Tangier, Morocco Travel Blogs

To Tangier, formerly known as City of Pedophilia
Jul 16, 2004

... , with a small, centrally-located and picturesque casbah, which we, of course, rocked. Our last stop before leaving Morocco was a night in Tangier, a city known for many years as a kind of "anything goes" naughtiness. It boasted a huge industry of ...

The green hills of Africa (and the dirt of Tanger)
Apr 22, 2007 (10 photos)

(S) I think we're both still trying to collect our thoughts on Morocco - or at least I am. More later. Enjoy the pics. (C) This story has to be told, though.  We landed at port and weaved our way through the guides (who officially don't exist ...

Roaming Morocco
Jul 14, 2004 (6 photos)

... was happening slowly enough that you really had to watch closely to see it happening. Why Didn't We enter Morocco Here? (Tangier) Somehow I think that we were extremely misled when we decided to enter Morocco through Melilla. Tangier is probably the ...

mi vida en el sol
Apr 13, 2004 (5 photos)

Yo estoy en Espana! (I put for the update that I'm in Tangier, Morocco, 'cuz that sounds cool...more on that later.) On Saturday (April 10) my alarm was supposed to wake me at 5:30am, but never went off. Luckily, I woke up at 5:53am and looked at my ...

Side-trek to Tangiers
Jul 15, 2007 (21 photos)

... or Fez and Marrakesh. A return visit for those one day I reckon - even Karen is talking about a holiday to Morocco sometime soon! Epilogue: apart from a long queue as hundreds of non-EU visitors surged the immigration counter, Alex experienced no ...

Boo Hoo, Last Day in Morocco
Oct 2, 2004 (4 photos)

... . We really want to come back here to explore the Sahara desert and more of the Atlas because we have just scratched the surface! Morocco is on the top of our list of favorites! Love to all and we hope that everyone is well, Don and Jo Ann P.S. ...

Beginning our Morocco adventure
Sep 23, 2005 (4 photos)

... to our busabout pass. Our adventure began when our bus from Granada arrived at Algeciras the embarkation point for the ferries to Tangier in Morocco. On the 3 hour ferry trip we met up with Bronwyn another Aussie who was to be on our tour and was arriving ...

Rembrandt Hotel, Tangier
Sep 30, 2006

... ; Given that there are hardly any Puntos around here, I suppose that the Palio fills that niche in the Fiat range here in Morocco.  The "Weekend" would have been sold in France because an estate version of the Punto was never made (to my knowledge).& ...

Tangier
Apr 15, 2008

The proverbial arsehole of the world. Stayed one night and that was one night too long.

Tangier
Feb 20, 2007

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Tangier
Apr 6, 2007

The train station at Tangier was really nice and probably he best one in morocco at the moment. We walked over to the taxi rank and a grand taxi driver beckoned us over as he already had three american lads in his car who he was taking to the port. We ...

From Europe to Africa - a rainy day in Tangier
Nov 1, 2008 (7 photos)

... After organizing (and drying out a bit) at the hotel, they started with their first plunge into an Arabic souk at Tangier's Grand Socco (of course, with the rain pouring).  So many tiny little shops selling all sorts of strange items... the girls ...

travelling days
Aug 2, 2008 (8 photos)

... called Seville, and then Friday another bus to Tarifa, but i wont go into much detail about these places as i head back there after Morocco. Seville was incredibly hot, over 40 degrees, and i shared a taxi to the hostel with 2 other girls that i had met on ...

Christmas Break Part 1 - Travel and New Years Eve
Jan 9, 2009 (19 photos)

... , at which point I promptly fell asleep. When the girls got back, they announced that they had scheduled a day trip for us to Tangier, Morocco for the next day (New Years Eve). We hung out, caught up with each other, and pretended we were going to go to ...

Chez Ramdane
Mar 13, 2009 (2 photos)

... to prayer as it echos through every neighborhood in the city. We left Paris at 5am on Thursday and took a cheap flight to Tangier. My friends who live between Tangier and Paris were also on the plane with us. Upon arrival Ramdane took care of everything, ...

