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<h3> <a href="/article/cooking-courses-at-la-sultana-7">Cooking courses at La Sultana</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 28-12-2014</a>
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As Moroccan Artisan has become an Art, the Moroccan cuisine is present today in the biggest tables. The way of eating indicates usually the degree of a nation’s culture and from this point of view, Morocco,is a kingdom.
What could be nicer than learning the secrets to amaze friends upon returning from a stay in Marrakech?La Sultana, one of the 5* Luxury Hotels of the Red city, is an accomplice in delivering its <br> <a href="/article/cooking-courses-at-la-sultana-7" class="readMore" id="tlip">Lire plus...</a> </div>
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<p>As Moroccan Artisan has become an Art, the Moroccan cuisine is present today in the biggest tables. The way of eating indicates usually the degree of a nation’s culture and from this point of view, Morocco,<br />is a kingdom.</p>
<p>What could be nicer than learning the secrets to amaze friends upon returning from a stay in Marrakech?<br />La Sultana, one of the 5* Luxury Hotels of the Red city, is an accomplice in delivering its culinary secrets by targeted cooking courses.<br />We learn the ancestral know-how of the Moroccan cuisine and how to dose accurately the pinch of cumin in the chicken tagine with candied lemon.<br />On the large terrace, looking like the hanging gardens of Babylon, in the middle of palms and flow of bougainvillea, in an intimate place a laboratory is specially equipped to practice « strum » with several hands.</p>
<p>The charm of this rural setting, olive groves and the huge pots of aromatic plants promote the creative inspiration and invite to a recreational focus to the advices from the chef of the house…</p>
<p>The course is two and a half hour long. The first half hour is devoted for the placement and the virtues of spices in the local cuisine, to the art of dosing and to the harmony of blends. It’s all the magic and the characteristic of the Moroccan cuisine that are revealed: Only the suggestion of flavors which invade gradually the palace.<br />Then come two hours of initiation with the Chef. On gleaming stainless steel keyboards, colorful vegetables are spread. The lesson goes on ! Advices, example, corrections… Each vegetable will become a stroke<br />of brush in pallet of paint once the dish is done.</p>
<p>Finally comes the reward of the pleasure of tasting from its own creation followed by an essential ritual of tea. And at this melodious time when the singing of tea arises like a fountain in a exquisite freshness of a minty breeze, dreams begin…</p>
<p><br />- Course duration: 1H45 followed by tasting dishes<br />- Rate for 2 persons: 800Mad per person<br />- Private course: 4 500 MAD (minimum 8 persons)</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/secrets-of-la-sultana-s-beauty-confidences-to-share-with-friends-8">Secrets of La Sultana’s beauty - Confidences to share with friends</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 01-12-2014</a>
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The Sultana, advised by expert, provides an afternoon one of its spas, magical places that can be shared, in privacy, between selected friends.
In Marrakech or Oualidia, enjoy these beautiful places where you lose track of time.Between massages and steam baths, one whispers the latest trends address or preparations for an upcoming wedding.
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<p>The Sultana, advised by expert, provides an afternoon one of its spas, magical places that can be shared, in privacy, between selected friends.</p>
<p>In Marrakech or Oualidia, enjoy these beautiful places where you lose track of time.<br />Between massages and steam baths, one whispers the latest trends address or preparations for an upcoming wedding.</p>
<p>As in the old baths in Rome or in one of Eugene Delacroix’s paintings. It’s unique, trendy, and in. Discreet, qualified and experienced people will particularly take care of you, pamper you, and massage you, according to ancient practices that have proven themselves. You’ll love the creams and gels from Atlas plants and algae of the Ocean. You’ll be amazed of the effects of chromo therapy and the latest technologies. And in the large heated pool, between the pink marble columns of Marrakech or carved stone pillars of Oualidia, you can swim in happiness.</p>
<p>The Sultana, high priestess of femininity will deliver you, friendly accomplice, on an unforgettable afternoon time all its beauty secrets.</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/what-would-the-art-of-living-be-without-art-9">What would the art of living be without art?</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 03-11-2014</a>
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The art objects shines at La Sultana ‘Marrakech’, sculptures, antiques, furnitures, paintings…, carefully put in display toamaze the eye. Over the years the private collection was enriched with paintings by famous Moroccan artists such as Gharbaoui, Louardiri, Denmati, Hassan El Glaoui, Mohamed Ben Allal... And Middle Eastern such us José-Cruz Herrera, Odette Bruno, Pontoy, Brunet Ouard...
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<p>The art objects shines at La Sultana ‘Marrakech’, sculptures, antiques, furnitures, paintings…, carefully put in display to<br />amaze the eye. Over the years the private collection was enriched with paintings by famous Moroccan artists such as Gharbaoui, Louardiri, Denmati, Hassan El Glaoui, Mohamed Ben Allal... And Middle Eastern such us José-Cruz Herrera, Odette Bruno, Pontoy, Brunet Ouard...</p>
<p>At La Sultana ‘Oualidia’ each art work and painting remind us of Gharbaoui, Saladi, Lala Gbouri, Regis-Dolène Bartholdi…</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/a-360-degree-view-of-the-terrace-12">A 360 degree view of the terrace</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 06-10-2014</a>
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A moment of joy we yearn forever!
Terraces in Marrakech are known for being special, but the sultana’s is fabulous.Encircled like a jewel within the ramparts of the medina, the sultana is topped by a 1500m 2 vast terrace. Like hanging gardens of Babylon, it stands with transcendent elegance.
