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Highlights
- Join local women at an argan cooperative near Essaouira and take part in every step of oil making, from nuts right through to a bottle of oil.
- Your guided visit begins inside the cooperative, where women explain how argan nuts arrive for processing and move through each room.
- Crack each nut by hand, grind the kernels, and help press the paste into pure argan oil, then capture souvenir photos of your time in the workshop.
- Step outside to see the argan groves of the Essaouira countryside, 25 km from town, sip tea with the women, and learn culinary versus cosmetic uses.
Your Experience
Visit an Essaouira argan cooperative on a standard group guided tour, from grove to bottle with hands-on cracking and pressing.
Getting started
Join your standard group guided tour at the argan cooperative in the Essaouira countryside. After a brief introduction, you move directly into the working areas where argan is processed. The visit is fully guided, so you can follow the experience step by step without needing to navigate anything on your own.
What to expect
Argan groves in the Essaouira countryside
Set in the argan groves of the Essaouira countryside, around 25 km from town, this visit starts where the process begins: the trees themselves.
Features
- You see the argan groves in the countryside and follow argan from the tree to the bottle, observing how the nuts are sourced before entering the cooperative.
- A visit to argan groves in the countryside is included in your standard group guided tour, so you can understand the landscape that makes this oil possible.
Argan cooperative
Inside the cooperative, you meet the women who carry out each step of production and trace the full journey from raw nut to finished oil.
Features
- During the guided visit of the cooperative, you watch the women of the cooperative at work and see every stage that turns argan nuts into culinary and cosmetic oil.
- A key moment is the hands-on cracking and pressing, where you crack the nuts and take part in the pressing yourself using traditional methods.
- You learn what separates culinary oil from cosmetic oil, so you can recognise the differences in how each type is prepared and used.
- Tea is served during the visit, giving you a short break to sit, ask questions, and take in what you have just seen.
- Souvenir photos are included, so you leave with images of your hands-on cracking and pressing experience and your time with the women of the cooperative.
Inclusions & Exclusions
- Guided visit of the cooperative
- Hands-on cracking and pressing
- Visit to argan groves in the countryside
- Tea
- Souvenir photos
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Ticket Delivery
- Your voucher will be emailed to you shortly.
- Display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the starting point.
- Please check your final voucher for the starting point details & specific instructions.
Cancellation Policy
These tickets can't be rescheduled or cancelled.
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