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DISCOVER- The Best of Marrakech & Fes

Arrive at Menara Airport in Marrakech heart of the Marrakech, Djemma El Fna flair of Paris, the ethnic diversity of where you will be welcomed by your Square, offers an exciting experience New York, the commercial heartbeat of driver and expert guide. Settle in at with its souks, gardens, palaces, snake Hong Kong and a history to rival any your /hotel, enjoy lunch, relax and charmers, outdoor food stalls and city in Europe, Marrakech is above all a then visit the heart of Marrakech, fabulous shopping for Moroccan goods. city of heart and soul – a city of Djema El Fna Square. Marrakech, No longer the secret of the travel sunlight on rough pink walls, of known as the "red city or Al Hamra," is cognoscenti that it w as ten years ago, fragrant, richly-hued spices and of rose a city in southwestern Morocco in the Marrakech is now recognized as one of petals floating in slowly trickling foothills of the Atlas Mountains. The the world’s great cities. With the sign fountains.

MENARA PALACE VISIT THE MAJORELLE GARDENS SHOP IN MARRAKECH 7 - Day Tour Itinerary

DAY 1: MARRAKECH Jacque Majorelle and maintained by ► Your introduction to Marrakech Yves Saint Laurent. The will begin in the Medina, the old is filled with EXPLORE quarter Djemma el Fna colorful walkways, ponds, cactus and Square. We will explore this area by plants as well as a beautiful shop with foot and then visit the famous 12th hand-made goods. century Koutouba Mosque and its influential minaret. ► Enjoy lunch and then visit La Mammounia Hotel Garden ► The Koutouba Mosque/ The (where Alfred Hitchcock wrote the El-Mansouria Mosque, Your guide will famous film The Birds). help you navigate through the labyrinth like streets and alleys of the ► Next we are off to see the 16th TRADITIONAL WEAVING Djemma. Enjoy the aromatic streets, century El Badhi palace, and the taste fresh squeezed orange juice and Mellah and the Jewish quarter. venture into the souks (shops) This 16th-century palace was once a specializing in Berber carpets, silver playground for Saadian princes and jewelry, artisan visiting diplomats – a mammoth workshops, handmade shoes, showpiece for opulent entertaining. tanneries, etc. ►End the day at your hotel, evening ► Visit French, Gueliz and the free to have dinner at La Majorelle Gardens, a magical and lush Marrakeshi, a beautifully CACTUS SILK FABRICS small garden estate designed by tiled, gourmet Moroccan restaurant.

