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TourCrafters Introduces New Affordable Tour of Morocco
12-13-2012
Libertyville, IL, December 13, 2012—TourCrafters, the Mediterranean specialist, has designed a new, small-group escorted tour of Morocco’s Imperial Cities that can easily be added onto any Spanish vacation. The 7-day/6-night land-only package starts at $1,094 and has weekly departures from Spain’s Costa del Sol every Sunday from January 6 to October 27, 2013.
Included in the price is six nights’ deluxe hotel accommodation with daily breakfast and dinner, transportation by air-conditioned coach, round-trip ferry passage to Morocco, an English-speaking Moroccan escort guide, guided tours and entrance fees to the monuments in Fez, Marrakech and Rabat, plus sightseeing tours in Meknes, Casablanca and Tangier.
The hotels provided are all 5-star: the Royal Mirage in Fez, the Atlas Medina in Marrakech, the Golden Tulip in Rabat, and Tangier’s legendary El Minzah with its fountains and orange trees, where everyone from Rita Hayworth to Jacques Cousteau has stayed.
The tour starts with a ferry crossing from Algeciras to Tangier with the first night’s stay in the walled medieval city of Fez. The next day there’s a full tour of this best-preserved of the imperial cities: a visit to the Jewish and Christian quarters, a look at the Royal Palace, and a trip through the maze-like Medina, or old city, with its mosques, 9th-century Karouine University, shops, and photogenic tanneries. Then it’s on to Meknes, for a panoramic tour of the city, and Khenifra, across the Middle Atlas Mountains.
In Marrakech there’s a tour of this exotic red city: its gardens, 16th-century Saadian Tombs, El Bahia Palace, the Jewish quarter and the Koutoubia Minaret. Time for shopping (handicrafts, jewelry, clothing) in the Medina and then a visit to the famous “town square” Djemaa el Fna with its cafés, food stalls, story tellers, snake charmers, water sellers, acrobats and scribes. The tour winds up with visits to Casablanca, Rabat—the capital of the kingdom—and Tangier, and a return to the Costa del Sol.
Note that there are two optional (i.e., extra charge) evenings--a “local wedding” and dinner in Fez and a Fantasia dinner in Marrakech with a show of horsemanship and Berber dancing.
The prices quoted are per person, double occupancy and are subject to availability. For additional information about the tour, log onto http://www.tourcrafters.it/tour.lasso?ID=153. For reservations, call 800-482-5995.
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