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One Day Tour: Travel The Best Of Marrakech 
Duration: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Morocco Travel: In Luxury 4x4
English, French Speaking Driver, Guide
Starting & Finishing Point: Your Hotel In Marrakech 
 
Travel to Morocco and discover the best of Marrakech (Book a Tour or call (800) 787-8806. Let us be your guide to Morocco Travel. 
 
 
Travel to Marrakech, Morocco. Marrakech is known as the "red city or Al Hamra," a city in southwestern Morocco within the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. Marrakech is the second largest city and administrative center in Morocco. The heart of the Marrakech, Djemma El Fna Square, offers an exciting Moroccan travel experience with its souks, gardens, palaces, snake charmers, outdoor food stalls and fabulous shopping for Moroccan goods.
 
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DAY 1:  
►Travel Marrakech Morocco's Medina, located in old quarter of of the city. Explore this historically charming area by foot.
 
►Next we will visit the famous 12th century Koutouba Mosque and its influential minaret. 
 
►Your guide will help you navigate through the labyrinth like streets and alleys of Djemma El Fna Square. Enjoy the aromatic streets, taste the fresh squeeze orange juice and venture into the souks (shops) specializing in Berber carpets, silver jewelry, artisan workshops, handmade shoes, tanneries, etc. 
 
Marrakech is a city of underground channels built by the architects from Cordoba, Spain to provide water for the town and Palmery.
 
►We will drive to the Lower Medina to explore more of Marrakech’s secrets: El Mansour mosque, the sixteenth century Saadian Tombs with its stark towers, the ruined 16th century El Badhi palace, and the Mellah and the Jewish quarter. 

►Enjoy a three- course lunch consisting of fresh salad, tajine and fruit at one of Marrakech most delectable restaurants. After lunch we will head north of the Mellah to visit the 19th century Bahia palace, originally built for Si Moussa, a former slave who became King Moulay Hassan’s chamberlain. The palace holds a courtyard and riads decorated with beautiful carved stucco and Arabic architecture. 

►Next we will visit the contemporary Moroccan Art Museum or Tiskiwin, a private museum in Marrakech that is dedicated to popular arts & crafts, styled as a beautiful Spanish-Moroccan house, next door to Dar Si Said palace, a smaller version of the Bahia.

►Next we will travel to the new city, French, Gueliz also referred to as the garden district and the home of Morocco's Majorelle Gardens. The Majorelle Gardens are a lush, garden estate designed by Jacque Majorelle and maintained by Yves Saint Laurent. 

►The Majorelle Garden is filled with colorful walkways, ponds, cactus and plants as well as a beautiful shop with hand-made goods. On our return to your hotel, we will pass by the La Mammounia Hotel Garden (where Alfred Hitchcock wrote the famous film The Birds)
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TRAVEL EXCURSIONS FROM MARRAKECH MOROCCO:
 
Travel to Marrakech Morocco take a one-day excursion to the Ourika Valley or Oukaimden. (Book a Tour or call (800) 787-8806. Let us be your guide to Morocco Travel. 
 
One Day Tour to Ourika Valley Morocco
Duration: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Morocco Travel: In Luxury 4x4
English, French Speaking Driver, Guide
Starting & Finishing Point: Your Hotel In Marrakesh
 
ITINERARY
DAY 1:  
►Depart from your hotel. Take a day off from the city heat to travel southeast of Marrakech, Morocco.
 
►Travel in an air-conditioned/ heated Land Cruiser and visit the Souk Tnine de L’orika, the gateway to the pleasant Ourika Valley.
 
►The souk, located near a picturesque zaouia with a rock drop background, has the largest souk of the valley every Monday.
 
►Your driver will stop so you can browse the local crafts and other Moroccan travel treasures. The next forty miles of road will be filled with gardens, land cultivated by palm tree plantations and fruit trees, tiny hamlets, summer homes, and cafes and restaurants where it is possible to have lunch in a traditional auberge or if you prefer something more key, a picnic facing the snow capped mountain and overlooking the Ourika River.
 
►Moving through the valley we will visit Setti Fatma, a favorite weekend resort of many Marrakshis that is appreciated for its beautiful streams and waterfalls. We will visit the famous tomb of Setti Fatma. During the middle of August an exciting four day festival takes place over the tomb.
 
