Other activities in Morocco
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Kasbah Le Mirage
For family adventures with built-in holiday card photo ops, go for a camel ride. Camels usually camp out in the Palmeraie; a 15-minute traipse-about is Dh30 to Dh50. Kasbah Le Mirage organises dromedary rides through the Palmeraie with Moroccan pancakes at the end.
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Actions & Loisirs
For mountain bikes, racing bikes and biking trips through the High Atlas and desert, contact Actions & Loisirs. To escape city traffic, head for the Palmeraie, the palm-shaded district 5km northwest of the centre where you’ll spot mud-brick villages and celebrity villas.
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Bains de Marrakech
Marrakesh offers upscale spa experiences with Moroccan trappings. One of the best-value treatments are the massages run Dh350 per hour at Bains de Marrakech, but treatments should be booked at least two weeks in advance.
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Souk Cuisine
Learn to cook as the dadas (chefs) do at Souk Cuisine, where you shop in the souq for ingredients with your English-speaking Dutch hostess Gemma van de Burgt, work alongside two Moroccan women wedding-feast chefs, then sit down to enjoy the four-course lunch you helped cook.
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Mountain Voyage
This British-owned company based in Marrakesh provides licensed, English-speaking guides for tailor-made Marrakesh tours, sustainable tourism excursions in the Middle Atlas and High Atlas excursions with stays at its own property, the Kasbah du Toubkal.
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La Maison Arabe
For sheer decadence, try La Maison Arabe, where the basic treatment marinates you in local herbs and minerals with a hammam, gommage and masque of clay, crushed rose petals and geranium oil for Dh300; massage runs Dh600 per hour.
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Institut Français
Offers French language courses and hosts worthwhile concerts, films and dance performances.
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Hammam Bab Doukkala
For the authentic experience at a bargain price, head to your local neighbourhood hammam – you’ll find one near most major mosques, since hammams traditionally share a water source with ablutions fountains. Here entry costs less than Dh10, massage costs from Dh50 to Dh100 and gommage (scrub) Dh15 to Dh20. One of the more impressive historic hammam is the 17th-century Hammam Bab Doukkala. Bring your community hammam kit: towel, flip-flops, plastic mat and a change of knickers (you’ll be expected to wear yours).
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Les Secrets de Marrakesh
Marrakesh offers upscale spa experiences with Moroccan trappings. One of the best-value treatment is the hammam/ gommage treatment for Dh160 in the sleek graphite-tadelakt hammam inside an art-deco villa at Les Secrets de Marrakesh. Treatments should be booked at least two weeks in advance.
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Sultana Spa
At the opulent Sultana Spa, you can book hammam treatments in the subterranean all-marble spa (basic hammam Dh200, cinnamon gommage Dh350) and four-hand amber-oil massages on the roof terrace overlooking the Saadian Tombs (starting from Dh750).
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Daya Travels
English-speaking Dutch-Moroccan owners organise desert excursions, rent mountain bikes and provide free bike-trail maps.
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Saïd Mountain Bike
Saïd Mountain Bike keeps a fleet of 43 mountain bikes in top condition, and offers mountain biking–, mule- and dromedary-excursions into the mountains and desert.
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Irahalen
English-speaking guides by prior arrangement.
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Hammam de la Kasbah
For a more traditional, local experience. Women only.
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Complete Tours
Runs trips to Taroudannt, Immouzzer and elsewhere in the region.
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Atlas Sahara Trek
Winter camel-treks to Erg Chigaga and summer hikes into the remote M’Goun valley.
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Surf Club Monde de la Glisse
The Surf Club Monde de la Glisse, offers services and equipment rental for surfing.
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Alliance Franco-Marocaine
Offers semester-long French classes and eight-week Arabic classes as well as regular films, exhibitions and cultural events.
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Spa 5 Mondes
For a traditional hammam, a Japanese bath, a Balinese massage or an ayurvedic treatment head for the trendy Spa 5 Mondes.
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Tifaouine Argane
In the centre of town, Tifaouine Argane is an argan centre where you can buy oil and argan-based cosmetics and enjoy a range of massages.
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Caravane Desert et Montagne
Caravane Desert et Montagne partners with local nomads to create adventures off the beaten camel track for individuals and groups no larger than eight.
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Le Spa at Sofitel
If you want something sophisticated, several hotels have spas offering hammam, massage and a range of treatments, one of the best being Le Spa at Sofitel.
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Centre Viva Form
The Centre Viva Form is a sophisticated, full-service spa located at the Atlas Riad Chaouen hotel. Prices range from a foot massage (Dh50) to the 50-minute slimming massage, which will trim your wallet of Dh400.
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Arab Baths
Accidentally discovered during street work, these ancient Arab baths, sit on a main road, an incongruous sight. There are two of them, with barrel-vaulted roofs originally covered with marble – the high-tech spa of its time.
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Wilderness Wheels
The wide, open spaces and stunning scenery of south-central Morocco are attracting a growing number of roadsters. The only Moroccan-based off-road biking agency is Wilderness Wheels. Itineraries cover the Dadès and Drâa Valleys and even the desert as far south as Merzouga.
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