Agadir Experience: Cooking Class, Camel Ride & Market Tour

Fantastic experience

From start to finish the package delivered everything we hoped for. Picked up at hotel exactly on time and taken to a local market to get vegetables for cooking. This was a very authentic market, not a tourist area. All the produce was good quality and clean. After selecting the veg for cooking we were given a small tour round the market and local Hammam before back in the taxi and off to the Artisan Centre for the cooking prep. Hand-wash given as soon as we arrived and shown to prep area to cut up veg and construct our tagine. We were asked what meat we would like to use and went for chicken. We were taken through step by step on cutting, prepping and adding spices. Once we a had concluded the build for the tagine it was hand wash time again before going on the camel ride whilst the tagine cooked. The camel ride was as expected and had read about on previous reviews but all thoroughly enjoyable. On return, with a bit of a numb posterior the tagine was ready for us to eat. Even my level of cooking turned out a decent meal. Our guide Imrahm was superb throughout and on return journey to our hotel, he took time out to take us to the Mosque for some photos and to the Argon centre to find out more about the oils and uses. Cannot comment highly enough on all the people involved in delivering this fine package.

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Cooking class

It was a great cooking class and a wonderful experience. The trip was very nice, the visit to the market was interesting, and the camel ride was amazing. I really enjoyed everything.

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great Family, greater food, greatest local food exp

It was an amazing expirience! :-D The food was super delicious. Wow We joined in an heart-warming Family Restaurant. All members have Fun an make the all dishes with love. Local market included and local food. They explained us a lot of the local and native culture, Rituals and their meanings. The greatest local food expirience ever:) Anytime again ;-)

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Awesome experience

Couldn't ask for a better excursion. From the walk through the market purchasing some of the ingredients used in the cooking class to the excellent time preparing the Tanger. As it cooked I went for my camel ride. Enjoying my meal and the tea. Shopping and the tour after. everything was flawless. Thank you for showing me Adgir.

Response from the operator: Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback! We’re really happy to hear that you enjoyed every part of the excursion, from the market visit and cooking class to the camel ride, meal, and tour. It was a pleasure showing you Agadir, and we hope to see you again in the future!

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Great day cooking, eating, and riding camels in Agadir

We loved our cooking class. Fatima and her son Emran were delightful and friendly. We shopped with Emran at the local market, purchasing all the veggies and fruits. We then went to Fatima’s family restaurant and prepared a delicious tagine chicken meal. We also prepared a bread served with honey that was delicious. While the tagine was on the stove, we rode our camels; then back to the restaurant where Emran had set 2 place settings for us and served our meals with mint green tea and coffee. They gave us a bag of blended spices to use at home and Emran wrapped our heads with scarves, Bedouin style, and let us keep the scarves too. This is a great experience but keep in mind you will get a taste of real life for these hard working people in Agadir. The market is rustic and the camel ride is along a street lined with vacant lots, not a romanticized desert camel walk. The camels appeared clean and well cared for, and they behaved beautifully for us. Their handlers were very polite as well. Our camel ride was only 30 minutes (our request) because we had a delayed start to our tour and were concerned about getting back to our ship before it left the port. 30 minutes was long enough on the camels for us anyway; it is a bumpy ride! Emran was very good with communicating with us by phone the day before and morning of our pickup from the port, but still, somehow, there was a mixup and our pickup was delayed an hour. Cell service was spotty once we left the ship and stood at the meeting point, so it wasn’t till we’d walked all the way back to the ship that we got Emran’s message that he had arrived to pick us up. So just be aware of the possibility of communication glitches and be ready to be adaptable. Overall this is a fantastic experience and you will love Emran and Fatima. I can’t wait to cook a tagine meal at home. I’m removing one star because of the late pickup; if not for that, this is a five star day.

Response from the operator: Thank you so much for your detailed and heartfelt feedback! We are truly happy that you enjoyed this authentic experience with my mother Fatima and myself, Emran. It was a real pleasure to share with you our local market, our family cooking, and the camel ride. We sincerely apologize again for the delay at pickup and truly appreciate your patience and understanding. Your kind words mean a lot to us, and we’re so happy we could share a piece of our culture and traditions with you. We hope your homemade tagine will be a great success, and that every time you use the spices or see your scarf, you will think of us! Thank you again for your trust and kindness

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