Morocco Exotic Journey

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15 days 14 Nights . Tour from Casablanca

Discover the beauty of the northwest and the south of Morocco; the majestic Rabat, the blue city Chefchaouen, the Atlantic Ocean, the historical cities; Volubilis, Fes, Meknes and the magnificent Sahara Desert, the beauty of Todgha and Dades gorges, the valley of roses, Kalaa M’gouna, the trekking in the High Atlas Mountains, rich landscapes and Morocco’s hospitality in between

1st day: Arrival to Casablanca

Welcome to Morocco! Arrival at Med V airport in Casablanca where you will meet your English speaking driver. The driver will provide a brief review of your tour. Then, you will visit Casablanca, Morocco’s commercial capital and largest city; you will enjoy the impressive architecture, the majestic Hassan II Mosque, and the gardens, and terrace cafes overlooking the Atlantic Coast. After lunch, you will have enough time to stroll by the Atlantic coast before transferring to the hotel. Overnight with dinner

2nd day: Casablanca – Rabat – Chefchaouen

After breakfast at the hotel, We start the day to travel towards Rabat. You will visit the main sites of the administrative capital. The tour will include the ramparts and walls surrounding the Royal Palace, the majestic Mohammed V Mausoleum, the Hassan Tower and the Oudaya Kasbah, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and offering fabulous views, as well as being home to Moroccan artisan galleries. After lunch, depart towards the blue city of Chefchaouen with nice stops to take pictures and to relax. Arrival to Chefchaouen in the afternoon. Dinner and night in a guest House.

3rd day: Explore The Blue Chefchaouen

After breakfast, discover the blue washed narrow alleys of the friendly medina. Visit to the walled fortress of the Kasbah contains beautiful gardens, near which is the small museum and art gallery which houses the rich culture of the Rif Mountains. From the rooftop of the Kasbah you can see a spectacular panorama of the blue and white washed houses, tiled roofs and tiny balconies. After exploring the medina, walk in the nearby hillsides with the wonderful and magnificent waterfalls. The town offers many native handicrafts that are not available elsewhere in Morocco, such as wool garments and woven blankets. The goat cheese native to the area is also popular. Overnight with dinner at the Riad.

4th day: Chefchaouen – Meknes – Volubilis – Fez

This day we drive from Chefchaouen to Meknes to enjoy a guided tour here. We start our guided tour in front of the impressive 18th century Bab Mansour, the ornamental gate to the imperial city of Meknes built by Sultan Moulay Ismail. We continue our tour to the small but impressive Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail. Then we will pass by the entrance of the Meknes Royal Palace and end up at Moulay Ismail’s massive Heri es Souani. This was his personal stable & granary for his 12,000 horses. After lunch, we’ll make our way through the rolling hills for a guided visit of the impressive Roman ruins of Volubilis, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the best preserved Roman ruins in this part of North Africa. Your certified local guide will explain about life in the Roman Empire as you peer into old bathhouses, marveling at the still-present mosaic floors and gazing up at the towering marble pillars. We leave the Roman Empire to make our way to Fez. Overnight in Fez with dinner.

5th day: Fes Sightseeing Tour

Today will be a full day guided tour to Fes. Fez has been considered as one of the best known cities in medieval Jewish history, it was home to one of the most influential Talmudic scholars of all times, Rabbi Isaac Alfasi, as well as Maimonides in the years of 1160 to 1165. Visit the Mellah with its synagogue. Fez is a spiritual and cultural center with many facets. The tour will take you back in time while visiting Al Quaraouiyine University, the oldest university in the world (before even Oxford or the Sorbonne). We will also visit the medieval Medina with its Bou Anania Medersa, the Nejjarine fountain, and the Moulay Idriss Mausoleum. Afterwards, continue to explore the narrow alleys house hundreds of merchants and craftsmen selling a range of products such as dates, fish, spices, copper urns and musical instruments. Overnight with breakfast at your hotel.

6th day: Fez – Ifrane – Cedar Forest – Merzouga

Today we leave Fez towards the big desert of Merzouga , En-route you’ll pass through a scenic forest of cedars and across the Middle Atlas Mountain range to the mineral mining city of Midelt, where a stop for lunch is scheduled. This journey continues along through the dramatic Ziz valley which is particularly well-known for its palm trees and the length of the oasis. All along the road there are innumerable ksars, small villages of individual houses. From here we reach Erfoud, famous for its date festival and fossils. Upon arrival at Merzouga, you will have some time relaxing by the pool before the next part of your adventure. You will walk or ride by camel over the sands as the sun begins to set and as you reach the magnificent Erg Chebbi sand dunes, witness them turning a wonderful red hue. As night falls, listen to the beat of Berber drum music and song, enjoying a Moroccan home-cooked dinner. Overnight at the tent.

7th day: Erg Chebbi – Todra gorges – Dades gorges

Your day starts early with a picturesque sunrise before enjoying a special breakfast, head back to Merzouga to rejoin your car and continue your journey towards Todra Gorge travelling along the rugged road of a Thousand Kasbahs. This area has long been a popular location for Hollywood films such as The Last Temptation of Christ and Jewel of the Nile. We arrive at the stunning gorges of Todra where springs of water run between the rocks and enjoy the views of natural beauty. Take a short exploratory walk into the Todra Gorge with its high walls of pink and grey rock. We continue through the Dades valley. Dinner and night in a Kasbah/hotel.

