marrakech day trips
Marrakesh is a city that merges the ancient and the modern with ease. The city's name served as the inspiration for the country's name, highlighting the town's historical significance over the years.
Within the medina's high red walls, simply soaking up the ambiance is the primary tourist attraction, with snake charmers and slick shop salesmen vying for your attention amid a noisy, colorful bustle that embodies Morocco's lively personality.
Marrakesh's souqs are the ideal sites to visit in Morocco for shoppers, as they showcase the full range of the country's artisan work, while the medina's scattering of ornately adorned ancient buildings are some of the country's most famous landmarks.
Marrakech day trip
- Pick up and drop off at your accommodation.
- AC Private Fueled Transportation.
- English-Speaking Guide.
- Monumant Fees.
- Lunches and Drinks.
Marrakesh may be the town that best exemplifies Morocco’s distinctive culture and attractiveness. you may see the 12th-century Koutoubia mosque, the Majorelle Garden, which is densely packed with cacti, palms, and ferns and is the creation of painter Jacques Majorelle.
After breakfast, our local guide will meet you and take you on a guided tour of the heart of Marrakech, one of the country’s imperial cities, named the “Red City” because to its sandstone architecture. You will visit the most famous historic locations with the assistance of your local guide, you’ll explore other monuments, including the Saadian Tombs. This 16th-century cemetery is strewn with mosaic tiles.
Following a lunch break, you may have time to visit the enthralling souks (native markets). It is the town’s primary draw. You must visit the Babouche (shoes) Souk, the Chouari (carpenter’s) open-air market, the El-Attarine (perfume and spice) souk, the Cherratine (leather) souk, and the narrow alleys surrounding the Djemâa El-Fna square, where you will be charmed by snake charmers, singers, and musicians in the evening, and conclude our services
marrakech day trip to essaouira
- Pick up and drop off at your accommodation.
- AC Private Fueled Transportation.
- English-Speaking Guide.
- Monumant Fees.
- Lunches and Drinks.
At 8:00 a.m. we will start the day trip to Essaouira from Marrakech. We’ll explore the lovely seaside town of Essaouira, with the traditional port, spectacular beach, and magnificent medina, as well as the skillful woodcarvers. The Essaouira day tour allows you to stroll around old ramparts and take a step back in time. Essaouira, originally Mogador, is 180 kilometers from Marrakech. It was fortified by a disciple of Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban using French architecture.
These and many more influences combined to create an extremely unusual and appealing product. Today, the city is steadily transforming into an artistic destination. Essaouira benefits from a highly good environment, with warm winters and delightful summers. Additionally, a lovely beach should be highlighted, which is protected by the Iles Purpuraires, a group of small islands named for the purple dye collected from the murex mollusc that thrives in the oceans around the inlands.
Essaouira’s artisans are renowned for their marquetry on cedar root and offer a diverse range of products ranging from memory to tiny pieces of furniture or works of art. Return to Marrakech in the afternoon, when we will drop you off at your accommodation and conclude our services.
marrakech day trip to ouzoud waterfalls
- Pick up and drop off at your accommodation.
- AC Private Fueled Transportation.
- English-Speaking Guide.
- Monumant Fees.
- Lunches and Drinks.
Your Ouzoud Waterfalls day trip from Marrakech begins with a three-hour drive north through the Tadla plains, which are filled with hundreds of olive tree farms and peach and apricot orchards. After arriving in the settlement, begin your stroll downhill to the sources, enjoying the magnificent views of the 110-meter-high Ouzoud waterfalls against the backdrop of a perpetual rainbow.
Along the trip, you’ll be greeted by some local Barbary monkeys who are hoping for some nuts from you! Local cafés are available alongside the stream for a quick lunch and to unwind before walking up to the village to meet your driver for the return journey to Marrakech. Your day trip to the Ouzoud waterfalls will conclude in the late afternoon in Marrakech with a drop-off at your hotel or the closest accessible location to your riad.
marrakech day trip to ourika valley
- Pick up and drop off at your accommodation.
- AC Private Fueled Transportation.
- English-Speaking Guide.
- Monumant Fees.
- Lunches and Drinks.
A day trip from Marrakech to Ourika Valley takes you through the Atlas Mountains, Berber villages, and beautiful scenery.
We will begin our day journey from Marrakech to the Ourika Valley via the Atlas Mountains’ foothills after breakfast. We’ll follow the road through the Ourika Valley, then enter through a series of clinging mountain settlements. As we go through the hillsides, we will stop to admire the beautiful scenery with brilliant colors. Our first trip will be to a Berber family’s traditional home.
They frequently welcome tourists who want to take in the sights and sounds of their surroundings; the family will offer us tea and serve us their traditional meal of bread, honey, butter, and olive oil. You will have the opportunity to ride camels for 30 minutes farther into the valley on the Ourika day excursion from Marrakech (not included).
We’ll continue on our trip later to Setti Fatma, a popular weekend getaway for Moroccans. It’s recognized for its gorgeous streams, seven waterfalls, cliffs, and green valleys as well as its cliffs and green valleys. We’ll visit areas where the medieval agricultural heritage is still alive and well. Take a walk around the valley to photograph the vistas of lush terraces around the Atlas Mountains, then go to the first waterfall with a local guide. We return for lunch at a great restaurant with a beautiful view of the mountains. In the evening, we’ll return to Marrakech, drop you off at your accommodation, and wrap up our services.
marrakech day trip to ait benhaddou kasbah
- Pick up and drop off at your accommodation.
- AC Private Fueled Transportation.
- English-Speaking Guide.
- Monumant Fees.
- Lunches and Drinks.
A day excursion from Marrakech to Ait Benhaddou, passing through the high Atlas Mountains, Berber settlements, the Tizi N’Tichka pass, with panoramic views.
After breakfast, we’ll begin our day excursion from Marrakech to the Kasbah of Ait Benhaddou, via the Atlas Mountains and stopping multiple times to take in the breathtaking scenery. This scenic drive is made even more appealing by the meandering roads, varied landscapes, vibrant valleys, shepherds with their flocks, and Berber communities perched high on the mountain. We will reach Tizi N’tichka Pass (2260m), the Atlas Mountains’ highest point.
After the Tizi N’tichka, we’ll take a side road to Telouet village and its Kasbah, or fortress, which was formerly home to the Atlas’s lords, the Glaoui family, and is now in ruins after the last Pasha fled the nation following the French’s departure. Later, we’ll proceed along the Ounila Valley’s riverbank to the Kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou.
Lunch is included, as is time to explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site Ait Benhaddou Kasbah, which has been used to film numerous national and international films, including Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, and Game of Thrones. It was one of the most important fortress strongholds along the ancient salt road caravan routes, which carried slaves, gold, ivory, and salt from Sub-Saharan Africa to Marrakech and beyond. We return to Marrakech in the evening, drop you off at your accommodation, and conclude our services.