Tangier is where Africa looks at Europe across 14 km of strait — a white-walled port city that has seduced writers for a century, and now the northern gateway to Morocco: ferries from Spain, Africa's only high-speed train south, and our northern circuits from €750 per person for 5 days.
The city of Matisse, Bowles and the Beat writers has scrubbed up without losing its edge: a kasbah with strait views, cafés where the mint tea comes with legend, and a medina that tumbles downhill to a working port. It pairs naturally with Chefchaouen, two hours south.
What to see and do
- The kasbah and its museum, with Spain visible across the strait
- Café Hafa, pouring mint tea on the same cliff terraces since 1921
- The Grand Socco and the medina lanes down to the port
- Cap Spartel, where the Mediterranean and the Atlantic actually meet
- The Caves of Hercules and their sea-window shaped like Africa
Planning Tangier
- Arriving from Europe? Ferries cross from Tarifa in under an hour
- The Al Boraq high-speed train reaches Casablanca in about 2h10 — Africa's fastest
- Two hours from Chefchaouen: the natural first pair of any northern loop
Tours that go there
- Tangier → Casablanca, 5 days — from €750
- Tangier → Marrakech, 6 days — from €900
- Tangier to the Sahara via Fes — from €900
- Mediterranean Morocco, 15 days — from €2250
