Hercules Cave (Grottes d'Hercules) Tangier

Within four hours we had left the beautiful town of Chefchaouen and the Rif mountains. As the local bus pulled into the bus station..Tangier did not give me a feeling of wanting to be explored. It was busy in a typical modern way with people rushing everywhere - a typical port town that has seen huge developments in the last few years. What I was …

Taking advantage of Spain's proximity to north Africa we took a short trip out from Granada to Tangier, Morocco. We didn't actually spend the night in Tangier, but rather stayed in Tarifa, Spain and took a day trip across the Strait of Gibraltar. We expected Tarifa to just be a place to crash after and before heading out to Tangier but discovered …

... of various feed and branches, and we immediately felt like it was a step back in time.  En route, we stopped at the Hercules Cave, which goes right up to the ocean.  We also saw some camels, and the kids were so excited.  After that, we ...

... opportunity wore us thin and tested our patience. ~Took a tour of town and saw where the Atlantic and Mediterranean meet, Hercules' cave, old part of town (medina). Was taken to various shops, of course to be convinced to buy something--carpets, ...

... Mohammed V Avenue I also wanted to share a video of a man we visited yesterday in the kasbah, making bread the old-fashioned way. You can view it on blip.tv. http://nfls.blip.tv/#2050145 Very cool ! We also did the souks and visited Hercules ...

... back on the bus to travel to our next hotel.  On the way though we made a few pit stops, one to look at Hercules Cave and the other to ride CAMELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Riding the camels was the BEST five seconds of my life!!!! And of course it ...

... my face.. Many minutes passed until my face looked normal and then it was off to the bus to head towards Tangier. The first stop was Hercules Cave which the story behind it is that Hercules had to seperate Africa from Spain and the opening that the cave ...

... Of course he stood up in the end with the owner's order, but oh, poor guy...  The next stop was at the Hercules Cave. This cave has the openings on both land side and the sea side. The legend said that Hercules stayed and slept here. Anyway, inside ...

... the hotel to collect our bags, we took a taxi to the airport.  Along the way we had the taxi driver stop at Hercules' Cave which is supposedly where Hercules created the Straight of Gibraltar and which has an opening which looks like a map of Africa ...