Marrakech Travel Guide

Souk Cuisine offers you the opportunity to learn to cook as the Moroccan do at home. Cooking with Moroccan woman will be very inspiring. An example of dishes you will learn how to prepare are:

Zaahlouk of courgettes
Briouates with vegetables
Tagine with Lamb and quince
Tagine with ‘Boulette de Sardines’

Souk Cuisine is run by the very friendly Gemma Van de Burgt, from Netherlands will coach you during this cooking-day experience.

The day starts at 10 am with a trip to the market (the souk) to buy locals home-grown goods, food according to traditional methods. You’ll learn in spot how to find the best products, by looking , feeling, smelling & tasting.
The cooking is in the courtyard of a Riad, under banana trees

All takes about 4 hours & then try your own cooked dishes, with a glass of Moroccan wine.

Price per person is : 350 dirhams. This includes shopping, cooking with Moroccan women, lunch at least four dishes, recipes you can take home, dutch/english/french coaching, water & tea at your discretion and 2 glasses of wine.

Minimum number of person is 2, maximum is 12

When:14 – 19 Jul 2008 (annual)
Where:MarrakechCost:Various
Opening Hours:Various

http://www.marrakechfestival.com (french website)

A foretaste of the 43rd edition, a popular festival immersed in a city in celebration of 14 to 19 July 2008.

The festival covers its 43rd edition in an original format, powerful, innovative and popular. In the continuity of the 42nd edition, the next edition will preserve the popular arts in all their authenticity, will celebrate a heritage alive of inestimable value, for the sake of sharing with an audience in search of the events When popular, authentic and quality.

To announce the festival, a grand procession to the sound of traditional instruments, will help to attract and unite the local people and guests of the town red.

Stages are installed in the city, including historical places of the town red, as the Badi Palace and Dar Si-said

The official opening of the Festival will be held at the Palais Badi July 15, 2008. A magnificent spectacle, in a single framework, will stage the popular arts in a new theme. A choice to present the groups of artists and musicians in an appropriate framework. The Badi Palace, with its architecture and its prestigious public places, is the living theatre where the event takes place and where 200 000 spectators are expected each night.

A Bab Ighli from 17 to 19 July 2008, a large stage merger new generation artists and popular Moroccan renowned host more than 40 000 spectators each night.

To animate the entire city, the 2008 edition has scheduled 6 scenes in the districts of Daoudiate, Garden of the Harti, Sidi Youssef Ben Ali, M’hamid, Hey Bab El Massira and Lakhmis. These districts are colorful feast by troops traditional daily.

One of the ambitions of the festival, to revive and continue the traditions and artistic expression of Moroccan women. The 43rd edition brings honour Moroccan women with 2 evenings Dar Si Said gente devoted to women, which will unite artists and audiences purely feminine.

The festival also aims to promote culture alive through original events taking place at the Theatre Royal, such as contests (ghiyata, hanna, gnawa…) and exhibitions.

Tel UK :+447973 238 444
Tel Marrakech: +212 68 19 08 72
riadtizwam@gmail.com
http://www.riadtizwa.com

Riad Tizwa is a beautifully proportioned Moroccan home located within the walls of the Medina (old town) of Marrakech. A short walk from the historical main square of Jemma El Fna and the Koutoubia, this traditional home has been lovingly refurbished to the highest standard – ensuring Moroccan style prevails within the attentions of contemporary comfort. The riad has English speaking Moroccan staff

Arriving at the riad you leave the exciting bustle of the Medina and enter a stunning discreet and private tranquillity. Built on three floors around an open courtyard, this generously appointed house, (sleeps 12-14 in 6 double bedrooms), is perfectly suited to the discerning traveller wishing to discover Marrakech, the family looking for a lavish home from home, or a group of friends looking for an exciting location for that special occasion.

Djemaa El Fna
Marrakech
Local Cuisine
 
Chez Chegrouni is one of the best – and cheapest – restaurants around the Place Djemaa El Fna. Get there early for a good table with a view of the Place. A very popular restaurants with both locals and tourists. Choose from soups, salads, grilled meats, couscous and tagines on the menu (in English) and scribble your order on one of the paper napkins in the table-glasses; hand it to a waiter and it will come back as your bill at the end of the meal.

Tasty food with affordable prices in one of the liveliest, craziest square in the world – snake charmers, storytellers, musicians, tumblers.

(Alcohol no served)

70 Douar Graoua 
40000 Marrakech – Morocco
Teléfono : +33 6 64 74 25 28
http://www.riadmehdia.com

Riyadh Mehdia offers a framework typically Moroccan where comfort, charm, intimacy and service are present throughout their stay. Breakfast is served in the courtyard, in the lounge or on the terrace under the Berber tent. Refinement Eastern, Moroccan cuisine, terrace of 150 m2 for sunbathing under the sun Marrakesh: golden guaranteed. Also a hot tub on the terrace which is heated so that this pleasure will be prolonged even in winter.

Facilities and services
Garden
Terrace / Sunbeds
Outdoor pool
Turkish bath / Hammam
Web video
Transfer airport / train
Travel directed area
Restaurant

Rooms equipped with air conditioning, private bathroom

Other equipment and services
Access free WiFi. Massages spot to 30 euros for 45 minutes. Possibility of a circuit in southern Morocco: Essaouira, Merzouga, Agadir, Ouarzazate… in 4 x 4 comfortable with air-conditioning.

This is a gay friendly riad