15-Day Morocco Tour from Casablanca

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Duration: 15 days / 14 nights
Departure: Morocco tours
Type: Private, tailor-made

15-day tour from Casablanca: coast, desert and imperial cities

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

The whole of Morocco starting and ending in Casablanca: the Atlantic coast, Marrakech, the deep south, the Sahara, Fes and the north.

Day 1: Casablanca

Arrival at the airport, welcome by your guide and transfer to the hotel.

Day 2: Casablanca – El Jadida – Oualidia – Safi – Essaouira

Along the coast: El Jadida, the old Portuguese Mazagan of 1513, and Oualidia for a seafood lunch. Then Safi and Essaouira. Night in a riad.

Day 3: Essaouira – Marrakech

Essaouira’s port, a women’s argan cooperative, a seafood lunch in the medina and time on the beach. In the afternoon on to Marrakech. Night in a riad.

Day 4: guided Marrakech

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

Day 5: Marrakech – Tizi n’Tichka – Telouet – Ait Ben Haddou

The Tizi n’Tichka pass (2,260 m), the Telouet kasbah and Ait Ben Haddou, set for The Man Who Would Be King, Lawrence of Arabia, The Mummy and Gladiator. Sunset from the hilltop, dinner and night.

Day 6: Ait Ben Haddou – Ouarzazate – Skoura – Valley of Roses – Dades

The Atlas studios and the Taourirt kasbah in Ouarzazate, the kasbah of Amridil in the Skoura oasis, lunch in Kelaa M’Gouna and a night in the Dades Gorges.

Day 7: Dades – Todra Gorges – Merzouga

A view over the Dades kasbahs, a walk in the Todra Gorges, lunch in Tinejdad or Touroug and arrival in Merzouga. An hour by dromedary to the camp in the Erg Chebbi sea of dunes. Dinner and a night in a tent under the stars.

Day 8: Merzouga – nomads – Khamlia – Erg Chebbi loop

Sunrise from the Great Dune and a dromedary ride back. A loop of Erg Chebbi on Paris-Dakar tracks with the Algerian mountains behind, a nomad family and the village of Khamlia with a short Gnawa concert. Night in a hotel.

Day 9: Merzouga – Rissani – Erfoud – Ziz Gorges – Midelt

Rissani with the zaouia of Moulay Ali Cherif and the souk, the Aoufous oasis viewpoint, the Hassan Addakhil dam, the Ziz gorges and the Legionnaires’ Tunnel. Over the Tizi n’Talghemt pass (1,907 m) to Midelt for the night.

Day 10: Midelt – Azrou – Ifrane – Fes

Views of snow-capped Jbel Ayachi, Azrou with the 800-year-old Gouraud cedar and the monkeys, Ifrane with its stone lion and Al Akhawayn University. Arrival in Fes, dinner and night.