5 DAY TOUR FES TO CHEFCHAOUEN AND MEKNES

Overnight in: Fez
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, start your guided city tour of Fez, once the capital of the kingdom before 1912. Your visit today will revolve around exploring Fez the Medina which is a World Heritage Site, according to the UNESCO, and it was founded in the 9th century and it is home to the world’s oldest university.
Your local guide will show you around the major sites like Bou-Inania and Attarin Medersa, the tanners, Ess-Seffarine Square, Moulay Driss tomb, El-Nejjarine square, and the cabinet makers’ souk, the Hebrew district ‘Mellah’. In your schedule, you will have a pottery workshop (optional) with a pottery master so that you get to have a full Moroccan experience. After lunch (optional) at a local restaurant, you are free to either choose to go back to your hotel or stroll in the narrow alley of the old town on your own.
The more you know: each October Fez held one of the largest and well-known Sufi festivals with performers from around the world

Overnight in: Chefchaouen
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, departure for Chaouen nestled in the mountains of the Rif chain in the north of the country. The small town, also called the “blue pearl”, was founded in the fifteenth century by Jewish and Muslim refugees who fled from the Spanish Reconquista. In the 1920s, after the Spaniards defeated the local resistance movement, visitors to the city were surprised to find that Chefchaouen’s Jews still spoke a dialect similar to medieval Castilian. The city, albeit small, still houses places worthy of note: the Outa Hamman square, the great sixteenth-century mosque, the kasbah, the museum of ethnography that tells the story of the ancient town, the Andalus district, where the first refugees settled when they arrived. The typical blue color of walls and streets dates back to the 1930s, and was used by the locals to protect the houses from the evil eye and also from mosquitoes. We will arrive in Chefchaouen after about 3 hours of travel.
In the afternoon start your guided city tour, characterized by artisans’ shops and by cafes and restaurants that offer beautiful views of the Rif and the city.

Overnight in: Fez
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, departure to Fez via Meknes and Volubilis. En route, stop to visit Meknes which is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco. Our English-speaking driver will take you to the city’s most attractive locations namely Bab Mansour (this is the biggest gate in all of Africa), Lahdim square, Moulay Ismail mausoleum, the imperial stables, and much more. Optional lunch in a local restaurant and continue to Volubilis which is the ancient capital of the kingdom of Mauretania, it developed from the 3rd century BC onward as a Berber, then proto-Carthaginian settlement before passing under Roman rule (from the 1st to the 3rd century AD). After having visited Volubilis, you will drive to Fes where you will be dropped off at your hotel overnight.

Meals: Breakfast
Optional (s): Departure Fast Track

Wake up and enjoy a lovely breakfast at your hotel before heading to Fez Airport to catch a flight back home.