Trip Itinerary & Tour Guide Info

Tour Guide:

We used an excellent private tour guide, Abelhamid, for two days of touring Morocco. Abelhamid did everything, from pick us up from the ferry, book our hotel, take us to dinner, and tailor our tours as we requested. He provides many different tours to different cities. His information can be found below:

Abdelhamid Idrissi

Tel/Fax: 00 212 39 35 20 65

Direct Call:0021268702424

Email: tangiertour@yahoo.co.uk

We took a ferry from Tarifa, Spain to Tangiers, Morocco. Ferry information can be found at www.frs.es/eng/

Our itinerary entailed:

Tangier & Outskirts (Extra-Superior Tour): air conditioned minibus, beautiful drive thru richest area of zone of villas & palaces passing via king's palace & celebrities homes. Visit Cape Spartel which is the NE western point of Africa, exact point where Mediterranean and Atlantic ocean meet. Visit Caves of Hercules. Take pictures of camels and ride on a camel. Go to old city to visit kasbah, medina, American Legation and mendoubia & markets for shopping etc... Option to visit to a Public Collective Hammam With Massage.

TETOUAN /CHEFCHAOUEN: Depart from Tangier to "White Bird" located in the Rif Mountains. Tetouan is a unique combination of Arab and Andalusian cultures. Visit new town where you will see Hassan II Square, governor’s palace, Spanish garden, the first North African mosque and the walls of the Kasbah. Enter medina through Bab el Okla and continue on for a walking tour of the old town. This tour will include the Jewish section, the Andalucian section, the Berber market, the ladies market, Guersa el Kbira and a visit to the Ethnographic and Craft Museums. Leave the old town, stop for refreshment and then continue to Chefchaoan, one of the most beautiful towns in Morocco. Chefchaouen is a typical Berber village. A tour of this blue and white village includes Palace El Makhzen and famous square Uta el Hamman and the medina. Departure through Rif Mountains back to The "Bride of the North", Tangier for overnight.

ASILAH /SUNDAY MARKET  (Sun Only): Breakfast at hotel. Journey into Rif Mountains to visit a traditional Berber souk (market) which gathers weekly. Visit Souk al Arba, "the Sunday Market". The souk is one of the typical features of rural life in Morocco. Here, agrarian people come from the neighboring hills to sell their good and buy what they will need for the coming week. A well as finding local merchants, you will find the craftsman – one fixing shoes, the other welding a tea pot, the hairdresser and the soothsayers (medicine-men). You will also find the blacksmiths and the local dentist practicing his trade without any of the modern amenities. A visit to the rural souk is truly a journey back in time. En route back to Tangier, visit Asilah, the fortified Portuguese village 46 km south of Tangier on the Atlantic cost. In Asilah, visit the Bab Homar, the Berber Kasbah, the Palace of Raisouli and enjoy the relaxing ambiance and quaint beauty of the town.