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Essaouira Guided Tour: Experience Nightlife, Local Living, and Street Food
4.4
30 Ratings
Essaouira
Immerse yourself in the vibrant culture of Essaouira with a guided tour that combines nightlife, local living, and street food. Sample traditional sweets, walk along the fortifications, dine on freshly-caught fish, and learn about local remedies.
Immerse yourself in the vibrant culture of Essaouira with a guided tour that combines nightlife, local living, and street food. Sample traditional sweets, walk along the fortifications, dine on freshly-caught fish, and learn about local remedies.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Essaouira Fishing Port - Experience Essaouira’s Old Medina with a 2-3 hour walk and talk, blending “live like a local,” “street food,” and “historical food” tours into one. The city is renowned for its rich history and vibrant culture.
- Sample traditional sweets at local pastry shops
- Stroll along the fortifications with a local guide
- Wander…
- Essaouira Fishing Port - Experience Essaouira’s Old Medina with a 2-3 hour walk and talk, blending “live like a local,” “street food,” and “historical food” tours into one. The city is renowned for its rich history and vibrant culture.
- Sample traditional sweets at local pastry shops
- Stroll along the fortifications with a local guide
- Wander through the winding, narrow paths that transport you to the mid-17th century
- Dine with locals, enjoying freshly-caught fish from Essaouira Bay
- Relish a sweet dessert
- Discover local remedies at a herbalist’s shop while sipping traditional Moroccan tea.
- Essaouira Ramparts - Experience Essaouira’s Old Medina with a 2-3 hour walk and talk, blending “live like a local,” “street food,” and “historical food” tours into one. The city is renowned for its rich history and vibrant culture.
- Sample traditional sweets at local pastry shops
- Stroll along the fortifications with a local guide
- Wander through the winding, narrow paths that transport you to the mid-17th century
- Dine with locals, enjoying freshly-caught fish from Essaouira Bay
- Relish a sweet dessert
- Discover local remedies at a herbalist’s shop while sipping traditional Moroccan tea.
- Essaouira Fish Market - Experience Essaouira’s Old Medina with a 2-3 hour walk and talk, blending “live like a local,” “street food,” and “historical food” tours into one. The city is renowned for its rich history and vibrant culture.
- Sample traditional sweets at local pastry shops
- Stroll along the fortifications with a local guide
- Wander through the winding, narrow paths that transport you to the mid-17th century
- Dine with locals, enjoying freshly-caught fish from Essaouira Bay
- Relish a sweet dessert
- Discover local remedies at a herbalist’s shop while sipping traditional Moroccan tea.
- Essaouira Beach - Experience Essaouira’s Old Medina with a 2-3 hour walk and talk, blending “live like a local,” “street food,” and “historical food” tours into one. The city is renowned for its rich history and vibrant culture.
- Sample traditional sweets at local pastry shops
- Stroll along the fortifications with a local guide
- Wander through the winding, narrow paths that transport you to the mid-17th century
- Dine with locals, enjoying freshly-caught fish from Essaouira Bay
- Relish a sweet dessert
- Discover local remedies at a herbalist’s shop while sipping traditional Moroccan tea.
- Medina of Essaouira - A walk through the old town of Essaouira
What's Included
- Sample local foods at no extra cost
- Bilingual local guide (English & French)
- Enjoy complimentary tea and coffee
- Free entry to local workshops
- Sample local foods at no extra cost
- Bilingual local guide (English & French)
- Enjoy complimentary tea and coffee
- Free entry to local workshops
What's Not Included
- Drinks (Coca, Sparkling water, etc)
- Drinks (Coca, Sparkling water, etc)
Additional Information
Experience Essaouira’s Old medina during a 3-4 Hours walk & talk, Combining a ‘live like a local’ , ‘Street food’ and ‘Historical food’ tours all in one. The city’s known for it’s famous & rich history and vibrant culture.
We’ll share as much informations as we can during this walk through the city and get you introduced to the locals lifestyle.
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Experience Essaouira’s Old medina during a 3-4 Hours walk & talk, Combining a ‘live like a local’ , ‘Street food’ and ‘Historical food’ tours all in one. The city’s known for it’s famous & rich history and vibrant culture.
We’ll share as much informations as we can during this walk through the city and get you introduced to the locals lifestyle.
- Sample traditional sweets at the city’s pastry shops
- Walk alongside the fortifications with a local guide
- Follow the rolling & narrow paths to make you feel like you’re in the mid 17th century
- Dine alongside locals as you enjoy freshly-caught fish from the Essaouira Bay
- Savor a sweet dessert
- Learn local remedies in a herbalist’s shop over a traditional glass of Moroccan tea.
Location
Bab Sbaa
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Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.4
(30 Ratings)
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Sarahlimal
Jul 8, 2024
A discovery of Essaouira to make and redo! - A great discovery of Essaouira. Between culture, tastings and anecdotes. Meet a smiling and welcoming local population. I recommend 100%
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Hbsyl
May 7, 2024
Good informational evening tour. - This is a very informational tour. Our guide was well-versed in the local experience. We learned a lot, and also had fun visiting the fishmarket the port and the Medina.
