15 Days Extended Tour From Marrakech For Morocco Vacation

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If you’re eager to take a lengthy holiday and want to see all of Morocco, we suggest this 15-day Morocco grand tour departing from Marrakech. Morocco’s entire history is etched on the walls of the four cities that make up the circuit of the imperial cities: Rabat and the Mohammed V Mausoleum, Fez and the Nejjarine Fountain, Meknes and Bab El Mansour, Casablanca and the Hassan II Mosque, and Marrakech and the Jemaa El Fna Square. , all classified as World Heritage by Unesco and more… This grand tour Morocco takes you through some of the country’s most famous locations, which are full of history, cultural diversity, adventure, and the splendor of its imperial cities. This is the recap of the 15-day extended tour from Marrakech for Morocco vacation. Scroll down so that you can read the full trip itinerary.

Highlights

  • Have Moroccan traditional cuisine and cultural heritage.
  • Visit the splendid Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou, listed by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage.
  • Stroll the Erg Chebbi dunes by camels and spend a night under nomadic tents.
  • Watch a beautiful sunset and sunrise over the golden dunes of the Merzouga Desert.
  • Have a Berber dinner and music folklore at night under the stars in a Sahara desert camp.
  • Admire the landscapes of the Todra canyons’ high walls, Dadès gorges, Palm Oasis, and Rose Valley.
  • Explore Tetouan, the Rif mountains, and Tangier, the diplomatic portal of Morocco.
  • Discover the 4 imperial cities of Morocco: Marrakech, Rabat, Meknes, and Fes.
  • Admire the view of the biggest mosque, Hassan II, in Casablanca.
  • Visit Essaouira, Safi and El Jadida to explore the beautiful coasts and beaches of Morocco
  • Discover Chefchaouen delights with its alleys tinged with green, blue, and mauve.
  • Scout about the spiritual capital of Morocco, Fes: Najjarine fountains and museum, Quaraouyine University, the tanneries, the Medrassa Bouanania.
  • Walk around the colorful souks and markets in the old Medinas of Fes and Marrakech and explore the artisan’s workshops.
  • Meet the Barbary apes in the cedar forest in the middle of the Atlas.
  • You can stop everywhere to take memorable photos.
  • This 15-day Morocco grand tour starts in and ends in Marrakech.

Included/Excluded

  • Pickup and drop-off service
  • Transport by a modern vehicle
  • English and French-speaking driver
  • Local expert tour guide
  • Camel ride for sunset and sunrise
  • Half-board accommodation
  • Overnight in a desert camp
  • Official and professional historian guide
  • Fuel and bottled water during the tour
  • Entrance fees
  • Tips and gratuities
  • Lunch and soft drinks
  • Any private expenses

Itinerary

Our team of professionals will greet and assist you when you arrive at the Marrakech airport, and you will then be driven to your accommodation in a comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle. Spend the night in a hotel, riad, or guest house with breakfast.

Following breakfast at your place of accommodation, we will drive you west of Marrakech along a road where you will pause to take in the scenery and take pictures. If you would like, you can also stop at one of the many cooperatives of Berber women who produce Argan oil, a multipurpose oil that is well-known for its applications in both cooking and cosmetics. On a scenic walking tour of the ancient city, learn the fundamentals of Essaouira's history while admiring the beach town's characteristic rhythm and blue-and-white architecture. In addition to seeing other quaint locations like the old Jewish quarter and the jeweler's district, the UNESCO-listed Medina is teeming with stores owned by artists and craftspeople. After the tour, you can spend the remainder of the day exploring on your own. You can visit the historic Portuguese fortification Sekkala or go down to the water to watch the fishermen bring in their haul. You can also eat a fish lunch near the port or at a local restaurant. Spend the night with breakfast at a hotel, riad, or guest house.

Following breakfast at your place of accommodation, we take you to Safi, a significant city known for its pottery. The city's tour, followed by a drive along the coast to Oualidia and El Jadida, the historic Portuguese city with its walls facing the sea. Explore the Portuguese cistern and take a stroll along the walls, which provide breathtaking views of the city, the port, and the ocean. Take a lunch break before continuing on to Casablanca. Spend the night with breakfast at a hotel, riad, or guest house.

We will drive to Rabat after breakfast at your place of accommodation, but first we will tour Casablanca's main highlights. Commence with the tour of Morocco's economic hub: the United Nations location, Anfa, and ultimately the road of the cliff that separates the sky, earth, and sea, and visit the Mosque Hassan II, the architectural gem of the Muslim faith. Have a Moroccan-typical lunch in a local restaurant at the Cornish. Later in the day, proceed to Rabat. Explore the Kingdom's administrative capital, which includes the Royal Palace, the Hassan Tower, the city's most well-known landmark and a representation of the Almohad dynasty, and the opulent Mohamed V Mausoleum, which is embellished with white onyx, marble, carved cedar, and a gilded bronze chandelier. Spend the night with breakfast at a hotel, riad, or guest house.

