Luxury Travel to
Morocco | Morocco Luxury Travel and Tours
" This private trip takes you and your
lady to exotic Marrakech, Ouarzazate and Sahara with
top guides — whose clients include three past US
presidents — to show you the sights. Accommodation
includes the Amanjena and Royal
Mansour in Marrakech."~
Xu Ci En, August Man
Marrakech- of ancient
medresses, souks and pedestrianised winding alleys
dotted by riads practicing the 'architecture of the
veil'. The Morocco of theatrical proportions- the
hennaed feet of dancing girls, the guttural calls of
negresses or the mysterious men behind the djellabas.
Also the Morocco of the luxurious gated resorts and
a tourist-centric entertainment scene featuring a
medley so commercialised the locals laugh at you
when you ask for directions.
With a bewildering
number of luxury riads in the medinas and the most
luxurious villas in the La Palmeraie area, Marrakech
(almost synonymous with any trip to
Morocco),
has a well-developed infrastructure for luxury
tourism.
It is possible to spend too many of your
allocated vacation days in
Marrakech, alternating between the Palmeraie and the
medina with the dizzying High Atlas.
We will arrange for a
smart, sassy local to accompany you through the
souks of Marrakech during your luxury trip to
Morocco. She'd be able to point you in
the direction of the best places to shop for
caftans, babouches and home accents- refreshingly
modern takes that you would be able to incorporate
into your everyday life once you're back home.
Should you be taken
by Moroccan cuisine as you are with its architecture
and decor, take up a cooking class in Marrakech, a
spa treatment in its hammams or squeeze in a spot of
skiing during winter times. Drive through the jaw
dropping beauty of the middle Atlas en route to Fez,
spend a luxuriant few days doing-just-nothing aside
from taking in the chilled seaside vibe in Essaouira
or be true to your A-type personality by
driving through the Sahara (or jetting down)
to a luxury, remote Berber encampment in the
Sahara desert. Morocco- one of the countries
that the Sahara traverses through, is an
enchanted place that has been welcoming for
tourists. It offers the option of combining
luxury camping in the Sahara
with a stay in the Atlas Mountains after (or before) a
spell of exotic luxury in Marrakech-
elements to the trip appreciated by
honeymooners as well as romantics, Morocco
being one of the choice spots for a luxury
honeymoon.
Alternate your stay between that of the Medina and the
more secluded La Palmeraie. Venture into the Toubkal
mountains for a spot of skiing over the weekend.
Fraternize with the locals at the weekend market.
Have a home-cooked dinner or guiltily indulge in the
shamelessly Orientalist trappings of high-end
restaurants in the city.
Beyond the usual cities
of Marrakech, Fez, Essaouira (and- our
recommendation- the Sahara as well as
Ouarzazate), there're also other Moroccan
cities that are coming up on the radar of
the luxury travel circuit. Tangiers, long
the haunt of Beat poets- still littered with
cafes where you can find men smoking kif,
which today attracts an assortment of
personalities like Bernard Henri-Levy and
Roger Vivier who set up home in Tangier's
maze-like alleyways that would have you
wondering if these Moroccan streets were the
inspiration behind the dream-like
architectural renderings in 'Inception'.
Whilst luxury travel
in Morocco offers a sophisticated variety of luxury
accommodations, Urbane Nomads designs private tours offering insider access
to Morocco and interesting itineraries that combine
the best of Morocco- the dizzying High Atlas
Mountains, moments of solitude in the Sahara desert
and the chic boites of Marrakech, bringing back the
glamorous exoticism of Morocco during the
era of Talitha Getty.
