BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Gateway2Morocco//Itinerary//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-trip@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261011 SUMMARY:Jewish Heritage Morocco — 10 Days · Gateway2Morocco LOCATION:Casablanca DESCRIPTION:Your Morocco journey with Gateway2Morocco. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d1@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261002 SUMMARY:Day 1 · Casablanca — Welcome to Morocco's Atlantic Capital LOCATION:Casablanca DESCRIPTION:Land at Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport\, where y our private Gateway2Morocco driver will be waiting to greet you with a w arm welcome. Settle in to your hotel and recover from your journey at yo ur own pace. If you have energy left in the evening\, the Corniche of Ai n Diab is a five-minute drive — a vibrant seaside boulevard for an easy first walk along the Atlantic. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d2@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261002 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261003 SUMMARY:Day 2 · Casablanca — Hassan II Mosque\, Museum of Moroccan Judais m & Temple Beth El LOCATION:Casablanca DESCRIPTION:After breakfast\, meet your guide and licensed driver to disc over Morocco's largest city. Begin at the magnificent Hassan II Mosque — completed in 1993\, partially built over the Atlantic Ocean\, and the o nly mosque in Morocco that opens its doors to non-Muslims. Continue to t he Habous Quarter\, a French-built 1920s reinterpretation of a tradition al medina\, home to the King's palace and the famous Bennis pastry shop. After a suggested lunch\, stroll Place Mohammed V to admire the Art Dec o facades that earned Casablanca its cinematic reputation\, and end with a slow walk along the Corniche of Ain Diab\, where the Atlantic sets a wide horizon for the evening. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d3@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261003 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261004 SUMMARY:Day 3 · Fes — Imperial Capitals & Roman Splendour LOCATION:Fes DESCRIPTION:Drive north along the Atlantic to Rabat — Morocco's royal cap ital — for the Mohammed V Mausoleum (white marble and carved cedar\, wit h Royal Guards on horseback) and the blue-and-white Udayas Kasbah. Conti nue inland to Volubilis\, the UNESCO Roman city covering 40 hectares: 2\ ,000-year-old mosaic floors depicting Orpheus and Bacchus still lie exac tly where Roman families once walked\, and inscriptions from Volubilis i nclude some of the earliest physical evidence of a Jewish presence in No rth Africa. Arrive in Fes — Morocco's medieval heart — at sunset. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d4@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261004 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261005 SUMMARY:Day 4 · Fes — The First Mellah\, Aben Danan Synagogue & the Medie val Medina LOCATION:Fes DESCRIPTION:Fes was the first Moroccan city to designate a separate Jewis h quarter — the original Mellah\, founded in the 14th century around the Royal Palace for community protection. With your licensed local guide\, walk the mellah's distinctive balconied houses (a feature borrowed by t he rest of the city centuries later)\, visit the beautifully restored Ab en Danan Synagogue (17th century\, with its painted ceiling\, mikveh and bimah preserved exactly as they were)\, and the haunting Jewish cemeter y on the hill overlooking the city. After lunch\, the rest of Fes el-Bal i — the Attarine Medersa\, Al-Qarawiyyin University (the world's oldest) \, and the Chouara Tanneries. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d5@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261006 SUMMARY:Day 5 · Erfoud — Through Little Switzerland to the Saharan Gatewa y LOCATION:Erfoud DESCRIPTION:Drive south through Ifrane — the alpine Swiss-style town buil t by the French Protectorate\, with stone chalets and a famous snow-cove red lion sculpture. Continue through cedar forests where Barbary macaque s roam free\, then descend through the Ziz Valley — a river gorge with t housands of date palms creating a green canopy above the arid landscape. Arrive in Erfoud\, gateway to the Sahara\, at sunset. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d6@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261006 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261007 SUMMARY:Day 6 · Merzouga — Into the Golden Sahara LOCATION:Merzouga DESCRIPTION:Explore Rissani — birthplace of the Alaouite dynasty and once a great terminus of the trans-Saharan trade route\, where Jewish carava n-traders connected the Mediterranean to sub-Saharan Africa for centurie s. Detour to Khamlia village for a deeply moving Gnawa music performance under a goatskin tent. Then arrive at the edge of Erg Chebbi: 50 kilome tres of the most spectacular sand dunes in the world. Mount your camel a s the sun begins its descent — the slow rhythm\, the dunes turning gold and amber and red. Luxury desert camp awaits: dinner\, drumming\, ten mi llion stars. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d7@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261008 SUMMARY:Day 7 · Dades Gorge — Sahara Sunrise & the Canyon Roads LOCATION:Dades Gorge DESCRIPTION:Rise at 5:30am. Climb the dune. Watch the world turn gold. Th en travel west through the Berber heartland — past Tinghir's vast date p alm oasis (long home to a Jewish community whose synagogue ruins still s tand) to Todra Gorge\, where sheer 300-metre limestone cliffs create a s lot canyon dramatic enough to stop your breath. Continue to the Dades Go rge\, a wider valley of sculpted red rock formations. Spend the night in a lodge perched above the valley floor. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d8@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261009 SUMMARY:Day 8 · Marrakech — Hollywood Kasbahs & the Atlas Crossing LOCATION:Marrakech DESCRIPTION:Travel the legendary caravan route through Skoura's palm oasi s and Ouarzazate's film studios to Aït Ben Haddou — the UNESCO mud-brick fortress filmed by Ridley Scott\, Iñárritu\, and dozens of others. Walk its thousand-year-old alleys with your guide\, past the granaries still in use and the small Jewish quarter at its heart (Aït Ben Haddou had a small but important Jewish trading community well into the 20th century) . Cross the Tizi n'Tichka Pass (2\,260 m) and descend to Marrakech as th e evening lights begin to sparkle below. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d9@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261009 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261010 SUMMARY:Day 9 · Marrakech — Marrakech Mellah\, Slat Al Azama & Djemaa el- Fna LOCATION:Marrakech DESCRIPTION:Begin with the largest mellah in Morocco — Marrakech's Mellah \, founded in 1558 to house the city's Jewish community\, who became the sultan's most trusted craftsmen\, doctors\, and ambassadors. Visit the active Slat Al Azama (Lazama) Synagogue — founded by Spanish exiles in 1 492\, with its iconic blue-and-white riad courtyard — and the Miaara Jew ish Cemetery\, the oldest in southern Morocco with whitewashed tombs of celebrated 16th- and 17th-century rabbis. Afternoon: the Saadian Tombs\, the opulent Bahia Palace\, the medina souks. As dusk falls: Djemaa el-F na — storytellers\, Gnawa musicians\, acrobats\, and the rising smoke of a hundred food stalls. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:JewishHeritageMorocco10D-d10@gateway2morocco.com DTSTAMP:20261002T205814Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261010 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261011 SUMMARY:Day 10 · Departure — Two Thousand Years\, Carried Home LOCATION:Departure DESCRIPTION:A final Moroccan breakfast on the riad terrace\, then your pr ivate driver takes you to Marrakech Menara Airport. Over ten days you've walked through two thousand years of Jewish heritage — from the Roman f oundations of Volubilis\, through the medieval mellahs of Fes and Marrak ech\, to the active synagogues of Casablanca — and seen the country's gr eatest treasures along the way. Carry it with you. TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR