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WCN 2011 | World Congress on Neurology, Morocco

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Ourika Valley – ½ Day

Monuments Visit – ½ Day

Souks Visit – ½ Day

Asni Valley –Whole Day

Excursion to Essaouira - whole day

Monuments Visit – Whole Day

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South and Desert - 03 days/STRONG>

Golf –18 holes

 

Ourika Valley – ½ Day

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This excursion begins with a picturesque drive from Marrakesh to the Ourika Valley. Discover the life of native people of Morocco; the Berbers. This excursion will take you to the Atlas Mountains, where the Berbers has settled for centuries, way before the Arabs and even the Romans, They have struggled for centuries to keep their own culture, language, and traditions.

In the heart of Berber country, the Ourika Valley is one of the most beautiful valleys in Morocco. The clear fast -flowing waters of the Ourika River cut through the foothills of the Atlas Mountains and irrigate the valley with its green terraces of orchards and crops. The valley is dotted with small villages, clustered together, and on the hillsides.

About 45 minutes from Marrakesh, you will experience a complete change of scenery and landscape in contrast with the imperial city, and taste traditional mint tea with home made breads and pure olive oil at a local habitant house.

Get ready for an exciting excursion at the edge of the Atlas Mountains.

Price: 465 Dh per person(minimum 4 pax)
Included: Transportation, a guide and traditional mint tea with tasting of local bread with olive oil at local habitant house.

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Monuments Visit – ½ Day

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The first feeling when entering this particular imperial capital is of pure enchantment. You will be bewitched-falling under the spell of the place and its people. With its world-famous square, Jamaâ El Fna, the beacon city of the Almoravids was founded in about 1070 with an aim to control the traffic of the commercial routes. It was from this rudimentary settlement that the earliest conquests were launched in the northern Africa and to Spain.

The visit of the monuments of Marrakech will start with the Badi Palace
The building of this vast and sumptuous palace was ordered by Ahmed El-Mansour in 1578, following his victory over the Portuguese at the famous Battle of the Three Kings. Designed to host magnificent receptions and banquets, it counted three hundred and sixty rooms arranged around a large inner courtyard adorned with a pool and blooming flowerbeds. Pillaged in 1696 by order of Moulay Ismael to provide decoration for his royal palaces in Meknes, only the shell of this once resplendent edifice remains.

From the Badi Palace, we will continue to the Bahia Palace.
This sumptuous residence was built at the end of the 19th century. Set in an immense eight-hectare garden, the property contains a succession of luxurious secret apartments opening onto patios. A thousand craftsmen, in the most part from the Fez region, took part in its construction which took over seven years. The building of the palace reintroduced the techniques and decorative materials of traditional architecture and, as in former times, carved wood and sculpted plasterwork and stucco adorn its interiors and exteriors

From the Bahia Palace, we will walk through the Jamaa El Fna Square and to the Koutoubia Mosque. The famous square of Marrakech owes its fame to its beauty and continuous activity. During most of the days, folk artists and street entertainers: snake charmers, story tellers, musicians, dancers, actors, acrobats, etc. put up their shows.

The Koutoubia is one of the largest mosques in the Western Islamic world, perhaps even the most beautiful in the harmonious unity of its design. It is a shining and permanent example of the Hispanic-Moorish art of the Almohad era, allying apparent simplicity with marvelous dexterity and discreet luxury. The "booksellers’ mosque" owes its name to the manuscript souk whose shops were attached to its walls during the Middle Ages, a practice common in Arab Muslim towns. Its renowned minaret, a jewel of Hispanic-Moorish architecture, has cast its protective shadow over the city for more than eight centuries.

Price: 260 dh per person (minimum 4 pax)
Included: Transfers in & out, monuments fees and a guide.

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Souks Visit – ½ Day

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The first feeling when entering this particular imperial capital is of pure enchantment. You will be bewitched-falling under the spell of the place and its people. With its world-famous square, Jamaâ El Fna, the beacon city of the Almoravids was founded in about 1070 with an aim to control the traffic of the commercial routes. It was from this rudimentary settlement that the earliest conquests were launched in the northern Africa and to Spain.

