Morocco Overland Group Expedition

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If you are looking for to explore the reality of an ancient destination and a biblical culture adding to that, remote and untouched natural settings of old cities and diverse mountains rock formation forcing valleys of canyon depth, the vastness, and dissolution of the Sahara desert then Morocco is what could satisfy your desires.  This land of Millennium Imp...
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Overview

Trip type
Small Group Tour
Lodging level
Standard - 3 star
Physical level
Easy
Trip pace
Balanced schedule

Highlights

    • Taking an overland expedition in Morocco is exploring the natural and human reality of this destination.
    • Traveling the back roads and footpaths of Morocco Atlas Mountains and Sahara desert is to accomplish a unique discovery in this particular part of North Africa. This expedition opens opportunities for active travelers to immerse in the culture by visiting rural area or places not accessible to mass tourists is what we are best at. Hinterland overland tour offers you access, to best peaks and valleys, Saharan oases and mountain cliff hanging villages, tribal markets, private homes, and nomad camps.
    • Enjoy starry nights in natural setting of a cedar forest or by a natural lake, or a high peaks of the Atlas Mountain also at the grand open of the desert where you will feel the sky almost tumbling down over your head or as they say your extend your arm and reach a star. Walk the footpaths thousand years old, have a dinner with traditional with a family.
    • Enjoy backed fresh bread and a tagine cooked before your eyes to honor you as a guest. Experience the true and genuine Moroccan hospitality in tribal fashion.
    • Encounter the walled ancient cities of Tangier, Fez, Meknes, Marrakech, Taroudant, Essaouira and much more (Gathering places) a rich book of historical and architectural remnants from the Phoenician era to modern Art Deco. Walk in most impressive and authentic old city in the world.
    • Explore the rural Morocco landscapes and daily life of Native Berbers in Atlas Mountains, Sahara desert and southern Morocco oases and valleys, a world of marvels yet to be discovered.
    • Savor from open market small eateries like Moroccans do and enjoy a typical shish kabab skewers and Kefta (minced Meat) and vegetable tagines and couscous fresh as it could be all cooked right in before your eyes. Flash yo

What's this trip about?

    If you are looking for to explore the reality of an ancient destination and a biblical culture adding to that, remote and untouched natural settings of old cities and diverse mountains rock formation forcing valleys of canyon depth, the vastness, and dissolution of the Sahara desert then Morocco is what could satisfy your desires.  This land of Millennium Imperial Cities walking tours, trekking high peaks of the Atlas Mountains from the evergreen ranges covered with cedar, oak, and pine trees with a fauna and flora unique to this region to the stark arid imposing mountains offers the hikers and nature enthusiast an adventure to explore of high magnitude.  This Morocco adventure tour presents you with the best vistas and landscapes exploring the back roads traveled only by locals or seasoned explorers.  Adding to this mountain discovery an introduction to the immense openness of the Sahara desert trekking you will treasure forever.  You are about to embark on a unique overland expedition we handpicked for you to hike in the footsteps of ancient Saharan caravan trails.  This 2019 Morocco hiking tour is real and better than production from National Geographic documentaries.

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Details

Itinerary focusActive and Outdoor Sports
Group sizeSmall Group - max of 16 people
Age rangeNo age restrictions
Flights and transportN/A
Start CityCasablanca
End CityCasablanca

Travel Themes

  • Cultural
  • Local Immersion & Homestays
  • Overland Journeys

Destinations

  • Africa
  • Morocco

Attractions

  • Atlas Mountains
  • Fez
  • Marrakech
  • Meknès
  • Sahara Desert

Activities

  • Culture
  • Hiking
  • Historic sightseeing
  • Homestays & Cultural Immersion
  • Land expedition
  • Nature
  • Trekking

Trip includes

    • 22 Night accommodation in 3 & 4 star hotels
    • Half board (breakfast and dinner)
    • Full board in the desert
    • Land transportation in 4x4 chauffeured vehicles
    • Camels over the dunes
    • Services of English-speaking guides and tour leader
    • Entrance fees to monuments and museums
    • Hotel tax and service charges

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Itinerary

Travel Map

Day 1: Arrival To Tangier

Arrival at Boukhalef Airport in Tangier or one of its ports, Your guide will be waiting for you to greet you then transfer to the hotel.  The morning will be at leisure. You will meet the rest of your small group and begin your Morocco adventure trip. The afternoon wi...

