New Year’s Eve in Moroccan surf camp sounds like a heck of a plan, especially when everybody wants to celebrate the end of the year with a bang.

Original Surf Morocco offers a big bang for the New Year’s celebration, a two-day event full of fun activities and Moroccan traditions for the New Year’s Eve.

In this post, you’ll find how our guests spent the last couple of days of 2024. It was a wonderful fusion of emotions, adventures, good laughs, and happy moments.

 

The First Day of New Year’s Eve in Moroccan Surf Camp

Breakfast with a Panoramic View

 

 

The morning began with a homemade Moroccan-style breakfast that included Moroccan mint tea, steamed milk, black coffee, and orange juice for drinks. Our primary staple is bread, and American pancakes were also served. Omelette, charcuterie, and salads were the main dishes alongside Amlou—our guests’ favorite, an almond paste made out of honey and Argan oil. Honey, jam, and cheese were presented as complementary.

The guests enjoyed breakfast at our beautiful panoramic terrace overlooking the whole of Tamraght village and left countless flattering comments for the chef.

After breakfast, the preparations begin, and during this time our surf camp feels like a beehive. Everyone gets so busy. From picking up personal wetsuits to filling up filtered water, strapping boards, and getting in the vans to head to where suitable waves are.

A Trip To Imsouane, A Magical Destination

 

After breakfast, we made the choice of visiting Imsouane.

Imsouane is an exotic, pristine fishing village located north of Taghazout that captures the essence of the local culture, laid-back atmosphere, friendly and down-to-earth locals, and pure love of the sea and its crashing waves. The small town is famous for its tiny harbor, fresh seafood, golden sunlight, and endless waves. It is a charming village where you lose the sense of time, and you feel the magical vibes of the place in the air. It’s the epitome of a surfer’s haven.

Beware once you go there, you may never want to come back. a few people never do.

 

 

A complete travel guide to Imsouane is in this blog where the authors capture the magical vibe that fuels the place.

Once we arrived at the town, we quickly unpacked our boards and got in our tight wetsuits, and jogged for 10 minutes as a warmup exercise. We had dogs as our jogging companions and the sounds of squawking seagulls as our morning run playlist!

After the warm-up and stretching, we practiced paddling out and balancing, then hit the waves.

 

 

 

The weather was perfect, the temperature was a solid 25 degrees Celsius, but the water was a bit chilly. The waves were good suitable for both beginners and intermediate surfers. Imsouane village is known for being the home of the longest waves in Morocco.

Lunch at a Local Fish Restaurant

When you have this much fun on the beach, hunger hits you harder than a 6-foot-tall crashing wave.

When you’re in an authentic fishing village, fish for lunch is the obvious and the best option. And we did it in style, we had lunch in a restaurant that overlooked the rocky shores of the town providing a breath-taking view of the port, where fishermen sail their boats on and off the bay in hopes of a full fishing creel. Some were sad with their catch while others were wearing the brightest smiles grateful for their fishing luck.

 

 

 

After lunch, we walked to a small coffee kiosk, we grabbed a few cups and explored the town barefoot but coffee at hand.

 

Celebrating The New Year’s Eve in Moroccan Surf Camp: From Waves To Sand Surfing

After exploring the charming streets of Imsouane, we set off on a joyful drive to Timlaline Dunes, a stunning oasis at Tamri where the desert meets the ocean in a breathtaking fusion of golden sands and turquoise waves.

 

 

This place looks out of One Thousand and One Nights. It’s a sight to behold. It’s where the desert meets the ocean. Amazing golden dunes with an even more amazing sunset. Before catching the sunset, we have other plans, not surfing waves but surfing those golden dunes. We sand-surfed, faceplanted a few times, and brushed the sand off our bodies.

 

Back To Tamraght Village

 

 

We changed to the our evening outfit and gathered around the dinner table for some succulent and delicious beef Cousous. After dinner, we were on the hunt for some street food. We ended our evening by munching on French crepes and sipping our dairies (Raib), while strolling down the corniche.

This was a wrap for how our first day at the New Year’s Eve in a Moroccan surf camp from the point of view of our guests.

The Second Day of New Year’s Eve in Moroccan Surf Camp

 

 

The next day, breakfast was as amazing as it was day before. We substituted the American pancakes with the Moroccan ones (we call them beghrir), the omelette with traditional homemade blend of eggs and tomato, and orange juice with avocado and cucumber juice.

Morning at The Souk

After breakfast. we went to one the biggest traditional market (souk) not only in Morocco but also in Africa. It’s the old blending with the new. Souvenirs, traditional garments, leather goods, you name you can find it here. Some bought souvenirs for their closed ones, others bought something for themselves, and the rest explored the charms of the souk.

Afternoon at The Beach

For the afternoon, we made way to Devil’s Rock Beach nearby our surf camp to surf and chill. The moment we got our feet in the sand some of our excited surfers ran for the attractive waves, while others chose to chill and played some laid-back volley ball but then everyone wanted to end the year surfing through the last sunset of the year.

When the sun began to dip in the ocean for the last time in 2024, we gathered around a bonfire, wrote our new year’s wishes or something we wanted to leave behind in small notes, and threw them in the fire while watching the embers ascending our desires to the crimson sky.

 

As it began to be filled with stars, we headed back to the surf camp for the big night.

Celebration of New Year’s Eve in Moroccan Surf Camp

With a body full of sand and hair full of salty waters, we hit the showers and changed to our night outfits. We gathered around the rooftop terrace and waited for dinner to be served.

The dinner was a feast, fish tagine was made, Soussy-style (Souss is the region where the city of Agadir is located), with those wonderful native-to-the-region spices while using organic regionally-grown vegetables.

After dinner, there was a band waiting for us in the terrace, Gnawa band to be exact. Gnawa is a Moroccan-native traditional genre of music that has deep roots in West Africa and Sub-Saharan countries. This folklore music is known for repeating a few lines over and over for a long period of time to create a sort of a trance atmosphere.

We let the music fills the air, joined in the band in the terrace, and danced the night away, we kept dancing till the sun light stated seeping through the fabric of the sky.

Seeing those few first sun rays, made us realize how tired we were but how fun we entered the new year, and we hoped that the feeling extended for the year around.

New Year’s Eve in our Moroccan surf camp is a tale of a couple of magical days that were etched in the memories of everyone’s around.

If you want to have similar experiences, head to our booking page now and select which package meets your need.

Even though the New Year is behind us, we are always on the lookout for the biggest waves to catch and we are organising incredible excursions all the time.