Day 1: SUNDAY, MARRAKECH
Assistance and transfer to the hotel.
Our guide will be waiting for you at the exit of the international area of ​​the airport for the transfer to the hotel.
Free dinner.

Day 2: MARRAKECH
Marrakech was one of the most important caravan terminals throughout history. The minaret of the Koutoubia is the symbol of the town, perfectly preserved it is a large tower, 70 meters high dating back to the twelfth century, at the time of the Almohads. The Ben Youssef Madrasa displays the most beautiful carved cedar wood decorations, stucco, and zellij tiles. The sumptuous Bahia palace is built in typical Arab architecture.
Lunch in a restaurant and return to the Hotel for a short relaxation.
In the late afternoon, we will be in the beating heart of Marrakech: Djemma el Fna square. Strolling through this square is an unforgettable experience: every day a local and cosmopolitan crowd wanders among musicians, jugglers, storytellers, magicians, acrobats, snake charmers, and fortune tellers. Twilight is the ideal time to start the visit to the Souk, which thanks to the mild temperature becomes even more alive: a labyrinth of sounds and colors, people in traditional clothes, spices, perfumes, and the different artifacts created by skilled Moroccan artisans.
In the evening, we will return to Djemma El Fna square which will welcome us with thousands of lanterns.
For dinner, we will be spoiled as we can choose between the “street food” of the numerous stalls offering a wide range of tasty specialties, or the restaurants facing the plaza.

Day 3: CASABLANCA AND RABAT
Morning departure for an intense day. We will reach Casablanca before lunch. The architecture of the city center dates back to the French colonial era with buildings inspired by the Art Deco style, we will visit the spectacular Hassan II Mosque, one of the few mosques open to non-Muslims. It is the largest religious building in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world and tens of thousands of wood carvings, Zelig decorations (glazed tiles), stained glass, marble, mosaics, chiseled ceilings, and stucco. The mosque, inaugurated in 1993, is a masterpiece of modern engineering and architecture.
Less populous than Casablanca, Rabat, the capital of the kingdom, is an elegant town, where the King lives, where the parliament is located, and where all the embassies have their delegation. The historical vestiges dating back to antiquity are interesting. Visit the Casbah des Oudaias, dating from the 11th century, still inhabited and perfectly preserved with its narrow alleys and walls always whiten with bright colors, and the well-kept Andalusian Garden. Also from that period are the remains of the Hassan Mosque, near the Mausoleum of Mohamed V guarded by royal guards in sumptuous traditional costumes. 

Day 4: MEKNES AND VOLUBILIS
Another intense day. Meknes owes its splendors to Sultan Moullay Ismail, who in the 17th century founded this Imperial City and the country’s first Arab dynasty. Lead by a local guide we visit the spectacular Bab (door) El Mansour built by a renegade Christian who passed into the service of the sultan. It is said that El Mansour was eventually executed by the sultan. Brief visit of the Medina.
The ruins of Volubilis are the largest archaeological site in Morocco, already Carthaginian in the third century BC. In the 1st century of our era, Volubilis was the westernmost capital of a vast Romanized but semi-autonomous territory that included a large part of today’s Algeria and Tunisia.Continuation to Fez, which we will reach in the evening.

Day 5: FES
In our opinion, Fes has the most beautiful and complex medina in North Africa, to which we will dedicate the whole day, accompanied by a local guide. The old town, built in a hilly area, is composed of two distinct but communicating parts: Fez al Bali and Fez el Djedid; in this universe of narrow medieval alleys, caravanserais, souks, the crowd is always on the move: donkeys loaded with goods, the scent of spices, Arabic and Berber music, the voices, the calls of the muezzin. At lunch, we will taste the refined gastronomic specialties of this sophisticated town, spicy and mild flavors that have made the cuisine of Fes special. Bab (door) Boujloud, chouwara the court of dyers, leather colorful slippers, in an architectural contest full of cedar wood arabesques as in the madrasa of Boua Inania,

Day 6: MOUNTAINS AND CEDAR FORESTS
The route will wind through valleys, villages, and mountains of the Middle Atlas: Ifrane will amaze us with its climate and alpine architecture. The town is a popular mountain resort.
We will leave the main road for a path between valleys and peaks through great cedar forests. Arrival in the afternoon at a tiny Berber village in the mountains.

Day 7: THE CARPET AUCTION
An exclusive itinerary, off the beaten track to discover the most authentic Berber traditions.
Dirt tracks will take us to the most remote villages. We will be received in private Berber homes. After sharing the traditional welcome tea, we will witness the weaving on an artisan loom of what are considered some of the most beautiful Moroccan carpets, produced by the women of the Atlas Mountains. Further up, we will arrive at the rudimentary mines where men dig the millennial bars of salt to be loaded on the mules that will carry them to the valley. In the afternoon we will reach a market on the day of the carper auction, where the women take the carpets woven for months. The woman will hand the carpet to a barker who praises its characteristics to a small crowd of merchants coming from all over the country, and the auction starts. We will reach our hotel in the evening.

Day 8: THE SALT MARKET
Departure in the morning, we will stop in a village on the market day, colorful goods, crowds, with a large number of rams and goats, local handicrafts, and the salt merchants who propose the bars that we have seen quarried in the mountains, bars with a particular shape that has remained unchanged for centuries.
After leaving the valleys between mountain ranges and having lunch in a restaurant, we will cross the steppes that herald the arrival in Marrakech, which we will reach between late afternoon and early evening.
Day-use rooms are available and transfer to the airport.