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Tangier Slideshow
Tangier
Travel Blogs from Tangier, Morocco
Tangier: the beginning of his journey
Santiago arrives in Tangier with an open mind. Immediately after he arrives the omens begin to guide his path. When the thief takes all of his money he feels sad and hopeless, but as the king said Urim and Thummim helped Santiago read the omen. They ...
Moving along in Morocco
... saves the day, and we take another look around our surroundings, but this time we headed across the strait of Gibraltar to Tangier, Morocco. Des, our Scottish pal went to England yesterday, so this time, we brought Oleg, a pal from Turkmenistan and ...
No Reservations Tangier
... food and people. Awesome, right? For the free long weekend from June 10-13, a group and I traveled to Tangier, Morocco. Although it's supposedly more Westernized and more modernized than the rest of Morocco, we discovered that the city was very ...
Morocco!!
... and got a picture with one of the females who didn’t know they were getting photographed. Apparently this is not allowed in Morocco, because the woman started yelling at Sara and even picked up an egg to throw at her. For some reason though we were ...
Tanger
The ferry crossing was relatively calm, with gorgeous views of Spain and Gibralter behind us and Africa ahead of us, and getting ever larger. After waiting ages to get off the boat we passed through customs without too much hassle, changed some ...
Travels of a tangerine.
... The Road" I have at last got around to labouring through and which is languishing in dog eared dishevelment on my nightstand. I searched Tangier's medina under a cobalt sky for the signs of degeneracy I had half been expecting, and sadly found none. A few ...
Bestest night train in all of Morocco
... km's on an almost-wild goosechase to find email) and caught a very pleasantly clean and comfy sleeper night train back up to tangier. there we said our sisterly goodbyes as shawna headed back to colorado via london and i started off on my next ...
Marrakech, errr... make that - CHEFCHAOEN!!!
... O.K. Needless to say it will be difficult to peck so will try to be brief. Actually I should entitle this 1st entry from Morocco: CHEFCHEOUN: Moroccan Nivana! No, no you say - I was suppose to start in Marrakech, yes? Uh, nope. Fast ...
Tangier
... a good amount of that was following out tour guide through the medina (which looks like every other medina in Morocco) and eating lunch. That said, Tangier, as a city with so much history, seems like a town I would really enjoy spending a few days ...
A weekend away
Hello from sunny Tangier! I'd heard a lot about this place before coming here, and most of the reports I'd gotten indicated that Tangier was seedy and that there wasn't much to it. Happily, I've discovered that the reports are wrong. Tangier does have a ...
Escape to Africa
One cold, dark winter in London, I escaped to north Africa via Spain. Once again guardian angels walked with me. I stepped off the bus in Tangiers and met two young men who offered to be my guides. I was safe in their hands and saw the ...
Aug 12, 2008
Tangier, Morocco and back to the Madrid airport
... for it. BUT, it was interesting nonetheless and a worthwhile experience. Now for the icky part. We got off the boat late because it left Morocco late and had to sort of rush to get me to Malaga (in Spain) to catch my train to Madrid. So, I got there ...
TANGIER (Tanjah)- The Other TJ
... ; It’s a nice ride across the Strait of Gibraltar, views of Spain gradually giving way to views of Morocco. By the time we finally pull into to Tangier it’s starting to get dark. So let us off the boat already. We ...
Rock the Kasbah (Kasda)
We left on the 9:00 ferry from Tarifa, Spain to Tangier, Morocco. It says on the side of the huge ferry 'Tarifa-Tangier 35 minutes. Apparantly that is Spain/Moroccon time because it was nearly 2 hours before we got off the boat. Part of ...
Apr 22, 2009
Rock the Kasbah!
... ; To start our Moroccan adventure we crossed the Strait of Gibraltar by ferry boat (3 hours) from Algeciras, Spain to Tangier. Immediately upon our arrival we were hounded by several guides of the official and "faux" nature. Each ...
Tangiers Day 2
... easy prey as i just got off with my luggage and didnt know my way around i think tangiers is ok for a day trip but come with somebody else i will still do the rest of morocco marrkesh, menkes, fes, casablanca but with an organized tour group not by myself ...
Cruising through the Strait of Gibraltar
... of water that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. Around 9:30 PM we could see Spain on the port side and Tangers, Morocco on the starboard side of the ship. I wanted to swim to shore, but it was farther than it looked. We ...
Tangier taxi guantlet
... caught in the act, so it was all over the news again), tried so hard not to think of the bmobings that had happened in Morocco a couple of years ago, tried so hard not to be scared, tried so hard not to stereotype. But it happened--he got more intense, ...
'Play it again, Sam!'
... feel are much more necessary. Tangier was quite different to the other cities I'd visited in Morocco. Ultimately, all had predominantly ochre buildings, whereas Tangier was all whitewashed and no ochre at all. The medina was whitewashed too, ...
Day 14: Seville-->Bus/Ferry/Taxi/Train/Taxi-->Casa
As expected for getting to bed at 6:30am, it was a brutal 7:45am wake up call. Our stuff was pretty much packed anyway, and checking out and getting a cab were fairly painless. We already had our bus tickets in hand, so it was a question of ...
An Englishman in Tangier (an Einsteinian moment)
... an official looking building, I hoped that I had escaped the crazy part of town and was now able to explore the romantic Tangier of my imagination: beatniks, artists, hippies, and poets, of all nationalities chilling in the cool shade of a riad, perched ...
Rockin' the Casbah
... , it seems to me, that the past is largely fictitious; to be aware of it one must have previous knowledge of it. In Tangier the past is a physical reality as perceptible as the sunlight." – Paul Bowles I couldn't agree more with Mr. Bowles. We ...