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With a Moroccan chef, you cross Souk Semmarine at the hour fresh herbs arrive. Each spice is explained, smelled, bought — then cooked in the afternoon at a private medina home.

• Private cooking class in a medina residence
• Art buyer as guide through the souks

Suggested stayLa Sultana

Visit the brass workers, the Sidi Ghanem weavers, the Mellah marquetry workshops with an art buyer who works with the best international galleries. You learn to recognise the real piece — and the fair price.

• Art buyer as guide through the souks
• Dinner with a starred chef in a private riad

Suggested stayRiad El Fenn

Private dinner with a starred chef in a riad closed to the public, Berber lunch on a master craftsman's terrace, mechoui in a private palm grove. Moroccan cuisine reveals itself in all its diversity.

• Dinner with a starred chef in a private riad
• Mechoui in a private palm grove

Suggested stayLa Mamounia