Morocco Reviews: Tangier and Chefchaouen
After meeting the group in Casablanca, next morning we headed to Tangier in the north of Morocco. We were only going to stay there for lunch and then have a guided tour through the medina for about an hour, before heading south again to Chefchaouen. At first I was quite disappointed that we wouldn’t be staying longer in Tangier, as I have read so much about it being the Moroccan headquarters for the beatniks and the hippies. We had lunch and headed to the medina for the tour. This mainly consisted of our local guide telling us that in that house a rich French person lived, and that house had been bought by a rich English person, and that house was now a hotel. Not very informative and a bit disappointing. We passed quite quickly through the medina with no stops to shop, but from what I could tell, the goods on offer were not really interesting either. So in the end I was happy that we would not stay there longer. Perhaps if we had stayed longer and had time to explore by ourselves we ...