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<p>A moment of joy we yearn forever!</p>
<p>Terraces in Marrakech are known for being special, but the sultana’s is fabulous.<br />Encircled like a jewel within the ramparts of the medina, the sultana is topped by a 1500m 2 vast terrace. Like hanging gardens of Babylon, it stands with transcendent elegance.</p>
<p>A world set apart, that owes most of its fame to the traditional and stylish look of the city, a real feast for the eyes!<br />Hard to keep a dazzled look amid flagrant bougainvillea blossoms?<br />On mother of pearl or shiny rubies? On the picturesque minarets whose glistening roofs are covered with glazed tiles, or on the legendary snow capped peaks of the high atlas mountain chain stretching into the horizon? On the Saadian tombs that are splendidly laid at the foot of an historical party wall?</p>
<p>The 360° view: outright luxury! Ephemeral sensations frozen in memory</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/the-grill-of-the-hanging-gardens-of-la-sultana-marrakech-13">The grill of the hanging gardens of La Sultana Marrakech</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 08-09-2014</a>
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Located in the historical centre of Marrakech, overlooking the famous Mosques of the Medina, The Grill of La Sultana is the ideal lunch spot to combine a visit of the imperial Kasbah district originally a citadel continually occupied by the Sultans of Morocco since the 12th century with local cuisine tasting & gourmet safaris.
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<p>Located in the historical centre of Marrakech, overlooking the famous Mosques of the Medina, The Grill of La Sultana is the ideal lunch spot to combine a visit of the imperial Kasbah district originally a citadel continually occupied by the Sultans of Morocco since the 12th century with local cuisine tasting & gourmet safaris.</p>
<p>The Grill (or charcoal barbecue) is part of the secular tradition of the Red City. At night, the Jemaa El Fna square turns into one of the world’s busiest open-air restaurants lit only by the light of the full moon and endless food stalls lights with smoke, steam and the smell of food everywhere.</p>
<p>The Kasbah Street, at the doorstep of the hotel, is also full of small food stalls where fires built in charcoal grills with fresh meats and vegetables are laid out for inspection.</p>
<p>La Sultana Marrakech «Grill of the hanging gardens» where food is prepared hot and fresh carries out this local tradition to offer at lunch time a charcoal barbecue restaurant on its rooftop terrace. The Grill is set around lush vegetation in the open-air, perfect to enjoy the view of the nearby Mosques and spot some White Storks in the blue sky.</p>
<p>The Grill menu offers various salads prepared on request, seafood freshly delivered from Oualidia, tasty meats, vegetables and fruits from the neighboring Ourika valley. Grilled meat on skewers? Served with local spices or natural?<br />Inspired by the Moroccan folklore, the skewers are served vertically on a specific display to amaze visitors. The home made french-fries are served in a clay pot imitating the original cones made from paper.</p>
<p>And under the shade, lunch continues in the magic atmosphere of La Sultana: Authentic, Unique and Confidential.<br /><br /></p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/when-craft-becomes-art-10">When craft becomes art</a> </h3>
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The special atmosphere that emanates from La Sultana Hotels comes from the exceptional richness of the work of master craftsmen (mâalems) who works to embellish.
The gate, and which gate! The eye does not know where to stop throughout the dexterity of Moroccan craftsmen is expressed and well known for the tradition and legacy.
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<p>The special atmosphere that emanates from La Sultana Hotels comes from the exceptional richness of the work of master craftsmen (mâalems) who works to embellish.</p>
<p>The gate, and which gate! The eye does not know where to stop throughout the dexterity of Moroccan craftsmen is expressed and well known for the tradition and legacy.</p>
<p>Walls, ceilings, floors, stairs and banisters, windows, all are masterpieces of art.</p>
<p>We guess the talent of everyone’s work in brick, glorified as the time of the Almohads.<br />The cedar is beautifully developed, to impose its presence, chiselled piece to make air flowing.<br />The marble, full vein for columns, to reduce the strength of the stone, gypsum finely ground evokes the work of the meticulous bees. Zelliges, tadlakt, bejmat, coexist, succeed and respond.</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/where-luxury-meets-sustainability-16">Where luxury meets sustainability</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 02-06-2014</a>
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La Sultana is situated in the midst of a remarkable ecosystem, the lagoon of Oualidia. From its very inception, the hotel was planned to minimise impact on its fragile environment. It took vision, money and technical resources to achieve the result: a hotel which is unique in its environmental approach and 100% sustainable inits use of water.
