Tours from Marrakech are the most highly recommended tours. In other way that every tourist traveling to Morocco must explore Marrakech. Subsequently, our main job as a Morocco tours travel agency is to serve you with the best Customized group and private desert tours that starts from Marrakech.
With many years of experience, our staff memebers has come up with a several of tours programs that tourists all over the world usually book with us. Therefore the Sahara desert is marked as the highlight among all Morocco tours, we trying including it in our most of resquested trips.
The Sahara desert is sure the most highlight of our organized group and private tours from Marrakech to Merzouga. When we will arrive in the Sahara desert of Merzouga, you will be discovering and feeling another atmosphere. Normally, we arrive in the early evening so as to not to miss the wonderful sunset. You will ride the camel across the golden sand dunes. The view is just magical, looking at the color of the sand changing on the back of the camel. The camel leader will make sure that you will experience the perfect camel ride. And he will take you great shots on the way to the camp.
The night in the desert starts with your arrival at the camp. First, the camp team will welcome you and serve you a cup of mint tea. You will have some time to enjoy yourself with the great view of the Sahara desert. Second, when the night arrives, you will have a traditional delicious Moroccan meal for dinner. At the same time the camel men will be making fire and prepare their drums. After dinner, you can go out next to the fire place and the music starts under the stunning stars.
In general Marrakech or the red city is one of the main beautiful cities in Morocco. This imperial city has many several things to offer. Normally, when tourists come to visit Marrakech, they begin by the big famous square of Jamaa el Fna. The only place where most of the tourists and moroccan people gather to show their skills, tell funny stories, even sell their products. Nevertheless, if you want to have the best view to take pictures, you would need to go to a rooftop of a coffee shop or restaurant and enjoy the cup of mint tea or coffee. The views are really wonderful and worth it. Close to the square there is another famous monument that is Koutoubia is the largest and longest mosque in Marrakesh and seen as one of the city’s special minarets. Furthermore, the red city has got many other parts to discover such as the Majorelle garden, the museum of Saint Laurant and Menara gardens besides to the Saadiies’s Tombs and King’s palace.
With our sahara desert private or group tour from Marrakech, you will have the opportunity to cross by one of the famous mountains ranges in Morocco. Normally, when people book our organized trips, we drive by the High Atlas mountains and Tizi-N-tichka curves. High Atlas mountains is one of the longest curved roads in Morocco. We drive by several small Berber villages that are built in the mountains. Therefore, we stop by the cooperatives of the Argan oil where a lot of women work in producing cosmetic products that’s how they make their living. Furthermore, we will stop in the highest point of the mountain with an altitude of (2260 m), where you will see the curvy road and take pictures. In addition, if you book a trip that ends in the city of Fes, you will have the chance to visit the other Middle Atlas Mountains.
From our organized group and private tours from Marrakech, you will have the chance to discover many fortified villages. Actually, Ait Benhaddou is the most visited fortress in the Morocco. This incredible village is located in the South-east of Morocco between Marrakech and the Sahara desert. Many tourist agencies consider it as half stop to relax and enjoy its beauty or sometimes to have lunch. Our tours lead you in a walk through its river and walk the stairs to see the village from the top that is the panoramique view. Besides, Ait Benhaddou is one of the Unesco world heritage sites that Morocco has. In general, this fortified village is not only a touristic destinations but also for movie directors and producers where they shoot some movies and series such as Gladiator and Lawrence Of Arabia, were shot there.
Ouarzazate in Berber languages means the city without noise and it is the gate to the Sahara. The Ouallywood of Morocco is another attractions that our desert tours from Marrakech propose you the opportunity to visit. In general, Ouarzazate is one of the important cities in Morocco, because it has got the biggest station of solar energy in the world. Moreover, there are a lot of Atlas studios where they made many parts of series and movies. For example, they filmed some parts of Game of Thrones and Prison Break. Not to forget, there is also an international airport near the city center that was built for the actors because it is hard for them to drive throught the curves of Tizi-N-Tichka. Furthermore, next to this unique location there is another famous kasbah called Taourert.
The sahara desert tour is the most interesting part about tours from Marrakech. As it allows you to discover the simple real life of Moroccans. In general, you can do the sahara desert tour by camels or by a 4×4 car depending on how you want to raise your adrenaline.
Normally, tourists choose the 4×4 trip in order to visit more places that are on the off-road. However, there are other tourists who want to feel the adventure and choose to ride the camels. Above all, as the 4×4 tour is the most booked, we will explain about this latter. Usually, it begins with picking you from the camp or the hotel toward to the Berber nomads. Actually, you will be impressed by the simple life and innocence also generosity of these people that still live under tents in dry lands. You will get the chance to see their herd that often consist of goats and chickens. Many tourists fall in love with the babies of goats and sheeps. Some Beber Nomads have between 7 to 10 children and others consist of more than one wife.
After visiting the Nomads, we drive to Mfiss to explore its mine of kohl (mascara) crossing many panoramic views. This mine of kohl (mascara) was colonized and used during the French colonization. When France left Morocco, the mine was closed and then some people from the area opened it. After a quiet stay, we will head to experience another lifestyle, the Gnawa style at Alkhamlia village where you will have lunch.
From our private and group trips from Marrakech, we will take you to the two main desert cities in the south-east of Morocco. First, we normally start by visiting Rissani, a city that was a starting place for Tomboctou caravans in the past. In this city you will go on a walk to discover the traditional souks. Few years ago Rissani was the latter city where people go every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday to buy their home needs.