From the Jemaa there are several entries to the fantastic souks where the main attraction is looking at the ongoing activities. The souks are a living place with an intricate infrastructure. Different labours are assembled in quarters, and nobody seems to be disturbed if you stop and watch the handcrafts perform their century old professions. What a place it is, Moroccans love it and foreigners too, and there is more Moroccan hand-made craftsmanship to choose from than in any other souks in Morocco.

Souks of the medina:

Souk Chouari:
Specializing in weavings and basket works as well as wood sculpting.

Souk of Jewelers: Large selection of jewelry and gold.

Souk el Attarine: Perfumes and oils.

Souk Haddadine: Ironwork of all shapes, sizes and functions.

Souk Cherratine: This bazaar specializes in leather goods, though their style is not as traditional as it once was as they produce according to tourists tastes.

Souk Smata: Babouches are the pointed slippers you see on many Moroccans, and here you will find the largest collection you could ever imagine.

Souk Essamarrine: This souk has a large selection of fabrics, you can also find a number of souvenirs.

Price: 185 Dh per person (minimum 4 pax)
Included: Transfers in & out, visit of the souks and a guide.

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Asni Valley –Whole Day

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This excursion begins with a picturesque drive from Marrakesh to the Asni Valley. Discover the life of native habitant of Morocco; the Berbers. This excursion will take to the Atlas Mountains, where the Berbers has settled for centuries, way before the Arabs and even the Romans, They have struggled for centuries to keep their own culture, language, and traditions.

In the heart of Berber country, the Asni Valley is one of the most beautiful valleys in Morocco. The clear fast -flowing waters of the Asni River cut through the foothills of the Atlas Mountains and irrigate the valley with its green terraces of orchards and crops. The valley is doted with small villages, clustered together, and climbing on the hillsides of the mountains.

About 45 minutes from Marrakech, you will experience a complete change of scenery and landscape in contrast with the Imperial city, and taste traditional mint tea with home made breads and pure olive oil at a local habitant house.

Lunch will be served by Takerkoust Lake

Menu: Variety of salads, BBQ (beef, chicken, and ground beef), vegetable tagine, fruits basket.

Beverage package: ½ mineral water, soft drink, tea or coffee

Program:
09:30 - Departure from the hotel and driving through the Atlas Mountains
10:30 – Stop at local habitant house
11:30 - Arrival at the Takerkous Lake for a bivouac lunch, with a splendid
           view on the mountain and on the valley.
12:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Trekking in the surrounding of the lake
15:15 - Return to the camp and refreshment will be served
15:45 - Departure to the hotel
17:00 - Arrival to the hotel

 

Price: 920 Dh per person(minimum 4 pax)
Included: Transportation, a guide, lunch and traditional mint tea with tasting of a local bread with olive oil at local habitant house.

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Excursion to Essaouira - whole day

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08:00 Departure from the hotel (2:30 hours drive) to discover the
           wonderful city of “Mogador”

 
10:30 Arrival to Essaouira.

The best way to discover this city is to walk on foot via the narrow streets and enter the Medina, full of whitewashed houses with cheerily painted blue doors, breathe in the pungent scent of freshly caught sardines grilling in the open air. Dormant cannons stand guard over the fishing fleets on the wharf. Stroll through, narrow alleyways that make up the city’s Medina and watch as craftsmen carve boxes of lemon wood, briarwood, and mother of pearl inlay. Here you may notice the Star of David on some of the town’s walls. Essaouira was once a major Jewish center of Morocco before its people immigrated back to Israel. Throughout the visit, you will notice the Portuguese, Berber, and French influences on the city’s architecture. In the 15th century the Portuguese established a commercial center and a military fortification. 

12:30  Seafood lunch by the sea + 1 Soda + ½ mineral water + tea or
           coffee

14:30   Continuation of the visit
La skala was constructed in 1769. The cannons were built in Spain in the 17th and 18th century.
Down from the Skala, traders have taken over the area, and turned it into a mixture of workshops and shops.

The marina gateway
This gateway linking the Medina to the harbor, was built on the initiative of the founder of the city, the Sultan Sidi Mohammed well Abdallah. It is decorated with a classic triangular pediment where the date of its contruction is written- the year 1769.

