III · Experiences

One day, no schedule.

There is no programme you must follow. These are the hours of the day as the valley lives them, and you choose any of them, or none.

A guide in a thobe and shemagh leads two guests through a narrow sandstone canyon

Heritage walks, breakfast and dinner includedThe rest is arranged with your host

i A day at Ghasaq

From first light to the last star.

06:10
Sunrise
A short climb to the mesa, with coffee waiting.
Twenty minutes on a marked path, then the sun rises over the whole valley at once.
45 minIncluded
08:30
Breakfast
A slow breakfast on a shaded terrace.
Farm dates, bread from the clay oven, labneh and valley honey, served in your villa or wherever you like.
About dining
10:00
The farms
A morning with the families who grow your food.
A visit to one of our three farms: the palms, the old irrigation channels, and a simple lunch in the shade.
Tuesdays and Saturdays3 hours
13:00
The quiet hours
The valley sleeps at midday. Do the same.
The pool, the library, the cool earth walls. We arrange nothing in these hours, on purpose.
15:00
Craft
An hour at the loom with a Sadu weaver.
Learn a knot or a pattern and take home a small piece you made, or buy one directly from the weaver.
Read about Sadu
16:30
Heritage walks
Walk the old routes with someone whose family never left.
Rock inscriptions, the wells caravans relied on and the plants grandmothers healed with, at walking pace, with tea.
The walk in detail
18:00
Wellness
A warm pool in the rock as the light turns rose.
Date-seed scrubs, desert rose, frankincense and clay from the wadi. The grotto is yours alone for your session.
60 to 120 minBy appointment
19:45
Dinner
The table moves to wherever the evening is best.
No menu, only a conversation with the chef about what came from the farms today.
About dining
21:30
Stargazing
The last room opens: the sky.
The telescope terrace with our resident astronomer, then stories of the stars by their Arabic names.
The night in detail
23:00
The fire
Cardamom coffee on your roof, and silence.
Your host lights the fire and leaves the dallah close by. After that, the night is yours.