Experience the mesmerizing beauty of Morocco

(May 17-30, 2025)

*This tour is also available for other dates. Contact us to discuss what works best for you.

14-Day Tour: USD $6,350 double occupancy, $7,950 single occupancy.

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The Mesmerizing Morocco Tour includes:

3 Imperial Cities*, 6 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, plus mountains, desert, and beaches!

• Casablanca
• *Rabat
• *Fes
• Volubilis
• Sahara Desert
• Skoura
• Quarzazate/Ait ben Haddou
• *Marrakech
• Essaouira

Included:

• English-speaking tour director/guide/translator
• Hand-selected accommodations
• Air-conditioned vehicle and professional driver
• Pick-up and drop-off from ports of entry and throughout your entire tour to lodging and tour locations
• Luggage handling
• Breakfast daily, select lunches and dinners that will be listed on your itinerary
• Entrance fees to  Monuments and Gardens (Hassan II Mosque, Volubilis, Jardin Majorelle, Secret Garden, Bahia Palace. Optional: Atlas Movie Studios, Kasbah Amridil
• 24/7 support
• Options to add (not included in price): Cooking class, wine tasting tour, hot air balloon ride, camel ride, horseback/ATV/carriage rides, Yves Saint Laurent Museum, Berber Museum.

Day 1 (May 17): Casablanca

You will be picked up at the airport and transported to your lodging. A meal will be provided. Depending on arrival time, options include touring the Hassan II Mosque with its marvelous mosaics and breathtaking beauty. Driving by or going in for a drink or a meal at Rick’s Cafe, identical to the “Casablanca” movie set, exuding the ambiance and playing the scintillating music.

Hassan II Mosque is one of Casablanca’s most memorable sights.

Key Attractions:

• Hassan II Mosque: with its amazing architecture, mosaics, marble, intricate cedar wood carvings, and gorgeous chandeliers. It’s one of the largest mosques in the world with a capacity of welcoming 105,000 worshippers.
• La Corniche: You will be given an opportunity to take a lovely stroll or drive along La Corniche (waterfront), home to many high end restaurants and hotels.  It is a beautiful way to start your tour.
• Rick’s Cafe: replica of the movie set used in the movie, Casablanca, complete with the ambience and music from the 1942 movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. *option to have dinner there.

Day 2: Rabat

On your way to Fes, you will stop at Rabat, the current Imperial City, and begin your immersion into the culture and history of Morocco. 

Hassan II tower behind its protecting wall.

Key Attractions:

• Hassan V Mausoleum
• the Hassan Tower (built in the 12 Century)
• UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kasbah of the Oudayas.

Volubilis: 

• Private tour of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. You will travel back in time and feel the culture and history that is present everywhere you look. 

Night 2: Arrive in Fes, the second largest city in Morocco.

Fes is considered the holiest city in the Islamic world after Mecca. It was founded in the 9th century and is the best example of an ancient Moroccan city. 

Key attractions:

• Fes El-Bali: You will walk through this amazing  UNESCO World Heritage Site on the world’s longest indoor, pedestrian-only walkway. It has artisans, fragrant spices, brightly colored fabrics, and endless food-tasting and shopping opportunities.
• Chouara Tannery: Your tour will include an amazing view overlooking the Chouara Tannery, which is almost 1,000 years old. This area provides an opportunity to purchase some of the highest-quality leather products in the world.
• Options:
  • Pottery Cooperative, where you will see how the spectacular Moroccan pottery is created from start to finish and have the opportunity to make purchases.
  • Rug Cooperative, get a personal tour viewing and learning about the gorgeous and varied handmade rugs, tapestries, and clothing.  Also, an opportunity for purchase.
  • Observe Artisans creating various art forms in this amazing immersion into the history and culture of Morocco.

Days 3/4: Fes

You will tour through Fes-el-Bali (UNESCO World Heritage Site), the longest indoor pedestrian-only alleyway in the world, filled with working artisans, fragrant spices, colorful fabrics, and endless shopping opportunities.

The tannery:
We’ll take you to this view of the dye pits and the opportunity to purchase amazing, high-quality leather products.

The dye pits of Fes are over 1,000 years old.

Private Tour of a Pottery Cooperative 

Day 5: Travel to the mesmerizing Sahara Desert

You will cross through the beautiful Middle Atlas Mountains to the vast, to the golden dunes of the Sahara Desert where you will experience the timeless allure and magic of one of the worlds most iconic landscapes.

A camel train leading visitors through the Sahara Desert.

Key attractions:

• Camel ride: You will have the opportunity to enjoy a gentle ride on camels at sunset or sunrise while experiencing the mesmerizing and magical colors and shadows undulating over the massive dunes.  You can be transported by 4 x 4, if preferred.
• Luxury tent glamping: The lodging will be in luxury tents that include full bathrooms, showers, and air conditioning. Dinner and breakfast will be included, as well as live music around the campfire while taking in the amazing celestial spectacle of the incredible star-filled sky. The absence of light pollution unveils an epic vision that is awe-inspiring!

