Morocco Tour
During this 3 week Moroccan journey, you will experience the classic highlights of Morocco while also gaining a contemporary perspective on its culture. As you travel, you’ll explore iconic sites, engage in discussions about street art, and witness the dynamic blend of tradition and modernity.
The number of touring days will be tailored to your specific interests, ensuring a personalized experience. Throughout this 3 week Moroccan journey, you’ll discover the real Morocco, from the vibrant cities in the north to the breathtaking landscapes in the south. With each stop, you’ll enjoy diverse and fascinating experiences that highlight the country’s rich heritage.
Along the way, you’ll savor high-quality Moroccan meals, thoughtfully prepared to showcase the country’s culinary traditions. Throughout your journey, our expert in-country guides and driver will be by your side, ensuring you experience authentic Morocco—both old and new.
Looking for something special? Let us know, and we’ll work closely with you to craft the perfect 3 week Moroccan journey, bringing your vision to life for an unforgettable adventure.
21 days
Casablanca
20 nights at hotels/Riads as specified in the itinerary
Breakfast daily
Hassan II mosque inside tour
3 bottled mineral water per person per day
A/C transportation depending on number of person
Local guides in Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech and Essaouira
Monuments & historical sites entrance fees as per the program
All taxes
Personal purchases, drinks, lunch, tips, flights, travel insurance, Visa requirements, services not mentioned above.
Day 1
Upon your arrival at Casablanca International Airport, our representative will be waiting to greet you. Look for a sign with your name outside the arrivals hall. From there, he will escort you to your private vehicle for the start of your 3 week Moroccan journey.
Casablanca, or “Casa” as the locals call it, is Morocco’s largest and most populated city. It is also the busiest port and the economic and industrial heart of the country, contributing more than half of Morocco’s industrial output. The city has a cosmopolitan vibe, with Western fashions and lifestyles prevalent.
Begin discovering Morocco’s modern face in Casablanca, which is the perfect representation of the nation’s progress. Your brief highlight tour will include a stop at Pl Mohammed V and the newly built Grand Theater de Casablanca. You’ll also see the city’s striking Moresque buildings, which blend French-colonial architecture with traditional Moroccan style. These can be found in downtown, the quartier habous, and the beachside suburb of Ain Diab.
Next, marvel at the grand Hassan II Mosque, one of the most iconic buildings in the city. Perched by the sea, this mosque is the largest in Morocco and boasts the tallest minaret in the world. Inaugurated in 1993, it is one of the few mosques in Morocco open to non-Muslims.
After this fascinating visit, continue your 3 week Moroccan journey as you travel to your Rabat hotel via the highway for an overnight stay.
Day 2
After breakfast we will visit Rabat with guide. In the afternoon relax and wander on your own. Perhaps a visit to the art museum or history museum.
Day 3
After breakfast, we’ll begin to explore Rabat, Morocco’s political and administrative capital. The city offers a clean central beach, an evocative Kasbah, and an attractive walled medina that remains less touristy than other major Moroccan cities.
Our tour starts at the Mohammed V and Hassan II Mausoleum, Rabat’s most famous landmark. Then, we’ll visit the Hassan Tower, one of the oldest mosques in Morocco. Next, explore the Kasbah of the Oudaïas, a historic citadel that occupies the site of the original Rabat fortress-monastery, the source of the city’s name.
After this fascinating exploration, continue your 3 week Moroccan journey as you drive to Tangier, located on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. Enjoy an overnight stay in Tangier, soaking in the charm of this coastal city.
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Day 4
After pickup at your hotel in Tangier, we’ll begin with a scenic ride through various neighborhoods and surrounding areas. Along the way, we’ll make several stops at stunning viewpoints. Take a short break at Cape Spartel, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea, before visiting the legendary Caves of Hercules.
The second part of the tour includes an extensive walk through the Kasbah (fortress), a maze of narrow streets and alleyways. Here, you’ll gain insight into Rabat’s rich architectural heritage, including a 15th-century city wall and many Arab-Andalusian buildings that have inspired artists like Eugene Delacroix and Henri Matisse.
Next, head to the Medina (old town), where you’ll experience local culture through the bustling markets, communal ovens, steam baths, and artisanal shops. This lively area also showcases the city’s important Jewish and Christian heritage.
The tour offers the perfect opportunity to taste authentic Moroccan cuisine and soak in the vibrant atmosphere of the souks, where craftsmen and merchants sell traditional items. You might also visit Café Hafa or Café Baba, popular spots once frequented by Paul Bowles and William Burroughs.
