Morocco with Anny

Salaam Aleikum! Welcome to Morocco. An airport arrival transfer is included. Your adventure begins today with a trip overview meeting at 6pm. A welcome dinner will be organised at restaurant Dar Dar or similar

After breakfast in your hotel you will experience a cooking class with a local Chef. Have a Moroccan aromatic tea, get to know your cook, and your individual workstation.

Following the passionate Chef, start learning how to cook authentic meals such as Zalouk salad, Moroccan chicken Tagine and desert while learning some Arabic words for food along the way.

In the afternoon Guided tour in the Medina Ben Youssef Madrasa, Le Jardin Secret, Bahia and souks

After breakfast, we hit the road to Ait ben haddou. Centuries ago, this was an important stop for caravans carrying salt across the Sahara, today it’s a grand kasbah, a fine example of clay architecture, has been listed as a World Heritage site.

In the late afternoon, visit the kasbah to have a wander around. We will stop for a tea break at the Cooperative Tawesna. Tawesna lies between the river and the palm trees and is a co-op set up by the women’s association of the village in 2018. It is the first income generating activity ever led by the association. It involves 42 women who work 3 hours per week. The salary they earn then contributes to their daily spending needs as well as their children’s school fees.

After breakfast, we will depart toward the mighty Sahara, with plenty of chances to stop and take in the views
of kasbahs and palmeries – lush valleys with date palms, fields and orchards. As you pass through towns like Agdze and the small Saharan village of Merzouga. On arrival, leave your large baggage, pack a daypack and saddle up for a one-hour camel ride into the desert at the Erg Chebbi dunes – huge windswept dunes located just 20 kilometres from the Algerian border. Leave your gear at our overnight camp and then ride camels into the edge of the Sahara at sunset. The dunes are stunning, especially as the evening light dances across them and sets off the colours.

Tonight you will camp out in traditional style, with the chance to try some fantastic local cuisine while you sit around an open fire, enjoying lively music and dancing under the stars.

After breakfast we will continue to ouarzazate trough skora. A scenic drive past ancient kasbahs, former military outposts, mountains, valleys and fields will take you to Ouarzazate which looks like it’s out of a film. In fact, this is a location used for many Hollywood blockbusters. Atlas Film Studio in Ouarzazate. Set up in 1983 at the foot of the barren deserted vistas, the studio hosted some very well known Hollywood movies. Meander through this vast place, and scenes from Gladiator, Aladdin, Kingdom of Heaven may come to mind, then discover the clay-made former home of El Glaoui family, `Kasbah Taouirirt`.

Make your way into a narrow doorway to passageways lined with 300 clay rooms. Used to house hundreds of family members, and servants, the Kasbah still preserve some of it`s charm with the
beautiful geometrical patterns on the Moroccan plasterwork in the ceilings and intricate Mosaic on walls.

Return back to Marrakech via Ourika Valley and enjoy an afternoon of free time.

In the evening we will dine together at Dar Essalem

Final group breakfast. Check out of the hotel and say goodbye to new friends.