Movenpick Hotel & Casino Tangier

We made the trip to Morocco on 29 November by taking the bus from Nerja to Algecerias, Spain and then catching the fast ferry to Tangier, Morocco. The weather was rainy and cool which made the bus trip rather uneventful except for the fact that the bus's windshield wipers didn’t work; the bus driver felt it was more important to stay on sc...

Milli says:

We were up very
early to make sure we made our train so we could organise places to stay once
we got there. Though dads snoring had meant we had been awake on and off for
hours. Joy. One of the guys in our riad kindly woke up with us and made us a
really good breakfast o...

Africa, we are here!  We took a 4 hour bus ride to Tarifa from Seville thinking we were taking the fast express ferry across to Morocco.  We soon figured out that the 35 min ride was actually more like 50 min, and because it was delayed by 30 minutes we arrived later than expected. Our stay in Tangier was quite uneventful and short.  Tangier is ...

Buenas Amigos Mios, Hey guys, just thought I would give you a follow up on our trip to Marruecos (Morocco). Wow, talk about one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life! You can´t even imagine how people live there! The poverty was just crazy. It was so sad at times to see some of the kids or those who were living on the streets in the Med...

Our last day was spent in Tangier, Africa, an old busy trading port on the northern coast of Morocco. We woke early, took a bus to Algeciras, Spain and then a ferry across the Straits of Gibraltar, thus crossing two international borders to reach the promised land, a country that still has a decent sized Jewish population and good shopping. The ...

Abdul's tour into the Medina or old walled city of Tangier was probably the most intimidating and interesting part of the trip for the girls. We get out of the mini-bus and go on foot for a sensory overload. Abdul is the voice of social consciousness and Morrocan tolerance. I get a chuckle as he needs to point out every modernism and sign of rel...

That line from Josh Ritter's lovely folk song 'Idaho' seemed to be on continuous repeat along route to the city of Tangier. I showed up 15 minutes early at the train station anxious to put some distance between me and the city of Fes. It had been weeks since I'd been out of town, and was starting to feel it. Kyle and Emily appeared right on time...

Asilah, a small coastal town about 30 miles south of Tangier, was our first stop in Morocco for an afternoon of touring at our leisure and a night at a beachside campground. Asilah's medina (walled old city) of shimmering white houses with blue wooden doors and stone trim looks almost like a movie set, all sanitized and gentrified by wealthy sec...

There's too much to say about our first day in Morocco. We arrived via an hour long ferry from Tarifa and found a basic hotel with the help of a tout. Although initially skeptical, and after surveying other lodgings, we decided to go with the place he was recommending. We were reminded a lot of China in the level of poverty and pollution althoug...

Tanger, Morocco.  We made it.  Now in Africa with another new keyboard set-up (AZERTY), so this may take longer to write than for you to read. The day before yesterday made the 24 hour trip from the hostel in Barca to a hostel in Tanger.  Tanger did not endear itself to us.  We should have known it may not be the best way to enter Africa when ou...