Afterward, your driver and guide will take you back to your hotel, completing a fascinating chapter of your 3 week Moroccan journey.
Day 5
After breakfast in Tangier, we’ll begin our journey to Chefchaouen, traveling through Tetouan, a charming town near Tangier. In Tetouan, we’ll have an hour to explore the old medina and capture photos of its most famous sights.
Next, we’ll continue our drive to Chefchaouen, where you’ll spend the rest of the day at your riad, nestled in the old medina. From there, you’ll enjoy a beautiful view of the Rif Mountains.
After a day of relaxation and exploration, you’ll overnight at the riad, completing another memorable experience on your 3 week Moroccan journey.
Day 6
After breakfast in Chefchaouen, your 3 week Moroccan journey continues with a local certified guide. Enjoy lunch at a charming open-air café in the famous Outa el Hammam square.
Nestled in a wide valley between two peaks of the stunning Rif Mountains, Chefchaouen is a hidden gem. The town, rebuilt by Andalusian refugees fleeing the Reconquista, is known for its striking blue and whitewashed houses, red-tiled roofs, and artistic doorways that evoke the feel of the Spanish hills.
Spend the rest of the day exploring the sights, sounds, and smells of the medina. Browse the shops in the square selling woven goods, painted wooden home decor, and small sweets. Don’t forget to taste the town’s famous goat’s cheese, made from the herds of goats that roam the surrounding hills.
In the plaza, visit the walled fortress of the Kasbah and the ethnographic museum. Enjoy spectacular views from the rooftop. Chefchaouen is a small, safe city perfect for wandering at your leisure. The square in the heart of town is a peaceful spot to relax and soak in the atmosphere.
Day 7
In the morning, we’ll depart from Chefchaouen and head toward Meknes, driving through Morocco’s largest agricultural fields. By lunchtime, we’ll arrive in Meknes, an Imperial City and former home of the Moroccan sultanate.
Meknes boasts winding narrow streets and grand buildings, a testament to its imperial past. The city is surrounded by remnants of three sets of fortifications, cleverly integrated into its road networks, showcasing its historical significance.
At the heart of the original imperial city, you’ll find the king’s tomb, an impressive royal granary, and the magnificent Bab el-Mansour.
Next, we’ll head to Volubilis to explore the UNESCO-listed Roman ruins. Although only half of the 40-hectare site has been excavated, key monuments like the Capitol, Basilica, and Forum remain. The Capitol, dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, dates back to AD 218.
After touring Volubilis, we’ll continue our 3 week Moroccan journey to Fez for an overnight stay.
Day 8
Welcome to Fes, the most monumental of the Imperial Cities. The medina of Fès el-Bali (Old Fez), a World Heritage site, is an assault on the senses. It’s a maze of narrow lanes, covered bazaars, aromatic food stands, craft workshops, mosques, and an endless stream of people.
As you walk through narrow, uneven alleyways, daylight filters through high gray walls. Tables line the streets, heaped with spices, dried fruits, fresh fish, silk, and leather garments.
Fes residents have been selling goods and working metal by hand in the medina since medieval times. Today, generations continue the tradition, working in the same stalls as their ancestors. And everywhere, you’ll see cats—scrounging, prowling, and sleeping—the mascots of the medina.
Here in Fes, the old and new constantly collide. The man driving the donkeys may be chatting on his mobile phone, while the skyline is dotted with both satellite dishes and minarets.
Your city tour will include Bab Boujloud, Mellah, and Jamaa Al-Karaouine, the world’s oldest continuously operating university. Founded in 859, its inner courtyard is adorned with intricate, delicately carved geometric patterns.
Entering this peaceful place, tucked in the medina, reveals an ancient culture once kept hidden from outsiders. The Medersa Bouanania complex is the spiritual heart of Fes—and of Morocco itself.
No visit to Fes is complete without seeing the iconic Chouara Tanneries, where the process of producing world-class leather remains unchanged since medieval times.
If time permits, we’ll visit clay workshops, artisan quarters, the souks of the largest and oldest medina in Morocco, and the Batha Museum, a former Royal Palace transformed into a museum in 1916, featuring over 6,000 collections.
Day 9
Start your day with breakfast at the hotel before heading into the souks for a delicious culinary tour. During this part of your 3 week Moroccan journey, you’ll explore three different food souks, each offering a unique taste of traditional Moroccan street food. Sample dried meats, milawi, harsha, briwats, soups, olives, and more.
One of the highlights of your tour will be the honey souk, where you can taste a variety of wild honeys. Learn about their distinct flavors and health benefits, and discover why honey plays such a crucial role in Moroccan cooking culture.
