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 our Morocco overland truck group tours are 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 fauna and flora unique to this region to the stark arid imposing mountains offers the hikers and nature enthusiast an adventure to explore the high magnitude of active tours and expeditions to Morocco scheduled for 2021 and 2022. This Morocco small group adventure tour presents you with the best vistas and landscapes exploring the back roads traveled only by locals or seasoned overland explorers. Adding to this Morocco mountain hiking discovery an introduction to the immense openness of the Sahara desert trekking you will treasure forever. You are about to embark on a unique Morocco overland expedition we handpicked for you to hike in the footsteps of ancient Saharan caravan trails. This 2021-20222 Morocco hiking tour is an expedition that shows the reality of Morocco natural beauty beyond a production from National Geographic documentaries.
An expedition of this magnitude is what we call a Morocco overland discovery. Trekking, hiking, exploring, discovering, camping, visiting all over Morocco from High North to Deep South, from the farthest point east to the extreme west of this marvelous and naturally endowed destination. Vistas and landscapes, not to forget local encounters with Moroccans you have dreamed to realize in Morocco adventure travel. Morocco, in fact, has fascinated world trotters, explorers, pioneers, and active travelers since the dawn of time. If you like a Morocco tour that features ancient history, archaic societies, cultural encounters, active and adventure discoveries, exotic explorations, off the beaten paths, all in most diverse and beautiful natural settings then this Morocco group overland truck tour is for you. A journey in the hinterland of Morocco hiking with a small group 2021/20222. So keep it a discovery. Join in the spirit of an explorer this adventure tour in the hinterland of Morocco. Book your tour early and save 10% discount. Check our Morocco Discounted tour in December 2021.
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 your meal later with a typical mint tea brewed for the occasion.
This Overland tour of Morocco runs monthly except in August. It is a small group of maximum 16 active travelers. The average of each group is 10 participants. Best time to thoroughly is fall and springs. July is good but you have to endure some heat in the Sahara part. January is cold especially in the Atlas Mountains.
While on the trek a cook is traveling with the expedition to prepare the daily 3 meals. Each day 2 members of the group take turn to help with washing the dishes. Buying extra food is available in big cities and we will point that to you to have your own supply for your extra food like power bars and beer/wine etc. Bottled water is on us throughout the tour. You could ask our guide to liaise with the various guardians of the accommodation that we stayed in for basic provisions. Vegans and vegetarians are welcome.
In cities we use boutique hotels and even small Riads in the mountains camping when we can or using available good guesthouses and Gites. In oases and Sahara desert we camp or use oases guesthouses. In valleys and Mountains we use Kasbah Inns or natural camps. Sometimes we use farmers compounds and open air camps in their groves near water.
Best cost and best services guaranteed compare with all other tour planners in Morocco. All hand-picked, top notch guides to give the best Morocco overland trekking experience.
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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
will be devoted to exploring the marvels of Tangier. Time mostly will be spent in the Kasbah and
El grand Soco. Mershan quarter in the old city and
M’sella quarter. Dinner and overnight
are at Solazure Hotel.
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 yourself in the Marvelous
Chefchaouen Mountain town and its vibrant aura of beauty and charm. Your adventure tour will take to the ancient Roman city of Volubilis and the first Islamic city Moulay Idriss before you reach the Marvelous city of Fez. Enjoy a comfortable night in your hotel to be ready for your guided walking tour of the Medina.
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 capital and
Moulay Idris in the creation of the country's
first Arab dynasty. Continue on to Fez, dinner and accommodation at
Hotel Merinides.
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 suspended in time somewhere between
the Middle Ages and the modern times. Besides its electricity it owes
absolutely nothing to the West. As a
spectacle, this is an entirely satisfying experience and a learning process
about the sophistication of the Moroccan artisan. Visiting in the morning some of the important
sightseeings such as the Bouinania Medersa, the Moulay Idris Mausoleum, the Karaouiyine Mosque, the Attarine Medersa,
and the Nejjarine museum. We will break for lunch in a
typical Moroccan restaurant, continue
exploring the Medina in the afternoon with our best guide who will introduce you to the hidden treasures of the Medina of Fez and its workshops.
Dinner and accommodations are at your Hotel.
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 trade outpost of sub-Saharan, it is also a three thousand yeas
old spiritual center with lot of Judaic roots.
Shrines and notable places around the city are pilgrimage sites to
Moroccan Jews today. After a little
Middl atlas hiking to explore these landscapes we will proceed to Bhallil to visit the troglodyte
dwellings that have existed from Neolithic time and still serve the
purpose. Return back to fez for dinner
and accommodation.
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 and plowed plots. The road across is almost ceremonial. Azrou,
Our small group expedition continues on its track hiking across the best Morocco landscapes. The first real town of the Middle Atlas, stands at a major junction of routes,
it's an important market center for Berber tribes in the vicinity, and it has long held a strategic role in
controlling caravan trade from Saharan desert and the Berbers of these mountains.
The Middle Atlas cease at Midelt,
where suddenly, through the haze, appear the much greater peaks of the High
Atlas formidably rising behind the town to reach a massive range, the Dgebel
Ayashi at over 12,000 ft. The drama of this sight, tremendous in the
clear, cool noon, is the most compelling reason to stop over for lunch. Erfoud,
one of the most pleasing of all southern routes: a dry, red belt of the desert, and
then suddenly, a drop into the valley filled
with date palm groves. Dinner accommodations are at camp with the
Tuaregs over the dunes of Merzouga. You can ride your camel to camp or simply hop
in our Land Rover to cruise these gigantesque dunes.
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.
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 hedgerows dividing the
different plots. Thousands of Kasbahs scattered in a surreal fashion as sand
castles standing erect in the shadow of time along the Dades river. Dinner and
accommodation at Hotel Bougafer in Tineghir.
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.
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.
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.
After lunch we will cruise to Tata where we will enjoy a night in a
typical Kasbah raised from the ground to challenge the tallest palm trees.
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.
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 in some
of the best eateries this well cultured region of Souss has to offer in its
varied staples of Berber tagines cooked as in earthen pots in the same way
ancient ancestors did. Dinner and
accommodation are at hotel Tiznit.
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 library scattered all over these
slopes with a rich collection of archives of mankind ancient history. Dinner and Lodging are at hotel Les Amadiers.
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.
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.
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 the moisture of the Gherbi winds from the Atlantic ocean, soft and
evergreen. Such is the life of the
Berber dwellers, a day of mountain
hiking through the high peaks and deep valleys.
This is an experience to treasure for a lifetime. Overnight and dinner
will be at a guesthouse.
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 something of a pleasure
city, a market place where the southern tribesmen and Berber villagers bring in
their goods, spend their money, and find entertainment. For tourists, it's an enduring fantasy - a city of immense beauty, low, pink, and
tent-like before a great shaft of mountains, and immediately exciting. Visit of the famous Jemaa El Fna square.
Dinner will be in a typical Marrakesh
restaurant, Overnight at the
hotel.
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
reserved for you at a typical festivity of neighboring tribal dances and
spectacular displays of horsemanship. Overnight will be at the Hotel.
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 the
promontory to the south, and the almost Gothic scenery of the eighteen century
fortifications. Lunch will be at Chalet de la Mer restaurant overlooking the
ocean. Dinner and accommodations are at
Hotel Des Iles.
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 that you have traveled in the same footsteps of antiquity,
leaving you with an immediate nostalgia
for this hospitable land. Goodbye dinner
and overnight at Zohor Restaurant.
Morning
Departure to Mohamed V Airport to
connect to your flight back home