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One of our most AFRICA
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for solo women SPAIN YOUR OPTIONAL EXTENSIONS
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Sahara Desert, Morocco DAY • Meet local family • Off-road Association for Rural Development, a Grand
Sahara adventure • Sahara Desert camp Circle Foundation site, to better Arrive Early, Stay Later
Enjoy an O.A.T.-exclusive visit with members of understand life as a rural Prices below include accommodations, daily breakfast,
Morocco Sahara Odyssey a local desert community. Afterwards, board Moroccan woman. and private airport transfer.
4x4 vehicles and head through the desert to
B,L,D — Le Berbere Palace or similar
Morocco: Rabat, Fez, Sahara Tented Camp, High Atlas Mountains, Ouarzazate, Marrakesh, Casablanca Departures: our private tented campsite. You may join your DAY Ž› • Cross High Atlas Mountains • • Arrive early in Rabat before your main trip for
$175 per person, per night
Trip Experience Leader on an optional sunset
For departure dates, available single space, and pricing, visit www.oattravel.com/ mso pricing Jan-May; Aug-Dec 2023 dune hike. Take in a traditional Moroccan Marrakesh • Djemaa El Fna • Arrive early in Casablanca before your northern
cooking demonstration this evening. Travel through the High Atlas Mountains to Morocco pre-trip extension, or stay later after your
B,L,D — Private tented camp Marrakesh. Along the way, pause high above main trip or your Atlantic Coast post-trip extension
16 days from $ 3795 Exotic Morocco enthralls even the most experienced adventurer. Tradition infuses its narrow green valleys to take in sweeping views. for $150 per person, per night
including international airfare labyrinthine medinas, overflowing with centuries-old customs and the colorful bounty of the DAY ‰ • Sahara Desert walk & camel ride Once we arrive in Marrakesh, we’ll check into
• Farm visit • Khamlia
our riad. Tonight, walk to Djemaa El Fna, to
Earth. Village oases seem to rise from the desert, mirage-like. Join us in Morocco and explore
Single Supplement: FREE several UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the medinas of Fez and Marrakesh. You’ll Choose to rise before dawn to watch the sample food from the street stalls.

Save a FULL 10%, up to $530, with our also meet Moroccan people, experience their traditions, spend 2 nights in a private tented sunrise in the Saharan dunes followed by a B,L — Hotel Riad Bahia Salam or similar DAY Ž¤ • Women’s Solidarity Association •
guided walk. Later, explore the desert on the
Good Buy Plan—reserve by 8/31/22 camp under the starry skies of the mighty Sahara Desert, and more. back of a camel (weather permitting). Then, DAY ŽŸ • Marrakesh • Horse-drawn Casablanca & Hassan II Mosque
journey by 4x4 vehicle to a local farm, followed carriage ride On our way to Casablanca, have lunch at the Women’s
Solidarity Association and get to know one of the
WHAT TO EXPECT DAY • Rabat City—the medina. Later, enjoy an exclusive Home- by a visit to the remote village of Khamlia for a Explore Marrakesh on foot, stopping at the women training there. Upon arrival in Casablanca,
Koutoubia minaret, the Moorish spice market,
Enjoy an introduction to the Arabic language before Hosted Dinner with a local family. lively Gnawa musical performance. Later, enjoy the opulent Bahia Palace, and the famous visit the Hassan II Mosque followed by a discovery
a walking tour of Rabat. We’ll visit La Halinka, the B,L,D — Hotel Riad Salam or similar a cup of tea with nomadic women, and learn medina. Later, you may choose to join your walk through the city center. Travelers taking the

oldest coffee shop in the region. Then, visit the ruins about Islam from our Trip Experience Leader. Northern Morocco post-trip extension will depart for
View all physical requirements at and gardens of the Chellah and Kasbah Oudeya, a DAY ‘ • Fez • Optional Volubilis & B,L,D — Private tented camp Trip Experience Leader to see a demonstration Essaouira after breakfast.
www.oattravel.com/ mso citadel built in the twelfth century. Meknes tour DAY Ž‘ • Ouarzazate • Berber museum of Berber weaving. Afterwards, ride through B,L — Radisson Blu Hotel Casablanca or similar

Marrakesh in a traditional horse-drawn calèche.
B,D — Le Diwan Hotel or similar The day is free for your own discoveries. You Leave the desert for the oasis town of

ITINERARY may join a full-day optional tour of two UNESCO B,D — Hotel Riad Bahia Salam or similar DAY Ž¦ • Return to U.S.
DAY ˆ • Fez • Discussion on the Arab Spring World Heritage Sites, Volubilis and Meknes. You’ll Ouarzazate, making a stop in Tinejdad. There, DAY Ž¡ • Marrakesh • Optional tours Head to the airport after breakfast for your flight
DAY — • Depart U.S. Travel to Fez—a UNESCO World Heritage Site. wander the ruins of Volubilis, one of the most well- arrive at the Ksar of El Khorbat and take a walk • Controversial Topic: Feminist to the U.S.
inside one of the ancient fortified walled cities
Depart today on an overnight flight to Upon arrival, enter the medina on foot, making our preserved Roman cities in North Africa, then tour (ksars). Then, visit a Berber museum and learn youth activism B
Casablanca. way to our riad—a Moroccan home that has been the Old City of Meknes. about the Berber culture. Discover Marrakesh from above on our

refurbished into a hotel. Later, enjoy a discussion B,D — Hotel Riad Salam or similar
DAY ™ • Casablanca, Morocco • Rabat about the political reforms in Morocco since the B,L,D — Le Berbere Palace or similar optional Marrakesh Hot-Air Balloon Ride, or
An O.A.T. representative meets us at the airport Arab Spring. DAY ” • The Middle & High Atlas join our optional Marrakesh Museums tour.
in Casablanca before heading to Rabat. Later, B,L — Hotel Riad Salam or similar Mountains • Erfoud DAY ŽŽ • A Day in the Life of Asfalou This evening, a local young woman will lead a

we meet our fellow travelers who took the Wind across the Middle and High Atlas Mountains, village • Visit GCF Site: Imik Simik conversation about a Controversial Topic:
optional pre-trip extension to Northern Morocco: DAY Œ • Fez • Home-Hosted Dinner through cedar forests, to the town of Erfoud. Along Women’s Association • Ouarzazate the challenges faced by Morocco’s young
Chefchaouen, Tangier & the Berbers of the Rif. Set out for a day of exploration in Fez. First, go the way, meet with a semi-nomadic family (when Experience A Day in the Life of Asfalou village feminist movement.

D — Le Diwan Hotel or similar to the traditional Jewish quarter, the mellah, possible) and delve into their way of life. where you’ll sit for tea with the family of a local B,D — Riad Palais des Princesses or similar To learn more about
brick maker. After, visit the Imik Simik Women’s
to visit a 17th-century synagogue. Afterwards, B,L,D — Kasbah Hotel Chergui or similar this adventure, scan the
stroll through the souks (marketplace) of the Old QR code at right.
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