Tangiers touring

[Modern_Viking]

On a cruise with a stop in Tangiers, it looks like there are excursions to three places:

 

- Asilah

- Cap Spartel (Hercules’ Caves)

- Tetouan

 

 

Anyone have any descriptions on these location, suggestions of what might be more or less interesting? We are not shoppers, so we are more interested in what we will see than what we could buy. We don't want to spend lots of time haggling with merchants.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Modern_Viking]

Any ideas?

 

Thanks.

[YoHoHo]

On a cruise with a stop in Tangiers, it looks like there are excursions to three places:

 

- Asilah

- Cap Spartel (Hercules’ Caves)

- Tetouan

 

 

Anyone have any descriptions on these location, suggestions of what might be more or less interesting? We are not shoppers, so we are more interested in what we will see than what we could buy. We don't want to spend lots of time haggling with merchants.

 

Thanks in advance!

Your tour guide will likely take you shopping like it or not. Harder if part of a large group but tell the guide you are ready to leave as soon as you arrive. Won't likely shorten the stop but you may as well get this out of the way at the start and then relax.

 

Of your three I did a brief stop at Cap Spartel. If you like the idea of visiting where the Med and Atlantic meet and the be able to tell your friends that you and Hercules have something in common then you would be able to cross that off your list. A brief stop is all that is needed.

 

You enter the cave down some wet slippery stone steps, sloped earth path somewhat lit with bulbs on a wire. Inside is wet and slippery. You'll make your way to a small cavern where it is open to the sea. You'll need a good camera/flash to get a picture with that opening in the background and the darker cave in the foreground.

[lalawgirl]

Hey folks -- this is the tour guide that we used three years ago -- really sweet guy, Aziz. All guides pretty much do the same circle loop (shopping stops included), but it was much nicer to do it with a private guide, rather than 50 of my shipmates. We also paid about half the price, too. Aziz met us right on the dock and walked us to the waiting AC'd van. The best part of the day for me was walking through the market while Aziz stopped to say hi to his friends and pick up some supplies for a break the fast dinner with his family (it was Ramadan). Altogether, a fun and unique day.

 

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