MOROCCAN CUISINE

SPICE MARKETS 7 - Day Tour Itinerary

DAY 2: MARRAKECH ▶Have dinner at Le Comptoir, ▶ Rise early, have breakfast and one of Marrakech’s haute cuisine explore the Souks of of Marrakech. restaurants where there is Take the morning to explore the traditional bellydancing and a funky, fabric Kisseria, the Babbosh souk and contemporary atmosphere to the many other shopping match... OR get down and dirty into opportunities within the medina of the Marrakech traditional nightlife Marrakech. and dine on the cheap in Djemma El Fna Square. Marrakech has ▶ Visit the Artisinale, where been built around Djemma El Fna HENNA HANDS crafts are made and sold. There is a and is often referred to as the heart home of the Mellah), and the Ville small workshop in the back where of Marrakech. In the evening, snake Nouvelle (the French-created, zellig (the hand-crafted Moroccan charmers, fortune tellers, monkeys & musicians transform this city newest section of Fes. The Medina of mosaic that is a hallmarkof Center into a medieval circus. Fès el Bali is believed to be the ) is produced. largest contiguous car-free urban ▶Return to your riad in Marrakech area in the world. ▶ Enjoy a three- course lunch and prepare for the next day’s consisting of fresh salad, tajine and journey to Fes. To enter the medina, you will pass fruit at one of Marrakech most through the Bab Boujeloud delectable restaurants. After lunch gate, with its decoration of blue we will head north of the Mellah to and green faiences. You will visit the 19th century Bahia DAY 3: FES- MARRAKECH explore the medina’s narrow palace, originally built for Si ▶Rise early and take the road from streets lined with local shops Moussa, a former slave who Marrakech to Fes. Stop along the and stalls of fresh fruit, mounds of became King Moulay Hassan’s way to taste traditional malawai- a spices, intricately woven Berber pancake with fresh honey while you chamberlain. The palace holds a carpets and many other Moroccan sip coffee and people watch. courtyard and riads decorated with handicrafts and home goods. Fès has beautiful carved stucco and Arabic two main streets, “Rue Talaa ▶Arrive in Fes in the early evening. architecture. Kebira “ and the “Rue Talaa Check into your riad in the old Seghira “ which are utilized as the medina. ▶Next we will visit the main throughways when exploring contemporary Moroccan Art the medina- and the mysterious Museum or Tiskiwin, a private ▶Option to dine at Le Maison maze-like streets in between. The museum in Marrakech that is Bleue, one of Fes’ finest palace Fès medina is a labyrinth of sloping, dedicated to popular arts & crafts, restaurants or enjoy dinner in the winding alleyways are crammed full styled as a beautiful Spanish- Ville Nouvelle (new city) where you of stalls and workshops. This area is Moroccan house, next door to Dar can see the Fassis people out on the known as the famed Kissaria -the Si Said palace, a smaller version town in the evening. commercial center. A multitude of the Bahia. of locally produced goods are on sale including cotton fabric, silk, ▶After visit the Contemporary DAY 4: FES brocade work, slippers, and Museum of Moroccan Art or browse ▶ Rise early, have breakfast and many more. The people of Fès, the galleries in Gueliz. being your tour of Fes. Fès is the referred to as Fassis, are most fourth largest city in Morocco and hospitable. Fes has been declared a ▶Evening free- explore Marrakech also known as one of the ancient world heritage site by on your own (with Alecia) and she imperial cities). It is separated into UNESCO. will take you to the best hot spots. three parts, Fès el Bali (the old, walled city), Fès -Jdid (new Fes, 7 - Day Tour Itinerary

DAY 4: FES CONTINUED orange, and Fennel Salad. The ▶Start your tour by visiting the mezas are traditionally followed by Merenid Tombs of Fès. Standing the main meal which will include the among olive trees and blue agaves, option of a: Lamb, Prune, and the sixteenth century elegant ruins Date Tagine, a Chicken Tagine of marble and epitaphs face a with Olives and Preserved breathtaking view of the Lemons or a Vegetable Fès. Continue along the old curtain Tagine. For desert you will be wall of the medina and make a stop served with fruit/ or local FASIS PAINTING at the Musée des Armes, a Moroccan pastries along with fortress that once protected Fès. Mint Tea. Today it is possible to see a display of 8,000 pieces of artillery from ▶After lunch we will visit the Makina, the arsenal built by Moulay Musée Dar el- Batha to view Hassan I. the great collection of pottery, leather-work, wood, books and manuscripts from the nineteenth ▶Next, enter the Fès el- Bali century. through the symmetrical horse shoe arches at Bab Boujeloud (The ▶Next, enter Bab el Ftouh, the FES LANDMARK Blue Gate). “Gateway of the Aperture” to explore the Andalusian quarter, a ▶Kairaouine Mosque: residential part of the medina laced Morocco’s second largest mosque. ▶We will stop to admire Ech with monuments.Our last part of the The Kairaouine Mosque became the Cherabliyine Mosque (Mosque tour will take you into the Fès el home of the West's first university of the Slipper makers) then browse Jedid, a kasbah which functioned as and the world's foremost center of the surrounding lines of souks selling Morocco’s administrative center until learning at the beginning of the henna, slippers, caftans, silks, jewelry 1912. Explore the royal palace and second millennium. and spices crowded around the many interesting quarters including kissaria. Next visit the UNESCO the Moulay Abdalllah Quarter, the ▶University of Al-Karaouine: recognized site, Fondouk el- Mellah (Jewish Quarter)New Founded in 859, this university is one Najjarine. Within the foundouk’s Quarter). of the leading spiritual and three floors is the Musée de educational centers of the Muslim Bois, which displays carved doors world. from the Bou Inania Medersa. Within the medina, we will ▶Zaouia Moulay Idriss II: A the following historical sites: zaouia (shrine) dedicated to and the ▶Stop for lunch within the medina tomb of Moulay Idriss II, who ruled at one of the fine Moroccan palace- ▶Medersa Bou Inania: An Morocco from 807 to 828 and restaurants that serves an (Islamic school) founded by Abu Inan founded the city of Fès for the extravaganza of mezas (small plates Faris that is highly decorated from second time in 810. of food) common among Fassis floor to ceiling. The medersa is one tradition. The mezas that are often of the few religious places in ▶: A Hispano-Moorish brought to your table prior to the Morocco that is accessible to non- palace dating from the end of the th large mid-day meal will be several of Islamic tourists. 19 century that houses admirable these: Choukchouka salad, collections of traditional art from Zaalouk salad, Carrots with Fès Cumin Seed, raisin and orange salad, Cold radish, 7 - Day Tour Itinerary

