Imperial Cities and Desert in 8 days from Casablanca
Imperial Cities and Desert in 8 days from Casablanca
Description
El 8 días ruta desde Casablanca a Marrakech o de regreso a Casablanca es un gran recorrido por el desierto de Marruecos que lo llevará a descubrir y explorar lo mejor de Marruecos. Este tour es una oportunidad para disfrutar de la escalada de monos en el bosque de cedros e Ifran, la Suiza marroquí, beber té con los nómadas bereberes en medio del desierto y caminar en camello y pasar la noche en un campamento en el desierto bajo un cielo estrellado, disfrutar de las hermosas montañas del alto Atlas con Pueblos bereberes, Kasbahs centenarias, Gargantas, Gran Cañón, Palmeral, luego a Marrakech con su famosa plaza y medina, también los sitios más bellos del Medio Atlas y mucho más.
Tour itinerary
Day 1 : Casablanca – Marrakech
Upon your arrival at Casablanca airport, a vehicle will be waiting for you to take you to the riad in Marrakech. The rest of the day is free for you to enjoy your first contact with Marrakech at your leisure. Free lunch and dinner, accommodation in the Riad.
Day 2: Visit to Marrakech
Breakfast at riad Azalay and appointment with the guide to start the half-day guided tour of the city of Marrakech. You will visit with Fatiha the most emblematic monuments of the city such as the Saadian Tombs, the Bahia Palace and the surroundings of the Koutoubia. Free afternoon to explore the medina at your leisure enjoying the experience of getting lost in the medina of Marrakech walking through its alleys. Free lunch and dinner. Overnight in Riad.
Day 3 : Marrakech – Dades Valley
Pick up at the hotel where you stay in Marrakech at 8 in the morning and start of the route. Departure from Marrakech via the Col Tichka mountain pass, where we will cross the Atlas Mountains making stops to enjoy the magnificent views that the route offers us and to rest or take photos whenever you feel like it. We will continue on our way to Ouarzazate, where After lunch, we continue the route finding the town of Skoura, located in the heart of the valley of palm trees, an extensive and labyrinthine oasis, whose exuberant vegetation shelters precious secret kasbahs and you can also visit its kasbah. From here we will continue through the Valley of the Roses (famous for their cultivation) towards the Dades Valley, where we will visit the Dades Gorges. Dinner and night in hotel in Dades.
Day 4 : Dades Valley – Merzouga
After breakfast, we will continue along the banks of Boulmane, where a road lined with kasbahs (citadel) and ksour (fortresses or castles) opens, whose landscape is ocher, red and mauve. Around us we will find stony plateaus where camels graze. After a journey full of ksour, oases and palm trees, we will arrive at Tineghir (where the spectacular Todra gorges are located) perched at 1,350 m above sea level and surrounded by a palm grove. We continue towards Erfoud (city of fossils) and after passing through Rissai, we will arrive at Merzouga, in front of the high dunes of Erg Chebbi. In the hotel we will leave what we do not need and the dromedaries await us to enter the desert, while the sun sets, until we reach the tent camp in the middle of the high dune desert, where we will spend the night in a tent. New Year’s Eve dinner and party in a tent under the stars of the desert. Dinner and accommodation in camp.
Day 5 : Merzouga – Fes
After breakfast departure towards Fez, first you will cross the Tafilalet valley, you will enter the Ziz palm grove and you will go up the High Atlas, then you will cross the High Moulouya plateau and the Middle Atlas with its impressive cedar forests, to finally descend to the fertile valley of the Oued Sebou in which Fez is located. Free lunch and dinner. Overnight in Riyadh.
Day 6 : Fes – Fes
Breakfast and visit Fez at your leisure. Fez is the most labyrinthine medina in Morocco and one of the most impressive in the Islamic world, thousands of alleys crisscross this medina in all directions, the different souks divided by craft guilds are spread throughout this maze that seems endless, you can visit some of its madrasahs , the surroundings of the Qarawiyin mosque, according to the first university in the world and the well-known dyers, where the skins are dyed with artisanal techniques. It is advisable to do the visit with a guide who will take you to the different points of interest without delay. Free lunch and dinner. Accommodation in riad.
Day 7 : Fes – Rabat
Breakfast at the riad and transfer to Rabat. Along the way you can make a stop and visit on your own to the city of Meknes, the third imperial city of your tour of Morocco, the dream of Moulay Ismail, a city created by this sovereign to be the capital, but after the death of Moulay Ismail ceased to be. After the stop you will continue towards Rabat, the fourth and last imperial city of your tour. In Rabat you can visit the Tour Hassan, the Mausoleum of Mohamed V, the Kasbah of the Oudayas and the beautiful and manageable medina. Free lunch and dinner. Overnight in Riyadh.
Day 8: Rabat – Casablanca
Breakfast and transfer to Casablanca airport at the scheduled time of departure of the plane.
Included
- Pick up and drop off service from your accommodation
- Private transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle
- English speaking professional driver
- dinner and breakfast
- Camel ride for sunset and sunrise (one camel each)
- You can stop everywhere to take photos
Excluded
- Tickets
- Personal expenses
- tips
- lunches and drinks
- Airline tickets
- What is not included in program
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