IMPERIAL CITIES

CASA. RABAT. MEKNES. FES. MIDELT. ARFOUD. TINGHIR. WARZAZAT. ZAGORA.

TAROUDANT. AGADIR. ESSAOUIRA. MARRAKECH

12 Days - 11 Nights in half board

1 ST DAY: CASABLANCA

Reception at the airport, Transfer and installation at the hotel.

2ND DAY: CASABLANCA – RABAT – M EKNES

Visit of the Place des Nations Unies, From the Boulevard Med V the district of the villas of Anfa and the Corniche,
dominated by the imposing Hassan II Mosque (exterior view). .
Fish lunch at the port of Mohammedia
and continuation to Rabat
and visit of the administrative capital:
the Royal Palace, the Hassan Tower, the Mohamed V mausoleum, the Oudayas gardens.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

3RD DAY: MEKNES – FES

Departure towards Volubilis
to visit the Roman ruins. Then continuation to Meknes via Moulay Idriss.
Arrival in Meknes. Imperial city, erected to the rank of the capital by Moulay Ismaïl.
Lunch at the restaurant.
Town tour. Dominated by its bastion and surrounded by a triple enclosure of 40km:
Place El Hedim, Bab Lakhmiss, Bab Mansour. Continuation to Fez.
Dinner and night.

4TH DAY: FES

Discovery of Fez, spiritual capital of the Kingdom and important craft center
Visit of “Fez El Bali” and its historical monuments:
the Medersa Attarine, the Karaouine Mosque the first university in the world,
the Nejjarine fountain and the Souks.
Lunch in an old palace in the Medina.
Afternoon, visit new Fez El Jdid, its enclosure, its Royal Palace.
Dinner and night.

5TH DAY: FES – MIDELT – ERFOUD

Road to Ifran and discovery of this climatic and winter sports resort.
Continuation to Erfoud via Midelt, through a forest of old cedars
and holm oaks tormented by the wind and by the Tizin’Talrhemt pass.
Crossing the Ziz gorges which form a passage bordered by a cord
tenuous palm groves that dominate the Ksours.
Arrival in Erfoud, located in the heart of a vast and verdant palm grove.

6TH DAY: ERFOUD – TINGHIR – OUARZAZATE

Discovery of the palm grove of Rissani,
exterior view of the Moulay Ali Chérif mausoleum,
founder of the Alaouite dynasty and visit of Ksar El Fida.
Departure for the verdant Tinghir, via Tanejdad, along a bare and desolate land.
We enter the Todra gorges with steep walls reaching 300m high.
Lunch at “Kasbah Lamrani”
and continuation to Boumalen whose houses are built on the mountainside.
Incursion into the Dades gorges.
Dinner and night.

7TH DAY: OUARZAZATE – ZAGORA

Departure for the discovery of the Draa Valley.
The road winds through the Jbel Sargho mountain, then reaches an altitude of 1660m,
the Tizin'Tinififft. From Agdz to Zagora, the road follows the Draâ and its
string of palm groves dotted with Kasbahs and Ksours.
Lunch at the restaurant in the afternoon,
visit of the oasis of Tamegroute and the medieval library.
Dinner and night

8TH DAY: ZAGORA – TAROUDANT – AGADIR

Departure for Agadir via Agdz and Taznakht along the Draa Valley.
Crossing the Souss plain and the land of the argan tree.
Lunch in a superb residence.
Continuation to Taroudant and visit of the picturesque city nicknamed the little Marrakech »
because of its belt of red ocher ramparts surrounded by gardens, eucalyptus,
olive, pomegranate and palm trees. Dinner and accommodation.

9TH DAY: AGADIR

Departure for the discovery of Tiznit;
city surrounded by a belt of 5km of crenellated ramparts:
the Mechouar, a vast polygon lined with shops, the jewels of jewelers.
Continuation to Tafraout, a small village located at an altitude of 1200m.
in the center of a cirque of pink granite mountains via the Col de Kerdouss.
Lunch at the restaurant.
Personal discovery of Tafraoute and return to Agadir.

10TH DAY: AGADIR – ESSAOUIRA – MARRAKECH

Departure for Essaouira
the old Mogador” which runs along the Atlantic coast in its first part.
Walk inside the ramparts which shelter a medina with Portuguese influences
and strongly marked Moorish with its shopping streets,
its small shaded square and its terraces of Moorish cafes.
Visit of the fishing port located at the end of a long and beautiful beach of fine sand,
laid out at the foot of the ramparts. It offers a permanent show,
in an exuberance of colors, those of the boats but also of the nets piled up on the quays.
Fish lunch. Free time.
Late afternoon departure for Marrakech.
Installation at the hotel. Dinner and night.

DAY 11: MARRAKECH

Day dedicated to the discovery of the city.
In the morning, visit two beautiful palaces in Marrakech:
the Bahia Palace, a rich princely residence of the century
last with its many
apartments surrounded by patios
The Saadian tombs – the Medersa ben Youssef
the Koutoubia and the Menara Gardens
lunch at the hotel.
afternoon, tour of the ramparts, the Djemâa El Fna square,
the Medina and the colorful souks.
8:00 p.m. Dinner show in the medina of Marrakech.

12TH DAY: MARRAKECH – DEPARTURE

Breakfast. Free time according to flight schedules,
transfer to the airport. Assistance with registration formalities.
Flight for the return.

RESERVATION

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