Top Things to do in Meknes-Tafilalet Region
What to do and see in Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco: The Best Things to do
Discover the best top things to do in Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco including Art Sahara, Morocco Unexplored - Private Day Tours, Musee des Sources de Lalla Mimouna, Volubilis, Souqs of Rissani, Musee Nomade, Shrine of Shmuel Abu Hatziera, Rissani Market, Moulay Ali Cherif Mausoleum, Macro Fossiles Kasbah.
Restaurants in Meknes-Tafilalet Region
1. Art Sahara
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5.0 based on 6 reviews
2. Morocco Unexplored - Private Day Tours
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5.0 based on 68 reviews
Off the beaten track Hiking, from 1 to 14 days, Mountain Hosts, Wild camping, Fishing & Birding. We are an Azrou based adventure tour operator. Trekking, Fishing, Camping, Birding, Clay Shooting and workshops. We reinvest profits back into long-term growth of adventure tourism for the Azrou region.
Reviewed By imanea627
We had a superb 7 hour day hike around Azrou with Karim, our very knowledgeable and passionate guide, nature lover, flora and fauna expert. We can't wait to be back for mushroom picking, fishing, cherry blossom viewing... each season offers its own surprises and Karim has all the knowledge. Merci Karim et à bientôt!
3. Musee des Sources de Lalla Mimouna
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5.0 based on 252 reviews
Reviewed By AdaTraveler314
Said Abbou leads his guests through his charming little museum in the middle of the desert, right near the road. His life's work is the astonishingly extensive collection on Moroccan culture and the preservation of the Artesian sources and pools within the museum. His private engagement deserves support. His calligraphies are also very beautiful.I recommend a visit.
4. Volubilis
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4.5 based on 1,806 reviews
Reviewed By 36grega - Melbourne, Australia
If you're the least bit interested in the remains of the Roman Empire, and want to avoid the hordes of tourists that go to places like Pompeii, Volubilis is an excellent alternative. It's a deserted Roman city, its heyday from 4 CE to 280 CE, now in the middle of lush fields, just 3-4 km from Moulay Idriss, about 30 km north of Meknès. You can do tours, though these are rather expensive - better and more flexible to either pay for a driver in Meknès to take you to Moulay Idriss and Volubilis for a day tour (we did this through our riad, cost 500 Dh [50 euros]), or take a shared grand taxi to Moulay Idriss, and get a taxi out to the ruins (at least one way, though you can negotiate a pick-up time). It is walkable, and you can easily see the ruins from Moulay Idriss, so not hard to get to. Entry is 70 Dh, 30 Dh for children 7-13 years old. We'd recommend going in cooler months if possible, as it was very warm even in early January - would be unbearable in summer. Take hats, sunglasses and plenty of water. We'd also recommend taking 3 hours to view the site at leisure - it's a large area (about 40 hectares) and there is a lot to see, so take your time. It's marvellous to see ruins from such a long time ago - sure, some of the pillars and arches have been restored, but to imagine you can see mosaics that were trodden on by inhabitants 2000 years ago is awe-inspiring. Archaeology is ongoing at the site, and enough of the city remains to easily feed your imagination about what an ancient Roman town looked like (though most inhabitants were local, very few actually came from Italy). If you are travelling in Morocco to Fes or Meknès, we highly recommend taking a side day-trip to Volubilis. Especially if, like us, you have at least some interest in Western Classical studies, you'll love it.
5. Souqs of Rissani
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4.5 based on 74 reviews
Reviewed By Marf13669 - Ogdensburg, United States
The date market located off of the main intersection in town is the place to be in early October. They hold a 3-day festival there every year just after the date harvest. You can try them before you purchase. There are many varieties to test out, but the Medjools are the largest, sweetest and juiciest of them all. The festival involves both prayers and entertainment as well as a food fest. People come from all over the region to participate. The date is one of the first foods eaten after each day of fast during Ramadan, even before partaking of Harissa soup. It is offered as a token of welcome and friendship to anyone who enters a Muslim home in addition to mint tea. We were there during the day watching the transactions between farmers and vendors who either sell directly to the public or to dried fruit and nut merchants in the country's Medinas. You can purchase them by the crate, still on the stalk like bananas or already packaged in either a single variety or mixed packages. We had fun walking from vendor to vendor trying their fruit. We finally negotiated a price for several pounds that we would eat during our travels and have mixed into some tagine dishes for sweetness. Oh, but they were good and nutritious too. Yuuummmmm!
6. Musee Nomade
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4.5 based on 14 reviews
7. Shrine of Shmuel Abu Hatziera
8. Rissani Market
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4.0 based on 58 reviews
Reviewed By elizabethnilsoni - Boston, United States
We were lucky because it was day Market and we got to see a local Market where the locals and neighbors come too. We would recommend it toanyone who’s interested in visiting local Market.
9. Moulay Ali Cherif Mausoleum
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4.0 based on 67 reviews
Sijilmassa (pronounced see-jill-moss-uh), a national historic site recognized by Morocco's Ministry of Culture, was the fabled and ancient Berber capital of the Tafilalet Kingdom located at the northern edge of the Sahara desert that once rivaled Marrakech. Founded in A.D. 757 On the banks overlooking the Oued Ziz, a river in the oasis region of the Sahara desert, Sijilmassa grew wealthy and powerful during the Middle Ages as a gold-trade-route city strategically located at the exit-point of the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade route -- which extended from the Niger River in the Sudan to Tangier in northern Morocco.
Reviewed By 11KarenS - New York City, United States
The mausoleum and mosque is only open for Moslem visitors but we got a peek of the inner courtyard. It was so peaceful and quiet. There were a lot of people but as the place is so big you didn’t feel crowded
10. Macro Fossiles Kasbah
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4.0 based on 203 reviews
Reviewed By Marf13669 - Ogdensburg, United States
We walked into this kasbah thinking that it's just another tourist souvenir shop. How wrong we were. One of the salesmen treated our tour of the facility like a museum docent lecturing us on the geography, geology and history of this area of the Moroccan desert. We were shown examples of the fossils in the raw as extracted from the earth and then examples of how they are drawn out by artisans using chisels, drills, sanding other methods of turning this rough stone elements into beautiful tables, wall hangings and free-standing marble-like pieces. The stone contains ammonites (the shells are in concentric spiraling rings like a winding stair), trilobites (the earliest form of arthopods), orthoceras (octopus and squids) and crinoides that are over 520 million years old. We fell victim to the sales pitch and made a purchase that was packed, shipped insured and arrived in perfect condition. The piece now sits in our home and immediately attracts attention from visitors as it's something that is not normally seen unless one visits a museum featuring items from geologic digs. The kasbah is educational and thoroughly absorbing. We recommend a visit even if you don't make a purchase.
