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Jewels of the North:
An 8-Day Journey through Morocco's Blue City, Fes, and the Enchanting Sahara Desert
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Duration
8 days
Price
- Dependent on time of year and on your needs and interests. Contact us for a tour price.
- We offer reductions of the tour price for children under 12 years.
Tour Includes
- Transportation with English speaking driver (bottle of water available in the car)
- 7 nights in hotels and riads
- Camel ride in the Sahara
- Daily breakfast
- Guided tours in Fes and Chefchaouen
- Dinner in Merzouga and Ouarzazate
- Entrance fees to monuments as per itinerary
- Guided tour of Volubilis
- Portage at the hotel
- All taxes
Not Included
- Services not mentioned above
- Lunches
- Dinner in Casablanca, Fes, Chefchaouen
- Tips
Itinerary
Day 1
Arrival in Casablanca
Our representative will be awaiting your arrival at Casablanca International Airport. Please look for him in the arrivals hall. He will be holding a placard with your name on it. He will escort you to your private vehicle.
Casablanca, or ‘Casa’ as the locals call it is the largest and most populated city in Morocco; it is also the busiest port and its economic and industrial capital accounts for more than half of the country’s industrial output. The atmosphere is more cosmopolitan than in other parts of the country, with Western dress and fashions predominating. Start discovering Morocco’s largest city and economic capital, Casablanca is the best representation of the modern nation. A brief highlight tour will include those at Pl Mohammed V, and new public buildings include the Grand Theater de Casablanca. The city’s handsome Moresque buildings, which meld French-colonial design and traditional Moroccan style, are seen best downtown area, the Quartier Habous and in the beachside suburb of Ain Diab, and The flamboyant building of Hassan II Mosque (interior). If you only visit one place in Casablanca, make it the Hassan II Mosque, sitting in a picturesque location on the sea. Inaugurated in 1993, its minaret is the tallest structure in Morocco and the tallest minaret in the world. While the exterior and surrounding area are impressive, what makes this mosque unique is that it is one of the few mosques in the country that non-Muslims can enter. Continue to your hotel overnight.
Day 2
Casablanca to Chefchaouen via Rabat
After breakfast, we drive to Rabat, Whereupon arrival, you will start your tour with the Royal Palace, and the Hassan tower which stands on the hill overlooking the Wadi Bou Regreg. It is a gigantic mosque, emblematic of Rabat and famous for its unfinished minaret where storks nest. Next door, visit the beautiful Mausoleum of Mohammed V decorated with stained glass windows, Visit the Jewish Mellah which today is now the home of very few Jewish families. Explore the gardens nearby and visit the Necropolis at Challah/ Kasbah of Challah and Kasbah Oudaya. After visiting Rabat’s spectacular monuments, we take the road to Chefchaouen (the blue city), through the scenic Rif Mountains. Your night will be spent in a comfortable riad.
Day 3
Chefchaouen to Fes Via Volubilis and Meknes
After breakfast in your riad in Chefchaouen, and before we drive to fes we will have a visit to the blue city with a local certified guide. After the visit, we will drive through another scenic route across the Rif Mountains. On this day you will see wonderful UNESCO World Heritage sites. A fertile green landscape will show us the way to Volubilis. Volubilis is an ancient Berber and then Romanized city, the capital of the kingdom of Mauretania. The Roman ruins are extensive and remarkably intact – we will explore them with an expert guide. Then on the banks of the wadi Rhoumane river and near Meknes, we will have an hour’s visit to the holy city of Moulay Idriss Zerhoun with a local certified guide. We will continue on our way to Meknes for lunch and a tour. Meknes has been under the protection of UNESCO since 1996. In Meknes, we will explore historic sites like the gate of Bab Mansour, Sakkar prison, Hedim Square, and the immense royal stables. In the late afternoon, we drive to Fes, the cultural capital of Morocco. Night at a riad inside the old medina.
Day 4
Fes Sightseeing
Welcome to Fes, the most monumental of the Imperial Cities. The medina of Fès el-Bali (Old Fez), a World Heritage site, is an assault on the senses, a warren of narrow lanes and covered bazaars bursting with aromatic food stands, and craft workshops, mosques, and an endless parade of people. We will walk along narrow, uneven alleyways, with daylight filtering down from above high gray walls, flanked by tables heaped with spices, dried fruits, fresh fish or silk, and leather garments. Residents of Fez have been selling goods and working metal by hand in the medina since medieval times, and today’s generation works in the same stalls their ancestors once did. And everywhere, there are cats, scrounging, prowling, and sleeping – the mascots of the medina. Here, in the heart of Fez, the old and the new constantly collide – the man driving the donkeys and mules is likely to be chatting on his mobile phone, while the ancient skyline is punctuated equally with satellite dishes and minarets.
The city tour will include; Bab Boujloud, Mellah, and Jamaa Al-Karaouine, the oldest continually operating university in the world. Founded in 859, virtually every surface of its quiet inner courtyard is decorated with highly detailed, delicately carved geometric patterns. Entering this graceful place hidden in the medina lifts a veil on an ancient culture that once kept outsiders at arm’s length. The Medersa Bouanania complex is the spiritual heart of Fez & Morocco. The Chaouwara tanneries are the city’s most iconic sights (and smells), offering a unique window into the pungent, natural process of producing world-class leather by methods that have changed little since medieval times. Time permitting, we will also visit clay workshops, artisan quarters, the souks of the largest and oldest medina in Morocco, and Batha Museum (a former Royal Palace converted into a museum in 1916 with over 6,000 collections).
Day 5
Fes to Merzouga
We will depart at 08h00 am from your riad and drive to Merzouga. On the way to the biggest dunes in the world, we will stop by Ifran, a beautiful city constructed by the French before Moroccan independence. Located in the Middle Atlas, at 1713 meters above sea level, Ifran is a ski resort. We then continue through the forest of Azrou where you can see – and photograph – wild monkeys. We then drive to Merzouga, going by way of Morocco’s apple capital, Midelt, where we will have lunch.
The drive from Midelt to Merzouga is a series of fascinating landscapes, with stops for photos. Arriving in Merzouga, you will meet your camel and guide for a one-hour ride through the dunes to your desert camp for the night. Dinner will be served in a large year-round tent, under the stars with local music of the Tuareg people. Accommodations are in luxury year-round tents with full facilities.
Day 6
Merzouga to Ouarzazate
In the early morning, we share the sunrise over the top of the dunes, eat breakfast and then head back from the camp by camel. We drive toward Boumalne Dades, stopping by a canal built in the 17 century…which remains in use. We stop in Tinguir for a walk in the Moroccan grand canyon, named Todgua Canyon. The road winds beside the spectacular Todra Valley, we cross the Boumalne Valley, to arrive at the Rose Valley. Here you will meet the Berber women who make authentic rose water. The roses and their products are most special and provide work for the Berber women and men. After driving 45 kilometers, we will stop in Skoura. Here, in this quiet little village dotted with palm tree groves, you will find one kasbah that stands out from the rest. The Kasbah Amridil, originally built in the 17th century, is one of Morocco’s most iconic living museums. It has withstood the test of time, making it the ideal setting for insights into the ancient traditions of Kasbah life. It is now a short drive to Ouarzazate, the second Hollywood and production site of many adventure films. At the cinema studios, you can take a tour of all the sets of the Hollywood movies made here. Overnight at a quality hotel in Ouarzazate.
Day 7
Ouarzazate to Marrakech
The departure will be 09h00 am from your hotel. On the way to Marrakech, we will visit one of the most beautiful and famous Ksar (fortified Berber villages) in the south of Morocco. Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah is a ksar (Ighrem, in Berber) listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO, in the province of ouarzazate.
You will have enough time to visit the Ksar and have lunch before we begin our drive-through and over the High Atlas mountains. At the top, we will begin our drive down through an incredible mountain landscape with spectacular views – until we arrive at your riad in Marrakech. You will have the remainder of the day to relax and explore Marrakech.
Day 8
Departure day
Today, we will assist you to Casablanca airport for your return flight.
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