Eight Day Tour From Casablanca to Marrakech

We will pick you up from the airport in Casablanca and drive you to your hotel in the city. You are free for the rest of the day.

Discover the highlights of Casablanca, including Mohammad V Square and the Hassan II Mosque, which is considered the second-largest in Africa. The mosque also has the world's second-highest minaret, standing at 210 meters.

Continue your journey to Rabat and visit its Unesco World Heritage site of Oudaya. You will also get to see other major landmarks of the city like the Hassan Tower, a minaret of an incomplete mosque which was built by the third caliph of the Almohad Caliphate in 1195 AD, along with the Mohammed V Mausoleum.

Drive past towns and villages that dot the Rif Mountains until you reach Chefchaouen, home to blue-washed buildings as well as a red-walled kasbah. You are free after reaching your destination and checking into your hotel. Stay overnight in Chefchaouen.

Today's itinerary includes a visit to the ruins of the ancient city Volubilis that was also the ancient capital of the Mauretania kingdom. Continue to Meknes, a city that is known for its imperial past as well as the beautiful Bab Mansour Gate, famous for its arches and mosaics. Stay overnight in Fes.

Today, you will explore historic sites such as Madrasa El Bouinania. This monument is widely acknowledged as the high point of Marinid architecture and Moroccan architecture in general. You will also see the Mosque and University of Karaouiyn, regarded as the oldest existing, continually operating higher educational institution in the world by Unesco. You will also see Nejjarine Square as well as a pottery village. Tonight you will stay in Fes.

Leave Fes early in the morning and head for the Merzouga Desert via Ifran. A city that is known for its alpine-style architecture and ski slopes, the landscape of Ifran is covered by cedar forests that are home to Barbary macaques. You will also travel past Midelt, the commercial center of a vast agricultural hinterland as well as the beautiful Ziz Valley and Erfoud.

Ride a camel to your desert camp while enjoying the views of dunes during sunset.

Have your breakfast before heading for Skoura. The drive takes you through Errissani, the ancient capital of Tafilalet, as well as the charming city Tinghir. Along the eay, you will come across a series of limestone river canyons in the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountain. Call it a day on reaching your accommodation.

Leave Boumalne Dades after breakfast and drive to Marrakech through Ouarzazate. You will also visit the 17th-century kasbah of Aït Benhaddou, considered to be one of the finest examples of Moroccan earthen clay architecture.

Aït Benhaddou is a historical site along the former caravan route between the desert and Marrakech. Having taken in the sights of this kasbah, you will continue your drive via the Tishka Pass, reaching an elevation of 2260 meters. Stay overnight in Marrakech.

We will transfer you to the airport in Marrakech for your flight home. Please note that a transfer to Casablanca can also be arranged.