Join our small group to Morocco for 12 nights and learn about the local agriculture and the Moroccan culture.
Day 1| Casablanca
Arrival – Rabat (120 km) Thursday November 16th
Welcome to Morocco!!
Arrival in Casablanca. Welcome and assistance meet our local representative from waiting for you
at the arrival hall with a sign with your names on. Transfer to Rabat, the
capital of Morocco and an Imperial city located along the Atlantic Ocean
Rabat, Morocco's capital, rests along the shores of the Bouregreg River and
the Atlantic Ocean. It's known for landmarks that speak to its Islamic and
French-colonial heritage, including the Kasbah of the Udayas. This Berber-era
royal fort is surrounded by formal French-designed gardens and overlooks the
ocean. The city's iconic Hassan Tower, a 12th-century minaret, soars above the
ruins of a mosque.
Enjoy
lunch at local restaurant. After lunch, check in at your hotel.
Welcome
dinner at hotel
Accommodation: Hotel Le Diwan M Gallery - Superior room Lunch/ Dinner
Day 2| Rabat – Volubilis - Fes (250km) Friday November 17th
After breakfast at the hotel begin your
Sightseeing of the “Imperial garden city” Rabat: Rabat is the political
capital of the Kingdom since 1912.The well-planned city consists of broad
tree-lined avenues, a landscaped central park, and impressive quarters for the
foreign embassies and ministries. Begin
de visit with The Hassan Tower, the minaret of the great mosque, Mohammed V
Mausoleum, the Kasbah of the
Oudayas, the Medina, the Royal Palace within the walls of the Mechouar, the city gates & Chellah necropolis
Departure
to MEKNES the Imperial city and the “Versailles of Morocco, dating back to the
8th Century.
Enjoy
a lunch at local restaurant in Meknes.
City tour of Meknes: Meknes is located in a strategic position in
the heart of Morocco, to its south and south-east are the rich cedar forests
and mountains of the Middle Atlas Mountains with the cities Ifrane and Azrou;
and more to the south are the rich oases of Tafilalt.
The
sightseeing begins with a tour of the walls with monumental gates dating from
the seventeenth century Berdaïne Bab, Bab Khemis. Continue exploring the city
by the stables (Rua) and attics (HERI). Stop at the Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail,
the only mosque that non-Muslims could visit in Morocco for a long time. Exit
through the famous Bab Mansour on the vast square Hedim. On the other side of
the square, visit of the Museum of Moroccan Art "Dar
Jamai" offers a wide variety of handicrafts for you to see
Agriculture visits
The Agricultural sector contributes with 19%
to the National GDP, divided between Agriculture (15%) and Agro industry (4%).
This sector employs over 4 million people including about 100 000 in agro
industry
The
New Agricultural strategy, Green Morocco Plan, established by the Ministry of
Agriculture and fishing, aims to consolidate the success achieved and to meet
new challenges facing Morocco’s competitiveness and opening of Markets.
- Visit
of “regional Direction of Agriculture in Meknes-Tafilalet”
- Visit
of a farm specialized in olive production and olive oil
Continue to
Fes. Arrival, check in at the hotel. Dinner and overnight
Accommodation: Hotel Les Merinides – ROH rooms Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Day 3| Fes: Full day City tour Saturday,November 18th
Breakfast in your hotel, and then start an explorative
journey of Fes: the oldest cultural and spiritual imperial city in Morocco.
Begin with the Medina where you will visit the many hidden treasures that only
the inhabitants of the place know about. Fes served as the capital of Morocco
for more than 350 years and is home to the University of Al Karaouine, the
oldest operating university in the world, Medressa Bouinania. Your guided tour
will take you to the Nejjarine Fountains and the famous Tanneries. Visit
countless Souks.
Lunch at a local restaurant in the Medina
Afternoon,
visit of the Medina
Visit to the famous ceramic factory, and then you can enjoy a wonderful panoramic view over the whole Medina of Fes.
Dinner at the hotel
Accommodation: Hotel Les Merinides
– ROH rooms Breakfast/
Lunch/ Dinner
Day 4| Fez - Erfoud - Merzouga (500 km) Sunday, November 19th
After breakfast, Departure to Erfoud, by way of Atlas Mountain
Berber villages and the ski towns of Ifrane look more like Switzerland
than Morocco!)
Stop in Midelt (for lunch) and Errachidia along the way. Visit of the Blue Meski a magnificent place, lost in the
middle of nowhere.
Continue to Erfoud. Erfoud is the gateway to one of the most beautiful
natural sites in the world,
Drive by 4x4 from Erfoud, 55 km (about 1 hour 15 minutes), on route you
would stop at a fossil quarry and visit the lake. If there is water, you have
to witness a spectacular cluster of wild birds.