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<p>La Sultana is situated in the midst of a remarkable ecosystem, the lagoon of Oualidia. From its very inception, the hotel was planned to minimise impact on its fragile environment. It took vision, money and technical resources to achieve the result: a hotel which is unique in its environmental approach and 100% sustainable in<br />its use of water.</p>
<p>From the outside, with its garden and buildings made from local stone, the hotel seems perfectly integrated with its surroundings. It imbues the place with a feeling of serenity and well-being.<br />But these are just the visible signs. Below ground runs a technical infrastructure consisting of miles of pipework. It is thanks to this that guests can enjoy five-star comfort with minimum strain on resources or damage to the environment.<br />All the water for La Sultana – from garden to hotel, from restaurants to swimming pools – is derived locally. Desalinated and filtered by osmosis, the water is soft and pure. It makes a shower or a dip in the hotel’s swimming pools a wonderfully sensuous experience.</p>
<p>Water for the swimming pools is treated by ionisation. It uses a process of electrolytic hydrolysis with a copper/silver cathode and anode. The copper prevents the build-up of algae while the silver helps eliminate bacteria.<br />It means that when the pools are drained for cleaning only pure, nonchlorinated water goes back into the lagoon.<br />A lot of time and effort went into finding a solution to recycling waste water. In the treatment area under the hotel, grey water from bathroom, shower and kitchen is degreased, oxygenated, homogenised and filtered.</p>
<p>This provides 40 cubic metres of water a day to irrigate the garden. Sewage water is recycled along underground conduits which use vegetation to break down bacteria. This age-old system, updated for modern needs, gives the garden nutrients to help it to flourish. The final part of the recycling process is evaporation, which takes place through the leaves of<br />the plants. 200 litres of water per day can be evaporated by a single mature eucalyptus tree.<br />Sea water from the lagoon, filtered and heated, is used for the jacuzzis.</p>
<p>Guests arriving at the hotel can bathe away their stresses and cares by plunging into a whirlpool of pure, warm ocean water while feeling the Atlantic breeze on their face.</p>
<p>We also thought carefully about heating and cooling systems for the hotel.Heating, air conditioning and dehumidifying are controlled by a waterto-water heat pump which takes water from the lagoon at 18 degrees centigrade in the winter and at 21 degrees in the summer months. The water is then distributed around the hotel as needed.</p>
<p>La Sultana Oualidia is at the forefront of revolutionary green technology. Using resources sustainably, it manages to ensure the comfort of its guests as well as the long-term welfare of the lagoon ecosystem.</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/in-the-pure-tradition-of-the-moroccan-cuisine-14">In the pure tradition of the moroccan cuisine</a> </h3>
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La Sultana must develop with the same pomp the gastronomy and crafts of the Kingdom. Moroccan cuisine is an integral part of the legacy of past dynasties and as the craft has become art, traditional cuisine has become Gastronomy.
This is what La Sultana introduces its guests, promoting, alongside international flavours, selected dishes that symbolize the ancestral culinary traditions of Morocco.First the necessary <br> <a href="/article/in-the-pure-tradition-of-the-moroccan-cuisine-14" class="readMore" id="tlip">Lire plus...</a> </div>
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<p>La Sultana must develop with the same pomp the gastronomy and crafts of the Kingdom. Moroccan cuisine is an integral part of the legacy of past dynasties and as the craft has become art, traditional cuisine has become Gastronomy.</p>
<p>This is what La Sultana introduces its guests, promoting, alongside international flavours, selected dishes that symbolize the ancestral culinary traditions of Morocco.<br />First the necessary freshness and flavour impose themselves in the careful selection of local produce.</p>
<p>Then is essential know-how of a Moroccan chef assisted by two “Marrakechiates” female cooks repeating the same maternal gestures learned in childhood.<br />Finally arriving on the table, according to your desire, dishes that delight the eyes and palate.</p>
<p>What to choose between Tangia «as before» Dada Brika and the roast?<br />But the lord of the table is the traditional couscous Ghanmi and its seven vegetables. Dish full of colours, flavours and generosity, emblem of the kitchen of the Moroccan people.</p>
<p>If the kitchen of a nation shows the degree of culture, Morocco is also on this point, a kingdom. La Sultana, in perfect ambassador, demonstrates with consummate skill.</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/lupita-nyong-o-famous-best-actress-oscar-winner-at-la-sultana-oualidia-17">Lupita Nyong’o, Famous Best Actress Oscar winner at La Sultana Oualidia</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 01-05-2014</a>
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Lupita Nyong’o, the Actress who recently won an Oscar for her performance in “Twelve Years a Slave” and was named as theWorld’s most beautiful woman 2014 by the magazine People, spent a few days at La Sultana Oualidia.
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<p>Lupita Nyong’o, the Actress who recently won an Oscar for her performance in “Twelve Years a Slave” and was named as the<br />World’s most beautiful woman 2014 by the magazine People, spent a few days at La Sultana Oualidia.</p>
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<h3> <a href="/article/quand-la-sultana-oualidia-joue-les-robinson-crusoe-15">Quand La Sultana Oualidia joue les Robinson Crusoë</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 03-03-2014</a>
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With the giant eucalyptus as the pride of Oualidia park, La Sultana Concept has found a way of awakening childhooddreams lying deep within us: to sleep in a treehouse perched high in a tree.
La Sultana was bound to do it! This treehouse can be but one realization of the 1000 and 1 dreams La Sultana Signature has been striving to offer its guests.
