7-Day Tour from Tangier: the Rif and Imperial Cities

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Duration: 7 days / 6 nights
Departure: Morocco tours
Type: Private, tailor-made

7-day tour from Tangier: the Rif, the Atlantic coast and the imperial cities

7-day tour from Tangier: a private, tailor-made trip with your own driver and a flexible itinerary.

A tour of the north and the imperial cities without the desert: the Atlantic coast, Rabat, Marrakech, Fes and the blue city.

Day 1: Tangier – Cape Spartel – Caves of Hercules – Asilah

Pick-up at Tangier port and drive to Cape Spartel, where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic in a view of turquoise and deep blue. 5 km away are the Caves of Hercules, Tangier’s main attraction, whose opening to the sea is shaped like the map of Africa. Then Asilah, an Atlantic fishing village with beaches, a harbour and old ramparts, perfect for sunset. Dinner and night in Asilah.

Day 2: Asilah – Rabat

On to Rabat, the political capital: the ochre walls of the medina built by Sultan Yacoub el-Mansour, the Hassan Tower, the Mausoleum of Mohammed V and the Royal Palace.

Day 3: Rabat – Marrakech

Marrakech, founded in 1062 by the first Almoravid emir Youssef Ibn Tachfin, is the “red city”. Everything revolves around Jemaa el-Fna square, a UNESCO Oral Heritage of Humanity since 2001: musicians, storytellers, snake charmers and, at sunset, hundreds of food stalls. Above it rises the 77-metre Koutoubia minaret, the model for Seville’s Giralda and Rabat’s Hassan Tower.

Day 4: Marrakech – Casablanca

Drive to Casablanca to see its main sights, above all the Hassan II Mosque. Dinner and night in a hotel.

Day 5: Casablanca – Fes

Arrival in Fes at midday. Through the Bab Boujloud gate into the medina of Fes el-Bali, a UNESCO site and one of the largest medieval cities in the world: the Bou Inania madrasa with its cedar wood and stucco, the Andalusian quarter with the Es-Sahrij madrasa, the Dar Batha palace and the Al Qaraouiyine mosque-university, founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri.

Day 6: Fes – Chefchaouen

Morning drive north into the Rif to Chefchaouen: Outa el-Hammam square, the Great Mosque with its octagonal minaret, the kasbah with its garden and museum and, outside the medina, the Ras el-Maa spring and the view over the town.