Casablanca isn’t just mosques and monuments — it’s also where Morocco’s kitchen traditions are passed down. This excursion pairs the city’s essential sights with a hands-on cooking class at a well-known culinary school, so you leave with more than photos: a recipe, a certificate, and a lunch you cooked yourself.

Highlights

• A full interior visit of the Hassan II Mosque, one of the largest mosques in the world
• A drive through Anfa, Casablanca’s original hilltop district and the site of the 1943 Casablanca Conference
• The bustling Central Market — fish stalls, flower sellers, spice merchants and street musicians
• A hands-on cooking class at a well-known Casablanca culinary school: couscous, tagine, or traditional Moroccan pastries
• Lunch on the dishes you prepare yourself, plus a Certificate of Participation and a take-home spice sample

Your Day in Casablanca

We start at the Hassan II Mosque, one of the largest religious monuments in the world — seventy-eight pillars of granite, marble and onyx, a retractable roof, and a 210-metre minaret facing Mecca, all built partly over the Atlantic itself. From there we drive the Corniche to Anfa, Casablanca’s original hilltop neighbourhood, its avenues lined with villas spanning a century of architectural styles. Anfa hosted the 1943 Casablanca Conference between Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle and Giraud, and it was here that Roosevelt held a secret audience with Sultan Mohammed V.

Around 10:15 we reach the Central Market, a compact, colourful maze of fish stalls, flower sellers, fruit, spices and street musicians. By 10:45 we’re at a well-known Casablanca school of gastronomy, welcomed with mint tea, orange-flower orange juice and a plate of Moroccan pastries before the class begins.

The class itself runs around three and a half hours. You can join the savoury track — couscous with seven vegetables, couscous with t’faya (onions and raisins), seffa, or a tagine of veal, lamb or chicken — learning the spice blends as you go, or the pastry track, shaping Ka’ab Gh’zal (gazelle horns), feqqas, and almond and sesame ghoriba. You’re welcome to do both if time allows. Everyone lunches on what they’ve made, rounded out with mint tea, water and a soda.

Each participant takes home a Certificate of Participation and a small sample of the spices used, with notes on how to use them. On the way back we pass United Nations Square, with time for a last bit of shopping before returning to your ship.

What’s Included

• Private round-trip transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle, port to port
• Private guided sightseeing, including the interior of the Hassan II Mosque
• The Moroccan cookery class and lunch on the dishes prepared
• An English-speaking licensed national guide throughout
• Medical and accident insurance, and bottled or sparkling water

Not Included

• Gratuities for your guide, driver, chef and waiters
• Personal expenses
• Anything not specifically listed in the itinerary

What to Bring

• Comfortable walking shoes or trainers
• A light layer (seasonal) and a day pack
• Hygienic wipes
• Camera, with a protective bag for sensitive lenses
• Hat, sunglasses and sunscreen

Book This Excursion

Send us your ship and port call time and we’ll confirm your private Casablanca & cuisine class excursion — note this excursion requires a minimum group size of 10. Reach us on WhatsApp at +212 677 365 730 or send an inquiry to get a quote.