12 days adventure tour from Casablanca

12 days tour from Casablanca to Marrakech via Chefchaouen, Fez, High and Middle Atlas, Merzouga desert and Ouzina and Essaouira

Day 1: Casablanca – Rabat
From the airport or your accommodation in Casablanca. We will visit the Hassan II Mosque which is located on Boulevard Sidi and is the tallest temple in the world and the second largest mosque after Mecca. Then we will go to Rabat.
Visit of the city and its main monuments: Kasbah of the Oudayas, Mausoleum of Mohammed V and the Hassan Tower.
Accommodation in a charming riad selected by Family Morocco Tour.
Day 2: Rabat – Chefchouen
Breakfast at the Rabat Riad, now we will go to the blue city of Chefchouen or Chaouen. It is a city located in the Rif mountains, in the northeastern part of Morocco, known for its spectacular blue buildings of different shades in its old town, as well as for its sloping cobbled streets full of looms and leather goods. There will be free time to walk at your own pace through its pleasant medina and explore its streets and markets.
Accommodation in a charming riad selected by Family Morocco Tour.
Day 3: Chefchaouen – Fes
After breakfast we will continue towards Fez, Imperial City and religious and cultural center of the country, we will arrive in the middle of the afternoon where we will be able to take a first contact with this city from an exceptional viewpoint located on one of its hills.
Accommodation in a charming riad selected by Family Morocco Tour.
Day 4: Fez Cultural Visit
Breakfast. Our official local guide will show you the thousand and one details of this city. The Medina of Fez is the largest in the Maghreb, with its labyrinthine streets. To appreciate it we will visit it during the day but, later, at sunset also since it changes completely, during the day it is a bustling city full of people wandering through the shops, buying or just observing, but at sunset it acquires another more relaxed dimension.
Accommodation in a charming riad selected by Family Morocco Tour.
Day 5: Fes – Ifrane – Azrou – Midelt – Erfoud – Merzouga
After breakfast we will go to the Merzouga desert, we will cross the Middle Atlas mountains where beautiful and surprising landscapes await us.
We will cross the town of Ifrane “The Moroccan Switzerland”. Due to its altitude, 1,630 meters above sea level, it is surrounded by cedars, in fact, we will enter the Cedros Forest, we will see its “nice” inhabitants: the Barbería monkeys, we will cross the entire volcanic geological area of ​​Azrou and, little by little, the landscape begins to change again leaving behind the trees and their greenery and becomes a barren landscape.
Our route will continue through the amazing Ziz river canyon and then its valley with some 9000 palm trees.
We will arrive at the riad located at the foot of the desert where we will have a welcome tea while the dromedaries prepare us to enter the dunes until we reach the tent camp.
At nightfall we can see that the desert turns color and the temperature gently drops. We will have dinner to the rhythm of Berber music, and a large bonfire will keep us company until bedtime.
Accommodation in tents with private bathroom
Day 6: Merzouga Desert – Ouzina Desert
After breakfast we will start the great route of the dunes, through the track of the old Rally Paris – Dakar. We will get to know the Khamlia village where we will enjoy the music of Gnawa, a spiritual music of great beauty, probably inherited from the ancient enslaved black settlers in sub-Saharan Africa.
We will continue the route to the Taouz village where we will re-enter the Paris Dakar Rally track in the direction of the Erg de Ouzina and the village of Ouzina. Ouzina is an old Berber settlement very close to the Algerian border. Then we will go to the dunes of Erg de Ouzina where we will stay at Riad Ouzina TGM, his house in the desert and the only riad in Africa that has signed the Letter of Adherence to the protection of Dark Skies sponsored by UNESCO and designated as Starlight by the Astrophysical Institute of the Canary Islands and the Starlight Foundation.
After dinner, live Berber music with drums, an unforgettable experience.
Day 7: Ouzina – Sahara desert – Nomadic culture
For the early risers we suggest seeing the sunrise between the dunes. After breakfast, we will go to the town of Ouzina to learn more about the way of life of its inhabitants. We will visit the bread oven, its orchards. We will eat “Berber pizza”, maybe we can get a henna tattoo if someone wants it and in the afternoon we will see the fossil mines.
Then we will return to the Ouzina desert to try to find an authentic nomadic family and have tea with them.
Accommodation in a charming riad selected by Family Morocco Tour.
Day 8: Ouzina – Berber villages – Ramlia – Tafraoute – Alnif – Tingherir – Dades River Gorges
We will leave the Riad Ouzina TGM towards the Ramlia village, we will continue along the same track of The Paris Dakar Rally.
Along the way we will be accompanied by desert landscapes full of dunes, nomads and dromedaries for about 3 hours until we reach Alnif and the Todra River Gorges near the city of Tinerhir.
At the end of a valley of palm trees and adobe villages, surrounded by rugged, barren mountains. It is one of the most famous natural sights in Morocco, about 300 meters of wall along one kilometer.
From here we will go to the Dades Gorges.
Dinner and accommodation in a charming hotel selected by Family Morocco Tour.

Day 9: Dades River Gorges – Ouarzazate – Marrakech
After breakfast we will go in the direction of Ouarzazate, passing through the wonderful Valley of the Roses, with a spectacular landscape of oases and ancient Kasbahs, many of them abandoned.
We will arrive in Ouarzazate, the city of cinema where there are film studios, which we can visit.
We will visit the Ksar, or fortified town, the oldest in all of Morocco named a World Heritage Site, the Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou, where films such as Gladiator or The Kingdom of Heaven have been filmed.
We will continue, crossing the mountains of the High Atlas, through a mountain pass of 2260 meters above sea level.
In the afternoon we will arrive in Marrakech.
Accommodation in a charming riad selected by Family Morocco Tour.
Day 10: Marrakech Cultural visit
Breakfast in the riad around 9 in the morning, our local guide will give us an extensive tour of the city that gave its name to this country, showing us some of the following places: Jemaa el Fna Square, Baadi Palace, Bahia Palace, Saadian tombs, and of course, the impressive Medina.
Free afternoon to, for example, practice the art of haggling in the souk.
We suggest dinner in the square.
Day 11: Marrakesh – Essaouira
Departure from Riyadh towards the Atlantic coast of the well-known Mogador Essaouira de Chichaoua, the only region in the world where the argan tree and goats background of magnificent acrobatics show and located 170 km from Marrakech. Visit the argan oil cooperative lunch in the port of Essaouira, and free time to discover the medina and its monuments including the old Mellah (Jewish quarter), the Scala and the Museum of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdalah and, finally, we recommend You watch the beautiful sunset as the sun sets over a glass of tea in one of the main square’s cafes.
Essaouira is famous for wooden crafts and enjoy the souks in the Medina of Essaouira
Accommodation in a charming riad selected by Family Morocco Tour.
Day 12: Essaouira – Marrakech Airport
After breakfast we leave Essaouira towards Marrakech airport according to the schedule of your flight, we will have three hours to travel to Marrakech, we will leave with enough time to arrive at the time of departure of your flight, end of our service and have a good trip back!