 

The Ramparts
The ramparts are actually two attractions. The ramparts themselves and the views over the cliffs and the ocean. Big well-kept canons point at the sea. Don't forget to look down — at the narrow streets running parallel to the ramparts.

16:00  Departure to Marrakesh

18:30  Arrival at the hotel

 

Price: 665 Dh per person (minimum 4 pax)
          Included: Transportation, a guide and lunch

          1,700 Dh for an individual traveler
          Including: Transportation and Lunch (Guide on request)

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Monuments Visit – Whole Day

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The first feeling when entering this particular imperial capital is of pure enchantment. You will be bewitched-falling under the spell of the place and its people. With its world-famous square, Jamaâ El Fna, the beacon city of the Almoravids was founded in about 1070 with an aim to control the traffic of the commercial routes. It was from this rudimentary settlement that the earliest conquests were launched in the northern Africa and to Spain.   

The visit of the monuments of Marrakesh will start with the Badi Palace
The building of this vast and sumptuous palace was ordered by Ahmed El-Mansour in 1578, following his victory over the Portuguese at the famous Battle of the Three Kings. Designed to host magnificent receptions and banquets, it counted three hundred and sixty rooms arranged around a large inner courtyard adorned with a pool and blooming flowerbeds. Pillaged in 1696 by order of Moulay Ismael to provide decoration for his royal palaces in Meknes, only the shell of this once resplendent edifice remains.

From the Badi Palace, we will continue to the Bahia Palace.
This sumptuous residence was built at the end of the 19th century. Set in an immense eight-hectare garden, the property contains a succession of luxurious secret apartments opening onto patios. A thousand craftsmen, in the most part from the Fez region, took part in its construction which took over seven years. The building of the palace reintroduced the techniques and decorative materials of traditional architecture and, as in former times, carved wood and sculpted plasterwork and stucco adorn its interiors and exteriors
From the Bahia Palace, we will walk through the Jamaa El Fna square and to the Koutoubia Mosque. The famous square of Marrakesh owes its fame to its beauty and continuous activity. During most of the days, folk artists and street entertainers: snake charmers, story tellers, musicians, dancers, actors, acrobats, etc. put up their shows.

The Koutoubia is one of the largest mosques in the Western Islamic world, perhaps even the most beautiful in the harmonious unity of its design. It is a shining and permanent example of the Hispanic-Moorish art of the Almohad era, allying apparent simplicity with marvelous dexterity and discreet luxury. The "booksellers’ mosque" owes its name to the manuscript souk whose shops were attached to its walls during the Middle Ages, a practice common in Arab Muslim towns. Its renowned minaret, a jewel of Hispanic-Moorish architecture, has cast its protective shadow over the city for more than eight centuries

Lunch at the typical Moroccan restaurant in the Medina
Beverage package: ½ mineral water, soft drink and tea



   
From the restaurant there are several entries to the fantastic souks where the main attraction is looking at the ongoing activities. The souks are a living place with an intricate infrastructure. Different labours are assembled in quarters, and nobody seems to be disturbed if you stop and watch the handcrafts perform their century old professions. What a place it is, Moroccans love it and foreigners too, and there is more Moroccan hand-made craftsmanship to choose from than in any other souks in Morocco.

Souks of the Medina:

Souk Chouari: Specializing in weavings and basket works as well as wood
sculpting.
Souk of Jewelers: Large selection of jewelry and gold.
Souk el Attarine: Perfumes and oils.
Souk Haddadine: Ironworks of all shapes, sizes and functions.
Souk Cherratine: This bazaar specializes in leather goods, though their style is not as traditional as it once was as they produce according to tourists tastes.
Souk Smata: Babouches are the pointed slippers you see on many Moroccans, and here you will find the largest collection you could ever imagine.
Souk Essamarrine: This souk has a large selection of fabrics, you can also find a number of souvenirs.

Program:
09:00 - Departure from the hotel
12:00 - Lunch
13:30 - Continuation of the visit
16:45 - End of the visit
17:00 - Arrival to the hotel


 

Price: 665 dh per person(minimum 4 pax)
Included: Transfers in&out, lunch, monuments fees and a guide.

