Top Middle East & Africa Craft Classes

Candle Dipping and Hive Making

• Become part of a beekeeping cooperative for the day. The morning begins with a drive to a nearby village, where you and your Azizi Life interpreter will be welcomed by the men and ladies of the cooperative.After introductions from your hostess, a morning of family chores begins. You collect water from the valley spring, prepare the fire for candle dipping and gather the materials and learn how to make your own traditional beehive. At noontime, you’ll share a simple local meal with your host family, with plenty of time to chat and learn about each other’s lives. After lunch, you will join with the artisan cooperative for an afternoon of candle making. You will learn how to prepare the wax, and then the artisans will teach you how to dip your own pair of bees wax candles that you get to take home with you. You will love working with the artisans as you dip and laugh together.
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Babouch Making Workshop in Marrakech

• Moroccan Babouch—traditional leather slippers—are a popular purchase for visitors to the Marrakech souks, often produced in beautiful designs and bright colors. On this tour, take part in a hands-on workshop led by a local craftsman, learn how the leather is dyed and prepared, and make your very own pair of Babouch slippers to take home as a souvenir. During the workshop, take a break to enjoy Moroccan afternoon tea with your guide.
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Private Educational Tour to Papyrus Workshop

• Learn the story of the world’s first paper on a private tour of a papyrus workshop in Cairo. You’ll follow the papyrus-making process from beginning to end, discover its ancient Egyptian roots, and make your own papyrus paper. Since the tour is designed as a cultural and experience, you won’t be pressured to buy anything, leaving you free to simply enjoy the outing.
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Half day leather workshop

• Have a chance to work hands-on with one of the most premium raw materials in the world: Leather.
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Perfume Prive Workshop

• With decades of experience under their perfume belts, the scent savants at Perfume Prive Workshop assist an endless number of groups to create their signature scent. Using the highest-quality fragrances from around the globe, these specialist scent creators produce sweet-smelling serums free of any harsh undertones associated with low-quality chemical-based scents.Step into their fragrant world and discover what scent suits you while being treated to a display of free champagne, hot drinks and snacks Learn to weave your signature scent from authentic perfume oils and be the envy of all your friends and family.. Perfume workshops are especially ideal forteam building as research has proved that people who work in scentedareas have demonstrated a higher self-efficiency level and are morelikely to adopt efficient work strategies.
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