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| Gender: | Male | | Age: | 50 | | Lives in: | Boston United States | | Registered: | 18 July 2006 | | Last visit: | 18 July 2006 |
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| Tangier Travel Guide: Tangier With a Private Guide
| | Written by Sam D.Wolghy on 18 Jul 2006 about a trip in Nov 2005.
Trip was for a group of work colleagues on short break. Sam D.Wolghy would definitely visit again.
| Tangier shopping | | | We also appreciated NOT being taken to Many different factories and Shops. our Guide Selected a factory that was unique to the North and Made Sure we were willing to go as we had previous expressed our unwillingness to be taken to places like that. She made an excellent decision as we found the Carpet bazaar to be fascinating. We also appreciate her honesty when it came to Pricing. he was Very helpful in giving fair Price ranges. It Made our Shopping experiences all the more enjoyable. |
Tangier restaurants | | | Finally we went With our Guide to a Moroccan Restaurant/house where a very rich lunch with vegetables and fish was served by a Family. In general, we liked all of the meals that were prearranged. Particularly the ones with a set Menu, as I think they have figured out what "Westerners" like to eat. At the times when we needed to order ourselves, it would have been helpful if the guide had been able to Provide us some good Uuggestions, as we didn't know what we should try. But it was nice that we Could try Several things, so even if we didn't like one of them, we had plenty to eat. |
Tangier day trips | | | We are often asked whether it is worthwhile to go 01 day excursion to Morocco. To find out we spent one day there with a Private Guide who was recommended by a friend of us. Our day turned out to be very exciting because it was not the typical tourist trap as are Most organised Tours to Tangier. We Spent a Pleasant day there and would like to let our readers share some of our impressions of the short trip: One beautiful and Warm Wednesday Morning we took the ferry to Tangier. We were very Curious to Meet our Licensed Guide Abdoul, his Email: tangierguide@yahoo.com who was waiting for us at the Port. Our guide showed us the Market halls, the Souk, historical places and typical Morrocan coffee Shops. It was a very interesting and peaceful day without the usual bazar-running which we knew from organised Tours. Besides, Abdoul helped us to find the places where we could buy the gifts we had in mind and at reasonable prices. Of course he will get his commission but who minds if the The Quality Is Good & Price is okay. Abdul, Speaks Spanish, English and French very well. He is very enthusiastic in giving information about his Country, his Culture and Religion. For us it was an exotic and thoughtful experience which we were glad not to have missed. We were on a trip, only 15 kilometers away from Tarifa, and in another world completely exotic and totally different. We highly recommend this Excursion if only to meet Abdoul. |
Tangier History and Culture | | Tangier is a city with a reputation. Her allure is strong and will leave an imprint on the modern traveler - as it did on those eponymous miniature oranges that once passed through its ports. But she is a city living under the umbrage of a sordid past, haunted by ghosts heroic, notorious, erudite, celluloid and stoned. Derelict, she is nonetheless beguiling.
It doesn't help that most guidebooks advise all but the most intrepid traveler to avoid Tangier. Historically, this advice was ignored - everyone went there. The tiny seaport on the northwest coast of Morocco was visited by Phoenician traders some 3000 years ago and then, at the dawn of the modern era, played host to Carthaginians and Romans. It was the Romans who gave it her name Tengris, our Tangier (in Arabic Tanjah). After the Romans came the Vandals, who swept across North Africa only to be defeated in the 8th century by conquering Arabs, who brought with them Islam. In the 11th and 12th centuries, Tangier was the hotly contested property of two successive Muslim dynasties who used the city as a base for their assault on Spain. During this period the famous medieval globetrotter (and Tangerine) Ibn Battuta (born 1304) was traipsing about the Islamic world, sightseeing, and studying and dispensing jurisprudence, surpassing Marco Polo's perambulations by some 75,000 miles. The Portuguese eventually wrested control of the city from the Arabs and, in 1471, used her to sweeten the wedding dowry of Catherine of Braganza (who married Charles II of England). |
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