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Imperial Cities - 04 days

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Day 01 - Marrakech – Rabat – Fes

Start with Rabat the Kingdom's capital, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and  buried deep in a millennium of history. In the heart of the city stands the Tour Hassan, the last vestige of an unfinished mosque. Visit the Kasbah of the Oudayas and Chellah Necropolis.

Day 02 - Visit of Fes
The spiritual capital of Morocco for all together more than 600 years, home of the oldest university of the country, Fes is the leading cultural and religious center. Also the home of the oldest and largest medieval city in the world founded 1200 years ago. UNESCO declared the Medina one of the world’s cultural treasures. The Discover the Attarin Madrasa built in the 14th Century and famous for the refined artwork, the Bali, or the oldest quarters of Fez and Bab Boujeloud, among the most famed gates of Morocco.

Day 03 - Meknes and Volubilis

Meknes, the historic city whose splendour attracted architects, engineers and artists, Meknes and its surroundings have remained unchanged for centuries.

See the Bab Berdaïne, flanked by two square bastions decorated with green terracotta. The Bab El Khemis, which was the main entrance to the “garden city”, built during the 17th century. The gate, flanked by two bastions whose spandrels feature a series of green cartouches, is richly decorated with brightly coloured curvilinear motifs and Kufic script.

Onto Volubilis, which was a Roman settlement constructed on what was probably a Carthaginian city, dating from 3rd century BC. Volubilis was a central administrative city for this part of Roman Africa, responsible for the grain producing in this fertile region, and exports to Rome.

Night in Fes

 

 

Day 04 - Fes - Marrakesh
Return to the Red City of Marrakesh via the Atlas Mountains

Price: 3500 Dh per person sharing a twin or a double room(minimum 4 pax)
         1,190 Dh for a single room supplement
         10,242 Dh for an individual traveler in a single room

Included: Transportation + 3 nights on HB in 5* hotel in Fes.         

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South and Desert - 03 days

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Day 01 – Marrakesh – Zagora

Depart Marrakesh for the Haut Atlas via the col of Tizi n'Tichka (at an altitude of 2260m)
Discover the Anti-Atlas Mountains and its Berber village of Agdez and the Draa Valley. Onto Zagora. Overnight in a bivouac including dinner.
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Day 02 – Zagora – Ouarzazate
Depart for the day into the Oasis, the ksars (Berber villages) and the Kasbah of the Draa Valley or “the Moroccan Oasis”. The valley extends for almost 200km going south from Ouarzazate into the Sahara Desert. Dates and henna grow there. While the Drâa Valley is only sparsely populated, it was once an important transit point on the trans-Saharan caravan route, as well as an important center for Jewish civilization and Arab learning and religion.

In Ouarzazate, visit the Kasbah Taourirt, which was the Marrakech Pacha’s residence and is set in a fortified village. Onto Ouarzazate for a visit of the city of “no noise”, where many movies are filmed and studios can be visited. Overnight in Ouarzazate.

 

Day 03 - Ouarzazate  - Marrakesh
Depart for Marrakesh going through Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah. The Ksar of Ait Benhaddou is one of the most beautiful in Morocco and was recently classified as part of the world heritage by UNESCO. Mostly uninhabited, the fortified village is a fine example of clay architecture

 

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Price: 2900 Dh per person sharing a twin or a double room(minimum 4 pax)
         660 Dh for a single room supplement
         5626 Dh for an individual traveler in a single room

Included: Transportation + 1 night in bivouac camp on HB + 1 nights on HB in 4* hotel in Ouarzazate.

A guide - 1100 Dh/day

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Golf –18 holes

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AMELKIS GOLF COURSE

For a long time, the magical city of Marrakesch has attracted passionate golfers. Amelkis, a tough American style course designed by Cabbel Robinson, is set in an extraordinary landscape where the beauty of the snow capped Atlas mountains blends in the Mediterranean panorama of olive and palm trees
 

    

Price: 670 Dh per person (minimum 4 pax)
         800 Dh for 1 person on private transfer         

Included: Transportation and green fee
Not included: Caddy

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