Morocco Touring Camp for Children and Teenagers

A supervised travel programme rather than a taught course. A minimum of twelve and a maximum of twenty-four participants. The group travels with a qualified director and camp leaders, at a ratio of one adult for every eight young people, and the working language is French. The itinerary is fixed and the same on every departure.

The school offers a special discount — ask us for details. The price covers the return flight from Paris with a stopover, full board, accommodation for the whole stay, all travel on the ground, the activities named in the programme, full supervision, repatriation and personal accident cover, and the operator's educational and administrative follow-up before and after the stay. It does not cover personal spending, visa fees, vaccinations and other formalities, activities not named in the programme, optional extras, the cancellation insurance or the operator's fixed-price guarantee. A connection from a French provincial city to the Paris departure point can be arranged on request.

The group sleeps in small, simple hotels, centrally located in Marrakech, Ouarzazate and Essaouira. Rooms hold between two and six people.

Full board is included for the whole stay, taken in small local restaurants along the route.

In Marrakech the group takes in Jemaa el-Fna with its snake charmers, street dentists and permanent commotion, the Bahia Palace, the lanes of the medina and the souks of the tanners and the jewellers. Around Ouarzazate it visits the kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou, used as a film location for Gladiator, and looks out over the palm groves, the kasbah architecture and the Dades gorges. In Essaouira, the old Mogador, the town is explored as a photo rally, and the group goes down the coast to the long beach at Sidi Kaouki for a first surfing lesson.

This is a touring camp and it has no single campus. What is available is what each stop provides: small simple hotels in the centre of Marrakech, Ouarzazate and Essaouira. Travel on the ground uses local and private transport that meets the safety standards of the country.

Morocco is two and a half hours' flight away and still a long way from home: this as a crossing from the High Atlas to the Atlantic, from the souks to a bivouac under the stars among the dunes. It is also explicit that the country is not the tourist frenzy of Marrakech alone, and that the point of taking the time to reach its quieter corners is to meet a truer version of it.