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<p>With the giant eucalyptus as the pride of Oualidia park, La Sultana Concept has found a way of awakening childhood<br />dreams lying deep within us: to sleep in a treehouse perched high in a tree.</p>
<p>La Sultana was bound to do it! This treehouse can be but one realization of the 1000 and 1 dreams La Sultana Signature has been striving to offer its guests.</p>
<p>Climb up rustic yet comfortable steps and open the door to a vast treehouse hidden among thick and fragrant foliage, in a world suspended in the air. The wooden space is an allegory to nature, where all the elements play together. One of the tree’s main branches penetrates the room. Through a large glass window spanning one wall, the entire horizon can be admired. This is a hymn to greenery, the earth, stone, sand, water and air. The landscape changes as the sun moves in the sky and the tides come and go. The room leads to a spacious terrace, where a sea-water jacuzzi awaits you for a bath where you are surrounded by nature. Dream or Reality?</p> </div>
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<p>Our excursion “Bird Safari” is specifically designed to raise
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reserve and invite everyone to protect it.</p>
<p>Also, as part of La Sultana Hotels’ Sustainability &
Conservation activities, La Sultana Oualidia teams spend time each day clearing
the lagoon beach near the hotel, and every Thursday with the help of the local
fishermen, bring any litter to the shore. Twice a year, every member of
the La Sultana Oualidia team take part in a ‘Lagoon Clean Up Day’ in order to
have a more significant impact on reducing the litter in the lagoon. This year,
to help raise awareness of the lagoon’s important ecosystem, La Sultana
Oualidia will host it’s ‘Lagoon Clean Up Day’ on World Wetland Day, which
celebrates the date of the Convention on Wetlands date of inauguration - 2
February 1971. </p>
<p>How can you participate?</p>
<p>La Sultana Oualidia are pleased to work with the local community
to ensure the local lagoon, beaches and town are clean and free of rubbish. The
team invite volunteers to partake and will be delighted to provide a bag for
them to put any discarded rubbish inside. Once finished, the bag can be
returned to La Sultana Oualidia’s concierge who will ensure it is recycled or
disposed of appropriately. Volunteers are then invited to enjoy a cup of
Moroccan Mint tea as a thank you for helping to keep Oualidia
clean. Please email us at WantToHelp@lasultanahotels.com to book your
participation. </p>
<p>Why are wetlands important?</p>
<p>Wetlands are areas of land that are saturated or flooded with
water, either permanently or seasonally. Inland wetlands include marshes,
ponds, lakes, fens, rivers, floodplains and swamps. Coastal wetlands, like
Oualidia include saltwater marshes, estuaries, mangroves, lagoons and even
coral reefs. The teem with biodiversity providing homes for many endangered
species and people. They are part of our natural infrastructure and provide
essential protection against environmental issues such as flooding and drought.</p>
<p>La Sultana Oualidia’s 2021 campaign wishes to highlight the
contribution of wetlands to the quantity and quality of freshwater on our
planet. Water and wetlands are connected in an inseparable co-existence that is
vital to wildlife, our wellbeing and the health of our planet. </p>
<p>You can read about our actions and initiatives in <a href="https://www.lasultanahotels.com/pdfs/book_ecologie.pdf">Conservation
& Sustainability</a> </p><p></p><p>Event registered with Ramsar for <a href="https://www.worldwetlandsday.org/fr/display-event?p_p_id=eventDisplay&eventEntryId=781818&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwetlandsday.org%2Fevents%23event781818">World Wetland Day 2021</a><br></p>
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'BlogPost__i18n__body' => '<p></p><h2></h2><h2>We are glad to share a beautiful testimony from repeating guests, with whom we re-opened the property after the Covid-19 pandemic.</h2><h2>WHERE’S OUALIDIA?</h2><p>"About 45 minutes into the drive south from Casablanca, the landscape starts to change. Fertile agricultural land gives way to firm red earth and barren rocky soils. Waist-high stone walls of marine limestone punctuate the empty rolling hills. You turn off the new tollway for the old coastal road, beginning at the unattractive port town of Jorf Lasfar, to continue heading south. Abruptly, the drab port landscape transforms to rocky cliffs, blocking the Atlantic waves from an extensive wetland system comprised of marshes, channels and sandpits. 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Twice a day, the ocean floods the lagoon and its channels, up to a depth of nearly 4m at high tide, then emptying out almost completely at low tide. La Sultana with its architecture of local stone, lush gardens, and privileged position at the end of a dusty road surrounded by fields, presides over this natural phenomenon. It is the perfect kind of place, unique in Morocco, to disappear for a few days on a high-comfort but low-key romantic break, cooled by the Atlantic breezes, and salinated by the region’s famous oysters (harvested sustainably near the hotel). Local fishermen pluck fresh lobster, crab, razor clams and mussels from the rocky outcrops of the coast, often grilling it up for you right on the beach or at a couple of humble eateries in town.</p><p>There is little else to do here but enjoy a beach picnic, ride horses, relax by the pool or soak in your private jacuzzi (each room has one), or go for a scrub or massage in the hotel’s hammam. 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The question of whether or not to go this year was a tough one: what would a hotel experience be like with the limitations and regulations in place, and were we risking infection or being irresponsible by leaving home to go away for a weekend? We thought long and hard, but ultimately my curiosity to “get back out there” and see how hotels are dealing with post-lockdown reopening got the better of me. And let’s face it: after a solid 100 days shut in our apartment with little more outdoor time than taking out the garbage, we had serious cabin fever. Birthdays, baptisms, and weddings had all been cancelled this spring, but virus be damned, this anniversary we were not going to spend at home. Taking confidence in the sanitary measures laid out by the Moroccan Health Ministry, we packed our weekend bags, donned our masks, and drove south.</p><p>I would be lying if I said our stay was just like our past three visits. Upon arrival our bags were unloaded from the car and whisked away for disinfecting before they were deposited in our rooms. Our temperatures were taken before we were allowed inside the garden grounds. And at check-in there was no paperwork to sign or credit cards to hand over (we had given this info ahead of time). Staff were as welcoming and as friendly as ever, but each member were required to wear masks at all times.</p><p>At 50% occupancy, all six rooms were booked on our arrival night. We only saw one family and one other couple while we were there, and the following night we were completely on our own. This is actually not all that different from the norm at La Sultana, and one of the reasons why we love the place. Even when full, you feel like you have it mostly to yourself.</p><p>Our room had “touchless” menus for room service, hotel info and activities, in the form of a Q-code to scan on a smartphone, and hand-sanitizer to take with you. Rooms were left empty for a minimum of 24-hours for a deep clean by the housekeeping team before new guests could check in, but that being said, I realized that at a hotel there are so many potential surfaces to touch that it is practically impossible to ensure every single last one of them is disinfected. The take away from this was to maintain the advice we’ve all been hearing now for months: wash hands frequently, practice social distancing, and avoid touching your face.