Family Workshops & Adventures
Family Adventure in Marrakech
Four days for parents and children to do things together: clay on the wheel, a map full of clues, a horse to get to know, and a balloon lifting off at dawn.
One trip the whole family shares
Plenty of family holidays split the day in two, a kids’ club for them and a tour for you. This one keeps everyone in the same place.
Children shape clay, cook, follow clues and ride, and their parents do it alongside them. Each day pairs something quiet and hands-on with something that moves, whether that is a sidecar, a buggy or a balloon.
The workshops are led by local artisans and an experienced chef. The rest of the time you are with the people who know the horses, the roads and the desert.
Day 1
Clay, stories and clues
A slow start at the potter’s wheel, then a story and a hunt.
Moroccan pottery workshop
Local potters show the family how clay is built up by hand and pulled on the wheel, the way it has been done in Moroccan workshops for generations. Everyone works at their own pace, children included, and makes a piece of their own.
Moroccan storytelling for children
In Morocco, tales were told aloud long before they were written down, handed from grandparents to grandchildren. A storyteller brings that habit to your children with stories of desert sands, busy souks and old kasbahs, told so young listeners can follow every turn.
Family treasure hunt
A trail of clues leads you to places most visitors walk straight past, with a little history and local detail at every stop. It suits families, friends or a small group, and it hands the lead to the children for once.
Day 2
The kitchen, then the stables
Two activities, both with your hands in it.
Private Moroccan cooking class
An experienced local chef runs the class in a riad, a boutique kitchen or a family home. You cook side by side, taste as you go, and hear where each dish comes from and when it is served.
Horse connection
A calm session with horses in a quiet, natural setting. Children and parents learn how to approach a horse, read its mood and earn its trust, which asks for more patience than most of us expect.
Day 3
Art you can walk into
Out of town by sidecar, then through the city by carriage.
By sidecar to the House Fallen from the Sky
You leave Marrakech in a vintage sidecar, the traffic thinning out as the road opens up. The ride ends at the Dar El Sadaka estate, where the artist Jean-François Fourtou set a whole house down on its roof.
Inside the upside-down house at Dar El Sadaka
Indoors, the stairs climb the wrong way and the furniture hangs overhead. Children usually get the joke before their parents do.
Sculpture park and the Giant House
The estate keeps going. The sculpture park is full of oversized, interactive pieces, and in the Giant House the benches, windows and doors are built at a scale that makes everyone feel small again.
Carriage ride to the Majorelle Gardens
The day slows down in a horse-drawn carriage, rolling past the red ramparts to the hooves’ steady beat. It stops at the Majorelle Gardens, with their cactus, bamboo and cobalt-blue walls.
Day 4
Sky and desert
From the first light to the last star.
Hot air balloon at sunrise
The last day starts before dawn. The balloon lifts as the light comes up, over palm groves and ochre hills, with the Atlas Mountains turning gold on the horizon.
Buggies, camels and dinner in Agafay
An hour out of Marrakech, the Agafay is a stony desert of bare hills. You start fast on a buggy, then slow right down on camelback as the sun drops. Dinner is traditional, cooked with local ingredients, and a fire-eater performs once it is dark.
Stargazing after dark
Far from the city lights, the sky fills up. A guide helps you find the constellations and trace the Milky Way, and it is a quiet way to end four busy days.
Planned around your children
Tell us their ages and what they enjoy. We set the order and the pace of the four days to suit them, not the other way round, and leave room for a rest when a rest is needed.
Plan your family trip
Choose a date and the number of travellers. The children and their ages go in the details step.
Family Adventure program
Some activities, such as the balloon flight and the buggy ride, have a minimum age. We check them with you before anything is confirmed.