Following breakfast at your place of accommodation, we will travel by highway to Tangier, which serves as the entry point to the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Africa. situated near Spain's southern region. Depending on when you arrive, you will have the opportunity to experience Tangier, the best city in the North. After that, spend the entire day with a local tour guide exploring this enigmatic city. A sightseeing tour in Tangier will be your first activity. Here, we will investigate the city's historical landmarks, including the ancient Medina town, Cape Spartel, and Hercules Cave. We drop you off at your Tangier lodging in the late afternoon. Spend the night with breakfast at a hotel, riad, or guest house.

Following breakfast at your place of accommodation, we travel via the stunning city of Tetouan and the Rif mountains on our way to Chefchaouen. savoring the Rif's breathtaking landscape and little Berber communities. After that, we'll visit Tetouan before stopping for lunch. In order to see the gem of the north, one of Morocco's top tourist sites, we continue our journey after lunch to the blue city of Chefchaouen, whose Berber name means "horn," situated beneath the Rif mountains. Established in the latter part of the 15th century, the blue city rose to prominence as the world's top tourist destination. Once in the city, you will have free time to stroll around the city's blue-washed streets, explore the Kasbah, Outa Lahmam Square, and the little village at your own speed. This town is a photographer's paradise and a fascinating site to explore because of its white and blue houses, dozen mosques and shrines, meandering alleyways, tight squares, and blue-painted stairways. Spend the night with breakfast at a hotel, riad, or guest house.

Following breakfast at your place of accommodation, we depart the blue city and journey through the region's breathtaking scenery. Until we arrive at Ouazzane, which is home to some of Morocco's greatest honey and figs, we pass fields of wheat, wildflowers, and traditional metal-roofed homes. A visit to the Roman Ruins of Volubilis comes next. Numerous streets, homes, columns, mosaics, and a massive gateway are all part of the enormous excavations at this UNESCO site. This significant city, which was first established in 225 BC, offers a fascinating window into Roman life in the area. You will discover all about its significance and history with your guide. We then travel to the imperial city of Meknes, which was established as a military settlement by the Almoravides dynasty in the eleventh century and developed into a metropolis under Sultan Moulay Ismail in the seventeenth century. With the construction of the huge Bab Mansour, the ramparts, the granary, the Sahrij Swani Basin for cultivation and water storage, and a gate of elaborate mosaic, or Zellige, he brought a Hispano-Moorish architectural style. After touring the stunning city of Meknes, we continue on to Fes, the spiritual capital, where we spend the night with breakfast in a hotel, riad, or guest house.

Following breakfast at your place of accommodation, you go on a guided Fes city tour. With its many mosques, Medersas, walls and ramparts, fortified gateways, mausoleums, palaces, and squares, this thousand-year-old city is a cultural and spiritual hub that makes it easy to get lost in its past. A guided tour of the Andalusian districts, the Moulay Idriss zaouïa, the Marinids necropolis, the El Attarin Madrassah, and the magnificent Karaouyine will provide you the points of reference you need to examine the city of Fassie's religious and cultural heritage. With your guide, have lunch at a Moroccan restaurant. The atmosphere of the souks makes Fez a haunting city as well! Allow your senses to carry you away as you lose yourself in the vibrant, boisterous maze with delicate or delicious scents. To learn all the traditional secrets of eastern beauty, don't miss the henna souk. Explore the souk el-Attarine, a spectacular concentration of all the hues and fragrances of spices, for a feast for the senses. Go up the terraces of the leather goods businesses to get a panoramic view of the multicolored dye pools that are so beautiful and to get away from the lingering smells of the tanners' district. Overnight and accommodation in a hotel, riad, or guest house with breakfast.

Travel across the Middle Atlas via Ifran, also known as "Moroccan Switzerland," and Azrou after breakfast at your place of accommodation. You will meet Barbary apes on your visit to the Cedre Gouraud tree in the cedar forest. From here, we traveled south via a number of villages, where you might have seen nomads residing in tents by the side of the road. Volcanic rocks are also visible. You can have lunch at Midelt, where we'll be stopping next. We then proceed, taking in the expansive vistas as we pass the TiziN'Talghomt (1907m). Pass through the Ziz Gorge and the tunnel close to Errachidia to observe the turquoise-blue water of the Barrage Hassan Al-Dakhil. Proceed to Erfoud, where you will pause for a broad perspective of the Ziz River's palm of Aoufous. Arriving at Merzouga and trekking on a camel for approximately one and a half hours to reach the Erg Chebbi dunes, taking in the most breathtaking sunset over the dunes, listening to music and folklore at night in a Saharan desert camp, and spending the night with breakfast and dinner in a Saharan desert Beber tent at the heart of the dunes.

NB: If you book a luxury tour, then you will have breakfast and shower at the desert camp; otherwise, the breakfast and the shower will be at the hotel after your camel rides back in the morning.

