VIP day trip in Tangier with optional excursions

VIP Tours include Private transportation in Morocco in air-conditioned vehicle, assistance in the port, transfers, guided city tour, English-speaking guide, Moroccan lunch, entrance to museum and Hercules Cave, local and state taxes. Transfers in private car from Costa del Sol to Algeciras are listed separately.

Day Trip Itinerary

Depart Spain (departure time at client’s discretion) for journey across the Straight of Gibraltar. Arrive at the port of Tangier where you will be Met & assisted with customs formalities and transferred from the port to start the day’s visit to Tangier.

Visit the modern new town and the wealthy "California" section where you will see the estates and palaces of the rich and famous. Stop at Cap Spartel, the lighthouse that marks the official convergence of the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Travel on to Hercules Cave – continually inhabited since the Neolithic period.

Return to Tangier for a Moroccan lunch. Enjoy world-famous Moroccan cuisine while you relax to the entertainment of Andalusian musicians and belly dancer.

Begin your tour of the old town. Visit the kasbah (fortified area). Descend through the labyrinthine roads of the medina through the spice markets, the Berber markets and amongst the craftsmen. Visit the Grand Socco and St. Andrew’s Church, quietly nestled off the busy market square.

Transfer back to the port for return to Spain.

EXCURSION to ASILAH/SUNDAY MARKET

(Sunday Only): Breakfast at hotel. Journey into the Rif Mountains to visit a traditional Berber souk (market) which gathers weekly. Visit Souk al Arba, "the Sunday Market". The souk is one of the typical features of rural life in Morocco. Here, agrarian people come from the neighboring hills to sell their good and buy what they will need for the coming week. A well as finding local merchants, you will find the craftsman – one fixing shoes, the other welding a tea pot, the hairdresser and the soothsayers (medicine-men). You will also find the blacksmiths and the local dentist practicing his trade without any of the modern amenities. A visit to the rural souk is truly a journey back in time. En route back to Tangier, visit Asilah, the fortified Portuguese village 46 km south of Tangier on the Atlantic cost.

In Asilah, visit the Bab Homar, the Berber Kasbah, the Palace of Raisouli and enjoy the relaxing ambiance and quaint beauty of the town.

CHEFCHAOUEN: Depart from Tangier to the "White Bird" located in the Rif Mountains. Tetouan is a unique combination of Arab and Andalusian cultures.

Visit the new town where you will see the Hassan II Square, governor’s palace, Spanish garden, the first North African mosque and the walls of the Kasbah. Enter the medina through Bab el Okla and continue on for a walking tour of the old town. This tour will include the Jewish section, the Andalucian section, the Berber market, the ladies market, Guersa el Kbira and a visit to the Ethnographic and Craft Museums.

Leave the old town, stop for refreshment and then continue to Chefchaoan, one of the most beautiful towns in Morocco. Chefchaouen is a typical Berber village. A tour of this blue and white village includes the Palace El Makhzen and the famous square Uta el Hamman and the medina. Departure through the Rif Mountains back to The "Bride of the North", Tangier for overnight.