Welcome to Morocco! Keep your eyes peeled at Morocco airport for the Ciconia sign for your transfer to the hotel. Freshen up and meet in the lobby around 7:00pm for an informal meeting with your guide and other tour members. Afterwards you have free time to start exploring vibrant Marrakech or go out for an optional group dinner.

• Included Activities: Welcome Meeting
• Optional Activities: Group Dinner
• Meals: –

After breakfast depart for Ouarzazate and visit the Berber Village Ait Ben Haddou. The site is well known for its stunning Kasbah used in many wold-famous Hollywood films, a perfect example of traditional Moroccan fortress towns. Stop at a local Berber house and meet the locals over some traditional Moroccan tea.

• Included Activities: Sightseeing Ait Ben Haddou, Berber House visit
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch at Berber House

It’s time to cross into the vast Sahara desert! Drive along the Draa valley until reaching the desert village of Zagora, reflecting the traditional desert life in Morocco. The village is located at the edge of the Sahara desert and where you join a 4×4 jeep safari. Pass through magnificent dessert villages and take a break at an oasis for a locally prepared lunch. Continue on to the Saharan oasis town of M’hamid and climb up the sand dunes before heading to your camp. A traditional Moroccan dinner is prepared by the camp staff for you to enjoy under the desert stars.

• Included Activities: 4X4 Jeep Safari
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Wake up to the Saharan sun and take a mental picture to last forever, an astounding day of Saharan adventure awaits! Ride your camel accross the Sahara soak in the magical desert atmosphere and way of life. Have lunch at a local house in the desert. Make your way back to the campsite for an experience of a lifetime: watching the desert change colour at sunset. Enjoy your Bedouin style dinner and if you’re lucky locals may entertain you with traditional songs and dances by the campfire.

• Included Activities: Camel Trekking
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enough of the desert, time to embrace the ocean! Leave the desert sands for the sandy beaches of Agadir and the beautiful vast ocean. A popular sea resort, especially for windsurfers, the town gets 340 days of sunshine a year! Roam the pretty village and markets, and rest up along the southern Atlantic coastline of Morocco.

• Included Activities: Sightseeing Atlas Mountains & Berber Village
• Optional Activities: Water Sports
• Meals: Breakfast

Hop back on the coach and drive along the charming ocean coast and banana plantations until we reach Essaouira. Morocco’s top sea-side destination, Essaouira has something to offer everyone: water sports, delicious Moroccan seafood, vast beaches and attractive nightlife. Its marvellous citadel is an attraction of its own with breath-taking views of the ocean and tiny local shops scattered all around.

• Meals: Breakfast

Time to bid farewell to the ocean as you embark on a scenic drive to Marrakech through Argan trees. If you’re lucky, you may meet goats climbing the trees! Late in the afternoon you will reach the fascinating city of Marrakech. It is where the Arab city culture meets the Berber culture of the desert and mountain villages. Here, the sub-Saharan traders would trade their wares with European merchants, who would then bring them to Europe. Wear your haggling hats as you discover Djemaa el-Fna Square and brace for the mayhem! Marking the entrance to the huge bazaar, the area is packed with story tellers, snake charmers, acrobats, musicians and folk dancers.

• Included Activities: Sightseeing Djemaa el-Fna
• Optional Activities: Fantasia Night
• Meals: Breakfast

Have your final breakfast on us and start bidding farewells to your travel mates before checking out of the hotel (11:00). Time to start counting days for your next adventure with Ciconia !

• Meals: Breakfast