Hello My Friend, How Are You?
May 21, 2005 (3 photos)

5/21 - Hello My Friend How Are You? So I've figured it out. Whe na Morrocan in Tangier asks "How are you today, my friend?" he wants me to buy hash. When he asks "Where are you going?" he wants to be my guide. I love the order of operations. It goes ...

What a journey...
Aug 27, 2009 (1 photos)

getting the ferry was easy, however even though you can see Morocco from Algeciras, the 90min ferry took three hours (still not sure why?). The Moroccans seemed very relaxed about it all...on into Tangier. Pickin gup the next car was easy. The touts at ...

a f r i c a
Nov 23, 2006 (5 photos)

... on the street in tangier and we locked our bikes inside the hotel. so off we went to find food with squashed hopes of falafel. tangier... what can you say- it's a must see, it is famous, it is difficult, it is interesting. not a place to visit ...

How bout we go to Morocco?
Apr 27, 2006 (5 photos)

... awkwardly spinning wind turbines, onto the fairly seedy, nondescript port town of Algeciras. Buying tickets for the 3pm ferry to Tangier, Morocco, we were thrilled to wait an additional 2 hours before the hulking-ass ferry reversed out of the port, past ...

Not in Paris
Jun 5, 2007 (11 photos)

... yelled after us asking where we were from.  One such guy yelled "The Doors?  Jim Morrison is alive and living in Morocco!"  To this Sneeze broke the no-English rule and protested, "But I've been to his gravesite in Paris!"     ...

Weekend Excursion to Morocco
May 13, 2009

More to come

Morocco - days 13 to 15
Aug 16, 2008 (15 photos)

... we found out that they were just guard dogs and they kept the cats away. A little bit random but hey, thats Morocco!   Saturday 16th - Tangier Packing up was pretty easy as we didnt have to worry about tents, and we were firstly driven back to the ...

Can we please leave now?
Oct 1, 2005 (5 photos)

... ).So, eventually we got to the bus station at 2pm to find two rickety, dirty, old-school buses. The first one had a TANGIER sign on the windscreen, so we walked around the side to put our bags in the luggage compartment, which unforuntalely didn´t have much ...

Rocking the Kasbah in Morocco
Jun 24, 2007

... were taking the same ferry, so we walked to the port with them and hopped on the Tangier Jet. After 35 minutes we reached Tangier, Morocco, only about 14km from Tarifa across the Gibraltar Strait. So it was time to say our goodbyes to the guys and join our ...

Tanger
Jan 6, 2008 (4 photos)

Arrivée à Tanger au petit matin sous un ciel pluvieux. Les formalités de police et de douane ont été faites à bord donc sortie très rapide car Big Toy était en première ligne, fougueux comme il est!!!

Going to Africa for Lunch
Aug 24, 2008 (10 photos)

... .  I would now be reprimanded for this violation.  I asked Muhammad in what language I should speak.  Morocco, after all, is a multilingual country with Arabic the main language of the street, French an official language and a colonial ...

Tanger
Jan 25, 2008

will get details soon

More Tangier
Mar 16, 2009 (5 photos)

... and  strawberries crushed with almond and neroli, we piled into the car and headed into the Moroccan night. The centre of Tangier is fairly small and compact but people who have cars here don't really like to walk. We went to three different places ...

Our first taste of Morocco
Nov 2, 2006 (12 photos)

... sell alcohol and it pretty much cant be bought in stores in Tangier. We found one of only a few that had beer. So far Morocco looks like a lot of fun and is much much cheaper than Spain. Accomodation the first night was only 3 euro, and you can eat at ...

Tangier
May 21, 2005 (3 photos)

... powder on his forehead and procedes to snort it. My anxiety meter started to raise. All those things I had read about Tangier being a seedy, dirty, drug invested, prostitute haven, annoying hassle zone, were coming true. The road he pulled down had a ...