Arrive at the spectacular dunes of Erg Chebbi which were featured in
the film Lawrence of Arabia. The dunes
are a majestic sight, and you can spend as much time as you like walking among
them as you witness the sunset. Some folks bring a bottle of wine and claim to
have a “mystical experience” there.
Trek into the vast and silent Sahara to enjoy sunset camel ride
Merzouga is a village in the Sahara Desert in Morocco, on the edge of Erg
Chebbi, a 50km long and 5km wide set of sand dunes that reach up to 350m high.
Most people are here to take a camel safari into the dunes, and to get a taste
of remote (tourism-influenced) Berber life. Winter months (November to
February) are cool but sunny, with daily high temperatures only slightly over
10 C, and cold nights. Spring until April is pleasant, with temperatures from
25 C up to 30 C in the afternoons, and with cool nights. Summer months are hot. In winter and
spring there is occasional short rain or drizzle (a couple of days per month,
on average), but heavy rain is unusual.
Dinner and overnight
at a Berber camp (Bivouac)
Accommodation: The Sandy Tents Luxury Camp – Tent Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Day 5| Merzouga
–Ouarzazate- AitBenhaddou (350km) Monday,
November 20th
Early wake up in the morning, at 5am to witness the
unique sunrise: admire and watch the pink disc of the sun appearing over
the gigantic dunes of Merzouga.
After
breakfast: Morning departure via
Tinejdad and Tinghir road with its magnificent Kasbahs.
Stop
at Todra gorges - the highest, narrowest gorges in Morocco. Here you will have
the option to hike for an hour within the valley, where you will meet locals
and learn about the culture and geography. Lunch at local restaurant.
Continue to Ouarzazate via El Kelaa M’Gouna & Dades Valley. Short
sightseeing of El Kelaa M’Gouna.
Continue to Ouarzazate
Visit
the city built as a garrison and
administrative center by the French, but today serves as the Hollywood of the
Kingdom, center of the country’s film industry, and many movie and TV stars
stay in the area when filming. (The Mummy, Lawrence of Arabia, Jesus of
Nazareth, Babel, Gladiator, and
many other biblical motion pictures were filmed in this region). Despite the activity of the filming, the town
itself is dusty and basically serves as a central point to make excursions to
the surrounding areas
Continue
to Kasbah Ait Benhaddou
Check
in at your hotel. Dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Hotel Ksar Ighnda – Superior Room Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Day 6 | Ait Benhaddou- Marrakech (200 km, 4
hours) Tuesday, November 21st
Breakfast at hotel.
Visit Kasbah Ait Benhaddou listed as a UNESCO
World Heritage site and served as a decor for filming international movies
as well as a major economic and cultural crossroad since ancient times. Visit
of this fortified village, the most spectacular fortress in the south of
Morocco of glawa's land.
Departure
to Marrakech through the Tichka pass (2260m) Lunch en-route
Before arrival to Marrakech, we will stop at one of the farms in the area which specialized in the culture of the melon “Charentais” & of “Clementine”
Meet a
Technician from ORMVAH: “Regional
board of Agricultural Development of Marrakech EL Haouz”. -TO BE CONFIRMED.
Continue to your
hotel for check-in
Dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Hotel Kenzi Rose Garden – Superior
Room Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Day 7 – Sightseeing Tour of Marrakech Wednesday, November 22nd
Breakfast. Morning
sightseeing in this beautiful city, known as the “Pink Pearl of the South”
includes the 16th century Saadian Tombs, the fragrant Menara Gardens,
the famous Koutoubia Mosque and the magnificent Bahia Palace with its
extraordinary tiles, opulent courtyards and fountains built by Sultans amidst a
two-acre garden.
Explore the botanical
treasures of Marrakech. Visit the famous Majorelle Gardens, designed by
the French Artist, Jacques Majorelle in 1924, and purchased by Yves St Laurent
in 1980.Some 300 species of plants from 5 continents, including cacti palms and
aquatic plants.
Then, on to Djma-el-Fna
Square, the heart of Marrakesh, where after sunset the fortune tellers,
acrobats, vendors, snake charmers and magicians put on a never-ending show.
Lunch
at a local restaurant in the Medina
3PM
Cooking class:
+
Dinner in High Gastronomic Restaurant La Maison Arabe
Transfer for private cooking classes consisting of:
Tea ceremony with a head chef, Master class in making Tagine in a
cooking school
La Maison Arabe has
taken our world-renowned cooking workshops to a different level, located at the
Private Gardens just outside the city.