</p><p>Once we settled in to this new reality, the truth is we had a very satisfying, deeply relaxing visit. We made ample use of the infinity pool, went for a boat ride on the lagoon and a beach picnic, and visited the hotel’s organic farm nearby. We enjoyed sleeping in late and having our breakfasts brought to the privacy of our patio to enjoy the scenery while tucking into fresh local fruit, home baked pastries and Moroccan pancakes. We also did a hammam scrub and massage under the stony columns of the hotel’s excellent spa, our first since the start of the pandemic. No request was too much for the staff, and one thing that has remained consistent is La Sultana’s wonderful team who are eager to please. We spent more time than in the past speaking with the staff, sharing stories of the lockdown and how things were in Oualidia (which registered very few actual cases). Most of the team at La Sultana have been there for years, so it was good to know that our dirhams and gratuities were also helping keep not just the hotel but the families that depend on them afloat.</p><p>And let’s not leave out the oysters. Heading out by boat, we visited one of the local producers that supplies the hotel, right off the lagoon. The oysters spend the first few years of their lives in the tidal waters, and the last six months or so in salt-water tanks before being sold. Oyster farming requires a zen patience, as they can take around three years to mature. Patience has become my mantra in these days of uncertainty, and I take great comfort in knowing that when the day comes when international travelers are welcome back to Morocco, there’s a wonderful little spot in Oualidia that will be welcoming them and capturing their hearts, as La Sultana has captured ours."</p><p>Read the full story and more : <a href="https://trufflepig.com/wheres-oualidia/">https://trufflepig.com/wheres-oualidia/</a></p><p></p><p>Photo credit : @Iberian_Nomad<br></p>
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<p>What could be nicer than learning the secrets to amaze friends upon returning from a stay in Marrakech?<br />La Sultana, one of the 5* Luxury Hotels of the Red city, is an accomplice in delivering its culinary secrets by targeted cooking courses.<br />We learn the ancestral know-how of the Moroccan cuisine and how to dose accurately the pinch of cumin in the chicken tagine with candied lemon.<br />On the large terrace, looking like the hanging gardens of Babylon, in the middle of palms and flow of bougainvillea, in an intimate place a laboratory is specially equipped to practice « strum » with several hands.</p>
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<p>In Marrakech or Oualidia, enjoy these beautiful places where you lose track of time.<br />Between massages and steam baths, one whispers the latest trends address or preparations for an upcoming wedding.</p>
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<p>The Grill (or charcoal barbecue) is part of the secular tradition of the Red City. At night, the Jemaa El Fna square turns into one of the world’s busiest open-air restaurants lit only by the light of the full moon and endless food stalls lights with smoke, steam and the smell of food everywhere.</p>
<p>The Kasbah Street, at the doorstep of the hotel, is also full of small food stalls where fires built in charcoal grills with fresh meats and vegetables are laid out for inspection.</p>
<p>La Sultana Marrakech «Grill of the hanging gardens» where food is prepared hot and fresh carries out this local tradition to offer at lunch time a charcoal barbecue restaurant on its rooftop terrace. The Grill is set around lush vegetation in the open-air, perfect to enjoy the view of the nearby Mosques and spot some White Storks in the blue sky.</p>
<p>The Grill menu offers various salads prepared on request, seafood freshly delivered from Oualidia, tasty meats, vegetables and fruits from the neighboring Ourika valley. Grilled meat on skewers? Served with local spices or natural?<br />Inspired by the Moroccan folklore, the skewers are served vertically on a specific display to amaze visitors. The home made french-fries are served in a clay pot imitating the original cones made from paper.</p>
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<p>From the outside, with its garden and buildings made from local stone, the hotel seems perfectly integrated with its surroundings. It imbues the place with a feeling of serenity and well-being.<br />But these are just the visible signs. Below ground runs a technical infrastructure consisting of miles of pipework. It is thanks to this that guests can enjoy five-star comfort with minimum strain on resources or damage to the environment.<br />All the water for La Sultana – from garden to hotel, from restaurants to swimming pools – is derived locally. Desalinated and filtered by osmosis, the water is soft and pure. It makes a shower or a dip in the hotel’s swimming pools a wonderfully sensuous experience.</p>
<p>Water for the swimming pools is treated by ionisation. It uses a process of electrolytic hydrolysis with a copper/silver cathode and anode. The copper prevents the build-up of algae while the silver helps eliminate bacteria.<br />It means that when the pools are drained for cleaning only pure, nonchlorinated water goes back into the lagoon.<br />A lot of time and effort went into finding a solution to recycling waste water. In the treatment area under the hotel, grey water from bathroom, shower and kitchen is degreased, oxygenated, homogenised and filtered.</p>
<p>This provides 40 cubic metres of water a day to irrigate the garden. Sewage water is recycled along underground conduits which use vegetation to break down bacteria. This age-old system, updated for modern needs, gives the garden nutrients to help it to flourish. The final part of the recycling process is evaporation, which takes place through the leaves of<br />the plants. 200 litres of water per day can be evaporated by a single mature eucalyptus tree.<br />Sea water from the lagoon, filtered and heated, is used for the jacuzzis.</p>
<p>Guests arriving at the hotel can bathe away their stresses and cares by plunging into a whirlpool of pure, warm ocean water while feeling the Atlantic breeze on their face.</p>
<p>We also thought carefully about heating and cooling systems for the hotel.Heating, air conditioning and dehumidifying are controlled by a waterto-water heat pump which takes water from the lagoon at 18 degrees centigrade in the winter and at 21 degrees in the summer months. The water is then distributed around the hotel as needed.</p>
<p>La Sultana Oualidia is at the forefront of revolutionary green technology. Using resources sustainably, it manages to ensure the comfort of its guests as well as the long-term welfare of the lagoon ecosystem.</p>'
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<p>This is what La Sultana introduces its guests, promoting, alongside international flavours, selected dishes that symbolize the ancestral culinary traditions of Morocco.<br />First the necessary freshness and flavour impose themselves in the careful selection of local produce.</p>
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<p>If the kitchen of a nation shows the degree of culture, Morocco is also on this point, a kingdom. La Sultana, in perfect ambassador, demonstrates with consummate skill.</p>'
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<p>La Sultana was bound to do it! This treehouse can be but one realization of the 1000 and 1 dreams La Sultana Signature has been striving to offer its guests.</p>
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<h3> <a href="/article/cooking-courses-at-la-sultana-7">Cooking courses at La Sultana</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 28-12-2014</a>
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As Moroccan Artisan has become an Art, the Moroccan cuisine is present today in the biggest tables. The way of eating indicates usually the degree of a nation’s culture and from this point of view, Morocco,is a kingdom.