8th day: Dade – Rose valley – Ouarzazate – Marrakech

Today after breakfast starts with an easy stroll through Dades Valley and The Valley of the Roses providing numerous opportunities to take some of your best photographic shots of the trip in both the valleys, Kalla Mgouna famous for its roses. We’ll stop at “the rose city”, to purchase the rosewater, which will make your linen smell good a long time after your trip is over. Continuing on to Skoura to visit the Kasbah Amridil. The tour continues to Ouarzazate, “the Hollywood of Africa”, whose geography and beautiful landscapes has attracted many world class movie producers. Here you may choose to visit the studios where some of the famous movies were filmed such as The Mummy and Gladiator. We will pass by Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah, a UNESCO Wolrd Heritage Site. After that, we will begin to cross the High Atlas Mountains with many panoramic views and attractive Berber villages to reach Marrakech. Dinner and night in a nice Riad.

9th day: Marrakech Sightseeing Tour

After breakfast, you will meet your tour guide for a sightseeing tour of Marrakech where the Jewish community increased in 1603. The Saadian dynasty made Marrakech their capital, and extended the Jewish quarter Mellah into a home of a thriving community of native Spanish Jews, famed for its rabbinical schools and scholars. Visit the Rabbi Hanania Hacohen Cemetery which is also the burial place of Rabbi Mordekhai Ben Attar and Rabbi Pinhas Hacohen Azough known as the “patron of Marrakech.” The city tour will include the former and current synagogues. In the afternoon, strolling through the narrow streets of the old medina of Marrakech discovering artisans still working in the old-age traditional way. End up at Djemaa El Fna Square, considered to be the most famous and popular place in Marrakech. Overnight with breakfast at the hotel.

10th day: Marrakech – Essaouira – Marrakech

After breakfast we’ll head to the coastal city Essaouira. En route, you will see many Argan trees, important to the region both economically and ecologically. You may also see local goats perched in the trees feeding on the fruit and leaves. At the women’s Co-operative of Argan Oil, there will be an opportunity to learn about the wide ranging applications of the oil from cosmetics to medicines. After several stops to take photographs, you will continue your travel to Essaouira. You’ll visit the Skala Fortress, the port, the souks and see Thuya wood carved by artisans, walking through the alleys of the medina and past the hundreds of handicrafts. After lunch it is a free time to walk and explore by yourself. Back to Marrakech. Overnight with breakfast at the hotel.

11th day: Marrakech – Imi Oughlad -Tizi N’tachte -Tiziane

Early morning departure from Marrakech for a pleasant drive south winding our way up through the Moulay Brahim gorge and upper valleys to arrive at the higher foothills of the western high atlas mountains and our trailhead of Imi Oughlad (1450m) with the Jbel Toubkal, at 4167m the highest peak in North Africa, Aglzim 3650m and Aksoual 38847m, looming before us. Here we alight from our vehicle and meet up with a berber muleteer crew. We set off up in north-westerly direction for a two hours acclimatisation hike up switchback mule tracks, passing by cornfields woods pine and juniper to the tiz n’tachete (2000m), where we shall stop to look back down on the Imlikl and Ait Oussaden valleys before carrying on for another half hour to Imi N’ifri and our field picnic. Afterwards a slow hike for about two hours and half south-west down along a dirt track to assif N’Ait Oussaden and the red clay terraced village of Tiziane (1750 m) for our accommodation in our bivouac or gite.

12th day:Tizziane – Tizi N’Taghrhourte – D’knt

After breakfast we now set off on our hike up along the Assif N’Ait Oussaden valley, passing through the walnuts groves, up to Tizi N’taghrhourte (1995m) and through to a rare almost flat stretch to arrive at Assaka spring, where we will stop for our field picnic amidst and awesome silence after some two hours and half relatively easy walking. Our afternoon’s hike takes us down along the edges of the forest until we reach the berber village of D’knt (1870m) or Agouns N Assoul where we will have our dinner and spend the night in a bivouac or gite.

13th day D’knt – Tizi N’Tagdalte – Tizi Oussem

we set off for our morning’s three hours hike up through groves of walnut trees, fields of corn and barley to greet the many sheep and goatherders – and women and children bent over with 20kg loads of faggots and dried herbs. We traverse the Tizi N’tagdalte to the descent amongst the juniper trees till we come to a small spring set amongst the trees, where we will stop for our picnic. Once refreshed, we are off down winding tracks of upper slopes for some three hours to come to a small river at the beginning of the valley of Assif N’ait Oussaden. from here we enter the village of Tizi Oussem (1850m) then up to the summer village Of Tamsoult for our camp or gite.

14th day: Azib Tamsoult -Tizi M’zzik -Imlil – Marrakech

Trek to a small waterfall at Azib Tamsoult and return to cross the Tizi ‘n Mzik pass (2,500m). We join the main Toubkal valley at Imlil (1,900m), where we have lunch before we drive to Marrakech. Overnight with breakfast at the hotel/riad.

15th day: Marrakech – Back to Casablanca airport

Transfer from Marrakech to Casablanca Mohammed V International airport for your return flight with plenty of tales of Arabian and Berber days and nights.

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