Full-day Trip To Essaouira And Argan Forest From Marrakech

Full-day Trip To Essaouira And Argan Forest From Marrakech

 Day trip to Essaouira from Marrakech on private, a day dedicated to the exploration of the city of essaouira, get ready for a trip of 3 hours to the beautiful Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. On our way we will stop to Visit of a women cooperative of argan oil. Experience the steps of making argan. Once arrived at the port city, formerly known as Mogador, you will have time to enjoy the charming sites of Essaouira, whose ocher-colored walls, the beautiful place for many artists round the world, walk though the souks and explore the harbor, enjoy a fish lunch at the port and walk in the sandy beach.
•  Visit an argan oil cooperative with a private guide
•  Explore the vibrant medina, where local craftspeople produce traditional arts and crafts.
•  Enjoy a fish lunch watch fishermen haul in their catches in the harbor and gain insight into Essaouira’s Portuguese colonial heritage

Day trip to Essaouira, the former Mogador built on a rocky peninsula, with its ramparts in vigil on the ocean, its medina in white and blue tones, its busy port and its long sandy beaches. 

The history of Essaouira dates back to the 8th century BC. The Phoenicians stopped there on the road of the equator. The real founder of the city was the Alaouite sultan Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, who entrusted the construction to Theodore Cornut, architect and student of Vauban Essaouira is now a nice little fishing port very lively at the arrival of the boats where sardines and crustaceans are sold at the auction. On the docks, fishermen repair the red nets. 

Enjoy the sardine grilled outdoors in the harbor's small restaurants, then discover the Sqala du Port, a crenellated bastion built to protect the harbor and the city. It consists of two fortified wings behind the Navy gate. Leaving the port Sqala, enter Moulay Hassan square. Discover the kasbah, district surrounded by ramparts with foundations anchored in the rock. Walk along the ramparts taking the street that leads to the Sqala of the Kasbah, where the famous guns of Essaouira line up. This place was chosen by Orson Welles to turn the exterior sets of his Othello. 

At the heart of the Kasbah, the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions is the mirror and the collective memory of the province of Essaouira. You will discover the ritual or profane musical instruments of the Aissaoua, Hamadcha and Gnaoua brotherhoods. Every year in June, the world-renowned Gnaoua Festival of Essaouira.