Exclusive Private 9 Days Morocco Beach Holiday, Daily Starts

★ Half-Day City Tour in Marrakech:

This morning, your private guide will take you from the hotel to tour Marrakech’s highlights. We will spend around 4 hours visiting these attractions in order: Jardin Majorelle (a landscape garden) -> Koutoubia Mosque -> Saadian Tombs -> Bahia Palace -> Jemaa el-Fnaa (pass by) -> Mellah (Jewish quarter).

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Regarding lunch, your guide will recommend restaurants that cater to your interest. After 2.5 hours, you will arrive at a local hotel. Spend the remaining time as you like.

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Meals: Breakfast

★ Morning Walking Tour in Essaouira:

In the morning, your private driver-guide will pick you up and show you around this charming town. Besides plenty of beaches and enchanting sea views, it’s also special for being a historic North African town with 18th-century European-style fortifications, which makes it a UNESCO-preserved site. After visits to a fishing market and Essaouira Port, you will tour the Ramparts and Medina of Essaouira. Lunch in on your own arrangement. We will escort you back to the hotel later. Enjoy a free afternoon. 

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Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, we are heading to Agadir (a 3-hour drive of 175 kilometers or 108 miles). Along the way, stop by Marina D’agadir, icon of the new city built by the once earthquake-destroyed Agadir. Afterwards, let’s head to Agadir Oufella Ruins. A cable car will take you to the old Kasbah, probably the only structure that survived the devastating earthquake in 1960. By the end of today’s trip, we will spend a while at Souk El Had d'Agadir, a lively market selling fresh vegetables, spices, nuts, garments, and souvenirs. Experiencing the energy of local daily life here can be inspiring.

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Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, let’s head for Mirleft. 1.5 hours into the drive, stop by Tiznit, a little town built in 1881. You will experience a thick Moroccan vibe here, as locals in fancy traditional Moroccan attire can be found everywhere. We will while away some time strolling the old Tiznit Medina, featuring a red city wall as long as 5 kilometers (3 miles), 8 ornate gates, and a 20-meter spire. As Tiznit crafts the best silver jewelry in Morocco, you might want to browse around some silverware shops, and search for souvenirs from objects like rings, necklaces, bracelets, as well as tableware and knives. Drive for 1 more hour and we will arrive in Mirleft to visit Lagzira, Morocco’s most beautiful beach. Just find a way to relax, until it’s time for us to take you back to the hotel.

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Meals: Breakfast

►  Today’s drive: 297 km (184 mi); 6 hours

After breakfast, we will continue the tour to the Anti Atlas, a mountain range characterized by an ochre barren landscape. Then a 3-hour drive will take us to Tafraoute, a town located in a valley full of Pink Granite Rocks, also famous for the Painted Rocks by Belgian Artist Jean Verame. Crafts of the area are also very characteristic, especially the babouches, a kind of Moroccan leather shoes and local specialty. Take a look inside if interested.

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This afternoon, continue with a 3-hour drive to our destination, Taroudant. On arrival, head to your hotel and check in.

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Meals: Breakfast

In this morning, sightsee around the town. Regarded as one of the most ancient imperial cities, Taroudant is called “Grandmother of Marrakech” and considered as one of the most elegant towns in Morocco. While navigating the mazy paths in the Taroudant Medina, enjoy the views of pink-shaded walls, palm trees, vibrant Berber markets, and tannery or other shops. You can explore the Berber souk, where you can find pottery, dried fruit, leather, spices and argan oil.

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Continue traveling towards the High Atlas with a 4-hour drive. Along the way, enjoy the sceneries of Berber Villages and Atlas Mountains. Your experienced driver guide will provide many opportunities to take your best photographic shots of the trip. Arrive in Quarzazate at about 18:00 pm and check in to your riad.

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Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, you will visit the Atlas Corporation Studio, where used in many famous movies such as The Four Feathers, The Mummy, Gladiator, Cleopatra and The Jewel of the Nile. Next, drive to visit Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah, the UNESCO historical site built by one of the last Berber chieftains, Et Hami El Glaoui. It is also the best preserved example of Moroccan Kasbah (the fortified village) complex.

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After lunch, we will continue our way drive through the Tizi-n-Test Pass, which rises 2,100 meters above sea level over the High Atlas Mountains. As the path goes between the lush mountains of High Atlas and the bleak Sahara, we will stop to photograph the magical landscape. Then we will head to Marrakech and check in at the hotel.

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Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, we will take you to the airport and bid you farewell for homeward flight. Wish you a safe return journey with good memories of Morocco!

Meals: Breakfast