Le Mirage Tangier

... br>plus drive through countryside towns. We were overjoyed to get to Myknes and<br>picked a room too quickly but didn&#8217;t care about the price. An art deco hotel<br>mentioned in Lonely Planet as cheap, it had since become famous and busy it<br>seemed so the prices were up though the beds remained lumpy. <br><br>We wandered<br>around for the early evening, nice in the modern part of town but we didn&#8217;t<br>make it to the old town as we couldn&#8217;t face the hard sellers. We had ...

... to try and find food. This time there were a few little shops open selling basics and some fresh bread. We finally got a decent baguette! <br><br>We headed out again at about 7:30 to check out things at night. Dead town again. The shops were closed again. We walked along the beach, sat on some rocks and watched hundreds of rats fossick through the masses of rubbish lying around on the sand. The sun set. That was pretty. We looked longingly at the ...

... light drizzle and strong wind with a temperature more like a cool Christchurch autumn than the top of Africa, we in some trepidation approached the ferry. First we had the slow, laborious passport checks then 30 minutes out in the rain and wind while the cars on the incoming ferry drove off. Anxiously looking seaward we grabbed seats where we could see the horizon. The prevailing wisdom was that you don't feel crook if you focus on the horizon and not the ...

Setting foot on African soil means I´ve been on all 6 continents before the age of 30. :-) Actually, El Capitàn too. I had a very strange couple of days in Tangiers, and to be honest, I didn´t really like it. I hope someday to see the "real" Morocco; Marrakech, Fez, Casablanca, but Tangiers was a disappointment. I booked a deal with a local travel company that gave me return tickets on the ferry and a night in a hotel. It all ...

... franciscanos, nao quis deixa-la entregue a propria sorte como o individuo que e convidado a comer e mal acaba levanta-se e da o gas. Era no Pequeno Socco, mesmo ao lado do Porto. A minha primeira Medina, adorei. Logo à chegada, a invasao dos primeiros prestadores de serviços. Todos têm alguma coisa para oferecer, entre visita guiada, à chocolate de fumar, a carro para alugar, restaurante mais barato, as vezes parecem tao desesperados que estariam ...

... gallery with rotating exhibits, and there are several artistic cooperatives where the women themselves sell their own handicrafts (instead of being exploited by middlemen who jack up the prices but don't give the artists their fair cut). Add to that that the lovely and compact medina looks out over the water, and you have a pretty good combination of positive things. While I was here in Tangier, I met up with some lovely ...

... Sea was not rough at all, so it was a very smooth ride!! The sun glistened off of the water, until it went down behind the mountains and became dark. Shortly after, only 40 minutes on the ferry, we arrived in Ceuta, Spain, the port in Africa. Yes, Spain, because there are 2 points in northern Africa that are Spanish territory. After getting off the boat, the group gathered and we got on a bus to Tetouan, Morocco, about an hour and a half drive from ...

... 45am. Our English-speaking group had Ali as a tour guide and Mohammed as our bus driver (Ali had to make the obligatory Muhammad Ali joke). I figure they are stage names to add character to our trip while their real names are probably George and Harry. Immediately upon leaving the port you are greeted with lots of signs everywhere for Expo 2012 which Tangier will be hosting (it´s Tanger in Spanish). Resorts are being built and we saw Morocco´s first golf course ...

... list... well he lived in Morocco until he died). We didn't stop at all and it was pretty hard to get photos as your zooming past houses... oh well. Outside the city (it was bigger than I imagined it would be) we stopped at some Berger camel guys whose sole source of income is grabbing tourists and putting them on their camels. It was free to take photos of the camels but if you wanted to sit on one, then it cost a whole Euro... I figured I could afford it. It was fun.. even ...

... visiting the casbah, the midera, the markets, and a<br><br>free lunch. I have to say, the lunch was probably the best food I´ve<br><br>eaten since I´ve left the states... Some kind of soup, curry chicken<br><br>and cous cous, some kind of shishkabobbed-beef (which was amazing) and<br><br>then a honey pastry with mint tea.....it was unbelievable...<br><br>Then<br><br>we got to do some shopping....yeah, scary...men ...