►After the visiting Setti Fatma, we will explore the valley's green terraces, surrounded by Atlas peaks, rocky village foothills and seven waterfalls. The half day tour ends here but an extended tour allows you to trek along some of the pretty trails. If you seek adventure, climbing up rock carvings, gorges, and crests is an option.
 
►See wet meadows, daffodils, romulea and other unique flora. Among the wildlife, you will encounter reptiles, blue tussocks, painted frogs, the Moorish gecko, falcons, and the crimson winged finch. 
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One Day Tour to Oukaïmeden
Duration: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Morocco Travel: In Luxury 4x4
English, French Speaking Driver, Guide
Starting & Finishing Point: Your Hotel In Marrakech
 
ITINERARY 
DAY 1:  
► Depart from your hotel. Travel to Oukaimeden.
 
►During the winter time the slopes of Djebel Oukaïmeden offer the best skiing when traveling in Morocco. In the summer time it is an enjoyable base for day-hikes, particularly to the Tizi-n-Ouaddi pass, the village of Tachedirt, Imlil and through the Tizi-n-test pass.
 
►See rock carvings dating from the Bronze Age depicting cattle, elephants and sun wheels.
 
►Only an hour drive from Marrakech, Oukaïmeden is a fun day trip for travelers to Morocco and you will get to see High Atlas wildlife.
 
►In the springtime thyme, caper, and golden threads of bloom mingle along the lower slopes. There are also wet meadows and in May and June, acres of orchids roam Oukaïmeden. Bring your camera because there is a lot of exquisite natural scenery to photograph and painted frogs, Lanner falcons, storks and other unique animals make for a great photo opportunity.
 
►Lunch can be arranged with a Berber family or at several local mountain-top restaurants.
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One Day Tour to Essaouira: Travel To Morocco's Seaside Resort
Duration: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Morocco Travel: In Luxury 4x4
English, French Speaking Driver, Guide
Starting & Finishing Point: Your Hotel In Marrakesh
 
ITINERARY
DAY 1:  
►Depart from your hotel. Travel to to Morocc's seaside resort, Essaorira for the day.

►Essaouria is a fun-filled and relaxing day trip from Marrakech. Visit this eighteenth-century sea-side medieval town that boasts lovely white-washed and blue-shuttered houses, colonnades, thuya wood workshops, art galleries and mouthwatering seafood.
 
►Once called Mogador by European sailors and traders, Essaouria is known for its annual Gnaoua Music Festival that attracts 300,000+ people in June and its expansive beach for surfing called Plage de Safi.
 
►A stroll along the town’s sunlit pedestrian main square, Place Prince Moulay el Hassan and the Skala du Port, the fishing harbor offers breathtaking views of the Portuguese ramparts. Explore the ramparts and the spice and jewelry souks.
 
►Have lunch at the fish-grill cafes, with wooden tables and benches laid out overlooking the sea that was once- in the nineteenth century- the only Moroccan port traveled to south of Tangier.
 
►After lunch visit Orson Welles’ Square and memorial, designed by Samir Mustapha, one of the towns artists, which pays homage to Orson Welles filming of Othello in Essouaria.  
 
►Essaouira, is a city that reminds us of the times when Spain, Portugal and England fought to maintain control over its coasts. It is a typically Portuguese harbor with beautiful architecture as an example of Moorish and Portuguese arts. Essaouira is known for its artists who work on thuja, its silver market, the art gallery and the harbor.
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Marrakech Fantasia Chez Ali Show In The Palmery
Duration: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Morocco Travel: In Luxury 4x4
English, French Speaking Driver, Guide
Starting & Finishing Point: Your Hotel In Marrakesh 
 
DAY 1:  
►Evening Departure From Your Hotel. Travel to Morocco's Chez Ali Equestrian Fantasia Show.

►The fantasia is a warrior ceremony opposing various groups of horse riders, Each group quivers under light, and the riders point their long rifles to the sky, shout out simultaneously and leave behind them a cloud of dust, before spouting their " black baroud of honor "
 
►Dinner, at Chez Ali is made up chiefly of harira, méchoui and couscous, you will have the opportunity to appreciate the Berber folkshow, the performance of jugglers, the flying carpet, the belly dance and, last but not least, the fantasia show. This is a spectacular evening and event worth every moment.
 
 

 

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