna and Ouarzazate. The route through Dades Valley is the way of the thousand kasbahs – providing numerous opportunities to take some of your best photographic shots of the trip in both the Valley rose roses and cinema city of Ouarzazate passing by Ait Benhaddou Kasbah. the largest Kasbah in Morocco, built by Thami El Glaoui, one of the last Berber chieftains, it used to be one of his stops during his long travel from the Sahara to Marrakech., now one of the UNESCO heritage site. after that, we will shift the way to cross high atlas mountains full of panoramic view and attractive Berber villages all along the way till Marrakech Overnight in the riad
After breakfast in the riad, you can start exploring Marrakech ” the red city of Morocco”. We will ensure that you see the most important sites of historical and cultural interest, including the Majorelle Garden, the Koutoubia Tower, the Saadian tombs, the Bahia Palace. After lunch at a restaurant near the square, you will walk through the souks and view hundreds of handicrafts. In the afternoon, you will have some free time to wander by yourself the other parts of the city night in the riad.
in the morning after breakfast, we will drive you to Essaouira, Spend a day exploring Essaouira, home to a traditional Portuguese harbor with fine examples of Moorish and Portuguese art. Famous for its fine woodwork, Essaouira is also home to the silver souk (commercial quarter), art galleries and islands.
It’s easy to see why Essaouira is often dubbed the ‘Jewel of the Atlantic’. This place has earned such a following that Orson Welles filmed Othello here in 1949. Spend the morning touring the fishing port, medina and artistic complex. In the afternoon, you can stroll around this charming town with its ageold souks, fish auctions and blue and white seaside houses. And that’s without even touching on the reams of golden sands on offer overnight in a riad.
You leave the old city of Essaouira and travel towards Agadir, passing by plantations of Argan trees climbed by local goats. Enjoy other scenic landscapes as you continue along the Atlantic coast. Arrive in Agadir late afternoon. Dinner and overnight in the hotel riad.
After Breakfast we will back to Marrakech overnight in riad with Bed and Breakfast.
Marrakech - Transfer to the airport
Includes/Excludes
Price Included
- Airport transfer to your accommodation
- A/C modern car (7 - 8 persons) or minibus (17 persons)
- Driver/Guide, speaking English/ Spanish/ Slavic,
- Camel trekking in the desert during sunset and sunrise
- Overnight in dunes at desert camp
- Traditional berber dinner and breakfast with cultural program
Price Excluded
- Flight Ticket
- Beverages and lunch meals at the stops
- Optional local guides
- Personal expenses