Tangier

October 20, 2024 Sunday's Agenda
7AM breakfast
7:30 departure in the van
We had a rough sleep and slept in. Our hotel room was stuffy and hot so we had the window wide open. Our neighbours had their window wide open too, however they had friends over and stayed up talking until 2:30 when Andrew knocked on their door and asked them to be quiet. Finally, we went to sleep. The first sleep we'd had since waking up in Montreal 38 hours earlier. We were supposed to meet the group for breakfast at 7AM and leave the hotel at 7:30AM, but Andrew and I sabotaged that plan as our alarms didn't go off and we slept in. Dean and Heather messaged us, but we were sleeping. Fortunately, Andrew woke up at 7:35 and woke me up. We quickly got dressed and packed and ran downstairs to our group who were patiently waiting for us. We felt badly that we kept everyone waiting, especially on the first day, but no one seemed upset.

We met our driver Fouzy and headed to the beautiful port city of Tangier, which is on the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

Fouzy dropped us off at the top of a hill where we met our local tour guide and entered the medina (non-European part of an African city). We started at the Kasbah (military stronghold or royal residence) which is situated in the upper part of the medina and then we navigated its steep streets to the oldest part at the bottom of the hill. Amazingly, we saw people on motorbikes weaving their way through the narrow streets that were more like walkways. Everything was clean. The buildings were so white they looked like they'd just been painted. There were all kinds of different doors. Animals are sacred in Morocco and we saw lots of cats.Read more