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10 Days Unusual Morocco Cultural Tour From Marrakech

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10 Days Unusual Morocco Cultural Tour From Marrakech

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Transport

At Morocco Social Impact Travel (MSITravels), we prioritize the well-being and comfort of our valued customers. Understanding that each journey is unique, we tailor our transportation options to suit the specific needs of our travelers and the nature of their chosen tour. For adventurous off-road excursions, we provide spacious 4-wheel drive vehicles, accommodating a maximum of four passengers per car. Alternatively, for larger groups or tours that traverse more conventional routes, we offer 7-seater minivans, minibus options for groups of up to 17 travelers, and coaches for groups exceeding 17 passengers. With a range of transportation choices, we ensure a seamless and enjoyable travel experience for all our guests.

Guide

In our service, we deliver more than mere transportation; we provide our customers with an immersive journey guided by skilled professionals every mile of the way. Your devoted driver, who doubles as a tour guide, is proficient in English, French, and Spanish, ensuring seamless communication and insightful commentary throughout your adventure. Theyโ€™ll be your companion, not only ensuring your safety but also offering enriching perspectives on Moroccoโ€™s varied landscapes and cultural richness. Moreover, in cities such Marrakech, we arrange for seasoned local guides to lead you through the intricate alleyways and hidden treasures, allowing for a deeper exploration of each destinationโ€™s essence. With our experienced team at your service, every moment of exploration is destined to be profound and unforgettable.

Accommodation

Unless a specific accommodation is requested, we carefully curate and recommend a selection of the finest 3-star or 4-star authentic stays throughout your journey. From quintessential Moroccan lodging nestled within bustling medinas to charming hotels and riads exuding local charm, each establishment offers a unique experience reflective of the regionโ€™s culture and heritage. In the Sahara Desert, we provide accommodations ranging from Kasbahs to Berber-style tents, complete with private baths, hot water, and exemplary service, all while adhering to sustainable management practices. Daily breakfast is included. For those opting for our Desert Camp experience, we feature spacious walk-in tents adorned with traditional Berber-style bedding or sleeping pads, ideal for two or more persons. Detailed information regarding accommodations will be provided upon completion of your booking, ensuring a seamless and tailored experience for your journey.

Flights

Please note that while we are dedicated to facilitating every aspect of your travel experience, we do not handle flight bookings for our customers. However, we are more than happy to offer recommendations and assistance to ensure you find the best flights to complement your itinerary. Feel free to reach out to us for guidance and support in arranging your flights, and weโ€™ll gladly assist you in making the most suitable arrangements for your journey.

Optional

As part of our dedication to responsible tourism, weโ€™re thrilled to introduce our "Give Back" initiative, an integral aspect of our commitment to positively impact communities during your journey through Morocco. We proudly endorse the admirable efforts of Ennajah Association and Chabab Time, two non-profit organizations devoted to uplifting Moroccan society. Ennajah Association, headquartered in Zagora, focuses on sustainable development by addressing school dropout rates among girls through initiatives such as providing transportation and vital water resources to the community. Meanwhile, Chabab Time, with operations spanning across Morocco from Rabat, actively promotes youth involvement in public affairs. Moreover, we encourage our travelers to contribute to our giving efforts by donating items such as medications, clothes, or other essentials. Additionally, we may extend our support to a local Berber school by providing supplies and small toys, bringing joy and making a tangible impact on childrenโ€™s lives. We believe in offering you the chance to make a meaningful difference, nurturing genuine connections, and ensuring your visit leaves a positive imprint. As you bid farewell, youโ€™ll carry with you cherished mementos of your adventure โ€“ carpets, Argan oil, lanterns, and treasured memories โ€“ but more significantly, youโ€™ll leave behind a lasting legacy of support and solidarity for the communities youโ€™ve had the privilege to touch.

Insurance

We offer transportation insurance as part of our services to ensure a secure journey for our customers. However, itโ€™s essential to note that comprehensive travel insurance is not included in our packages. We strongly advise all travelers to arrange their own travel insurance policies to safeguard against unforeseen circumstances and provide additional peace of mind throughout their trip.

Meals

As part of our commitment to providing a memorable experience, we offer our customers a daily breakfast served at their accommodation. For dinner, we provide a unique dining experience under the stars in the serene settings of the desert and Dades Gorges, as well as in the enchanting surroundings of Zagora and Fint Oasis. However, in bustling cities like Marrakech and Essaouira, we offer our guests the flexibility to choose their dining venues from a plethora of options available, though we are happy to offer recommendations upon request. For those seeking an authentic taste of Moroccan cuisine, we also arrange home-cooked meals, providing an opportunity to savor traditional dishes prepared with love by local families, enriching the cultural tapestry of your journey.

