Tanger, Morocco

I'll start to write my travel notes from the soonest to the oldest as the other way around might be too difficult for me and i might never catch the current moment (Considering I have other travel plans very soon).

The last city I've been is Tanger, which is a small town in the very north of Morocco overlooking to Spain through the Strait of Gibraltar. This is one of the many Ryanair stops in Morocco which is more famous for beach tourism I suppose. There are many cheap holiday resorts to attract Spaniards. But I'm not really sure if they really succeed this as I didn't leave the city with the best impressions.

Tanger has a "Medina" (Old town) as many other cities in Morocco. This one can be considered small compared to Marrakech and Fez, and the number of shops and tea shops around was quite limited. The more famous part of the city was "Kasbah" which consists of narrow streets, white houses and blue doors. Walking around these streets and getting lost is quite enjoyable.

The photo on the left is a typical door and house from the Kasbah. There's also a museum in that area which is nothing special but you can still visit since it costs only 10 Dirhems (1 euro). There are also a few cafe/restaurants where you can go up to terrace and enjoy the view and the wind! Yes Tanger is very windy so is the beach. Don't know how people sunbath or swim in summer as the sea is wavy and the wind might be disturbing if you end up waking up buried under the sand after a nap on the beach.


The beach is a bit dirty also because of the touristic camel and horse rides. One thing that bothered us so bad there, was the behavior of some people to tourists. They were mostly mentally sick or something but they have learnt quite well how to swear in Spanish. And every single child knows how to say "Hola chicos!" in Tanger. Some of them know more that that(!)

I was quite surprised to the number of cafes, bars, clubs right next to the beach. There were even more than Barcelona. Maybe during the season it's full of Spanish people but i'm not really sure if there are that many tourists.

Here's a scene that I caught from the beach:

By the way,  about finding a hotel. If you are only going there to see the city not for facny holiday resorts, then you can do like we do. We didn't book a hotel before going, instead we had some addresses of some cheap hotels and some street names. It wasn't easy to find a clean hotel but in the end we managed to find one which is ok. It was only 4 euros per person and it had showers!!! Yes this is something hard to find in the hotels of Tanger. We checked many without showers until we found this one. It was in the same street with Hotel Madrid, Valencia, Miami.. Street name is Selahaddin Eyyubi.

The other issue is food!! If you want to try some tasty Tagine or Couscous, this is not the right address for you. You better head to Marrakech or Fes. The restaurants which have tagine were not clean or good. But in the new city part you can have better restaurants to eat fast food kind of stuff.


I'll add some of the photos I took there. Here you can check the other pictures I've taken.








This one is I suppose the tomb of Ibn Batouta. He is a famous traveler, kinda my idol.. I didnt really read any of his books, but i want to do it soon











This girl was collecting flowers from the cliff. We tried to stop her. And she was too gentle to send us a perfect smile :)






And in the end yummy snails from the market.. I dont think it was a good idea to leave them unattended :)