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For you: Swimming pool, steam bath, sauna, disco, boutique, store, Moorish Café, video rental, television room, theater, casino. The wide sand beach is ideal for suggestive walks. In the area reserved to our guests: beach-beds, beach towels and beach-umbrellas.

We'll spoil you with comforts in our rooms: telephone, hair dryer, safe, bar and television. Suites available.

Great taste in our restaurants between delicious Italian recipes, some local dishes, and rich fish dishes, especially at the fantastic "Fish Dinner". Wine, beer, soft drinks and mineral water are included. Pizzeria (extra).

For kids age 5 to 12 Miniclub soft service, games and entertainment with our staff. Hours: 10:00 a.m./1:30p.m - Lunch w/parents - 3:00 p.m./6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m./10:00 p.m. Dinner w/staff followed by entertainment in reserved area.

Junior Club: kids age 12 to 16. The Junior Club staff will follow the kids throughout the day, organizing sports and entertainment activities. Hours:9.00 a.m. /9.30 p.m.

The excursions are extra. Departure from the Village. The staff will accompany you to provide you with all the details and to answer your questions. You'll be notified of new excursions by our staff in the Village. Tafraoute: Taroudant: Marrakech: Immouzeur: Massa 4x4: Marrakech tour:

Sports. Fitness at large. A few minutes from the Village, open nonstop 9:00 a.m./6:00 p.m. (free shuttle service), the Sporting Club will provide our guests with total fitness. Bar and restaurant for lunch.

o golf: practice course, ideal for golf clinics and to improve your game thanks to expert instructors or to your Pro. You'll also enjoy a bunker, a pitching and a putting green. Special fares for Italian and foreign professional players.

• horse-riding: riding-ground for classes and rides. Clubhouse for party (cost-sharing)
• tennis:4 clay courts. Courses for all levels. Rackets available
• archery on a 50x13 m shooting range
• 5-on-5 football: grass field (m 43x26)
• volleyball: clay court o Swimming courses in heated pool
• ping pong: rackets available, balls extra
• bocce: 2 courts

A swim in the sea to discover Morocco's charm. The sun shines on the beaches for more than 300 days a year. Even in the mild Winter it's often possible to bathe in the waves of the Atlantic. A modern city rebuilt after the 1960 earthquake, entices the visitor with tidbits of Morocco.

Craftsmen's workshops where kilim, clothes, silver, brass, leather, straw and wooden articles are on sale. Veiled women and restaurants that serve the tajine, the traditional stew made of meat spices and vegetables cooked in the cone-shaped pan bearing the same name. Let the colorful threads of the carpets capture you. Experience the souk, where sales are only made after animated bargaining, a subtle art in this corner of the world. The vendor will invite you inside the shop to sip a tea and have a look at his merchandise. Just make your offer, and don't worry if he looks offended by it, walk out and the bargaining will go on in the street. Once you agree on the price, a handshake and your credit card will seal a moment where the old ritual meets with new financial instruments.

What to do

1. Shopping and bargaining at the souk
2. Excursion to the nearby Cap Rhir beach
3. Excursion to Essaouira
4. Have a traditional Moroccan meal: cous cous and tajine
5. Buy the typical products of Moroccan craftsmanship: pottery and brier wood boxes.

PAINTING COURSE

A chance to easily learn how to paint and to get to know the fascinating world of painting. Through a gradual approach, you will learn the techniques that will allow you to paint rich and complex works. Don't miss the lesson on the great masters: a careful look at their works to fully understand the key-points and the tricks that have made those masterpieces come to life. June 5 to 12

Green satisfaction. Masterly designed by the architect Cabell Robinson on an area of 107 hectares in the fascinating landscape of southern Morocco, between the desert and uncontaminated beaches, Les Dunes Golf stands amid eucalyptus trees and tamaris hedges. Three wonderful 9-hole courses (par 36) with artificial lakes compose Les Dunes Golf. Practice ground, pitching green putting green and practice bunkers available. Green fee including transfers on sale at the Village. N.B. In order to preserve the grass, metal cleats are prohibited.