What could be nicer than learning the secrets to amaze friends upon returning from a stay in Marrakech?La Sultana, one of the 5* Luxury Hotels of the Red city, is an accomplice in delivering its <br> <a href="/article/cooking-courses-at-la-sultana-7" class="readMore" id="tlip">Lire plus...</a> </div>
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<p>As Moroccan Artisan has become an Art, the Moroccan cuisine is present today in the biggest tables. The way of eating indicates usually the degree of a nation’s culture and from this point of view, Morocco,<br />is a kingdom.</p>
<p>What could be nicer than learning the secrets to amaze friends upon returning from a stay in Marrakech?<br />La Sultana, one of the 5* Luxury Hotels of the Red city, is an accomplice in delivering its culinary secrets by targeted cooking courses.<br />We learn the ancestral know-how of the Moroccan cuisine and how to dose accurately the pinch of cumin in the chicken tagine with candied lemon.<br />On the large terrace, looking like the hanging gardens of Babylon, in the middle of palms and flow of bougainvillea, in an intimate place a laboratory is specially equipped to practice « strum » with several hands.</p>
<p>The charm of this rural setting, olive groves and the huge pots of aromatic plants promote the creative inspiration and invite to a recreational focus to the advices from the chef of the house…</p>
<p>The course is two and a half hour long. The first half hour is devoted for the placement and the virtues of spices in the local cuisine, to the art of dosing and to the harmony of blends. It’s all the magic and the characteristic of the Moroccan cuisine that are revealed: Only the suggestion of flavors which invade gradually the palace.<br />Then come two hours of initiation with the Chef. On gleaming stainless steel keyboards, colorful vegetables are spread. The lesson goes on ! Advices, example, corrections… Each vegetable will become a stroke<br />of brush in pallet of paint once the dish is done.</p>
<p>Finally comes the reward of the pleasure of tasting from its own creation followed by an essential ritual of tea. And at this melodious time when the singing of tea arises like a fountain in a exquisite freshness of a minty breeze, dreams begin…</p>
<p><br />- Course duration: 1H45 followed by tasting dishes<br />- Rate for 2 persons: 800Mad per person<br />- Private course: 4 500 MAD (minimum 8 persons)</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/secrets-of-la-sultana-s-beauty-confidences-to-share-with-friends-8">Secrets of La Sultana’s beauty - Confidences to share with friends</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 01-12-2014</a>
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The Sultana, advised by expert, provides an afternoon one of its spas, magical places that can be shared, in privacy, between selected friends.
In Marrakech or Oualidia, enjoy these beautiful places where you lose track of time.Between massages and steam baths, one whispers the latest trends address or preparations for an upcoming wedding.
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<p>The Sultana, advised by expert, provides an afternoon one of its spas, magical places that can be shared, in privacy, between selected friends.</p>
<p>In Marrakech or Oualidia, enjoy these beautiful places where you lose track of time.<br />Between massages and steam baths, one whispers the latest trends address or preparations for an upcoming wedding.</p>
<p>As in the old baths in Rome or in one of Eugene Delacroix’s paintings. It’s unique, trendy, and in. Discreet, qualified and experienced people will particularly take care of you, pamper you, and massage you, according to ancient practices that have proven themselves. You’ll love the creams and gels from Atlas plants and algae of the Ocean. You’ll be amazed of the effects of chromo therapy and the latest technologies. And in the large heated pool, between the pink marble columns of Marrakech or carved stone pillars of Oualidia, you can swim in happiness.</p>
<p>The Sultana, high priestess of femininity will deliver you, friendly accomplice, on an unforgettable afternoon time all its beauty secrets.</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/what-would-the-art-of-living-be-without-art-9">What would the art of living be without art?</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 03-11-2014</a>
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The art objects shines at La Sultana ‘Marrakech’, sculptures, antiques, furnitures, paintings…, carefully put in display toamaze the eye. Over the years the private collection was enriched with paintings by famous Moroccan artists such as Gharbaoui, Louardiri, Denmati, Hassan El Glaoui, Mohamed Ben Allal... And Middle Eastern such us José-Cruz Herrera, Odette Bruno, Pontoy, Brunet Ouard...
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<p>The art objects shines at La Sultana ‘Marrakech’, sculptures, antiques, furnitures, paintings…, carefully put in display to<br />amaze the eye. Over the years the private collection was enriched with paintings by famous Moroccan artists such as Gharbaoui, Louardiri, Denmati, Hassan El Glaoui, Mohamed Ben Allal... And Middle Eastern such us José-Cruz Herrera, Odette Bruno, Pontoy, Brunet Ouard...</p>
<p>At La Sultana ‘Oualidia’ each art work and painting remind us of Gharbaoui, Saladi, Lala Gbouri, Regis-Dolène Bartholdi…</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/a-360-degree-view-of-the-terrace-12">A 360 degree view of the terrace</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 06-10-2014</a>
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A moment of joy we yearn forever!