Others

Eng, Fr, Spa-speaking professional driver/tour guide Shuttle from and to the airport Accommodation is organised at all stages of the tour City Guide: Marrakech Medina guided tour Private Transportation: 4wd or Minivan or Minibus Air-conditioned vehicle Visit to womenโ€™s cooperatives Toll road fees, fuel charges and all taxes Transport insurance An opportunity to give back and meet up with locals Camel ride in the desert Option: Some home-cooked dishes with local families, are available upon request and will be at the expense of the customer. Meals: Diner is included in Dades gorges, Zagora, Chigaga Desert and Ouarzazate Daily breakfast

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Itinerary of your trip 10 Days Unusual Morocco Cultural Tour From Marrakech

  • Day 1 Marrakesh Arrival
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Marrakesh Arrival

      Welcome to Morocco!

      You will find your driver/tour guide holding a card with your name, waiting to drive you to your hotel to settle in before you start your adventurous Journey. It depends on your arrival time, if you touch down earlier you will do Marrakech medina visit. if not, you are going to do it the last day before your departure.

  • Day 2 Marrakesh - Ouarzazate - Boumalne Dades
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Marrakesh - Ouarzazate - Boumalne Dades

      Youโ€™re going to start your cultural tour around 8am. Your driver/tour guide will pick you up from the nearest point of your hotel/Riad. Through Tizi- Nโ€™Tichka pass (2260m) in the High Atlas Mountains, you will enjoy a snaky windy road (if you get car sick have your medication), beautiful landscapes with different colors and Berber villages along the way. The first pause will be in Ait Barka village. It will be around 10am to take beautiful pictures and have a cup of mint tea. Itโ€™s a point to start the highest Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The second pause will take place in the top of Tizi nโ€™Tichka arriving to Ouarzazate, ยซ Ouallywood ยป studio and Taourirte Kasbah. Traversing the valley of roses and daggers straight to Dades gorges a rust-red and mauve mountains. A series of crumbling Kasbahs and Ksours line the valley in the Berber villages to the monkey Fingers Mountains.

  • Day 3 Boumalne Dades - Todra Gorge - Nkob - Zagora
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Boumalne Dades - Todra Gorge - Nkob - Zagora

      This morning youโ€™ll have the opportunity to marvel Todgha Gorges by day light with its gigantic rock walls changing color to magical effects as the day unfolds. Later on, you leave Todgha gorges towards the rambling Ksar of Nโ€™kob with its prehistoric rock-carving sites and 45 mud-brick ksour make you stop by and stare. The name Nโ€™kob comes from a cave that once served as a lodging for nomads. Then we continue driving via the 125km belt of palm trees oases and villages that eventually merges into the Sahara near Mโ€™hamid to reach Zagora.

  • Day 4 Zagora - Tamegroute - Erg Chigaga
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Zagora - Tamegroute - Erg Chigaga

      Today, you should be prepared to begin your off-road journey to Erg Chigaga, a splendid stretch towering dunes and golden sand sea, the largest sand sea in Morocco. Before that youโ€™ll stop in an unusual place that was once the most important settlement in the Valley of Draa with its green pottery. The Zawiya Naciria is still a site of pilgrimage and refuge for the mentally-ill and a working Quranic school with a library that was once the richest in Morocco of ancient illuminated texts containing 4000 books. Leave Tamegroute through a dauntingly bleak landscape of sun-scorched rubble to the end of paved road of Mโ€™hamid El-Ghizlane to begin you off-road journey to Erg Chigaga where youโ€™ll surely choose to drift off to sleep while watching the twinkling stars in mid of an awesome stretch of golden sand sea after dinner.

  • Day 5 Erg Chigaga Desert
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Erg Chigaga Desert

      Always, the best way to live the nomad life and explore the desert and hear its windy whisper is by riding the camel. So, today you will have a chance to fully live a real desert experience with your camel guide to discover the fauna, flora and history of the desert. Lunch will be served in the middle of nowhere in the 300-meter-high dunes.

  • Day 6 Erg Chigaga - Foum Zguid - Ouarzazate
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Erg Chigaga - Foum Zguid - Ouarzazate

      Wake by dawn to watch the sun starting its daily arc with a cool blue morning sky as it replaces the Sahara shadows just before becoming a glowing ball of fire. You exit Erg Chigaga head north to Fint via a rough-road out of the desert through the 80s km long dry lake bed of Lac Iriki that made well-known by the Paris-Dakar rally and through the sahel and reg to Foum Zguid and then 85km north to Taznakht, a handy stop for a quick bite coffee, petrol and, yes, carpet. Arriving to the green valley of Fint that wedged between its arid mountains, is strewn with many palm plantations, the gardens carefully cultivated, the villages of traditional cob houses perfectly integrated into the surroundings. It is really hard to preserve this fragile nature and to make each visitor understand that the survival of its terrestrial beauties depends on the respect of each one towards the man and his environment. You also have to know that the Oasis has been the place of filming for many famous movies such as: ยซ Indigรจnes ยป with Jamel Debbouze and Sami Naceri, ยซ Prince of Persia ยป with Jake Gyllenhaal, ยซ Kingdom of Heaven ยป with Orlando Bloom, ยซ Babel ยป with Brad Pitt and Kate Blanchett, etc.

