11-Day Morocco Tour from Rabat to the Sahara

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Duration: 11 days / 10 nights
Departure: Morocco tours
Type: Private, tailor-made

11-day Morocco tour from Rabat

11-day Morocco tour from Rabat: a private, tailor-made trip with your own driver and a flexible itinerary.

A full loop from Rabat: imperial cities, the Sahara, the southern kasbahs, the Ouzoud Waterfalls and the Essaouira coast.

Day 1: arrival in Rabat

Airport pick-up with a name sign and transfer to your hotel or riad.

Day 2: Rabat – Meknes – Volubilis – Fes

Meknes with its massive walls, its market, el-Hedim square and the Agdal basin. Then Volubilis, a Phoenician-Roman city with more than 2,000 years of history. Arrival in Fes.

Day 3: guided Fes

The Royal Palace, the Jewish quarter and the medina through Bab Boujloud, the Blue Gate: the Bou Inania madrasa, Al Qaraouiyine University and the Chouara tannery.

Day 4: Fes – Ifrane – Merzouga desert

The Middle Atlas and Ifrane, the “Switzerland of Morocco”, the Zad pass, Midelt and Erfoud, gateway to the desert. A trek through the Erg Chebbi dunes to the camp in the Merzouga desert.

Day 5: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Tinghir – Dades Valley

A magical desert sunrise, then Erfoud and the spectacular Todra Gorges, a sheer-walled canyon. Night in the Dades Valley.

Day 6: Dades – Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Haddou – Marrakech

The Atlas studios in Ouarzazate, where Gladiator, Ben-Hur and The Mummy were filmed, and the kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou, a UNESCO site since 1987. Over the Tizi n’Tichka to Marrakech.

Day 7: guided Marrakech

The medina and Jemaa el-Fna square with a guide specialised in history, in the red city founded in 1062 by the Almoravids.

Day 8: Marrakech – Ouzoud Waterfalls – Marrakech

The Ouzoud Waterfalls, 110 metres high and the largest in North Africa. Back for an evening on Jemaa el-Fna.

Day 9: Marrakech – Essaouira

Essaouira, a UNESCO medina, fishing port and big sandy beach: the souks, the Mellah and the Skala de la Ville, the one place to walk on the ramparts above the Atlantic.

Day 10: Essaouira – Casablanca – Rabat

Casablanca with the Corniche and the great Hassan II Mosque, then Rabat and its medina.

Day 11: Rabat – airport

A visit of Rabat, a UNESCO site since 2012: the Kasbah of the Udayas with its blue lanes, the Royal Palace, the Mausoleum of Mohammed V and the Hassan Tower. Then transfer to the airport.

This itinerary is tailor-made: any stop can be changed and we will gladly adapt it.