Blogs from Tangier, Tangier-Tétouan, Morocco, Africa - page 7

After riding a bus for over 12 hours from Valencia, I was still not in Tarifa. I arrived at a town called Algeciras, where I needed to go to another bus stop and take another bus. Luckily, the other bus stop was not very far from the one where I was dropped off. Algeciras was another port town near the southern point of Spain. I might have opted to stay there when planning my route, because ferries left for Tangier from there as well, but there were not as many hostels available as in Tarifa. Tarifa was a short 45 minute bus ride, and I only paid 2.10 EUR for the trip. Once I arrived in Tarifa, the first thing I noticed was all the surf shops. I found my hostel and talked to some people ... read more

Am in my first African city and already found somewhere I dont want to leave. Tangier has been great, a lot of that thanks to Zakaria who ive stayed with since the second day i was here. He lives in a 'public neighbourhood' outside of downtown and it is full 'real' i.e. non Europeanized Moroccon culture, and he is a musician who plays with a group that does weddings and parties. There were two weddings yesterday and i was able to take part in both (sorry no pics because would have felt weird with a camera). In the first the groom was from Marrakesh and so the ceremony was slightly different than the Northern Moroccon traditions. Basically we (the musical group) went to the grooms house and danced, sang and played drums, cymbols and trumpets. Then ... read more

Nothing like getting up at 5 AM. Normally you'd have to drag me out of bed at that hour, but not yesterday. Ok, I didn't jump right out of bed, but I got up without fighting (much). Now what would get us up that crazy early? AFRICA! We took a bus down to Tarifa. Beautiful drive, our guide gave us lots of insight into the history of spain/ southern spain that is. He told us of the years when Arabic kings ruled this coastal province. 2 hours into the drive we came to the old city, there to board a high speed ferry over to Tangier (14 km away), in Morocco. It was a rocky rugged trip as the boat sway back and fourth in the misty morning, we passed the rock of Gibraltar as the ... read more

Oct 29 So today we headed to Amado after breaky. It was a west facing beach break just south of carapeteria.  It had a nice right hander off the north side of the beach and left hander off he south side. We opted for the right hander when we got there however after about ten mins it shut down there was a huge rip that pulled right through it. So we went to shore to reassed and decided to try the left. We both got some good waves nothing epic or legendary but a really fun beach break and it would barrell on the inside, whether you'd make it or not is a different story but it was good fun. This beach was set back in a cove surrounded by red rock cliffs. So it gave ... read more

first off im using an arabic keyboqrd so bear with me; I dont knoa where to stqrt i meqn i knew we were in for an unforgettable trip the moment we got on the trqin to the port algercias qnd they plqyed indiana jones for the movie lol. In algercias we were hussled into q shady ticket plqce to buy our ferry ticket no one spoke english but it seemed thqt they reqlly wantetd us to harbour a couple old dudes across with us but the deal fell through once one of the old dudes papers were rejected and a fight ensused needless to say we were the only ones who made the crossing. the ferry took 3 hours qnd we saw the rock of gibrqlter qnd cqrgo ship after cargo ship. once off the ferry ... read more