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ErfoudA guide to the fascinating town of Tangier. With its souks, traditional Moroccan cuisine and loads of sights to see, its the perfect destination for your Moroccan holiday. Diverse in both flavour and culture, Tangian cuisine will satisfy your culinary cravings. A worthwhile visit on your Moroccan holiday. Tangier, also known as the White City, revolves around its brilliant import and export port, and assures you to see many millionaires' yachts where the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean meets.
Many famous writers like Paul Bowles and William Burroughs visited Tangier and even called it their home. Tangier was also the world's first and famous gay resort - a role it maintains to a lesser degree today. Tangier is very popular to tourists and Moroccan holiday makers and it has beautiful beaches to entertain them. Tangier has three sources of wealth; the port, Cannabis and ferrying would-be immigrants. Tangier is energetic, very likeable, extremely individual with an enduring peculiarity.
Accommodation
Tangier has many hotels and pensions in either the Medina or the Ville Nouvelle. Tangier has two campsites, Camping Miramonte and Camping Tingis they are situated close to the city center and in walking distance of several beaches. They are safe and convenient.
Things to See & Do
The beaches
The beaches are a big attraction in Tangier. With people enjoying themselves with camel rides , windsurfing , acrobatics and football . The beaches here have a number of beach bars open in summers only. Most of them offer showers, deck chairs, food and drink and cabarets at night.
Place de France
Place de France is a small French-looking square right in the middle of the Ville Nouvelle with many friendly, inviting street cafè's.
The Grand Socco
Visit the Grand Socco market square with its good street cafe's and absorb the city life. The market sells everything from arts and crafts, fruit and vegetables and plain old junk.
The Mendoubia Gardens
Enjoy the inviting shade in the midsummer afternoons that surrounds the Grand Socco Square. This garden contains a fascinating banyan tree that's over 800 years old.
The Caves of Hercules
The caves of Hercules are situated 14km west of Tangier in the Cap Spartel area. It is a place of great beauty and archeological significance.
Cuisine & Nightlife
Tangier's nightlife is not really something to get excited about, although there are a few good bars and disco's and some of the cafè's in Grand Socco Square stays open all night. If you're looking for a basic inexpensive restaurant or cafe you'll be best off to go look for it at the Medina. If a fancy meal is what you're looking for, than Ville Nouvelle is the place to be.
Getting Around
Tangier, like most Moroccan cities consists of a Medina and a Ville Nouvelle that makes it very easy to move around. Grands taxis are allowed to carry up to six passengers; they are quick and efficient and are a good value for money. Petit taxis can be catched almost anywhere in town, and may not carry more than three passengers, and are metered. Petit and grands taxis increase their rates at fifty percent after 8pm at night. City buses are very useful; they operate between the airport, the train station, Grand Socco and the Caves of Hercules.
Erfoud doesn't have a whole lot to offer a tourist. Its really close to the desert and thus experiences regular blasts of sand tearing through the streets. It has two main attractions, the date festival and Erfoud's marble industry.
Accommodation
There are a number of hotels still left over from the days when the town had a busy dune trip trade. Prices vary to suit all budgets and the cheapest form of transport in and out of the city is by grand taxi or bus. Check out complete guide to hotels, luxury hotels, villas, self-catering and apartments & studio's in Erfoud.
Cuisine
If you're going to get a meal in Erfoud, then make a point of trying a Moroccan Traditional specialty called kalia. It's a mutton or kid stew flavored with over 40 spices served with egg, vegetables and parsley. Have a look at our complete restaurant guide.
Getting Around
CTM buses most pass through Erfoud to Merzouga. Near the post-office is the grand taxi pick up point and to get to Tinerhir you can take one of 2 private lines leaving at 11:30 and 15:00. Check our complete guide to transport in Morocco.
A ski resort in the desert! Indeed, thick snow envelops the Jabal Oukaimeden mountain peak during the winter months (usually January and February), just a 46-mile (74km) drive from Marrakech. The town of Oukaimeden, which can be reached by taxi or self-drive car, is well equipped for the skiers that seek restaurants, ski equipment to rent, and comfortable hotels, set in lush greenery backed by blue mountains. Skiers can ascend the mountain by donkey or camel, but there are also modern ski lifts.