Terraces in Marrakech are known for being special, but the sultana’s is fabulous.Encircled like a jewel within the ramparts of the medina, the sultana is topped by a 1500m 2 vast terrace. Like hanging gardens of Babylon, it stands with transcendent elegance.
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<p>A moment of joy we yearn forever!</p>
<p>Terraces in Marrakech are known for being special, but the sultana’s is fabulous.<br />Encircled like a jewel within the ramparts of the medina, the sultana is topped by a 1500m 2 vast terrace. Like hanging gardens of Babylon, it stands with transcendent elegance.</p>
<p>A world set apart, that owes most of its fame to the traditional and stylish look of the city, a real feast for the eyes!<br />Hard to keep a dazzled look amid flagrant bougainvillea blossoms?<br />On mother of pearl or shiny rubies? On the picturesque minarets whose glistening roofs are covered with glazed tiles, or on the legendary snow capped peaks of the high atlas mountain chain stretching into the horizon? On the Saadian tombs that are splendidly laid at the foot of an historical party wall?</p>
<p>The 360° view: outright luxury! Ephemeral sensations frozen in memory</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/the-grill-of-the-hanging-gardens-of-la-sultana-marrakech-13">The grill of the hanging gardens of La Sultana Marrakech</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 08-09-2014</a>
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Located in the historical centre of Marrakech, overlooking the famous Mosques of the Medina, The Grill of La Sultana is the ideal lunch spot to combine a visit of the imperial Kasbah district originally a citadel continually occupied by the Sultans of Morocco since the 12th century with local cuisine tasting & gourmet safaris.
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<p>Located in the historical centre of Marrakech, overlooking the famous Mosques of the Medina, The Grill of La Sultana is the ideal lunch spot to combine a visit of the imperial Kasbah district originally a citadel continually occupied by the Sultans of Morocco since the 12th century with local cuisine tasting & gourmet safaris.</p>
<p>The Grill (or charcoal barbecue) is part of the secular tradition of the Red City. At night, the Jemaa El Fna square turns into one of the world’s busiest open-air restaurants lit only by the light of the full moon and endless food stalls lights with smoke, steam and the smell of food everywhere.</p>
<p>The Kasbah Street, at the doorstep of the hotel, is also full of small food stalls where fires built in charcoal grills with fresh meats and vegetables are laid out for inspection.</p>
<p>La Sultana Marrakech «Grill of the hanging gardens» where food is prepared hot and fresh carries out this local tradition to offer at lunch time a charcoal barbecue restaurant on its rooftop terrace. The Grill is set around lush vegetation in the open-air, perfect to enjoy the view of the nearby Mosques and spot some White Storks in the blue sky.</p>
<p>The Grill menu offers various salads prepared on request, seafood freshly delivered from Oualidia, tasty meats, vegetables and fruits from the neighboring Ourika valley. Grilled meat on skewers? Served with local spices or natural?<br />Inspired by the Moroccan folklore, the skewers are served vertically on a specific display to amaze visitors. The home made french-fries are served in a clay pot imitating the original cones made from paper.</p>
<p>And under the shade, lunch continues in the magic atmosphere of La Sultana: Authentic, Unique and Confidential.<br /><br /></p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/when-craft-becomes-art-10">When craft becomes art</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 04-08-2014</a>
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The special atmosphere that emanates from La Sultana Hotels comes from the exceptional richness of the work of master craftsmen (mâalems) who works to embellish.
The gate, and which gate! The eye does not know where to stop throughout the dexterity of Moroccan craftsmen is expressed and well known for the tradition and legacy.
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<p>The special atmosphere that emanates from La Sultana Hotels comes from the exceptional richness of the work of master craftsmen (mâalems) who works to embellish.</p>
<p>The gate, and which gate! The eye does not know where to stop throughout the dexterity of Moroccan craftsmen is expressed and well known for the tradition and legacy.</p>
<p>Walls, ceilings, floors, stairs and banisters, windows, all are masterpieces of art.</p>
<p>We guess the talent of everyone’s work in brick, glorified as the time of the Almohads.<br />The cedar is beautifully developed, to impose its presence, chiselled piece to make air flowing.<br />The marble, full vein for columns, to reduce the strength of the stone, gypsum finely ground evokes the work of the meticulous bees. Zelliges, tadlakt, bejmat, coexist, succeed and respond.</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/where-luxury-meets-sustainability-16">Where luxury meets sustainability</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 02-06-2014</a>
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La Sultana is situated in the midst of a remarkable ecosystem, the lagoon of Oualidia. From its very inception, the hotel was planned to minimise impact on its fragile environment. It took vision, money and technical resources to achieve the result: a hotel which is unique in its environmental approach and 100% sustainable inits use of water.
