Chefchaouen Hotel

... touring Spain, Portugal, and Morocco for 4 months. There will be port, crazy architecture, horseriding, trainhotels (how do you fit a hotel on a train?), camels, a town called El Keba, catching up with family and no doubt a lot else. Oh and there is a ...

... . We get to Chefchaouen and go directly to the hotel (one of the friends that's with us has already stayed there). The hotel is OK, clean. Chefchaouen is a very beautiful town. When you see it from the top (there's a hotel at the top where you get ...

... long journey to the mountain side town of Chefchaouen. On the bus, we learn that they do speak Spanish and English in Chefchaouen, so we all felt relieved that we would no longer struggle to communicate with the shop owners and with other people in the ...

... on the trip after the disaster of Marrakech.  We just wanted to be on our own in a less-touristy place.  Chefchaouen was a good choice.  The only problems we had were related to weather and my terrible hayfever issues.  We even ...

Chaouen (or Chefchaouen) is a nice a calm little town. During the morning we visited some plantations nearby, and the rest of the day we took to simply stay at the hotel during the hot hours (13-17h) and then we went around  the town, it is really ...

... : ...(utterly miraculously!) I met THE most angelic Spanish woman at the airport in Tangier - who just HAPPENED to also be headed to Chefchaouen.  She's been there many times and adores it.  So... we were able to share 3 taxis to get here, and ...

... religion, their traditions and culture. The next day I decided to go for a walk and started climbing the mountains behind Chefchaouen. Just following goat trails, I found an even higher valley with a narrow gravel road running up the middle. I wasn't ...

... for possible options the next day and were surprised to find that there was yet a bus to the mountain chillout town of Chefchaouen, Rough Guide's "most beautiful town in Morocco".  Through the wonders of our world SIM card we confirmed that a pension ...

... we got the 'tourist price' for the shirts, even after negotiation, we still felt that it was worth the experience. Chefchaouen is a town that could have a lot of potential, because the scenery is breathtaking and the town quite charming; that ...

... back at our drives in Spain, they all seem so calm now. So when we turned off the main road to our exit to Chefchaouen, we were quite relieved.  A surprise to us was seeing snow on the mountains behind the town -- not what we ...

... like the 2buses on Xmas Day... also hoping the roads are OK and we get there in one piece and I don't get stranded in Chefchaouen. Especially since CTM aren't running their buses still and a local I spoke to last night said that when it rains in Fes, ...

... foreigner.  We stopped more or less every hour. The landscape along the way was nice but nothing special. As you get closer to Chefchaouen, it becomes more and more hilly but by that time it was already dark so I couldn't see very much. In one of ...

Morning 1 of writing this entry: I woke up this morning, on Mother's Birthday, in enchanting, pretty, restful Chefchaouen.  Out of my window I look up into the nearest slope of the Rif Mountains, rocky in places, and lush and green with grass, ...

... to pay 7 dirham, about $1 to be able to put it on the bus) and then we hopped aboard for the 4hr trip to Chefchaouen.  I went downhill and was just trying to concentrate on something else other than my stomach.  The bus was pretty empty in the ...

The taxi ride to Chefchaouen was hot and too expensive, but I didn't regret our decison to take a taxi once we arrived in the little mountainside town. The moment we pulled up next to the gates of the medina, we were practically mobbed by people trying to ...