Le Jardin Secret

This guide to Le Jardin Secret in Marrakesh follows the walled estate through the officials who shaped it: the court official U-Bihi, who laid it out over an older Saadian garden in the 1850s and died suddenly and mysteriously soon after, and the chamberlain Loukrissi, who gave the pavilions and gardens their present form before his death in 1934. You'll hear how the estate then sat abandoned for decades, and about the centuries-old khettara tunnel that carries water into it from the Atlas Mountains. Trace the line of that water as it splits the beds at your feet.