DAY 5: where you can see a ▶Rise, have breakfast and then Berber carpet demonstration. You being your day touring Fes’ souks will be offered mint tea and and the exciting kisserias within follow your guide up a coil of them. stairs to a small area to watch carpets being made by young girls ▶Every souk is reflected in the who come from the mountains to value of the items sold. The makers show tourists how Berber and sellers are grouped together carpets are made. according to the products that they MALLEM offer and every type of craft has its ▶Tanneries: own street or part of the street The Chourara or the Tanner’s which is centered around the Quarters is the most lively and kissaria, near the Zaouia of Moulay picturesque souks in Fès. The Idriss. The layout of the souk Tanneries are often located near is a complex network of watercourses like the Wadi Fès streets selling luxury goods and at a distance from residential like fine silks and brocades, areas due to the strongly high quality kaftans and unpleasant smells they produce. jewelry. There are also souks like the El-Attarine Souk selling spices, a ▶Dyers Market: ZELLIJ TILE slipper souk and a henna souk, The dyers market, located along which is set in a shaded area Rue de Teinturies, is the best planted with arbuses. place to see the dying vats which have been used for centuries to We will visit the following soak the skins of sheep, goat, places: cows and camels after they have their hair and flesh removed is ▶Weavers Cooperative: best seen from the neighboring We will also visit the Weavers terraces. You will see many Cooperative located in a residential tanned hides colored with natural neighborhood off a main shopping pigments ranging from shades of BRASS LOCKS street. The workshop specializes in brown, black, turquoise fuchsia, ▶Late afternoon and evening free weaving the finest jellaba fabric, yellow and orange. to explore Fes on your own. made of silk and wool threads imported from Italy. The shop also ▶Potter's Cooperative: makes a quality jellaba fabric from You will also visit the Potter's DAY 6: FES - MARRAKECH locally spun, textured wool thread Cooperative. Also known as Place ▶Rise early and take the road back called hubba -sometimes referred el-Seffarine, this kisseria is the most to Marrakech. Check into your riad to as couscous, because it’s nubby important center for the and spend the evening exploring texture resembles Morocco's production Fasiss style ceramics, nighlife in Marrakech. national semolina dish of the same brass-ware and silverware in name. Morocco. DAY 7: MARRAKECH ▶Berber Carpet ▶Have lunch at a restaurant that is ▶Depart Marrakech at Menara Demonstration: The Famous near to the Bab Boujloud, the Blue Airport. Exhibition of Antique and Modern Gate of Fes. Carpets is one of the places in Fès