Best Day Trips from Fes
“Marrakech Morocco Trips” offers the best day trips from Fes. Our day excursions from Fes are:
- Day Trip from Fes to Chefchaouen
- Day Trip from Fes to Volubilis
- Day Trip from Fes to Meknes
DAY TRIP FROM FES TO CHEFCHAOUEN
The day trip to Chefchaouen from Fez is an ideal escape from the busy Fez to enjoy most of the day exploring the city that attracted the Phoenicians, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Jews, the Arabs, and the Hippies in the 70th. Its old fortified town is ideal for wandering around the Souk stores selling small souvenirs and handicrafts.
The day trip to Chefchaouen from Fez will take us through an arid plain with humpy hills near Chichaoua. Historically, Chefchaouen was first founded by the Carthaginian Hanno in the 5th century who constructed a small trading port and was known later in the 11th century as Chefchaouen harbor with the name of Sidi Megdoul. The name was adopted by the Portuguese in the 16th century to be turned into Mogador which means fortress or wall in Berber.
In the 18th century, Sultan Mohammed III conduct serious developments regarding the fortified walls, the harbor…etc. The Sultan was hoping to reorient the capital to Chefchaouen and for this, he appointed the French engineer Theodore Cornut to build the current fortress.
DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL TIME :
We pick up you from your hotel in Fes, we depart at 8.30 am and we return at 7 pm to Fes on the same day.
INCLUDED IN THE DAY TRIPS FROM FES:
Pick up from your hotel, transfer from Fes in an A/C vehicle, guided tour in Chefchaouen, and drop off at your Fes hotel.
DAY TRIP FROM FES TO VOLUBILIS
After breakfast, we set off to the city of Walili known as Voulibilis, which is a Roman ruin dating back to 2000 years and was also declared a world heritage in 1994.
After that, we continue our day trip to the city of the founder of the first dynasty in the kingdom, Moulay Idriss who spread Islam in Morocco, then we go en route to the imperial city of Meknes, known as the Ismaili city referring to its founder King Moulay Ismail in the 17 century.
DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL TIME :
We pick up you from your hotel in Fes, we depart at 8.30 am and we return at 7 pm to Fes on the same day.
INCLUDED IN THE DAY TRIPS FROM FES:
Pick up from your hotel, transfer from Fes in an A/C vehicle, guided tour in Volubilis, and drop off at your Fes hotel.
DAY TRIP FROM FES TO MEKNES
After breakfast, in the hotel, at 9 am we pick up you from your hotel and we drive to Meknes via the holy town of Moulay Idriss, where the founder of Islam is buried. We explore the local area and after lunch in a traditional restaurant, we will head to Meknes where we explore the imperial city, we explore also the old medina, surrounded by a triple thickness of 40 km of walls.
Meknes is home to many Palaces, here you will see the fascinating gate of Bab Mansour built by the sultan My Ismail, the Royal Stables, and the Jewish Quarter. We return back to Fes in the evening. End of a day trip from Fes to Meknes.
DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL TIME :
We pick up you from your hotel in Fes, we depart at 8.30 am and we return at 7 pm to Fes on the same day.
INCLUDED IN THE DAY TRIPS FROM FES:
Pick up from your hotel, transfer from Fes in an A/C vehicle, guided tour in Meknes, and drop off at your Fes hotel.