Day 2: Tangier – Asilah – Larach – Chefchaouen

Today we will take you to the picturesque city of Asilah, then Larach to explore the marvels of white towns of Morocco, traditional fishing ports, Rif Mountains evergreen red cedar forests, Berber villages unique to this undiscovered region.  Endly, you will find your...

Day 3: Chefchaouen – Volubilis –Meknes – Fes

Your driver will take you on a day trip visiting historic sites and interesting towns on the road to Fez.  Visit the highlights of Meknes via Volubilis and Moulay Idris, an excursion which  embodies much of Morocco's early history:  Volubilis as its Roman provincial c...

Day 4: Historic Visit Of Fes

The most ancient of imperial capitals, and the most complete medieval city of the Islamic world, Fez is undeniably unique.  Culturally, spiritually stimulating with its haunting and beautiful sounds, infinite visual details, and unfiltered odors, Fez seems to exist su...

Day 5: Fes – Sefrou - B’hallil – Fes

We will start the day by an excursion to the ancient city of Sefrou.  The city that has thrived in the Phoenician and Roman time, an out post that has linked Africa to Europe as trade Caravans use to meet there to exchange goods and Vehicle from camel to mule.  An old...

Day 6: Fez – Azrou – Midelt – Erfoud

After breakfast we will start our overland trekking up to the Atlas Mountains. The first hills you see of the Middle Atlas seem oddly un-Moroccan. Evergreen pines, tall cedar trees on the peaks and poplars stand copiously on the foothills, laced with flowing streams a...

Day 7: Merzouga Dunes – Rissani – Erfoud

An experience not to be missed is to watch the sun rises from the spectacular Merzouga dunes of the Sahara, so beautiful that no word can describe. Breakfast with the Touaregs and continue on to explore the holy ancient city of Rissani in your 4X4 Land  Rover.  Dinner and accommodations are in Erfoud.

Day 8: Erfoud – Tineghir

The highest the narrowest gorges in the region are Todras, only 15 km from Tineghir. Traveling through the Dades valley in spring you will find the bloom of thousands of Persian roses filling up the air with an ethereal aroma certainly from heaven - cultivated as hedg...

Day 9: Tineghir – Ounif – Zagora

Travel in the morning to Zagora exploring the marvels of the Anti Atlas mountains and the beauty of the Draa valley oases and Kasbahs, stop in Agdez and other sun baked mud hamlets of small villages among this largest belt of continuous oases in the world.  Dinner and lodging at Tinsouline Hotel.

Day 10: Zagora - M'hamid – Tinfou – Tamegroute

A very interesting full day excursion to the real gateway of the Moroccan Saharan Desert. We will drive through the lowlands and then along the mountain passes to Tamegroute.  There, we will stop to visit the famous Moorish Koranic Library, with rare books and documents, some are written on gazelle hide from the 13th century.  Return to Zagora.

Day 11: Zagora - Foum Zguid – Tata Oasis

Travel between the Sahara and the Atlas mountains across some of the most remote and breathtaking landscapes in the Sahara desert to reach the Oasis of Foum Zguid where the horizons stretch the imagination to a feeling of vastness and isolation of the Sahara desert.  ...

Day 12: Travel From Tata Oasis To Guelmime

After breakfast we will travel Bedouin Caravan Trails west to Guelmime, an ancient trade outpost, the exotic oases of Goulimine.  Caravans still gather once a year to buy, sell and barter from major sub-Saharan countries of the Sahel and West Africa.  Sometimes even from East Africa, a journey that takes months to sail the vast desert of the Sahara.

Day 13: Goulimine – Tiznit

Travel in the morning from the best oasis of Goulimine to the Jewel of southwestern Morocco, the magnificent Tiznit.  Named after a woman who has marked the Moroccan myths,  the “Seductive”,  Tiznit still lives up to the reputation of its founder.  Lunch on the road i...

Day 14: Hike From Tiznit To Tafrout

Travel from the stark desert to the lush plateaus of the High Atlas Mountains where this ancient village is nestled among groves of almond groves.  The afternoon will be devoted to the natural sites and Neolithic rock carvings this region is so known for.  A natural l...

