Tarifa Hotel & Complex Tangier

... resolved to work<br>******* our Spanish back home. <br><br>Upon going back<br>to our hotel we saw a tiny shop front selling one thing. Spanish donuts which<br>were round rather than long that we know from Vic market. This place was next<br>door to our hotel and we subsequently found our new addiction. <br><br>They were<br>delicious and we ate them morning noon and night during our stay in Tangier&#8230;possibly<br>developing another roll on our bellies entirely from them&#8230;quite likely ...

... walk through the bazaar. Incredible. So much old history, magic, style, culture. A complete overload, though of course we ended up in the inevitable Arabian Carpet shop. People trying to sell you **** on the street got a bit wearing, but its their livelihood I guess.<br>We ended up at an old hotel overlooking the bay and was told to go to the toilet if we needed. I took a look around the hotel for a while, then went out side and my group was GONE!<br>Er, this isn't right ...

... mint tea is claimed to be good for. On the way back to town we looked at the Atlantic rollers where the young king of Morocco, an absolute monarch of whom it appears everyone is very proud, uses a jet ski in the summer when the ocean has warmed up a touch. A few of our brave souls rode some very gentle camels round a small circle to the cheers of the rest of us. So back to our 5 star hotel, El Minzah. Looks like it may be surviving on the ...

... we did even though the driver said it is a bit expensive...he was right. So we gave in and let him take us to the place he recommended (aka was given a commission by). It ended up being 1/3 the price of the hotel we found online and was still cleaner than most places we've stayed, sometimes the taxi drivers aren't trying to rip you off... We imagined morocco would be a unique place, visions of whitewashed houses, head covered ...

... while the shop owner tried his best to sell me a rug for a measly 200 euros. He wasn't phased in the slightest when I laughed at him, took 3 euros out of my pocket and said thats all the money I had (which as true). My young guide turned up again and brought me back to the main group, who by this time had bought quite alot of presents for the folks back home, costing frig knows how much, and if they paid by credit card then it's ...

... We think we are ready for Morocco and the hustlers after time spent in South America and this is our next step towards India.We hailed one of the older style Mercedes taxis and get in the car after we do a deal with the driver for 10 dirham. After the backpacks are in his trunk he turns to us and says we must pay him 100 dirham instead of the agreed 10. He tries to be stern with us thinking we are fresh off the boat from Spain. We refuse and try to get ...

... although I do have half a litre of water and a hat (and gloves and a light jacket). I follow a well-defined track for some time then climb a very steep zig-zag path to a pass from where I have a great view into the next valley which has a beautiful lake far below. However there are much higher mountains all around and I don't know which one is Toubkal. I spend the next 2-3 hours climbing a huge rocky outcrop above me then descending down treacherous scree slopes and ...

... Isham, qui était content qu'on vienne en vélo sans polluer son pays, mais "faites attention de ne pas polluer les esprits", les femmes sans voile ça va, mais les femmes sont des femmes: Amélie, tellement souriante au milieu de tout ça, qui entretient la conversation avec flamme "On dit comment "On dit comment" en arabe ?". Dormir dans un édifice en construction où le gardien nous aide à squatter, parce qu'il y a des femmes et des ...

... in Arabic which was a new experience. Cokes in Morocco and Europe are typically still served in glass bottles. After lunch our first stop was a Moroccan rug store where they sell rugs handmade by women from all over the country. Apparently it´s a woman´s activity that allows her to watch the kids while still contributing financially to the family. In rural Morocco not much has changed over the centuries regarding gender roles. The rug store owner showed us the ...

... saying no, to ignoring them to telling them that whatever they had was ugly... they still didn't get the picture. I have no room for any more souvenirs and I'm on a strict budget! We had one final stop but I can't remember where now, because I was so sick of being hassled that I just wanted to find the damn ferry and leave. So when we stopped at this place, I didn't want to go in (we weren't under any obligation to watch any of the demos) but the street vendors were so bad that ...