The private day trip from Marrakech to the Ourika Valley takes you into the foothills of the High Atlas: pickup from your accommodation around 9:00 AM, a scenic drive along the Ourika River, mint tea with a Berber family, a visit to a local women’s cooperative, a guided hike to the Setti Fatma waterfalls and lunch by the river, returning to Marrakech in the evening.
This carefully designed Day Trip to Ourika Valley is the ultimate relaxing break of the bustling, hot beat of Marrakech that can give one a feel of the high end of Moroccan luxury travel in one day. Firstly, you effortlessly switch the whipping frenzy of the city to the deep calmness of the foothills of the High Atlas. It is thus a tour of pure culture and nature, not in brief photo stops, but rather in experiencing the Berber lifestyle.
Moreover, the trip is an ideal representation of our Moroccan tours to the top, where they will get comfortable transport with limited space and professional guidance through the doors of local households. You therefore get to see idyllic Berber villages, walk up to the beautiful waterfalls of Setti Fatma, and have mint tea with a local family. Lastly, this Day Trip to Ourika Valley is not only a sightseeing event, but it can also be described as a real experience, and is regarded as one of the best value luxury tours out of Marrakech.
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Your memorable Day Trip to Ourika Valley starts early in the morning (at 9:00 AM) when a private and comfortable transfer of Luxury Tours in Morocco to your accommodation in Marrakech begins. Furthermore, as soon as we start moving south, the urbanized scenery is replaced by the majestic foothills of High Atlas Mountains.
The very crucial destination in this Day Trip to Ourika Valley is to visit a traditional Berber house. In this case, we are warmly received into a local family where we are offered to have the Moroccan mint tea, which we cannot but drink. By recounting this little, sweet ceremony in their house, one of those true, intimate peeks at their solitary, strong life in the mountains, a scene that most tourists can still remember as a tour guide.
Then we pay a visit to a local cooperative that is managed by Berber Women. Furthermore, you will observe the traditional complex method of removing the precious Argan oil out of the kernels. Moreover, this collaboration will enable you to hear about this exclusive Moroccan product and you can contribute to the women who produce it with your own hand to make this experience with luxury tours in Marrakeh a bit more authentic.We move on down into the valley, and come to the small, busy village of Setti Fatma. To start with, you visit a mountain guide based in the small town and he takes you on an optional walk to the popular seven waterfalls. The increase brings you through the playing waterfalls and over the rocky tracks and provides you with a marvelous feeling of the roughness of the mountain.
Then you sit down to a feast of a traditional Moroccan lunch after the hike. We usually book a table in a beautiful, river side restaurant where you can take your feet in cool mountain water and have a good tonic of tagine. And last of all you have a little leisure, to have a rest in the river, or to go and look at the little craft stalls. This is an ideal Day Trip to Ourika Valley, which will make you feel more refreshed and in touch with the nature.Late in the afternoon out we start the picturesque journey back down the valley towards Marrakech. Furthermore, it is now that the light has varied, and on this drive, long and golden shadows tend to fall over the valley and the villages on the hillside.
Thus, use this time to just sit back and enjoy the beauty of the day and the cultural experience which is peculiar to the day. At the end of the day, your personal driver can take you safely to your accommodation place in Marrakech at night, thus ending your enriching and refreshing Day Trip to Ourika Valley with Luxury Tours in Morocco.We at Luxury Tours In Morocco offer best Marrakech Full Day Tours and Sahara Desert Excursions from Marrakech for best experience. Let us organise this Marrakech travel experience for you. Airport transfers from Marrakech available.
The Ourika Valley lies in the foothills of the High Atlas Mountains, south of Marrakech. It is a full-day trip: pickup from your accommodation around 9:00 AM and return to Marrakech in the evening.
Berber villages and terraced fields along the Ourika River, a local women’s cooperative, mint tea with a Berber family, and the village of Setti Fatma with its waterfalls.
Yes. In Setti Fatma, a local mountain guide leads you to the waterfalls along rocky trails. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
No, the cost of lunch is not included. We usually reserve a table at a riverside restaurant where you can enjoy a traditional tagine.
Private transport, an expert driver-guide, tea with a Berber family, the guided hike in Setti Fatma, and hotel pickup and drop-off. Lunch, drinks, personal shopping, tips, the optional camel ride and any entrance fees are not included.
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