9-Day Tour: Marrakech, Rabat, Fes and the Sahara

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Duration: 9 days / 8 nights
Departure: Marrakech
Type: Private, tailor-made

9-day tour: Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Fes and the desert

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

The imperial cities and a night in the Sahara in nine days, starting and ending in Marrakech.

Day 1: airport – Marrakech

Airport pick-up and transfer to your riad, with a first taste of Jemaa el-Fna square.

Day 2: Marrakech

The medina, a UNESCO site since 1985, enclosed by red-earth walls: a maze of palaces, markets and minarets around Jemaa el-Fna. A guided visit of the Bahia Palace, the madrasa, the Marrakech museum and the Menara gardens, if your flight allows. Night in a riad, a restored old palace-house.

Day 3: Marrakech – Casablanca – Rabat

The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, then Rabat: the Mechouar, the Kasbah of the Udayas and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V. Night in Rabat.

Day 4: Rabat – Meknes – Fes

Meknes, the imperial city of Moulay Ismail, and arrival in Fes.

Day 5: guided Fes

A full day with a local guide in the medina of Fes el-Bali, a UNESCO site.

Day 6: Fes – Azrou – Midelt – Erfoud – Merzouga

Ifrane, the Azrou cedar forests and their monkeys, the Ziz Valley, Midelt and Erfoud. In the afternoon a camel ride to the Berber camp among the dunes for dinner and the night.

Day 7: Merzouga – Todra Gorges – Dades Valley

Sunrise in the desert and a camel ride back for breakfast and a shower, then the Todra Gorges through Berber villages and a night in the Dades Valley.

Day 8: Dades – Valley of Roses – Ouarzazate – Ait Ben Haddou – Marrakech

The valley of a thousand kasbahs, Kelaa M’Gouna, Skoura, the Taourirt kasbah in Ouarzazate, lunch and a visit to Ait Ben Haddou. Back over the Tizi n’Tichka (2,260 m).