Marrakech Private Excursion From Essaouira
Essaouira, Morocco
Trip Type: Private Sightseeing Tours
Duration: 9 hours
Historical and private guided visit of the mystical and mysterious city of Marrakech including light lunch and visit of the Majorelle gardens and the famous Jemaa El Fna place, Unesco listed humanity oral heritage.
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Historical and private guided visit of the mystical and mysterious city of Marrakech including light lunch and visit of the Majorelle gardens and the famous Jemaa El Fna place, Unesco listed humanity oral heritage.Departure early morning (8am) for Marrakech, arrival and panoramic tour then visit of:
Koutoubia Minaret:
The Koutoubia is built in XII century, and it is the twin sister of the Giralda of Seville and the Hassan Tower (unfinished) in Rabat
El Badi Palace:
It was Raised by Ahmed al-Mansur, a replica of the Alhambra, and made with the most precious materials from Italy (marble), Sudan (gold dust), India (porphyry) and even China (jade).
Saadian Tombs:
The Saadian tombs are to be originated in the period of the great sultan Ahmad al-Mansur Saadi (1578-1603). These tombs were discovered in 1917. These tombs impress visitors with their beautiful decoration. The mausoleum houses the body of a sixty Saadiens, including Al-Mansour, his followers and his family.
Bahia Palace:
Is one of the outstanding Moroccan historical monuments that was built in the late nineteenth century. As most of the Arab-Andalusian palaces, it contains beautiful gardens and lovely patios, and has 150 rooms lavishly decorated.
The construction of the palace by the Grand Vizier Ba Ahmed Ben Moussa called Ba Hmad (1841-1900) to house his 4 wives and 24 concubines.
Majorelle Gardens:
(Residence of the French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his companion Pierre Berger)
Majorelle gardens are considered as one of the most visited places in Morocco. The French painter Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) spent 40 years to create, with passion, this enchanting location, at the heart of the red city.
You will have a light lunch after the Majorelle gardens visit.
Visit of the Souk:
The numerous, varied, colourful and always busy souks in the old town make Marrakesh capital of Moroccan handiwork.
All leather work, woodwork, luxury products, silver or gold jewellery,can be found.
All types of spices await you in the souk. Their palette of bright colours and appetizing fragrances you will find it by the scents coming from it before seeing it.
Jemaa El Fna Place:
Open sky theatre and the first visited place in Morocco: storytellers, clowns antics, agile acrobats, sudden burst of flutes and tambourines, Gnaoua drumming and dancing, screaming monkeys, snake charmers, doctors ads, tattooers in the Henna, fortune-tellers…
End of the visit and return to Essaouira around at 5pm
Koutoubia Minaret:
The Koutoubia is built in XII century, and it is the twin sister of the Giralda of Seville and the Hassan Tower (unfinished) in Rabat
El Badi Palace:
It was Raised by Ahmed al-Mansur, a replica of the Alhambra, and made with the most precious materials from Italy (marble), Sudan (gold dust), India (porphyry) and even China (jade).
Saadian Tombs:
The Saadian tombs are to be originated in the period of the great sultan Ahmad al-Mansur Saadi (1578-1603). These tombs were discovered in 1917. These tombs impress visitors with their beautiful decoration. The mausoleum houses the body of a sixty Saadiens, including Al-Mansour, his followers and his family.
Bahia Palace:
Is one of the outstanding Moroccan historical monuments that was built in the late nineteenth century. As most of the Arab-Andalusian palaces, it contains beautiful gardens and lovely patios, and has 150 rooms lavishly decorated.
The construction of the palace by the Grand Vizier Ba Ahmed Ben Moussa called Ba Hmad (1841-1900) to house his 4 wives and 24 concubines.
Majorelle Gardens:
(Residence of the French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his companion Pierre Berger)
Majorelle gardens are considered as one of the most visited places in Morocco. The French painter Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) spent 40 years to create, with passion, this enchanting location, at the heart of the red city.
You will have a light lunch after the Majorelle gardens visit.
Visit of the Souk:
The numerous, varied, colourful and always busy souks in the old town make Marrakesh capital of Moroccan handiwork.
All leather work, woodwork, luxury products, silver or gold jewellery,can be found.
All types of spices await you in the souk. Their palette of bright colours and appetizing fragrances you will find it by the scents coming from it before seeing it.
Jemaa El Fna Place:
Open sky theatre and the first visited place in Morocco: storytellers, clowns antics, agile acrobats, sudden burst of flutes and tambourines, Gnaoua drumming and dancing, screaming monkeys, snake charmers, doctors ads, tattooers in the Henna, fortune-tellers…
End of the visit and return to Essaouira around at 5pm
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