It seems that the city of Fez is still lingering back in the Middle Ages. As you arrive in the city and begin to walk around your senses are torn between beautiful sights, intricate sounds and colorful smells. Much of the city still is still holding on to its French roots. Thus around 200000 of Fez's inhabitants stay in the city of Fez el Bali . Staying a few days in Fez el Bali will make you recognize that it's hard to avoid the paradox of the place. Fez el Bali is a place with a constant source of interest.
Accommodation
You can either stay in the modern hotels of Ville Nouvelle with a reliable water supply, or in the basic hotels of Medina in Fes el Bali and Fes el Djedid. There is frequently a shortage of hotel space so be sure to book well in advance. A small number of the better hotels have swimming pools and also offer advantages with their restaurants and pubs.
Things to See & Do
Fez has enough sights to keep you busy for three to four days. The streets are filled with mosques, medersas, fondouks and monuments.
The Merenid Tombs
The Merenid tombs on the rim of the valley, gives you a spectacular overview of the city.
The Boujeloud Gardens
The Boujeloud Gardens is a real haven with an open air cafe and many picnic spots.
Evening Roost
Evening roost at Fez makes a spectacular sight for bird watching. The skies appear to swarm with literally thousands of alpine swifts, in search of insects for their young in nests in the city walls.
Restaurants
Ville Nouvelle is the center for most of the cities restaurants, bars, cafes, bookshops and other facilities. Fes el Bali and Fes el Djedid have no bars and a few Palace-Restaurants, which are very basic and only open for lunch and mainly caters for tourists.
Cafe's & Bars
Cafe's and bars are scattered throughout the streets of Ville Nouvelle and are very popular with locals and tourists. The bars in Fez range from non-alcoholic to serious morocco-drinking style, with pool tables and a huge crowd of regulars. The hotel bars are safe and suited for the tourist who just wants sit and have a quiet drink. There are plenty small cafe's all over the Medina. The cafe's here are very clean and friendly and sell fabulous breakfasts and lunch.
Getting Around
By Train
The train station is situated in the Ville Nouvelle, ten minutes walk from all the hotels around town. From the train station, the buses pass the main bus station, the airport and the outlying suburbs.
By Bus
Coming in by bus is rather confusing seeing that there are three terminals, the Ville Nouvelle, the Medina, and the main bus station. If you're coming from Taza and the east, the buses stop at the Medina's southeast gate, Bab Ftouh, before they continue to the main bus station.
By Grand Taxi
Like buses, the grand taxis mostly operate from three or four points. The rank opposite the CTM office, the rank at the train station, the rank southeast of Place de la Resistance and Bab Ftouth.
By Air
Fez's new airport is 15km south of the city center, off the N8. From here you can reach town by bus or by grand taxis - ranks are outside the terminal building to your left.
By Car
If you come by car there is a small car park south of Bab Boujeloud, just a few minutes walk from the old Medina and some of the hotels, where you can leave your car.
Guides
Getting a guide is fairly easy since they are outside the more up market hotels and youth hostels.
A half-a-day tour from a good guide will be a useful introduction to Fes el Bali. The downside of getting a guide is that they walk a few meters in front of you, so they don't look that they are at your service, thus you don't get much information about a place this way.
Transportation
The basic layout of Fez el Bali is very simple, with a Moroccan Medina that separates the two cities: Fez el Bali (old Fez) and Fez el Djedid (new Fez), and a French-built Ville Nouvelle. Fez el Djedid is a beautiful place with a vast enclosure of royal palaces and fabulous gardens. Fez el Bali, however is an incredible intricate city with many confusing lanes, souks and blind alleys, you may want to get yourself a guide just to show you the main sights and layouts. The learning of Fez el Bali is not very straightforward as all the street signs are in Arabic only. Transportation in Fez consists out of trains, buses, grand taxis, cars or by air.
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