Majestic Morocco

🍽️ Breakfast & Transfer to Chefchaouen

Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to Chefchaouen, the famous “Blue City” and one of the most picturesque destinations in Morocco.

🍴 Optional: Lunch at a local restaurant.

🏘️ City Tour of Chefchaouen

• Visit the Kasbah of Chefchaouen, dating back to the early 18th century and built by Moulay Ismail (1645–1727)
• Stop at Plaza Uta el-Hammam, the main cobbled square, home to the striking 15th-century Grand Mosque

🍽️ Optional: Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight in Chefchaouen.

🍽️ Breakfast & Visit to Volubilis

Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to the UNESCO-sponsored Roman ruins of Volubilis, a partly excavated Berber and Roman city.

Volubilis was the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania. It developed from the 3rd century BC as an Amazigh and proto-Carthaginian city, and grew rapidly under Roman rule from the 1st century AD.

➡️ Continue to Meknes

Travel to Meknes, known as the "Moroccan Versailles" and one of the kingdom’s oldest cities.

🍴 Optional: Lunch at a local restaurant.

🏰 Meknes City Tour:

• Stop at Bab El Mansour Gate, the grandest of all imperial Moroccan gateways
• Visit Hri Souani, a complex of granaries and stables featured in films such as The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

➡️ Transfer to Fes

Late in the afternoon, transfer to Fes, the spiritual capital of Morocco.

🍽️ Optional: Dinner at the hotel.

Overnight in Fes.

🍽️ Breakfast & Fes City Tour

Breakfast in the hotel. Enjoy a guided city tour of Fes, beginning with:

• The entrance to the largest royal palace in Morocco
• A panoramic view of the ancient medina
• Visit to the traditional ceramic crafts village for an authentic experience

Continue to Fes El Bali, the medieval part of the city that has remained unchanged for centuries.

🍴 Optional: Lunch at a local restaurant.

Key Visits:

• Al-Karaouine Mosque & University – built by Fatima Al Fihria in 857; recognized as the world’s first university and a leading center of learning since 859
• A Merdersa – a traditional Quranic school
• The leather Souq and the oldest Leather Tannery in the world, dating back over nine centuries

🍽️ Optional: Dinner at the hotel.

Overnight in Fes.

🍽️ Breakfast & Transfer to the Sahara Desert

Breakfast in the hotel. Begin your journey to the Sahara Desert through the Middle Atlas Mountains, with a stop in:

• Ifrane – a charming town and ski resort known for its Alpine climate and European-style houses. Located at 1,665 meters (5,460 ft), Ifrane holds Africa’s lowest recorded temperature (-24°C in 1935). Expect to spot the Barbary Macaque and native flora like Atlas cedar and Scrub oak.

Continue to Midelt, a key commercial hub for the surrounding agricultural region.

🍴 Optional: Lunch at a local restaurant.

Proceed through many Amazigh (Berber) villages and travel along the scenic Ziz Valley to reach Erfoud.

Arrive in Merzouga, the heart of the desert, and enjoy a magical sunset camel ride to your desert camp.

🍽️ Dinner & Overnight: in the desert camp, Merzouga.

🍽️ Breakfast & Optional 4x4 Desert Tour

Breakfast in the hotel. Enjoy an optional 4x4 desert tour, including a visit to:

• Al Khamlia Village – a small oasis village inhabited by the Gnawa tribe (Bambaras), known for their spiritual Gnawa music and rich Sub-Saharan heritage

Late in the morning, drive to Tinghir via Rissani and Tinjdad. Tinghir is a 40km-long oasis boasting one of Morocco’s largest palm groves.

Stop at the famous Todra Gorge, a 300m-high canyon carved into the High Atlas Mountains. Its rugged cliffs, with many climbing routes (French Grade 5+ to 8), make it a favorite spot for climbers. Todra Gorge was featured in the U.S. reality show Expedition Impossible.

🍴 Optional: Lunch at a local restaurant.

Continue to Dades, traveling through stunning desert landscapes, remote villages, and the expansive Jebel Sarhro lunar-scape. Dades, known as the "Valley of Figs," was prominently featured in a 2012 Cadillac CTS advertisement.

🍽️ Dinner & Overnight: in Dades.

🍽️ Breakfast & Transfer to Ouarzazate

Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to Ouarzazate, with a scenic drive lined with hundreds of kasbahs along the route.

Key Stops:

• Kelaat M’Gouna – famous for its rose cultivation and rose-infused products
• Ouarzazate (known as “Morocco’s Hollywood”)
  • Visit Taourirt Kasbah, considered one of the most beautiful kasbahs in Morocco
  • Tour the film studios, where famous desert scenes were and continue to be filmed
• Ait Ben Haddou – a spectacular earthen clay fortress and UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, featured in films like:
  • The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
  • Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
  • The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
  • Gladiator (2000)
  • Son of God (2014)

🍴 Optional: Lunch at a local restaurant.

Transfer to Marrakech, crossing the stunning High Atlas Mountains.

🍽️ Optional: Dinner at the hotel.

Overnight in Marrakech.

🍽️ Breakfast & Marrakech City Tour

Breakfast in the hotel. Enjoy a guided city tour of Marrakech, described by Winston Churchill as the “Paris of the Sahara.”

Key Stops:

• Koutoubia Mosque – built under Almohad Caliph Yaqub al-Mansur (1184–1199); inspired the Giralda in Seville and the Hassan Tower in Rabat
• Bahia Palace – a 19th-century masterpiece showcasing Islamic and Moroccan architectural styles
• Saadian Tombs – dating back to Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur (1578–1603); rediscovered in 1917 and restored by the Beaux-Arts service

🍴 Optional: Lunch at a local restaurant.

Continue the tour with:

• Jemaa El Fna Square – enjoy performances by storytellers, snake charmers, and traditional medicine peddlers
• The bustling souks of the old medina

🍽️ Optional: Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight in Marrakech.

🍽️ Breakfast & Full-Day Trip to Essaouira

Breakfast in the hotel. Enjoy a full-day excursion to Essaouira, a charming beach city with a rich multicultural history shaped by Portuguese, French, and Jewish influences.

Highlights of Essaouira:

• A laid-back coastal vibe with mild climate and wide sandy beaches
• The walled medina, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, showcasing late-18th-century European military architecture in North Africa
• Strolling through narrow winding streets lined with colorful shops, whitewashed houses, and large old wooden doors

🍴 Optional: Lunch at a local restaurant.

Late in the afternoon, transfer back to Marrakech.

🍽️ Optional: Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight in Marrakech.

🍽️ Breakfast & Transfer to Casablanca

Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to Casablanca, Morocco’s economic capital and largest city.

Casablanca City Tour:

• Hassan II Mosque – the largest mosque in Morocco and one of the largest in the world
• Ain Diab Corniche – enjoy a pleasant stroll along the scenic coast
• Mohammed V Square – a central landmark of the city

🍴 Optional: Lunch at a local restaurant.

Enjoy the rest of the afternoon at your leisure.

🍽️ Optional: Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight in Casablanca.