Discovery Morocco From Casablanca To The Desert

Greeting at the airport and transfer to Marrakech. Dinner and Over night in Riad.

Free day in Marrakech, a city famous for its Jemaa el Fna, which will occupy much of our time : an amalgam of aromas, sounds and sensations unique. The city also has plenty of places you wander and enjoy: Gardens Majorelle, Menara, Tombs Saadianas, walks or the mellah medina (the old Jewish quarter), the route of the walls, the modern city (Gueliz) with Western lifestyles. Dinner and hotel accommodation as selected category.

Meeting at 8h00 a.m with your driver at your Riad / Hotel, take you to the 4x4 and depart from Marrakech to Dades valley, through the Tizi- N-Tichka pass (2260m) in the High Atlas Mountains. From Marrakech to Ouarzazate, you will enjoy the scenic road, beautiful landscapes with different colors and the Berber villages along the way. You will have free time here to visit the old Kasbah of Ouarzazate “Taourirt Kasbah” and have lunch. Afterwards, you go further south east to the green Dades valley and the city of roses via the fascinating Skoura palmery. Dinner and overnight in Dades Canyon

After breakfast, departure from your hotel in Dades valley at 8 a.m., taking the road of 1000 kasbahs drive around the colorful Berber villages of the Dades valley. 45 km further, you will get to Tineghir with its beautiful palm grove and Jewish quarter. You continue to Toudgha Gorges (Todgha), free time to go on trek along the canyons of about 300m high, a favorite place for rock climbers. Afterwards you will leave to Erg Chebbi dunes in Merzouga Sahara desert and you will have time for lunch on the way before you arrive to Erfoud.

Then we'll head for the Erg Chebbi sand dunes. After a welcoming glass of tea in a Guest House near the duens, departure on the camels. Once at the bivouac, you take a camel ride to watch the sunset from the top of the dunes. Back at the bivouac, dinner and overnight in tents in the desert (an unforgettable night.)

If you wake up early, you can watch the spectacle of the sunrise, when the color of the dunes and the play of shadows are an awesome sight. After breakfast, departure for Erfoud, where there we will stop to see how locally found fossils are worked into furniture and artifacts. From there the road leads north to Er Rachidia the province of all the south and the Ziz Valley, remarkable for the extent of its palm trees. We cross the Tizi-n-Talghoumt pas.

Lunch is in Midelt, “the apple capital”, then, stravelling along a beautiful road bordered by green oaks and cedar trees to reach Azrou, where we can stop to hand feed the monkeys. And Switzerland of Morocco Ifran, We reach Fes at the end of the afternoon. Dinner and hotel accommodation as selected category.

You will have a guided tour to discover the medina and the famous Souks of Fes - its narrow cobbled streets are filled with ancient mosques and towering green-glazed minarets. You will visit the most beautiful palaces and monuments of Fes. The tour will include a visit to the tannery and the ceramics cooperative to see the traditional Moroccan crafts.

Breakfast and departure for Volubilis to visit the Roman ruins, the thermal baths of Gallien, the forum and the capitol. In Meknes, visit to the Moulay Ismaïl Mausoleum, Bab Mansour, Bab Khdim. After lunch, departure for Rabat, Dinner and accommodation in hotel.