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After our walk through the Kasbah, and the carpet and spice demonstrations, we got back on the bus and driven to a spot out of the city to where the camels were. For a fee ( one Euro ) you could get on the camel, ride around for a few minutes and have your picture taken. This was a fun part of the tour and of course Hans got on one. When the Camel stands up, it first uses its forelegs and you lurch backwards and then it uses its hind legs and then you lurch forward. Too funny!!
YAHOO!!! RIDE THOSE CAMELS Leave a Comment Address: Just outside the City
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The medina of Tangier is a real one: It houses two old marketplaces (the Grand Socco and the Petit Socco) in Tangier. Streets are narrow, houses come in many different styles, and surprisingly, most of this medina is in good condition. That is a proof that even people with some money both live and work here.
The medina is quite big, and there are many commercial areas. Most of these serve the tourist traffic, and it is more difficult to find any areas where real handicraft is performed.
Other areas are solely devoted to living, and there are plenty of nice houses, painted doors, decorated gates and rosebushes all around.
As you walk through the Medina Gate off the Grand Socco, take a deep breath and then start tackling the maze of narrow, twisting streets. You will find aromas drifting from the spice stalls and shopkeepers trying to entice you into their shops to haggle good naturedly, though sometimes too persistently, over their wares.
The suqs, in all their teeming energy, are the places to buy your goods and souvenirs, from embroidered shirts to djellabas (the long, flowing robes with full sleeves and a hood that you may notice some locals wearing), to leather goods and hammered and enameled brass. Always bargain, and if you can, learn a little basic French to help you do it. It's expected, and the shop owners will respect you for it. (You may still walk away with no bargain, but they'll respect you for it!)
Some shops, especially in the nicer buildings, have a system of fixed prices, and you will only be able to haggle it down a little bit. But that is not the biggest problem: they sell things here at 2-5 times normal tourist price. And they are the very same products other shops have without any better quality! Leave a Comment
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The word ‘socco’ is the Spanish version of ‘souk’, or market, which has stuck to this square in the heart of Tangier because of its Spanish heritage. The Grand Socco is located northeast of the medina. The square is, however, no longer a marketplace, but rather a city crossroads, fronted by cafes, outside the walled in, old part of the city.
The Grand Socco really is the heart of Tangier and a good place to start a tour since it is also the point where the modern city's streets are forced to continue into the narrow streets of the old city. This area was once full of snake charmers, musicians and storytellers while today it is a meeting place and a transportation junction, principally for taxis. It is an interesting spot to spend time watching the passing parade of people including the Rif women in their colorful traditional costume. The rattle and hum of the Grand Socco has entranced all who watched" .. from morning to evening, the vendors, the customers and the plain curious milling around in sun and wind among the hundred colors of canopy and thousand tongues at work..."
It was in this square, on April 9th 1947, that sultan Mohammed V made a famous speech in which he referred to independence for Morocco.
In a place where life styles and house styles mix as much as at the Grand Socco, it only feels natural that the old gate to the old city is flanked by modern Western-style houses. Leave a Comment
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This museum sited at kashbar square used to be the palace of the sultan, but now offers to the people that find it and want to pay the 1 euros (10 dirhans) lots of ancients discoveries since the Neolithic times of Morocco.
It deserves not only because of that, also it is nice to see the carved ceilings and the gardens.
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The main street of medina lead me to Kasbah (the "Place de la Kasbah") that is the old arab castle and the highest point in the medina. Luckily there were no more crowds but a few visitors busy taking pictures of the fortifications.
The fortifications surprisigly are in very good condtion. The walls are simple, not-white but natural-earth-clay in colour and... not that much interesting. and they are put in very chaotic way. I guess, they had to be changed many times in the past. Leave a Comment
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You can enter the Medina from the Grand Socco through an arch at one corner. Once you do you'll find yourself on the Rue d'Italie, which becomes the Rue de la Kasbah leading to the old quarter.
Lots of interesting people pass through these gates and if you are given a moment or two, just do some people watching.
On the right side of this arched gate you will find a map of the streets of the medina which will show you just how many little streets there are and how they wander all over the place. Look for it as your adventure into the old shopping district of the Medina begins. Leave a Comment
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Socco means a market in Spanish that is suuq in Arabic language. The Grand Socco is a busy square and good place to watch locals and enjoy (or not) local atmosphere.
It is no longer a market place. I found Grand Socco a busy, noicy meeting place and a transportation junction. There are tenths of taxis around the square with a bit chaotic, typical for Morocco, traffic. The square is a place where the modern city's street were forced to continue in the narrow streets of medina (the old city).
Leave a Comment Directions: At the edge (northeast) of the medina (old Arab town).
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A very tall minaret of Sidi Bou Abib Mosque dominates skyline around Grand Socco square. Unfortunatelly, I was not allowed to visit its interiors as mosques are closed for non-muslims in Tangier.
The white, hidden among other houses, edifice of the mosque didn't look impressive in contrast to highly decorative with multi-hued faiences walls of the minaret which was, as usual in North Africa, square in shape. The pattern of bricks, on my picture, is typical for Muslim architecture and easy to find all over North Africa.
Leave a Comment Address: Grand SoccoDirections: By large square known as Grand Socco, at the edge (northeast) of the old arab town (the medina).
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I am not a Muslim. Thus I was not allowed to visit interiors of a main mosque of Tangier called, like usual, the Grand Mosque.
Well, I was a bit dissapointed. The cramped edifice is pushed among casual, dirty white houses and easy to skip. Look for the decorative, keyhole shape doorgate (picture at my intro) with a few beggars in front. And look above to see white-green, square tower - the Grand Mousque's minaret, surprisingly not the tallest in Tangier. Main catholic churches (cathedrals or basilicas) in Europe almost always have the tallest towers. Does it mean anything? Leave a Comment
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The Kasbah fortifications, the highest point in the medina offer a view towards the Atlantic Ocean.
To be honest it is not the best Atlantic view. The beach below looks dirty, Europe is not seen on a horizon and the Tangier port to the right doesn't look great. But there are many locals and visitors walking there, so it's a good place to watch them. And maybe the place looks nicer at sunset/sunrise at least for photography fan. Leave a Comment
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