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Larry_s
Mar 20, 2024
Very educational and worthwhile - We deviated off the plan because of Ramadan, but had an excellent tour of the town and a wonderful rooftop dinner. Zayed was very knowledgeable and personable, and did a great job of explaining the history of the city and the Moroccan culture.
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Guide776837
Oct 30, 2023
Travel with Visit Maroc - we all enjoyed our trip with Visit Maroc. Everything was perfect, and our guide was a gem, always present, attentive, polite, funny. We had a good itinerary although tiring but so profitable
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Millsy66
Jun 2, 2024
Great walking tour of Essaouira - We were expecting a couple to host us on this guided walk as per the description and premium price paid but it was a single guy. We didn’t do the herbalists shop nor local pastries. We did go to a juniper wood carving artisan which was good especially as there was no hard sell.
The positives? Zaid our guide was extremely courteous and very knowledgeable on the history of Essaouira and made our 3 hours with him very interesting. We did go to the fish market and had the most delicious fresh red snapper, shrimps and squid all cooked when we had chosen what we wanted.
Overall I would recommend this tour but if there is a change of guide/tour content please let your guests know what to expect.
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Sarahru5334mb
Dec 4, 2023
Excellent history tour - We had been before and we were keen to learn some History, our guide was very knowledgeable and we learnt so much about the city. Well worth doing, things in the medina you just wouldn't notice on your own. Certainly lots of history. We choose not to have supper but you can go and to the fish market and pick what you want cooked in a local restaurant. The guide had a good sense of humour.
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858delaunayl
Oct 30, 2024
Disappointed to have been presented with a fait accompli on a Saturday night at 8pm - Change in type of catering not reported:
Dining bar French cuisine no longer exists and has been replaced by a pizzeria
but this is not reported when we book through tripadvisor
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M5266xfrichards
Oct 6, 2024
Avoid this Guide at All Costs - We have been on many walking food tours with Viator and they have always been very good. It is a nice way to begin touring a city with a guide who gives you a mix of culture, history and, most importantly, a taste of a wide variety of the typical foods in locations frequented mainly by the locals. Typically, the guide has a definite plan, with reservations made in advance. Our 5pm tour was an Absolute Disaster! Mehdi Kassori had no plan and had no real interest in talking to us. We walked to the fresh fish market and he pointed to the fresh fish and asked if we wanted anything? There was nothing cooked. Later, after reading other reviews, I think we were supposed to pick out some fish and take it to a restaurant and have it cooked. He never suggested that. We passed a fruit vendor and asked what it was. The guide said it was a fig, but it was really a type of prickly pear. The only history we got was about the main gate. When I asked him about the significance of the 3 balls atop the minaret, he said he didn't know. I later learned there are several interpretations. As we went back inside the walls of the medina, he was constantly walking ahead of us and on the phone. As we walked along the main market street and passed all of the food stalls, he constantly asked us what we wanted to eat???? Typically the guide suggests various foods and explains them, etc. We finally stopped at a small food shop that had food behind a glass window. Again, without any explanation, he asked us what we wanted to eat. We finally had some soup and street food, but again, he was mostly on the phone and when we would ask a question, he would interrupt and answer his phone. Since 2 of our group had never been to Morocco or had Moroccan food, I finally asked him if we were going to have a tagline or cous cous which typically take advanced preparation. By now it was around 7:30. He said ok and we proceeded to walk down some narrow alleys to a local's restaurant, which is fine. They were closing. We went to 2-3 others which were also closing. Obviously he had no plan and had not made any advanced reservations. He said unfortunately, all the restaurants were closing (which was clearly not true) and his solution was to go the market and buy the ingredients for a taglne, take it to a local cook and make it which would only take a hour! At that point we told him we had had enough and we left him with the chicken and vegetables. Mehdi should not be allowed to give another food tour until he submits a plan to Viator. I'm sure that any other guide would have done a typically good job, so don't skip this tour, I'm sure it will be good. Just make sure you don't get Mehdi!
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Richard_s
Sep 28, 2024
This particular guide was terrible! - We have been on many Viator food tours, 3 on this trip alone. One in Portugal and 2 in morocco. We have always had a great experience, a blend of history and a good sampling of local foods, often some we wouldn’t typically sample. They have always been well planned and the guide was always totally involved with the group. This guide had NO plan and spent most of his time in the phone or talking to his friends along the way. He kept asking us what we wanted to eat instead of having a plan as to what he wanted us to experience. This guide should never lead a group again and I will send a letter directly to Viator. I’m sure other guides would do a typically good job.
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Andrew_c
Jul 6, 2024
Did not live up to the advertisement - It was not what was expected from the way it was described. We had no food stops and ended it early after 1 hour.
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