  • Day 7 Ouarzazate - Ait Benhaddou - Marrakesh
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Ouarzazate - Ait Benhaddou - Marrakesh

      From Fint to Marrakech via Ait Benhaddou, A protected UNESCO site, Aรฏt Benhaddou is the most famous kasbah in Morocco and once upon a time, held an important position along the trans-Saharan trade route between Marrakech, Ouarzazate, and the southern desert. Before the crowdsโ€™ filter into the old kasbah, explore the narrow passageways and alleys to get a real feel for this 11th-century fortified city. Leave Aรฏt Benhaddou behind, and return to Marrakech, traveling one more time up and over the High Atlas Mountains and through the Tizi nโ€™Tichka Pass. After exploring Moroccoโ€™s quiet desert towns and various deserts, soon you will be back in the bustling city of Marrakech. You may wish to take the afternoon at a slower paceโ€”find a cafรฉ near Jemaa el-Fna and enjoy the viby square.

  • Day 8 Marrakesh Walk & Talk Guided Medina Tour
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Marrakesh Walk & Talk Guided Medina Tour

      After having breakfast, youโ€™ll have much time to carry on your Morocco Cultural Tour with your private Marrakech born and bred guide. You embark exploring the Red City from its old part with its Medinaโ€™s skinny lanes that leads to lavish sites, tombs and religious monuments decked out in marble. Bahia and El-Badii Palace and Saadienโ€™s Tombs will be your targets. Afterward, you driver/Tour Guide will pick you up for the outside medina visit to explore the Majorelle Garden, Museum Saint Laurent, Berber Museum. While in Marrakech you will surely encounter thousands of motorcyclists and horse-carts roaming in the city and some of them pull over next the vast square of Jemaa El-Fnaa where itโ€™s carnival night every night and musicians, acrobats, storytellers and slapstick acting troupes tap into the Medina frenetic pulse.

  • Day 9 Marrakesh Adventurous & Wellness Day
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Marrakesh Adventurous & Wellness Day

      Do you want to discover Marrakech from the sky? So be ready, because today your driver will pick you up at the early morning to catch up with the Air Balloon ride for nearly an hour flight over the red city of Marrakech, enjoy the breathtaking views of the High Atlas Mountains in the background and enjoy a sunrise over red dust, palm groves, and majestic open landscapes from the sky. Absolutely, you cannot leave this cultural tour without learning how to cook Tagine or Couscous with all their side dishes such as the thick, very filling soup -most often the spicy, bean and pasta Harira or Salad that often very Finely chopped. NO WORRIES youโ€™ll be with a local family for that. Later on, youโ€™ll have time for Spa, and typical Moroccan Hammam to loosen up and purify your body and soul.

      NOTE: The expenses of these activities are extra

  • Day 10 Marrakesh Departure
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Marrakesh Departure

      Today is not goodbye, it is merely โ€œtake care and see you sooner rather than laterโ€ for another adventurous journey. If your departure is late today, complete any last-minute gift and souvenir shopping. Or depending on your departure details, you may wish to check out Menara Garden. Not far from the commotion of the medina, a visit to these lush and expansive gardens offers the perfect place to escape the afternoon heat and noise. Leave the quiet behind and bring with you your memories as you make your way home. Your guide will drop you off directly at the airport when you are ready.

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Experience Style

Experience Style

Mixed

There will be challenging activities such as hiking, biking, canyoning and trekking, but youโ€™re also going to have other means of transportation and relaxed moments to just chill.

Accomodation level

Accomodation level

Medium

This accommodation includes essential services like a hot shower, electricity, and a nice and comfy bed.

Experience Type

Experience Type

Personal

Youโ€™ll be just with your guide or pilot. Examples of these activities are paragliding, sky diving, personal mountain climbing, etc.

Physical Rating

Physical Rating

Basic

Almost everyone is fit for these activities. Every hike or physical exercise last less than 30 minutes, such as paragliding and horseback riding. Please ask about specific conditions.

Age range

Age range

Min: 1 / Max: 99

Experience allowed to all ages.

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