Rosewater Workshop in Boumalne Dades, Boumalne Dades

If you're traveling to Morocco in the spring, you can visit the famous Rose Valley near Boumalne Dades for two cultural experiences: a traditional ftour (second breakfast) in the rose fields and a rosewater workshop. Enjoy picking the flowers and observing the process of creating the rose water at a local rose distillery.

You'll start the day with a second breakfast in the rose field, consisting of tea, bread, olives, cheese, and other local goodies. After your meal, collect rose petals with some local women, then make your way to a cooperative for a demonstration and workshop. You can observe the process of workers distilling the flowers, which takes a long time and requires a lot of petals that first need to be dried before distillation. So, although you'll walk away with your own bottle of rose water, it won't be from the exact petals you picked.

This activity is only available for a couple of weeks each year, typically from the end of April to the beginning of May. This period is when the roses bloom, and the distilleries make rose oil, of which rosewater is a byproduct. Rose oil and rosewater from this region have been sold to perfumeries around the world for centuries.

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