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<p>La Sultana is situated in the midst of a remarkable ecosystem, the lagoon of Oualidia. From its very inception, the hotel was planned to minimise impact on its fragile environment. It took vision, money and technical resources to achieve the result: a hotel which is unique in its environmental approach and 100% sustainable in<br />its use of water.</p>
<p>From the outside, with its garden and buildings made from local stone, the hotel seems perfectly integrated with its surroundings. It imbues the place with a feeling of serenity and well-being.<br />But these are just the visible signs. Below ground runs a technical infrastructure consisting of miles of pipework. It is thanks to this that guests can enjoy five-star comfort with minimum strain on resources or damage to the environment.<br />All the water for La Sultana – from garden to hotel, from restaurants to swimming pools – is derived locally. Desalinated and filtered by osmosis, the water is soft and pure. It makes a shower or a dip in the hotel’s swimming pools a wonderfully sensuous experience.</p>
<p>Water for the swimming pools is treated by ionisation. It uses a process of electrolytic hydrolysis with a copper/silver cathode and anode. The copper prevents the build-up of algae while the silver helps eliminate bacteria.<br />It means that when the pools are drained for cleaning only pure, nonchlorinated water goes back into the lagoon.<br />A lot of time and effort went into finding a solution to recycling waste water. In the treatment area under the hotel, grey water from bathroom, shower and kitchen is degreased, oxygenated, homogenised and filtered.</p>
<p>This provides 40 cubic metres of water a day to irrigate the garden. Sewage water is recycled along underground conduits which use vegetation to break down bacteria. This age-old system, updated for modern needs, gives the garden nutrients to help it to flourish. The final part of the recycling process is evaporation, which takes place through the leaves of<br />the plants. 200 litres of water per day can be evaporated by a single mature eucalyptus tree.<br />Sea water from the lagoon, filtered and heated, is used for the jacuzzis.</p>
<p>Guests arriving at the hotel can bathe away their stresses and cares by plunging into a whirlpool of pure, warm ocean water while feeling the Atlantic breeze on their face.</p>
<p>We also thought carefully about heating and cooling systems for the hotel.Heating, air conditioning and dehumidifying are controlled by a waterto-water heat pump which takes water from the lagoon at 18 degrees centigrade in the winter and at 21 degrees in the summer months. The water is then distributed around the hotel as needed.</p>
<p>La Sultana Oualidia is at the forefront of revolutionary green technology. Using resources sustainably, it manages to ensure the comfort of its guests as well as the long-term welfare of the lagoon ecosystem.</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/in-the-pure-tradition-of-the-moroccan-cuisine-14">In the pure tradition of the moroccan cuisine</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 30-05-2014</a>
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La Sultana must develop with the same pomp the gastronomy and crafts of the Kingdom. Moroccan cuisine is an integral part of the legacy of past dynasties and as the craft has become art, traditional cuisine has become Gastronomy.
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<p>La Sultana must develop with the same pomp the gastronomy and crafts of the Kingdom. Moroccan cuisine is an integral part of the legacy of past dynasties and as the craft has become art, traditional cuisine has become Gastronomy.</p>
<p>This is what La Sultana introduces its guests, promoting, alongside international flavours, selected dishes that symbolize the ancestral culinary traditions of Morocco.<br />First the necessary freshness and flavour impose themselves in the careful selection of local produce.</p>
<p>Then is essential know-how of a Moroccan chef assisted by two “Marrakechiates” female cooks repeating the same maternal gestures learned in childhood.<br />Finally arriving on the table, according to your desire, dishes that delight the eyes and palate.</p>
<p>What to choose between Tangia «as before» Dada Brika and the roast?<br />But the lord of the table is the traditional couscous Ghanmi and its seven vegetables. Dish full of colours, flavours and generosity, emblem of the kitchen of the Moroccan people.</p>
<p>If the kitchen of a nation shows the degree of culture, Morocco is also on this point, a kingdom. La Sultana, in perfect ambassador, demonstrates with consummate skill.</p> </div>
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<h3> <a href="/article/lupita-nyong-o-famous-best-actress-oscar-winner-at-la-sultana-oualidia-17">Lupita Nyong’o, Famous Best Actress Oscar winner at La Sultana Oualidia</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 01-05-2014</a>
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Lupita Nyong’o, the Actress who recently won an Oscar for her performance in “Twelve Years a Slave” and was named as theWorld’s most beautiful woman 2014 by the magazine People, spent a few days at La Sultana Oualidia.
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<p>Lupita Nyong’o, the Actress who recently won an Oscar for her performance in “Twelve Years a Slave” and was named as the<br />World’s most beautiful woman 2014 by the magazine People, spent a few days at La Sultana Oualidia.</p>
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<h3> <a href="/article/quand-la-sultana-oualidia-joue-les-robinson-crusoe-15">Quand La Sultana Oualidia joue les Robinson Crusoë</a> </h3>
<a class="date" href="#"> 03-03-2014</a>
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With the giant eucalyptus as the pride of Oualidia park, La Sultana Concept has found a way of awakening childhooddreams lying deep within us: to sleep in a treehouse perched high in a tree.
La Sultana was bound to do it! This treehouse can be but one realization of the 1000 and 1 dreams La Sultana Signature has been striving to offer its guests.
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<p>With the giant eucalyptus as the pride of Oualidia park, La Sultana Concept has found a way of awakening childhood<br />dreams lying deep within us: to sleep in a treehouse perched high in a tree.</p>
<p>La Sultana was bound to do it! This treehouse can be but one realization of the 1000 and 1 dreams La Sultana Signature has been striving to offer its guests.</p>
<p>Climb up rustic yet comfortable steps and open the door to a vast treehouse hidden among thick and fragrant foliage, in a world suspended in the air. The wooden space is an allegory to nature, where all the elements play together. One of the tree’s main branches penetrates the room. Through a large glass window spanning one wall, the entire horizon can be admired. This is a hymn to greenery, the earth, stone, sand, water and air. The landscape changes as the sun moves in the sky and the tides come and go. The room leads to a spacious terrace, where a sea-water jacuzzi awaits you for a bath where you are surrounded by nature. Dream or Reality?</p> </div>
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