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Guide

Tour Leader accompanying you throughout your tour stay to assist you and answer your questions if necessary Private Local Guide english, Spanish, italian spoken Local guide in Fez

Transport

Transport by First class Train to minimize your carbon footprint

Accommodation

7 Night in 4* hotels and charming Riad in double room

Meals

Daily Breakfast

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Others

Meals except Breakfast Drinks Tip Monuments Entrance fees

Optional

Other activities and services not included Monuments entrance fees 7€ by monument

Flights

International flights are not included

Insurance

Insurance is not included

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Day 1 Casablanca Airport Arrival
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Casablanca Airport Arrival

Travel Responsibly: Less Carbon Footprint

travel by Train a different way to travel in Morocco. Happiness is not a destination but a way of traveling. Margaret Lee

The best way to travel between Moroccan cities is by train. Morocco now has Africa’s fastest trains, 300km/h (186mph) Al Boraq high-speed trains based on France’s TGV, linking Tangier, Rabat & Casablanca every hour over a new high-speed line. Classic trains link Tangier & Casablanca with Meknes, Fes & Marrakech.

Arrival, warm welcome by your Tour leader. Transfer to your hotel in Casablanca night in 4* hotel

For those looking for a taste of old Hollywood glamour, an a optional trip to Rick’s Café is a must. This beautiful bar and restaurant was inspired by the Rick’s Café from the film Casablanca and the décor does its best to live up to it. Serving American, French and Moroccan food, head along on a Sunday to enjoy the evening jazz session and pop up to the 1st film for a free screening of the legendary film, You do not meet sam the pianist but certainly you will listen to the famous song: As time goes by.
Day 2 Casablanca-Rabat - Meknes
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Casablanca-Rabat - Meknes

“The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like stream-lets or shallow ocean water.”― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise

After the breakfast, this morning departure by firstclass train for Rabat a capital of Morocco we visit Rabat, a Unesco World Heritage, the first of the Imperial Cities where we see the city’s Medina and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V it is built in traditional style, the grandfather and father of the present king are buried here and its contemporary mosaics and spiral designs make a fascinating comparison with the adjacent Hassan Mosque, a wonder of the medieval Moorish world with its great minaret left unfinished when its founder died in 1199. If completed it would have been the largest building in the world at that time. The harbour is full of traditional fishing boats and on the opposite river bank is Sale, Rabat’s twin city where Robinson Crusoe was enslaved before his final escape to Brazil.

After by first class train route for Meknes, arrival and night in 4* hotel or Riad.
Day 3 Meknes/ Fez
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Meknes/ Fez

"it is a place made for painters ... the beautiful abounds ... the beautiful runs the streets, I am stunned by all that I saw, I am at this moment like a man who dreams. " Eugene de Lacroix saw of Meknes in 1832.

Breakfast in the hotel, guided visit to MEKNES, a Unesco World Heritage, the 16th century capital whose ruler, Moulay Ismail, modelled himself on France’s ‘Sun King’, Louis XIV. After plundering his entire country he opened his amazing palace decorated with the most intricate colourful stucco work, huge beautifully detailed bronze doors and stunning mosaics MEKNES One of Morocco’s most beautiful historical cities, its twenty two Kms of town wall, monumental gates and the ruins of an immense palatial complex form an impressive and curious backdrop for the meeting point of Morocco’s main roads. The 17th century sultan Moulay Ishmail wanted to create a royal capital here that would rival Versailles. He had an army of bricklayers, black slaves and several hundred captured Christian slaves build 120km of town wall, dream palaces, stables for 12,000 horses, hanging gardens watered by a four-hectare pond and immense storage sheds. After almost a century of construction, he left one of the most beautiful cities in Moorish-Arabic style. After optional lunch and

route for Fes, arrival and check in in 4* hotel or Riad.
Day 4 Fez
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Fez

:“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on FEZ.“

Fez is not easily engaged To reach it, it is necessary to return by the main entrance, at once visible and veiled, of the sacred. Because Fez is a sanctuary. It is so moreover that Soufis, these initiated of the Islam, always called her: Zaouïa. The traveler who came by far knew that by arriving near the city, he is to his founder and to his very patron saint that he asked for the hospitality. For him, Fez is the city of Moulay Idriss.