• Arrive at the camp, where you will have dinner and stay in luxury tents with bathrooms and showers. It is difficult to exaggerate the beauty of nighttime in the Sahara. 

A luxurious tent camp in the Sahara Desert.

Day 6/7: Skoura

On the way to Skoura, you will pass through the Todra Gorges (nearly 1000 feet high) and the beautiful Valley of Roses. Then, you will have a free afternoon to relax by the pool, enjoy a hammam or massage (not included in the cost of the tour), or tour one of the historic kasbahs in the area.

Ksar el Kabbaba

Key Attractions:

• Kasbah tour 
• La Palmeria 
• Cooking class 
• dinner in family home 

On the way to Marrakech, you will see the ancient Ksar, Ait ben Haddou (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), which is the backdrop to many movies and the Game of Thrones series. Then you will pass over the picturesque High Atlas Mountains on the curviest road in the world!

Ksar el Kabbaba

Days 8/9/10: The Magic of Marrakech

Key attractions:

• Jemaa El-Fnaa:  Marrakech’s central square filled with food vendors, snake charmers, street performers, monkeys, musicians, dancers, fortune tellers, and market stall, creating and exhilarating atmosphere that evolves from day to night.
• Majestic Palaces: the Bahia Palace and El Badi Palace stand out as luxury palaces that showcase Marrakech’s royal heritage.
• Koutoubia Mosque: is an architectural masterpiece and symbol of Marrakech. It’s towering minaret dominates the city skyline.
• The souks: we will take you on a tour through the labyrinthine streets where souks (markets) offer a treasure trove of handicrafts, textiles, spices, and Moroccan goods.
• Saadian Tombs: an architectural marvel dating back to the 16th century, these tombs were discovered in 1917 and showcase intricate tilework.
• Jardin Majorelle, the Yves Saint-Laurent Museum: a garden designed by the French painter, Jacques Majorelle, the garden is filled with exotic plants, fountains, and the iconic cobalt blue villa.

Add-on options:

•  A walking food-tasting tour.
•  horse-drawn carriage rides
• hot air balloon rides
• Casino night
• Cooking classes

The Medina (a UNESCO World Heritage Site)

You will be immersed in the bustling medina Jemaa el Fnaa, filled with vendors, musicians, snake charmers, monkeys, fortune tellers, the vibrant colors of textiles and pottery, the intoxicating scents of delicious Moroccan cuisine, and inspiring artist visions everywhere you look.

A Moroccan market (souk) in Marrakech

Optional things to see and do:

• Bahia Palace (19th Century)

Bahia Palace

• Saadian Tombs (16th Century)

One of the many incredible scenes inside the Saadian Tombs

• Jardin Majorelle, restored by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge, has plants from all over the world.
• Options on site (not included in price)
  • *Tour the  Yves Saint Laurent Museum, including a rotating costume collection found only here and in Paris, France.
  • Tour the Berber Museum

Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech

• Atlas Mountains/Berber encounter

High Atlas Mountains of Morocco

• Cooking Class (add on cost $65)

Learn to cook delicious dishes like this in a Moroccan cooking class.

Days 11/12: Essaouira

On your way to the beautiful fishing village of Essaouira, you will pass by the Argan trees, grown only in this area of the world,  stop at an Argan processing business run entirely by women, and have an opportunity to make purchases of the many products they create, including cosmetics, cooking oils, argan butter, and medicinal products.

Essaouira has a relaxed vibe. Musicians, including Prince, Cat Stevens, Jimi Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones, used to hang out here, playing their music on the beach.

Kite surfers come from all over the world to enjoy the wind and magic of the surf here. You will see them on your way into town or if you decide to spend some time at the beautiful, expansive beach.

Essaouira is famous for its kite-surfing beaches.

Key Attractions:

• Medina (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
• Portuguese cannons
• Fishing Pier/Market with the iconic blue fishing boats
• Thuya Wood carvings
• Art galleries
• Expansive Beach
• Cooking class (optional add-on)
• Tour nearby vineyard/wine-tasting (optio0n add-on)

Explore the seaside town, a former Portuguese settlement. Meander the local alleyways, including handcrafted Thuya wood shops (native only to Morocco), leather and textile artisans, jewelry and spices, and several fabulous art galleries.

Walk along the rampart with its cannons and Fish Market, where fishermen bring in their daily catches and cook them on the pier.

A sight unique to Essaouira: the blue boats.

Optional add-on:

• Wine tasting/Vineyard tour

An olive grove overlooking the city.

Day 13: Return to Casablanca

Includes a complimentary final dinner where we can recap our tour and enjoy the bonding and art we were blessed with in this magical place.

Fruit sellers in the market

Day 14: Departure

Beslama (Goodbye) till next time!

Tour Index:

1. Casablanca
2. Rabat
3. Fes
4. Sahara Desert
5. Skoura
6. Marrakech
7. Essaouira