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 "title": "About Ouzoud Excursions",
 "meta_title": "About Ouzoud Excursions | Private Trips from Marrakech",
 "description": "Ouzoud Excursions is a brand of Visit Morocco Trips, a licensed tourist transport company in Marrakech running private day trips to the Ouzoud Waterfalls.",
 "summary": "Ouzoud Excursions organises private day trips and private transport from Marrakech to the Ouzoud Waterfalls. We are a brand of Visit Morocco Trips, a licensed Moroccan tourist transport company based in Marrakech.",
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "highlights": [
  "A brand of Visit Morocco Trips, licensed tourist transport company",
  "Based in Marrakech",
  "One destination: the Ouzoud Waterfalls",
  "Private trips only, for your group alone",
  "Written total before any payment"
 ],
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 "faq": [
  {
   "question": "Who runs Ouzoud Excursions?",
   "answer": "Ouzoud Excursions is a brand of Visit Morocco Trips, a Moroccan tourist transport company based in Marrakech. It holds a tourist transport licence (agrément de transport touristique) n° 1550/TOUR/2018. The company's registration details, including its trade register and ICE numbers, are listed on this page and in our booking terms."
  },
  {
   "question": "Are your trips shared with other travellers?",
   "answer": "No. Every trip is private: the vehicle and driver are for your group only, from pickup in Marrakech to the return. We use a 7-seat minivan for 1 to 7 people and a 17-seat minibus for 8 to 17 people. The price is per vehicle for the whole group, confirmed in writing before you pay anything."
  },
  {
   "question": "Do your drivers act as guides?",
   "answer": "No. Our drivers know the road to Ouzoud well, but they are drivers, not tour guides. When a trip includes guiding, it is done by a local guide at the falls who walks with your group. If you only want the ride and free time on site, our private transport option is the right choice."
  },
  {
   "question": "How can I contact you before booking?",
   "answer": "You can send a request through the online form, with no payment at that stage, or write to us on WhatsApp at +212 661 454 738 or by email at booking@ouzoudexcursions.com. Tell us your dates, the number of people and where you are staying in Marrakech, and we will reply with a written proposal."
  }
 ],
 "content_markdown": "Ouzoud Excursions is a small, focused service: we take travellers from Marrakech to the Ouzoud Waterfalls and back, privately, for the day. We are a brand of **Visit Morocco Trips**, a Moroccan tourist transport company based in Marrakech and licensed to carry tourists by road (agrément de transport touristique n° 1550/TOUR/2018).\n\n## What we do\n\nWe run one trip, to one place, in three ways:\n\n- **[Private transport](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/private-driver-marrakech-ouzoud/):** a vehicle and driver for your group, return trip to the falls with free time on site.\n- **[Private Ouzoud tour](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/private-ouzoud-waterfalls-tour/):** the same private vehicle, plus a local guide at Ouzoud for the walk to the falls and the viewpoints.\n- **[Premium private day](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/premium-ouzoud-private-tour/):** driver, private local guide, boat ride and lunch by the falls, all organised and included.\n\nWe pick you up at your hotel in Marrakech, or at the nearest gate or car park if you stay in a riad inside the medina, as explained on our [riad pickup page](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/marrakech-riad-pickup-info/). Groups travel in a 7-seat minivan (1 to 7 people) or a 17-seat minibus (8 to 17 people).\n\n## What we do not do\n\nWe prefer to be clear about this. We do not run shared group tours: you will not be put in a bus with strangers. On this site we only offer day trips to Ouzoud, not multi-day circuits or hotel stays. Our drivers are not tour guides, and we do not pretend otherwise; when you want guiding, it comes from a local guide at the falls. And we do not publish a price before we know your group: we quote per vehicle, in writing, before you pay anything.\n\n## Why private trips\n\nOuzoud is a long day out, with about 3 hours on the road each way. Doing it privately changes that day. You leave when it suits you, stop when you need to, and spend your time at the falls as you like, whether that means a long lunch on a terrace or an early start to beat the busiest hours. Families can go at the children's pace. Friends travelling together pay one price for the vehicle rather than per seat.\n\n## How we work\n\n- **A written total before payment.** You send a request online or on WhatsApp, and we reply with the total price for your group and what it includes. Nothing is charged at the request stage.\n- **A deposit, then the balance on the day.** You confirm with a 50% deposit online through PayPal (by PayPal account or bank card), and pay the balance in cash to the driver on the day. The full rules are in our [booking terms](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/booking-terms/).\n- **Local guides at Ouzoud.** On guided trips, your guide is a local guide at the falls who knows the paths, the mills and the macaques.\n- **Drivers who know the road.** The route to Ouzoud crosses winding country roads; our drivers know it well and plan the timing of the day with you.\n\n## Responsible travel\n\nThe falls are a busy natural site, and we want our guests to leave them as they found them.\n\n- **Macaques:** we ask every guest not to feed the Barbary macaques, an Endangered species, and to keep their distance. Research at Ouzoud links feeding by visitors to more aggression and to the group splitting. Our [Ouzoud guide](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/ouzoud-waterfalls-guide/) explains why.\n- **Waste:** take your rubbish back with you, especially plastic bottles. Waste left by visitors is a known problem at the site.\n- **Local businesses:** the cafés, restaurants, boatmen, guides and craft stalls at Ouzoud are run by people from the area. Lunch on a terrace or a boat ride puts money directly into the local economy.\n\n## Company details\n\n## Our authors\n\nFour members of our team sign the pages of this site, each on the subject he follows: [Hassan](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/authors/hassan/) writes about the falls and visiting with a local guide, [Hamid](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/authors/hamid/) about pickup and private transport, [Mohammed](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/authors/mohammed/) about our private tours, and [Saïd](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/authors/said/) about prices and booking.\n\nVisit Morocco Trips, tourist transport licence 1550/TOUR/2018, RC 92543, ICE 002184941000053, patente 47900852.\nQuestions about who we are or how we work? Our [contact page](https://ouzoudexcursions.com/contact/) lists every way to reach us."
}