Erfoud is as well a desert city that we usually drive by. Moreover, every year locals like farmers organize an international festival of dates with the presence of many people around the world. Besides, Erfoud is the place where they produce many different kinds of fossils as it is the geological city of Morocco.
Moroccotraveland’s tours from Marrakech will take you to discover one of the oldest cedar forests in Morocco. The cedar trees that are more than 400 years were a shelter for many different animals in the past. Unfortunately, most of the animals have extinct. Now, it is a shelter to the Barbary macaques monkeys. In general, we normally stop by this place to enjoy the views and feed the macaque monkeys with banana fruits or nuts and almonds.
Another destination that we will visit is the city of Ifrane. The finest unique city in Africa and the 8th in the world, for sure worth to visit it. We will take you to discover the famous Atlas lion statue that exist in the main park. Majority of people say that it was sculptured by a german prisoner. When France colonized Morocco, they have set many military bases in different places around Morocco, so one of them was set in Ifrane. Once, they arrested the german prisoner. In order to let him earn his freedom, they told him to make something that worth to earn his freedom. So, he sculptured the Atlas lion statue and got his freedom.
From our Sahara desert tours the touristic capital city of Marrakech, we are gonna take you to visit Fes, one of Morocco’s imperial and cultural cities. There are many things and places to do and explore.
To begin with, the ancient part that is visited the most has several gates, the main gate is called the blue gate, it is the entrance to the medina. here, once you enter the gate, there will be two main streets and it is where people make daily shop. Also, there it is where the main attractions to see in Fes.
The University of Al Qarawiyyin supposed to be the first main thing to visit in Fes because it is the first oldest and still functioning university in the world. It was built by Fatima Al Fihriya in 858. Second, The leather Tanneries of Chaouara is also a tourists favorite place to visit. Here, people go to see how leather is made and also to have an general view of Fes. Third, the king has 12 palaces around the whole Morocco and one of them is in Fes, it is also a worth place to visit. Fourth, the Bor Nord, this one is for people who like hiking, it is also for a general view of the whole Fes and to enjoy the sunset.
From our trips from Casablanca, you will absolutely visit Al Qarawiyyin University. It is the first and oldest and still functioning Madrassa in the world. Also, it was built by a Fatima Al Fihriya in 859 as a Madrassa “school” to teach the Quran.
In Fes, there are several places to see like Attarine, Mellah and Garden of Jnan Sabil.
From our tour programs from Marrakech, you will be able to visit the charming city of Meknes. First, our tours coming from Chefchaouen to Meknes, we will visit Volubilis. Here, it is required to pay a ticket for the entrance. These Roman ruins are the heritage and protected by the Unesco, it was built by the Berbers. Around 20 km from Meknes. There, you will visit too many places. For instant, the large incredible gate of Bab El Mansour, sometimes they open it to host artistic gallery. Furthermore, there is a small lake called Sahrij Swani, the Basin of the Norias. It is told that Moulay Ismail had several wives, one of them asked him to move to the city close to the sea. For that he brought the sea to her.
Subsequently, there is the most mysterious complicated prison named Qara, not pretty far from the gate of Bab El Mansour. The prison was built by Moulay Ismail in the late of 18th century, and it is the only prison where there are no doors for a way out also like a complicated puzzle. Also, it is passage lead to other passage, therefore it is hard to find a way back once you enter. Some say it is underground the whole city of Meknes, others say it is only for 10 km square.
Also, there are holes in the overheads or roofing, and that is where the prisoners used to be thrown and also get food. It is also said that Moulay Ismail has made a director so if the prisoners finds a way out, they will be free. Not to forget, there were some french explorers who dare to try to enter the prison and find out its mystery, unfortunately, they could not come out again even at this time. There are some theories about the prison, they say that it is hunted by ghosts and genies, but we never know if that is true or just a story tale.
With our requested best sahara desert tours from marrakech, you will discover the blue pearl city of Morocco, Chefchaouen. For this reason, there are several things to do in this city for a short time. To begin with, the Kasbah at Outat El Hamam, the first building that was built by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami. The next best thing we will see at Chefchaouen is Rass El Ma, which means the source of the water if you wanna translate it. Right in this place, there are tiny waterfalls coming out from the Rif Mountains. Moreover, we will hike up to Djebel El Kalaa for the panoramic view of the city. Akchour waterfalls are 25 km away from Chefchaouen, the great waterfalls in the Rif mountains. This attraction is only in our Morocco 2 week programs.
Tangier is also one of our best attractions you will be visiting with our packages from Marrakech. For that purpose, there are several attractions that we will visit. First, we will see the archaeological cave where Hercules rested, it’s situated in the Cap Spartel, and the opening cave is shaped almost similar to the African map. Second, Tangier is also known for the American legation museum, it memorialize the strong relationship between Morocco and the USA. Also, it’s the first monarchy of the USA outside its country. Third, we will cross by the Atlantic ocean to visit the Cape Spartel’s mosque, a promontory about 12km from the center of Tangier. In the end, we will have a walk in the souk of the old Medina (town).
Trips from marrakech to casablanca, is the economical city of Morocco is an great place to visit. Subsequetly, there are many attractions that we will discover. To begin with, the main and the most attraction is the mosque of Hassan II, it’s the only mosque in Morocco where none Muslims are allowed to enter inside. Second, the corniche of Ain Diab, the seaside ridge where locals walk also where luxury hotels exist, roads, and fancy restaurants. Moreover, there is also a pub and a restaurant named Rick’s Café, is the place where they made the famous movie Casablanca.
Most of our long tours we do can contain Essaouira city and day trip from Marrakech will be the best option to visit this beautiful city.