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Info: Voltage:220 volts. Time Zone: GMT, GMT -1 (summer time). Documents: Valid passport. N.B.i Minors under 15 must be registered on parents' passport (or have their own). Immunizations: None required Currency: Dirham. US$ and French Francs accepted
Credit cards: American Express, Visa, Carta Sì. No personal checks.

For you:

Fresh water pool, equipped gym, steam bath, beauty and fitness center (extra), boutique and store, Moorish Café, free shuttle to city center, casino (10 Km), television room. All the rooms, furnished with a taste for simplicity, have private bathrooms and air conditioning. A reward for the body and the soul even at the even at the dining table, enjoying our chefs' recipes. A choice ranging from the Italian tradition to the international cuisine and the age-long and always delicious Moroccan culinary culture. Try the couscous, the tajine, the mechoui and other local delicacies.

The excursions are extra. Departure from the Village. The staff will accompany you to provide you with all the details and to answer your questions. You'll be notified of new excursions by our staff in the Village. Casinò: Valle dell'Ourika: Cena Fantasia: Essaouira: Marrakech e i Monumenti: Piste dell'Oro e degli Schiavi: Calessi:

If sports, relax and fitness are what you are looking for in a vacation, you have come to the right place: choose your activity, get ready and challenge yourself and others: your ability will find its match no matter where you excel, the dining table or the disco. Or you can simply choose golf, here in its ideal location, among some of the most fascinating and challenging courses. tennis: 4 lighted clay courts. volleyball: grass court, football: 7-on-7 grass field, water polo tournaments and swimming lessons, Weight room Fitness and dance courses, archery, bocce and ping pong tables, golf: campo pratica practise field con rete at the Village.

A maze of colors, flavors, scents, sounds and voices. The scent of mint tea, the colors of the fabrics and the screams of the vendors capture the visitor in the Medina. The smell is rapt by the shops selling dried fruit, provoked by the pyramids of spices, outraged by the pungent stench of the tanners. Your fingers will run through soft cloths that blind the sight with their bright colors. The deafening shouting among the shops selling articles ranging from amulets to fight spells to henna to dye your hair. But the real magic is in Djemaa El Fna Square, where the crowd gathers around storytellers, jugglers, tumblers acrobats, bear and monkey-tamers, comedians, musicians and African dancers. Djemaa El Fna has been for centuries the cross-roads for Berber shepherds, Saharian nomads, Arab traders and slaves deported from the rest of Africa. In the past, camels from Timbuktu and from the oases beyond the Atlas range stopped here; today farmers arrive by bus, and shepherds come here to watch this outdoor music hall, to buy walkmans and sunglasses, to dictate a letter to one of the scribes perched between the stands.

What to do:

1. Shopping and bargaining in the souk.
2. Sit at a table of the Café de France, in the heart of the city.
3. Byke tour of the palm-grove
4. Excursion to Essaouira.
5. Have a meal in the Moroccan tradition: cous cous and tajine.
6. Buy the typical products of the local craftsmaship: pottery and brier-wood boxes.
7. Take a walk in Djemaa El Fna Square, among the water vedors and the snake charmers.
8. Sip a long drink at the Mamounia Hotel bar.

Golf splits in three.

A captivating landscape and courses designed by the best architects to fit all level of expertise and ability: you will simply have to choose. Between these three beautiful places. The golf courses are outside the Village. Some sharing of the expenses. Royal Golf. Designed by Gustave Golias and Bouchaib Stitou, this golf course alternates 18 challenging holes (par 72) and the relaxing view of age-old trees.

La Palmeraie Golf.

This fascinating 6,350 m long 18-hole (par 72) course has been designed by the famous Robert Trent Jones. Club House, practice ground and putting green available. Equipment rental. Amelkis Golf. An age-old olive grove and the fascination of the desert nearby: this is the setting of this championship 18-hole, 6,657m course. Club House, practice ground and putting green available. Equipment rental.

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