Next, you’ll visit a furnatchi, where the water for the communal bathhouse ‘hammam’ is heated, and a 400-year-old furan, or communal oven and bakery. These traditional places are deeply woven into the fabric of daily life in Morocco.
The rest of the day is yours to spend at leisure—wander the vibrant streets at your own pace, soaking in the atmosphere. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 10
After breakfast, transfer to the heart of the desert. The trip takes you through the middle Atlas Mountains, a cedar forest, and many Amazigh cities and villages. Continue through Azrou to Midelt, a handy break between Fes and the desert, where you stop for lunch (your own expense). After, continue along through the dramatic Ziz Gorge, passing the ancient holy city of Rissani, where you will find the ruins of Sijilmasa, at once capital and merchant stopping locale for the ancient caravan routes of the 8th century. Here you will see thousands of palm trees, before getting to Erfoud. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Day 11
At 9:00am, you will leave by 4×4 vehicle to allow smooth driving in the sand, and visit the villages nearby for a closer contact with the Berber culture, before arriving in Rissani for a visit to a camel milk cooperative, and one of the best traditional markets in the Sahara. One market sells only donkeys and the other markets for sheep, goats and cows. Stop at el Khamlia village for an included lunch. Continue to the African village or “Gnawa village” for a short introduction to the music. In the evening, drive to the large dune in Merzouga to enjoy the sunset. A camel ride will take you to your desert camp for dinner, and overnight in a Berber tent.
Day 12
Early sunrise camel ride along the golden sand dunes in Merzouga will start your day. Then return to your camp for breakfast before we leave to Tinghir via Tinjdad. We will start the city tour of Tinghir where a good number of Jews used to live during the 20th century. We will visit the Jewish quarter, the area where Jews used to live in co-existence of the local Berbers, and the Jewish Cemetery. After time we will enjoy some time walk along the very beautiful valley and on the banks of the river to appreciate the beauty of a very long oasis of more than 40 km rich with palm trees and many sorts of fruits. In the north of tinghir, we will walk to visit the Jewish village of Asfalou and enjoy a great time in the famous Todgha Gorges, a 300m cut deep wall into the mountains of the High Atlas and one of the rarest landscapes all over the world. There will be an optional lunch in Todgha Gorges.
Transfer to kelaat m’Gouna along the Dades valley. kelaat M’Gouna is a large village famous for cultivating roses; expect to find many fine, rose-infused products there. Continue to the valley of Skoura and check-in to “Jardins de Skoura” , one of the astonishing properties in the area. Enjoy your dinner there and overnight.
Day 13
Wander at leisure.
Day 14
After breakfast, explore the Skoura Oasis. Visit the Kasbah Amridil, dating to the 14th Century. Stroll for an hour in the gardens of the north side of the town past almond and olive trees. Head to explore Quarzazate, for centuries, people from the Atlas, Draa and Dades Valleys converged to do business at Ouarzazate’s sprawling Taourirt Kasbah, then a modern garrison town was established here in the 1920s to oversee France’s colonial interests.
The movie business gradually took off in Ouarzazate after the French protectorate left in the 1950s. Visit Taourir and Tifoultout Kasbahs, which are considered to be among the most beautiful Kasbahs in Morocco. Continue to visit the film studios where some of the most famous desert landscapes were and are still being shot. Roam through the spectacular fortress of ait ben Haddou, the iconic land- scape immortalized in such films as, Lawrence of Arabia, Gladiator, and Alexander. Leaving Ait Ben Haddou you will cross the High Atlas Mountains via the magnificent Tiz in Tichka pass to Marrakech. Check-in to the hotel to relax and refresh. Check out the restaurant scene. Overnight in Marrakech.
