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Riad JabadorMarrakech
A hot-air balloon and its full basket at sunrise, with other balloons hanging above the plain.

From the house

Hot-air balloon flight

Leave the ground before daylight and watch the Atlas catch the sun first.

The balloon fills on the ground in the racket of the burner, and then nothing: the basket leaves the earth without your feeling it. Below, the plain opens out — palm groves, earth-built villages, fields cut into shapes — and at the back of it the Atlas range, taking the light before anyone else.

It is the kind of thing you do once and remember precisely years afterwards, including how cold it was at take-off.

The activity is booked through the house, on arrival or before.

The sitting room: low olive-green banquettes, white cotton curtains tied back with red tassels, and green arabesques painted by hand across the ceiling.

Come and stay

Experiences are arranged once you are here. The stay is booked online.