8 Days Morocco Highlights Tour Package

Duration: 8 Days / 7 Nights
Priced From: $3350 ( Rates are per person double occupancy )
Dates: Jun - Dec

• Tour the fabled city of Casablanca with its old & new medinas during your Morocco active vacations.
• Travel to the Imperial cities of Rabat & Meknes to see their graceful Moorish palaces, mosques, gardens & bazaars.
• Spend a full day delving into Fez, capital of Morocco for more than 400 years, & home to the oldest & largest medieval city in the world.
• Relish a leisurely, three-night visit to Marrakech, & explore the town square of Jamaâ El Fna with its crowd of storytellers, musicians & the beautiful Koutoubia Mosque.
• Journey across the Atlas Mountains, viewing traditional villages, forests, farmlands & resorts.

Day 2: Arrive Casablanca
Fly into Casablanca, a gleaming white city on the north coast. Morocco’s international personality mixes with European influences. You are escorted to your hotel, one of the country’s most luxurious, before you tour the city. See how easily old and new coexist here as people in traditional dress walk through the old and new medinas alongside donkeys, while others don stylish Western dress for yachting excursions from the city’s modern ports. As early as the 7th century B.C., Phoenicians used the inlets here as rest stops. Royal Mansour

Day 3: Rabat / Meknes / Fes
Depart for the Imperial Cities of Rabat, Meknes and Fes, which showcase for some of the finest Islamic architecture in North Africa. Take in the Moorish palaces and mosques, lavish gardens, vibrant squares and colorful bazaars. Stop for lunch in Meknes before ascending the old walled city in the hills, Fes, Morocco’s cultural and religious center for 1,200 years. La Perle de La Medina (B,L)

Day 4: Fes
Immerse yourself in the dreamy mystique of old Morocco on a full-day tour of Fes. Step back in time in the medina, a maze of tiny lanes and covered bazaars enclosed by magnificent ramparts. Survey monuments of nearly perfect construction – the Gates of Bab Boujeloud, Sultan’s Palace, Attarine Medersa and the illustrious Qaraouiyne Mosque. Meet the famous tanners and browse for extravagances of every imaginable sort. Fes boasts the oldest university of the country. It is the leading cultural and religious center of Morocco. Fes is also home to the oldest and largest medieval city in the world; a city that remains almost unchanged through the centuries. La Perle de La Medina (B,L)

Day 5: Fes / Atlas Mountains / Marrakech
Take in the contrasting views of Morocco as you spend the day crossing the Atlas Mountains to the rose-red caravan city of Marrakech. Pass through twisted forests of cypress and oak, pasturelands, traditional villages, and mountain resorts. Arrive in Marrakech with its beautiful mountain backdrop. Riad Dar Rhizlane (B,L)

Day 6: Marrakech
Today’s exciting program reveals the highlights and back streets of Marrakech. Browse the old walled city, long a crossroads of cultures, and small little souks where medieval craft guilds still operate according to the old traditions. Step into Djemaa El Fna Square in late afternoon when it is jammed with a street theater of acrobats, fire eaters, snake charmers, sword swallowers, and assorted other performers. Riad Dar Rhizlane (B,L)

Day 7: Marrakech
The day is at leisure to shop or explore on your own. Stake out a café table to observe the street life, join an optional excursion, or perhaps hire a horse-drawn carriage for a ride around the old city gates. Riad Dar Rhizlane (B)

Day 8: Marrakech / Depart USA
After breakfast, you are transferred to the airport for your departure flight. Arrive home later today, reflecting on the vitality and cultural richness of Morocco.

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