Getting up early to watch the sunrise and then having breakfast when your guide calls you to do so. After a long journey, you arrive at your hotel to take a hot shower and prepare for the next day of the tour. When you go to Rissani, you can explore the Souk (local market) and view the Fondouks, where donkeys congregate, in addition to visiting Zawiya Moulay Ali ash-Sharif. With its lunar scenery of plateaus, peaks, and canyons, as well as the vastness of its expanses, we continued our journey to Zagora by traversing the Jebel Saghro to reach the stone and adobe towns of Tazzarine and N'Kob. Proceed to the final caravan halt before the desert, Zagora, and explore the labyrinthine Ksar of Tissergate. Spend the night with breakfast and dinner at a hotel, riad, or guest house.

Following breakfast at your place of accommodation, you will drive through a series of canyons and depressions with oases—islands of greenery—from the Draa Valley in Zagora to Ouarzazate. Visit the Kasbah of Tamnougalte, a fortified old palace encircled by walls and a remarkable example of typical southern Moroccan architecture, after crossing the settlement of Agdez. Make a stop at the Kasbah of Taourirt, which was once the Pasha of Marrakech's home. In Ouarzazate. Spend the night with breakfast and dinner at a hotel, riad, or guest house.

After breakfast at your accommodation, take a drive down the 1,000 Kasbah Road, which connects Skoura and Dades Valley. The road is lined with gorgeous ocher-colored fortified clay structures. departure for Skoura, a vast palm forest where many villages' residents depend on agriculture for their livelihood. arrival in Kelaa M'Gouna, which is well-known for its May "Rose Festival," crossing the Dades River in the direction of Tinghir before arriving at the Todra Gorge, a huge 250-meter-high fault with a river with glistening waters at its base. After returning to Boumalne Dades, spend one more night in Ouarzazate. Spend the night with breakfast and dinner at a hotel, riad, or guest house.

We travel to the village of Ait Ben Haddou after breakfast at your place of accommodation. Once there, we explore the unique Kasbah of Aït Ben Haddou, which has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Later, you will be driven through the TiziN'Tichka (2260 m) to the Kasbah of Telout, which is only 40 km from Ait Benhaddou Kasbah. As a former caravan route from the Sahara over the Atlas Mountains to Marrakech, this Kasbah served as the seat of the El Glaoui family's power when King Moulay Hassan granted them political authority in Morocco south of the High Atlas Mountains. The palace is still open for tours, although it is gradually deteriorating and falling apart. The Glaouis were nearly as powerful as the sultan himself. The property was undergoing restoration in 2010. After lunch in the Pass of Tichka, we continue our drive across the high Atlas to Marrakech. Arrive in Marrakech at approximately 6 or 7 p.m. Spend the night in a hotel, riad, or guest house with breakfast.

You start a guided city tour of Marrakech after breakfast at your place of accommodation. The tour includes stops at the Koutoubia, a representative structure of Almohades art, the Museum of Marrakech (which features ceramics, pottery, and jewels), and the Palace of the Bahia, a masterpiece of Moroccan architecture with patios and gardens. Saadian tombs, where the exquisite decorations and the crossing of the tourist destination Djemaa El Fna Square will awe you. Visit the city's outskirts in the afternoon, including the tower walls, the olive tree-planted Garden of Menara, the French painter Jacques Majorelle's botanical garden, Medersa Ben Youssef, the crown jewel of Arab-Andalusian architecture, and Majorelle Garden. Spend the night with breakfast at a hotel, riad, or guest house.

Direct Transfer from your place of accommodation to the Marrakech airport in a modern, comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle according to flight schedules. Assistance with the return flight's check-in procedures. The tour program comes to an end.

NB: The price of this extended tour depends on the number of travelers in the group; please fill out the booking form to get the pricing. We can customize everything for you on this tour according to your needs, budget, timing, and preferences; just write us what you are looking for.

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  • Pickup and dropoff at any accommodation or any Morocco airport.
  • Transport by a modern, comfortable, and air-conditioned vehicle.
  • This extended tour can be customized according to your needs, budget, timing, and preferences. Just Write Us what you are looking for.
  • The price of this tour depends on the number of travelers in the group, accommodation preference, and other personal factors.
  • You’d better bring comfortable shoes, sunscreen, a sun hat, sunglasses, and a camera.
  • Half-board accommodation in hotels, riads, desert tents, or kasbahs (breakfasts are included).
  • Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the tour program starts.
  • Live tour professional guide and driver: English, Spanish, and French.
  • Confirmation will be received at the time of booking.
  • Duration: 15 days and 14 nights (it includes transfers and the tour program).
  • A vegetarian option is available; please advise at the time of booking if required.
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult.
  • Infant seats are available on request if advised at the time of booking.
  • You can advise at the time of booking the type of accommodation: standard, budget, or high-class.
  • Comfortable and non-slip walking shoes are recommended.
  • Visit the Frequently Asked Questions page to learn more about Morocco travel trips.

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