Day 15: Trekking Trails From Tafrout To Taroudant

We will travel across great Berber villages known for their distinguished beauty, especially Through Ait Baha that overlooks a valley with unique rock formation.  Reach the walled medieval city of Taroudant at the gate of the rich valley of Souss.  Dinner and accommodation at a dignitary dwelling converted in our days to an atmospheric and intimate guesthouse Riad Ennakhil.

Day 16: Guided Tour Of The Walled City Of Taroudant

Explore the city surrounded by regal, red-ochre walls, often referred to as “Little Marrakech”.  With its authenticity and conservative style, today Taroudant surpasses the charm and beauty of Marrakech in the eyes of many discoverers,  a day to enjoy the colorful pallets of a typical Moroccan city.

Day 17: Hiking Up The High Atlas Mountains From Taroudant To Imilil

Depart to Imlil via Asni and Tizi n’Test pass at an elevation of 11,000 ft. in an impressive site dividing these mountains in two distinct aspects.   One side acts as a shield to protect the hinterland from the Sahara harsh and dry expansion, the other side collects t...

Day 18: Imilil – Marrakech

Morning will be devoted to trekking in the Toubkal plateau.  After lunch we will proceed to Marrakech visit cliff hanging villages and wards like Asni and Tahnaout. Arrival in Marrakech the "Morocco City" as the early travelers called it for it has always been somethi...

Day 19: Marrakesh Guided City Tour

Morning devoted to discovering the historical sites, visiting at the Menara irrigation pools, Bab Agnaw Gate, the Saadian Tombs, the Bahia Palace, the Badia Palace, Dar Si Said museum.   Explore the vibrant souks of Marrakech in the afternoon. Dinner Fantasia, will be...

Day 20: Travel From Marrakesh To Essaouira

Travel to Essaouira (Mogador), apart from the immediate impact of sea air and the friendly animation of the town, the predominant images of Essaouira are of the Atlantic - of the ragged coast and offshore islands, the vast expanse  of empty sands trailing back along t...

Day 21: Explore The Scenic Road From Essaouira To Casablanca

Travel to Casablanca via El Jadida with a stop at El Oualidia for a seafood lunch.  Drive along the coastline to El Jadida to visit the citadel, a vestige of the Portuguese occupation during the 11th century.  Continuation to Casablanca with an accomplished feeling th...

Day 22: Casablanca Airport - Home

Morning Departure to Mohamed V Airport  to connect to your flight back home

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Last Updated: 2/7/2019

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Apr 2020

once in a lifetime experience

This is definitely an experience everyone should have at least once in their lifetime ‪#Morocco Camel Trekking‬ is considered as a common tourist activity which has ...

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Apr 2020

unforgettable trips

(Translated by Google) The seriousness of the collectives, and the professionalism of the elite Guides, is the primordial niche of a box, so young. A jewel of Morocc...

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Apr 2020

one of the most organized, professional holidays I've ever had

This was by far one of the most organized, professional holidays I've ever had — just generally an amazing time in a country as beautiful as Morocco. From the start,...

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Morocco Discoveries offers you an array of walking, hiking and active adventure tours in sunny Morocco at ease and every level. Explore with our local guides, enticing imperial historic cities like Tangier, Chefchaouen, Fez, Marrakech, Essaouira, ancient in history and exciting in their particular vibrant daily life, each has an enticing Medina or kasbahs and souks replete with a spectrum of colors and aromas to spice your life at any given time of the year. Small  group hiking trips in Morocco at all levels with most experienced Mountain guides. You will be discovering unknown trails to most hikers exploring the best vistas and landscapes Morocco has to offer.

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Accommodation

,Erfoud: Hotel Belere, 1 Night Tinghir: Kasbah Lamrani, 1 Night Zagora: Hotel Tinsouline, 2 Nights Tata: Auberge Tata, 1 Night Guelmim: Hotel Guelmim, 1 Night Tiznit: Hotel Tiznit, 1 Night Tafraout: Hotel Les Amandiers, 1 Night Taroudant: Hotel Salam, 2 Nights Imilil: Kasbah Imilil, 1 Night Marrakech: Hotel Reda, 3 Nights Casablanca: Hotel Suisse, 1 Night Essaouira: Hotel Des Iles, 1 Night Merzouga Dunes: Desert Camp, 1 Night Fes: Hotel Batha, 3 Nights Chefchaouen: Dar Akchour, 1 Night Tangier: Hotel Solazure, 1 Night
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