" Lets guet lost in the holy city "

After breakfast, the whole day will be devoted to discovering Fez, a Unesco World Heritage and the oldest of the imperial cities, home to the world’s first university dating from the 9th century and one of the most complete medieval cities in existence. Surrounded by huge defensive walls, it seems suspended in a time warp, somewhere between the Middle Ages and the modern. But it’s more than that, it is a living city almost devoid of tourists, where whilst wandering amongst its amazing 9,000 tiny streets you experience its noisy hawkers selling everything from colorful vegetables, to delicious middle eastern pastries flavored with cinnamon and honey. Mind your backs for the passing of the only transport-mule or donkey! The haunting sound of the call to prayer resonates over the traditional rooftops whilst skilled artisans noisily beat metal into pans and intricate metal-ware as they have for centuries. . Visit of the medieval Medina. You will also explore the famous souks where craftsmen still labor in the age-old oriental tradition. Lunch on your own. Continue sightseeing in the afternoon. Before return to hotel you visit the American Foundouk , an a hospital for Donky unique in the world, and overnight.4* hotel or Riad an a aristocratic house (B,B)
Day 5 Fez/ Marrakesh
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Fez/ Marrakesh

"If Marrakesh were my story, i would live here"

Meet the unexpected

They had told me about this magical oasis city, that the sun floods with its light and does not leave until he is entrusted it to the moon. A city where the olive trees, orange trees and roses of its garden rival paradise. Colours, atmosphere, perfumes, smiling and welcoming faces. A city of lights, a happy city that knows how to welcome its guests and make them happy.

This city is Marrakesh! And if Marrakesh were my stories, i would live there.

Early wake up and breakfast, departure for Marrakesh arrival for check-in, time at your disposal and overnight. (B,B)

Optional international evening: Cabaret dinner live show.

Night in 4* Hotel
Day 6 Marrakesh
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Marrakesh

After the breakfast, guided visit of Marrakesh, an Unesco world Heritage, once an oasis on the caravan routes to the south, it became a natural centre of commerce and the capital city during medieval times. Wealth poured in from Moorish Spain and the city you see today was built. Surrounded by almost intact medieval walls little has changed and in the central square Jemaa el Fna is one of the world’s greatest spectacles. that is listed by UNESCO, as a Oral heritage of humanity. Here, especially atmospheric at dusk, street restaurants serve all kinds of delicacies with mouth-watering aromas filling the air, surrounded by what only can be described as a medieval circus. Storytellers recount tales of old, whilst fire-eaters and skilled acrobats entertain onlookers. Scribes write letters and open-air dentists and barbers industriously practice their trades. Have your shoes cleaned, watch snake-charmers and see herbalists dispensing mystical remedies. Musical troupes lithely move to the soulful heavy drumbeat which thuds hypnotically in the balmy warm of the Moroccan evening. This eclectic mix makes Marrakesh one of the most exciting and romantic places you will ever visit.

Marrakesh Souks:

A real labyrinth where the crowd snatches you, then brings you into the game of rays of light.

In a maze of shady streets, we cross the copper souk where dinandiers hammer the metal ancestral way. In the souk of the dyers they dry large skeins of wool with rich colors, stretched from one wall to another on poles. At the souk aux tapis, we sell at auction to the highest bidder.

And the potters souk presents tajine dishes, glazed pottery and beautiful ceramics. We also cross the souk of jewelers, leatherworkers and cabinetmakers. In the end the spice souk, there, the scents of saffron, cumin, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, orange blossoms daze the senses

Further on the shelves of apothecaries line up amber, musk, henna pots, jasmine or rose extract vials..

Bahia Palace: (7€ entrance fees)

Is one of the outstanding Moroccan historical monuments that was built in the late nineteenth century. As most of the Arab-Andalusian palaces, it contains beautiful gardens and lovely patios, and has 150 rooms lavishly decorated. The construction of the palace was undertaken by the Moroccan architect El Mekki on behalf of the Grand Vizier Ba Ahmed ben Moussa called Ba Hmad (former slave) (1841-1900) to house his four wives and 24 concubines.

Under the French protectorate, General Lyautey, settled in the palace.

.Night in 4* hotel
Day 7 Marrakesh
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Marrakesh

Breakfast in hotel and free day for relaxing, shopping or freely visit of Marrakesh or participate to at multiples optional activities, ask your tour leader he is there to assist you and help you to have a good holiday. Night in hotel or Riad
Day 8 Airport Transfer
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Airport Transfer

Who is used to travelling, knows that it arrives always one moment when it is necessary to leave: Paulo Coelho

After breakfast, and according to flight hours, free time then transfer to the airport. Mohammed V in Casablanca or Marrakesh airoport, Assistance for the registration formalities. and end of our service; thank you for choising Tourradar an Ricks Voyage we hoppe see you next time.

This itinerary is only a suggestion, all our trips are tailor-made according to each client.

This product is suitable for: Couple / between girls / Solo/ Family/ Group of friends.

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Morocco Imperial Cities Tour By Train

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Casablanca Airport Arrival

Casablanca-Rabat - Meknes

Meknes/ Fez

Fez

Fez/ Marrakesh

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