10 Days Morocco Tour from Casablanca (Gladiator Tour)

Start your travel in Morocco from Casablanca Mohamed V airport and Transfer to the city center. Hotel check in. Free & easy time.

Walk in the seaside and embrace the breeze coming from the Atlantic coast. Take a walk along the seaside called the Corniche: a walking area with pleasant restaurants and modern shops.  Or relax a your hotel and get ready for the adventure!

Breakfast at hotel.

Head to Hassan 2 Mosque, and impressive Moroccan Masjid ( Mosque) representing a blend of Moroccan authentic and modern architecture. Take a guided visit of the only accessible mosque for non-Muslim. Later on, Take a break at the legendary Rik’s cafée. Admire the Art deco in the street of Mohamed 5 and the main Nation Square. Right after, Travel to Rabat.

Spend 2–3 hours exploring the main sights of this beautiful Moroccan city. Rabat is the Capital of Morocco. It will bring you  back in time and visit its 12 century monuments such as Bab Rouah and the Kasbah of Udaya. Visit Hassan Unfinished mosque and the mosoleum of the father of Morocco king Hassan 2 and his father Mohamed 5. All in one site beside the historical still standing 12 century Hassan minaret. Travel in the French town build during the 30s and 40st: that’s the down town of Rabat, the political capital of Morocco. Transfer to the hotel. Check in and overnight.

If you are planning to arrive to Rabat airport or you are already there, you can check the 10 days tour from Rabat.

Breakfast at the hotel.  Travel from Rabat to Chefchaouen. Admire the beautiful Rif Mountains and its enclosed valleys. Reach the blue pearl of Morocco: Chefchaouen. Check into the hotel. Later on, take a free evening to see the beautiful blue walled houses and take a wander in the medina. Enjoy seeing locals in the Souk selling things brought from the countryside.

More time to see Chefchaouen at night and have a drink at a cafe near Utta Hamam main square.

If you are coming from Spain through the straight of Gibraltar and you wanted to include Chefchaouen in your trip, you can check different tour from Tangier.

Morning departure to Meknes: a central Moroccan city at the edge of the Middle Atlas Mountains. Before Meknes, we take time to visit the Roman ruins that are called Volubilis and move to Meknes.

Meknes is another of Morocco’s historic imperial cities. It consists of two twons; the old section called the medina and the new section or the Frennch town. The city was the capital of the Sultan Moulay Ismail during the 17 century. The high walls are obviously seen and are taken as defensive walls against the invader’s attack. Meknes is divided into three distinct areas: the historic royal city, the old medina and the newer French-built quarter.

Guided visit of Meknes will include: the Sultan Moulay Ismail mausoleum, the basin Swani, Bab Lkhmis, and the old stores for cultivated cereals in the nearby lands. Later on, we take the one hour drive to the nearby city of Fes. Check into a Riad in the medina.

Fes, also spelled Fez, is one of Morocco’s four historic imperial cities and an important center of Moroccan culture, history and learning.. It holds a wealth of attractions and known as the religious & spiritual center of Morocco. The University of Karaouiyine is the only old operating university since the year of 859.

With a local guide, explore the historic medina of Fes el-Bali, the Royal Palace gates, traditional pottery workshops, the famous tanneries and the maze of artisan-filled streets

The bustling streets of the medina will bring you back to the medieval era. You see artisans and their products from slippers, Abayas, and jewelry… After an active journey we drive you back to your hotel. Free & easy.

Both Meknes and Fes are world heristage sites. Check our blog post for full list of UNESCO sites in Morocco.

After breakfast, we travel through the Middle Atlas Mountains toward the Sahara Desert. We pass through Ifrane, known as the “Switzerland of Morocco”, and the cedar forests of Azrou where Barbary monkeys live.

In the afternoon we reach Merzouga, the gateway to the Sahara. Here you will ride camels across the golden dunes to your desert camp, where dinner and traditional Berber music await under the stars.

It is helpful to read on how to prepare for you Desert Camel Trek.

In order to take lovely pictures, you will be awaken before sunrise (optional). Then have breakfast. Depart to Dades Valley, and stop in Rissani to have a visit of the local Souk, the traditional market. We stop in Erfoud to have a look on the fossilized stones and then we transfer to Todgha gorges for lunch. We devote some time to walk among the cliffs of Todgha gorges and along its River where we exchange the heat of the Sahara desert with the cool weather of the Atlas Mountains. We keep driving to Boumalne Dades to join the valley of Dades, a green lined place of wall nut, fig and almond trees and gorgeous rock formation at both sides. People cultivate their lands along the River. We check into the hotel nearby.

After breakfast, depart to Marrakech. We take stops along the valley of Dades and a stop to see the roses products: rose water is the main cultivated crops in early May every year.

Continue through the Skoura Oasis to visit the historic Amridil Kasbah before reaching Ouarzazate, known as the gateway to the Sahara. From there, continue to Ait Ben Haddou, the famous fortified ksar and UNESCO World Heritage Site, before crossing the High Atlas Mountains to Marrakech.

breakfast and then time to explore Marrakech. The visit consists of a wander in the botanical gardens of Eve Saint Laurent Majorelle ( optional and reserved tickets are needed). other historical sites include the koutoubia Mosque (the twin tower of Giralda in Seville, Spain). The Saadian tombs demonstrate the Moorish architecture in its perfection, The Bahia palace and Madrassa Ben Youssef.

Your local guide can recommend a traditional restaurant for lunch, giving you time to experience Moroccan cuisine before continuing your exploration of the medina.

Evening drums will draw you to the Djemaa El Fna(main city square). It’s a festival atmosphere, with snake charmers, Berber and Gnoua musicians, and storytellers illuminated by lamplight and wreathed in smoke. Food stalls on the square sell fresh salads, soups, fried fish and chips, chicken and beef kebabs and even boiled snails or sheep’s head. The best thing is to try an orange jus at a reasonable price. Overnight stay is in medina centered guesthouse, a Riad.

After breakfast, your private driver will transfer you to Casablanca Airport in time for your departing flight.

If your flight departs from Marrakech instead, we can arrange your airport transfer there instead.

It is possible to start this tour from Marrakech to Casablanca. Check our departing tours from Marrakech.