The school is set in an organic kitchen garden, so participants can pick up vegetables and herbs they’ll use to season their delicious Moroccan tagines
The cooking classes are run by the dadas of La Maison Arabe, who have
been sharing their culinary secrets with thousands of guests over the
years.
The school boasts 16 individual work stations, each equipped with a
closed-circuit screen, so participants don’t miss a single key step or
spice.
Accommodation: Hotel Kenzi Rose Garden– Superior
Room Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Day 8| Marrakech Thursday, November 23rd
After breakfast, enjoy your day
at leisure to discover this beautiful city on your own with your personal car
and driver at your disposal. Lunch on your own
In the evening, we enjoy a
dinner - at a typical Moroccan
restaurant with an accompanying folklore and fantasia show -served under
caïdal tents while enjoying the performance complete with belly dancers, as
well as camel and horse shows
Accommodation: Hotel Kenzi Rose Garden or Sim –
Superior Room Breakfast/ Dinner
Day 9| Marrakech
- El Jadida (250km)
Friday, November 24th
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure to El Jadida. Visit of El Jadida, a former Portuguese port,
is actually a beach resort offering all seaside amenities. (Mazagan Beach
resort etc.) Discover a stylish and beautiful town, retaining the lanes and
ramparts of an old Portuguese medina.
Visit
of the Portuguese ruins next to the pier where some canons, used during battles
between Portuguese, Spanish & English armies, are still witnessing the
great importance of this town .Continue to the Portuguese Cistern with its 25
arched Gothic pillars, together with the shallow pool of water and a rooftop
opening in the middle of this hall, creating the most famous reflection image
of the world. This beautiful effect had attracted Orson Wells, who filmed
scenes of Othello there.
Continue
to Oualidia (Seaside resort) for fish lunch famous with its
Oyster-Farming (1 Hour Drive).
Some
time to relax and transfer to hotel in the afternoon. Check in at the hotel
In
the evening enjoy your dinner and
have fun at Mazagan Casino
Accommodation: Hotel Mazagan Beach Resort –
Standard room
Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Day 10| El Jadida - Day at leisure for relaxation Saturday, November 25th
Breakfast
in the hotel.
El Jadida is a port city on the Atlantic coast of
Morocco, located 106 km south of the city of Casablanca in the region of
Doukkala-Abda and the province of El Jadida. It has a population of 194,934.
From the sea, El Jadida's old city has a very "un-Moorish" appearance;
it has massive Portuguese walls of hewn stone
Day
at leisure at the beach or for Activities
and Relaxation
Accommodation: Hotel Mazagan Beach Resort – Garden
View room
Breakfast/Lunch/ Dinner
Day 11| El Jadida - Day at leisure for relaxation Sunday, November 26th
Breakfast
in the hotel. Day at leisure at the beach or for Activities and Relaxation
Accommodation: Hotel Mazagan Beach Resort –
Garden View room
Breakfast/Lunch/ Dinner
Day 12 | El Jadida - Casablanca (100 Km -1H 30) Monday, November 27th
Breakfast at hotel. Morning departure to Casablanca
Begin the sightseeing of Casablanca a chief port is the financial, commercial, and manufacturing center of Morocco and the largest city in Africa. Nestled within the protection of the ochre-colored ramparts, is a gleaming white city featuring a minaret that reaches up to touch the clouds?
Explore the "The White City", driving through the wide avenues and walking
the narrow streets of the Medina. Your first treat is a panoramic drive through
the city of Casablanca to view the Royal
Palace, the architecture of Place Mohamed V, Anfa, the residential area and
explore the romantic beachfront with its world-famous shops, restaurants, and
nightclubs.
See the famous Hassan II Mosque where you will have the option to visit the
interior. Recently built, it is the largest in the world outside Mecca. Lunch
at local restaurant (fish restaurant)
Check in at your hotel
Accommodation: Hotel Movenpick – Classic room Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Day 13| CASABLANCA – DEPARTURE
Tuesday,
November 28th
Early morning transfer to the
airport for your return flight home. Breakfast
The package includes:
Ø 12 nights’ accommodation in fist class
hotel with half board meal plan.
Ø Comfortable and A/C transportation
48 seats bus at disposal during the tour
Ø Lunches at the suggested restaurants
or Similar
Ø English speaking tour-guide at
disposal during the tour
Ø Entrance fees to the monuments
during the sightseeing tours
Ø Cooking class at La Maison Arabe
Ø Dinner with Fantasia Folk Show
Ø Farewell Dinner at Ricks Café
Ø Entrance fee to Hassan II Mosque
Ø 1 Big Bottle of water per 4 pax per
meal
Ø 0,5L Bottle of Water per day in the
Mini Van/ Bus
Ø Hotel taxes and service charges