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Moroccan Culinary Escapade
Marrakech, the desert, the gorge, the kasbahs, the oases, the atlas, the sea, fes, Volubilis, Chefchaouen, Tangier, Rabat, 20 very wickedly epic days and 21 nights, off the tourist trail, at a pace that welcomes detours and u-turns and to sit a little longer.
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Highlights
- Traditional over coal High Atlas class cooking in a remote olive grove.
- Traditional over-coals Sahara class, beyond the end of the road.
- 8-Dish Moroccan Fusion Lunch Class at the House of Fusion Marrakech.
- 10-Dish Meat, Seafood, vegetable master class at the House of Fusion Marrakech.
- Bread-making lunch class, Fes
- Spice trader after the 8-Dish Fusion Lunch Class
- 21 nights accommodation
- Airport transfers
Accommodation
Accommodation is in private double en-suite rooms. Everywhere is wonderful where you stay, because of the food served and where you are.
- 8 nights in Marrakech
- 2 nights in an oasis
- 2 nights in a kasbah
- 2 nights in the desert
- 1 night in Essaouira
- 2 nights in Fes
- 1 night in Chefchaouen
- 2 nights in Tangier
- 1 night in Rabat
Program
Classes:
- Traditional over coal High Atlas class cooking in a remote olive grove.
- Traditional over-coals Sahara class, beyond the end of the road.
- 8-Dish Moroccan Fusion Lunch Class at the House of Fusion Marrakech.
- 10-Dish Meat, Seafood, vegetable master class at the House of Fusion Marrakech.
- Bread-making lunch class, Fes.
Shopping:
- Shopping Extravaganza to Hidden Places Holding Hearts' Desires, including a wonderful lunch.
- Spice trader after the 8-Dish Fusion Lunch Class.
- Essaouira is a terrific spot for leather jackets, art, and all things wooden.
Lunches - all Included:
- 2 seafood lunches in Essaouira
- 2 picnic lunches on the 6-night road trip
- 1 lunch in the kasbah on the 6-night road trip
- 1 lunch in Moulay Idriss after visiting Volubilis on the way to Chefchaouen
- 1 lunch in Assilah, a Portuguese settled port on the way to Rabat
- 1 lunch in Fes, as part of a bread-making class
- 1 lunch in Chefchaouen
- 1 lunch in Tangier
- 1 lunch in Rabat
- Lunch and an epic cocktail on shopping day
- Lunch with a family in an oasis; the ladies make gorgeous carpets here, in this very, very remote spot
- 2 BBQ roadside spots on the road trip
- 4 cooking class lunches
- 1 lunch terrace top at Avenue M (a couple of terrific shops nearby)
Dinners - All Included. Booze, in restaurants, is extra:
- Welcome feast and wine pairing and cocktails
- 6-night road trip from Marrakech to the desert, wine included
- 2 dinners in Fes - booze extra
- 2 dinners in Tangier - booze extra
- 1 dinner in Rabat - booze extra
- 1 dinner in Essaouira - booze extra
- 1 dinner in Chefchaouen
- Rooftop nearby - booze extra
- 1 Degustation Dinner in Gueliz - booze extra
- Exotica indeed, 10 minutes' walk away - booze extra
- 3 x Tapas dinner in the riad - booze included
- Dinner Class - booze included
Hammam and massage
Barber Shop Shave for the Blokes
Anima Gardens
This terrific escapade takes you into astonishment at every turn—the sights and pulse of Marrakech, where divine food, booze, and times are always at your fingertips. Fusion, Master, and traditional cooking classes, favorite restaurants, shopping for hearts' desires, staying in sumptuousness, and just when you think there couldn't be more amazing, there is!
The six-night road trip begins with a picnic morning tea beside saltpans, which you will scoop to take home. Up and over a mountain road, you continue to be pretty much the only car on the road. You will have laps full of lollies and pens to give to the kids you pass as you look for a spot to stop for a picnic lunch. The drive into the oasis is beyond breathtaking, and our accommodation is luxurious in its setting rather than its rooms. However, all rooms are en suite. You will dine terrace-top and swill wine.
A day in the "Babel Village" (DO watch the movie before you come) follows. You will stroll an ancient ksour complete with its hidden mosque, give Omo to the ladies in the open laundry, and lollies to the kids, and some provisions to the school. Then it's lunch with a family, and if you're lucky, some of the village ladies will bring their carpets fresh from their looms.
The next day it's off to the kasbah with a terrace-top lunch there and a walk beside the river in the afternoon. The next morning is gorge picnic day, a hidden gorge with the most breathtaking drive to it. Lots of times to stop and walk along the road before the best walk of the day—into the gorge with no one around.
Then next morning, you leave for the desert through more spectacular scenery, lunch and dinner and wine in the desert in a gorgeous auberge upon the sands. The next morning you drive to the end of the road with Algeria just over the mountains, to cook with a desert family, the food of this region. Late afternoon it's on to your camel for a sunset ride to your luxurious en-suite camp and dinner with wine.
