PrivateAgafay Desert at Sunset, with Dinner
An evening in the stony desert outside Marrakech: an hour on a quad, a camel ride at sunset and dinner at a desert camp.
- Length
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- Starts from
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- From
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Marrakech Food Markets and a Tagine Class
Four hours in the medina's food souks with a local guide, tasting as you go and shopping for the tagine you then cook with a family.
- Length
- Half day (4 hours)
- Starts from
- Rahba Kedima Spice Square, Marrakech Medina
- Travelling
- Private · 1–8 people
The journey
This morning is about what Marrakech eats. You meet your guide in Rahba Kedima, the spice square, and learn how to tell true saffron from dyed fakes and what goes into ras el hanout. Then on through the food souks, tasting olives, dates, msemen flatbread and fresh orange juice, and buying the ingredients for your class at the stalls. At a family kitchen you cook a tagine with your hosts, learn to make mint tea and sit down to eat what you made.
- Rahba Kedima, the spice square, and how to spot fake saffron
- Tastings through the working food souks of the medina
- A hands-on tagine class in a family kitchen
- Mint tea, made the Moroccan way
Day by day
Day 1: A morning in the food souks, then the kitchen
We meet in Rahba Kedima, the spice square, at 9:30 am. For about 90 minutes you walk the spice and food souks with your guide, tasting along the way and buying what you need for the class. Then on to a family kitchen to cook a tagine with your hosts, which you eat for lunch with mint tea. The morning ends by 1:30 pm.
- Meals
- Lunch
4 h (on foot)
The route
Starts from: Rahba Kedima Spice Square, Marrakech Medina
What's included
Included
- Local English-speaking food guide
- All tastings along the route
- Cooking class ingredients and instruction
- Full tagine lunch you help prepare
- Mint tea ceremony
Not included
- Hotel pickup outside the medina
- Tips for guide and host family
Frequently asked questions
Can the tour be vegetarian?
Yes. Tell us when you book and the tastings and the class can be fully vegetarian. Most of the souk tastings, such as olives, dates, spices and juice, are vegetarian anyway.
Should we come hungry?
Come with an appetite, but skip a big breakfast rather than nothing at all. There are a dozen small tastings before you even reach the kitchen, so take them slowly.
How does this differ from a medina tour?
A medina tour is about monuments and history. This one is about food: where people in Marrakech shop and eat, away from the stalls aimed at visitors near Djemaa El-Fna, and it ends with you cooking. If there is something you would like to taste, tell us when you book.
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