Day 15
An exciting day awaits us as Marrakech, heady sights and sounds will dazzle, frazzle and enchant. Our morning city tour will include: Bahia Palace and the Dar Si Said. Both are a riot of tile work and intricate floral painted-wood ceilings. Then, learn about the Berber culture, and follow their steps along the trade routes from North Africa to the Sahel at the Tiskiwin Museum. Also called Bert Flint’s Museum for the Dutch anthropologist who founded it and who’s personal collection of artifacts it houses, its displays range from authentic Berber tents and carpets to fine basketwork and ancient jewelry. Continue to Dar El Bacha, considered one of the most beautiful palaces in the ochre city. Visitors can discover the ceiling with multicolored mosaics and Berber style architecture. A cedar wood door is engraved with a symbolic star from Morocco. Head to dar bellarj for a lunch on your own expense. Relax and get ready for a traditional hammam. Entering your local hammam you enter a place where space and time speak an ancient language. You will be immersed in total relaxation listening to your own body in reconciliation with yourself in an atmosphere filled with water, oils, essences and perfumes. Enjoy 45 minutes of scrub with black soap or spices for relaxation and eliminating toxins from the body. After Hammam, sway to the massage place where you will enjoy a tonic massage of the Moroccan tradition that help to eliminate tensions in order to regain energy and vitality. Head to el Fassia restaurant for a dinner (à la carte) on your own. After, on to the Jamaa L’Fna square and witness the astonishing spectacle of Jamaa L’ Fna Square by evening. Visited by locals and tourists, you will find juice stalls, water sellers and snake charmers by day and dancing boys, storytellers and magicians by night. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 16
Today, you will visit the most beautiful palaces and monuments in Marrakech including Badiaa Palace: Built in the late 19th century. Our visit will include the Koutoubia mosque. Then off to the beautiful Jardin Majorelle. Yves Saint Laurent gifted the Jardin Majorelle to Marrakech, the city that adopted him, in 1966. Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge bought the electric-blue villa and its garden to preserve the vision of its original owner, landscape painter Jacques Majorelle, and keep it open to the public. The garden began cultivating in 1924 and thanks to Marrakshi ethnobotanist Abderrazak, the psychedelic desert mirage of 300 plant species from five continents continues to be preserved. The garden is also home to the Berber Museum, which houses a small but spectacular collection of authentic Moroccan garments, weapons and jewelry, dating to the 19th century and before. The craftsmanship and artistry, particularly of the women’s dresses, had surely not been lost on Yves Saint Laurent, who arranged to have his ashes scattered in the garden, where a small monument marks his passing. After lunch at a local restaurant in the medina, you begin your stroll through the labyrinth of narrow streets in the Medina and visit the famous Souks, selling everything from leather clothing to spices.
At 3:30 PM, we will have an exceptional gastronomic experience of a cooking class with a Moroccan family, you will star the experience by visiting the souk and choose you own fresh vegetable to cook your tajine or salad or any Moroccan dish you like. After the souk you will head to the house of the family to star the cooking. At the end of the day enjoy your dinner in a Moroccan way with the local family in Marrakech before you arrive to your riad for overnight.
Day 17
This morning you will be met at your hotel and transferred to Essaouira. On the way, you will stop at an Argan oil cooperative where you will enjoy the experience of the different traditional processes of oil making with the local ladies. First of all, the women sit armed with a base rock and a hand-held sharp stone to start the extraction process. They crack each Argan fruit to reach the kernels. The women roast the kernels slightly to bring out the flavor, then let them aside to cool down before they ground them into a very thick brown oily liquid using a traditional rock grinder (Azerg). Soon after that, one of the women in the cooperative would mix the oily paste with warm water before hand- kneading in order to bring the pure, unfiltered Argan oil up to the surface to finally be able to filter it. The brown dough-like hunk (local term: Tazegmount), left after the extraction procedure, is protein-rich and usually used for effective traditional cosmetic recipes as well as for animal feed. You will learn all these methods starting from harvesting the good quality fruits to the extraction and making Argan oil products. Enjoy a Berber lunch at the cooperative then continue your way to Essaouira where you will enjoy rest of the day at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 18
Breakfast at the hotel. Essaouira, a relatively small, easily navigable beach city, is ideal for a free day. Essaouira has got a distinct multicultural feel, resulting from the large Portuguese, French, and Jewish populations that once called it home. Its mild climate and expansive stretches of ocean sand also place it among Morocco’s top beach towns. Essaouira’s walled medina was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list in 2001. Its well-preserved, late-18th-century fortified layout is a prime example of European military architecture in North Africa. For the visitor, the mellow atmosphere, narrow winding streets lined with colorful shops, whitewashed houses and heavy old wooden doors make it a wonderful place to stroll. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 19
After breakfast, transfer to Casablanca via Safi, Oualidia and el Jadida. Safi was under protectorate by the Portuguese empire from 1488 to 1541, while the fortress built to protect the city, under Portuguese rule, is still there today. Safi is the main fishing port for the country’s sardine industry, and also exports phosphates, textiles and ceramics. During the Second World War, Safi was one of the landing sites for operation Torch. After Safi, stop at Oualidia for lunch on your own before continuing through el Jadida to Casablanca. Check in to the hotel and get ready for your farewell dinner at Rick’s Café. After the dinner, drive back to the hotel and overnight.
Day 20
Wander at leisure.
Day 21
Today, we will assist you to Casablanca airport for your flight.
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