The next day, to Fes with lunch along the way. You will stay in a lovely Fes riad for two nights, have a bread-making class, and stroll the hills of the medina with dinner at two favorite spots! Time to head for Chefchaouen for the night, stopping at Volubilis to walk the ancient Roman ruins on a breathtaking site atop a hill. You will detour to Moulay Idriss for lunch, the holiest place in Morocco, before finishing the drive to Spanish-influenced Chefchaouen to stay in charming accommodations and dine.
What a divine morning you will have walking the cobbled streets of this blue-washed village, not resisting for a second the art and more for sale. You will lunch in Chefchaouen and then drive mid-afternoon to Tangier for two nights staying in gorgeous accommodations and extending the fabulous with dinner in a speakeasy-feeling club. The next day, it's visiting the kasbah lunch at Cap Spartel, and dinner by the sea.
In the morning, you will drive to lunch in charming Assilah, another Portuguese-settled port, for lunch. Then it's on to Rabat to stay in wonderful accommodation in the medina and dine beside the ancient medina wall. You are Marrakech-bound the next morning with lunch along the way. Dinner terrace-top nearby, booze extra. The last Marrakech day awaits with one last dive into the souks, lunch at a terrace-top beauty at Avenue M, then to the glory are Anima Gardens, the brainchild of Andre Heller, and farewell dinner in Gueliz dining Bistronomic. Next day farewells and off to the airport.
Instructors
Edwina Golombek
Edwina grew up in a home where dinner parties and entertaining were the life and blood and this lifestyle continued for the million married years that followed but in July 2000, came the time for re-invention. Shedding everything, she left Australia bound for Spain. After a few years, with the re-invention still a work in progress, she bought a riad in Morocco, as a culinary destination for gourmands wanting to come, be and do fabulous, with cooking classes and way off the tourist trail, wonderful food, road trips, and picnics.
Location
The tour will begin with a wonderful beginning of days in Marrakech. Then it's the Tizn Test into the High Atlas, then to Essaouira and the Atlantic, to the oasis along the Tizn Tichka, to the kasbah, the desert and turning in all directions to Fes, Volubilis Chefchaouen, Assilah,Tangier, and Rabat. A great big, fabulous trip at a leisurely pace along by roads and no roads.
Food
Expect modern, edgy Moroccan fusion dishes to be served in the riad with a different breakfast each morning. Alcohol is extra in the included restaurants but included in the riad and for the first 6 nights of the road trip.
The following meals are included:
- Lunch
- Dinner
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Alcoholic beverages
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
Spa treatments
Housed in an old traditional domed ceiling hammam, close to the House of Fusion, the included hammam and massage extends traditional, into being segregated for men and ladies.
What's included
- Traditional over coal High Atlas class cooking in a remote olive grove
- Traditional over-coals Sahara class, beyond the end of the road
- 8-Dish Moroccan Fusion Lunch Class at the House of Fusion Marrakech
- 10-Dish Meat, Seafood, vegetable master class at the House of Fusion Marrakech
- Bread-making lunch class, Fes
- Shopping Extravaganza to Hidden Places Holding Hearts' Desires, including a wonderful lunch
- Spice trader after the 8-Dish Fusion Lunch Class
- Essaouira is a terrific spot for leather jackets, art, and all things wooden
- 2 seafood lunches in Essaouira
- 2 picnic lunches on the 6-night road trip
- 1 lunch in the kasbah on the 6-night road trip
- 1 lunch in Moulay Idriss after visiting Volubilis on the way to Chefchaouen
- 1 lunch in Assilah, a Portuguese settled port on the way to Rabat
- 1 lunch in Fes, as part of a bread-making class
- 1 lunch in Chefchaouen
- 1 lunch in Tangier
- 1 lunch in Rabat
- Lunch and an epic cocktail on shopping day
- Lunch with a family in an oasis; the ladies make gorgeous carpets here, in this very, very remote spot
- 2 BBQ roadside spots on the road trip
- 4 cooking class lunches
- 1 lunch terrace top at Avenue M (a couple of terrific shops nearby)
- Welcome feast and wine pairing and cocktails
- 6-night road trip from Marrakech to the desert, wine included
- 2 dinners in Fes - booze extra
- 2 dinners in Tangier - booze extra
- 1 dinner in Rabat - booze extra
- 1 dinner in Essaouira - booze extra
- 1 dinner in Chefchaouen
- Rooftop nearby - booze extra
- 1 Degustation Dinner in Gueliz - booze extra
- Exotica indeed, 10 minutes' walk away - booze extra
- 3 x Tapas dinner in the riad - booze included
- Dinner Class - booze included
- 21 nights accommodation
- Airport transfers
What's not included
- Extra booze as stated in the itinerary
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Mohammed V International Airport
197 km
Transfer not provided
Marrakesh Menara Airport
5 km
Transfer included
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Marrakesh Menara Airport (RAK). Transfer from and to this airport is included in the price. House of Fusion Marrakech will pick you up from the airport. Pick up point is outside the Arrivals' Hall at the airport. Don't worry about exchanging money at the airport, there are lots of money exchanges and ATMs within minutes of the riad.
Flights arriving at Mohammed V International Airport (CMN) - transfer fee is 200 EUR per Van.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 10% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
