Tetouan Transportation

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Now this was a very beautiful ferry, something we hadn't expected so it came as a nice surprise. This ferry sails from the town of Algeciras in Spain across The Straits of Gibraltar, with a beautiful view of Rock Gibraltar, to Ceuta, which is one of two Spanish towns in Africa.

The name of the ferry is Euroferrys Pacifica and the trip takes only 35 minutes.

There are local buses from Tangier local bus station that leave when full enough so that could be hourly or 2nd hourly - travelling with locals makes it an interesting ride. I would say sit on the left hand side as you get good views of the Rif mountains between this road and the Gibraltar Strait.

There is also a daily bus, about 1030 am from Asillah that comes directly to Tetouan which also makes Asilah a good place to stay on a devised circuit from Tangier and around the Rif to Tetouan and Chefchouen.

If you are coming from Asilah and youve missed that bus you can take a minibus for only 10 dirham from Asilah to the Tangier bus station, or 25 dirham for one seat in a grande taxi. You can take the train but its a waste of time getting out to it as its a few kms out of town and you probably need a taxi to get to it anyway. then on from Tangier.

There is of course also the grande taxi option - grande taxis also leave from the Tangier local bus station - they are 6 seater mercedes cars and leave when full - 6 people makes it very full!! so a good suggestion is to buy the front 2 seats and have them to yourself if you are travelling solo and especially if yu are female
- or if theres 2 of you you could perhaps buy the whole back seat of its 4 tickets - this will help you get going sooner and give you more room for comfort and for viewing/taking photos! or the 2 of you can take the 2 front seats.

If you are going on to Chefchouen there can be a waiting time of about half an hour between arriving in Tetouan and the next bus - but I would recommend putting your luggage into the luggage storage facility up the top of the escalator from where the buses come in into the Tetouan bus station and go see Tetouan for a couple of hours. Ask a driver or staff there what time they think to come back to catch another bus.

You can also look for the shared grande taxis and go on with them - you might get to see the taxi driver sharks who start touting you to take their taxi to Chaouen for some enormous price...just ignore them.

Its well worth taking this opportunity to go see the medina of Tetouan as it has Unesco status for good reason, and also the small Archeology museum so you can see the excellent mosaics taken from the roman sites of Lixus.

Local buses dont cost much in Morocco - so bus from Tangier to Tetouan is about 15 dirham and Tetouan to Chefchouen another 15 dirham.

CTM has 2 buses departing for Al-Hoceima.

Journey time is 7 hours.

Tickets are around 80 dirhams plus 5 dirhams for luggage.

Please use prices as a rough guide only.

Tetouan CTM bus station is on the corner of Rue Sidi Mandri & Rue Moulay Abbas at the bottom of the hill.

Please be aware of the touts here they are very aggressive to westerners.

CTM has 2 buses departing for Nador.

Journey time is 11 hours.

Tickets are around 110 dirhams plus 5 dirhams for luggage.

Please use prices as a rough guide only.

Tetouan CTM bus station is on the corner of Rue Sidi Mandri & Rue Moulay Abbas at the bottom of the hill.

Please be aware of the touts here they are very aggressive to westerners.

CTM has 1 bus departing for Fes.

Journey time is 5 hours 30mins.

Tickets are around 80 dirhams plus 5 dirhams for luggage.

Please use prices as a rough guide only.

Tetouan CTM bus station is on the corner of Rue Sidi Mandri & Rue Moulay Abbas at the bottom of the hill.

Please be aware of the touts here they are very aggressive to westerners.

CTM has 1 bus departing for Ouezzane.

Journey time is 3 hours.

Tickets are around 40 dirhams plus 5 dirhams for luggage.

Please use prices as a rough guide only.

Tetouan CTM bus station is on the corner of Rue Sidi Mandri & Rue Moulay Abbas at the bottom of the hill.

Please be aware of the touts here they are very aggressive to westerners.

CTM has 2 buses departing for Rabat.

Journey time is 4-5 hours.

Tickets are around 85 dirhams plus 5 dirhams for luggage.

Please use prices as a rough guide only.

Tetouan CTM bus station is on the corner of Rue Sidi Mandri & Rue Moulay Abbas at the bottom of the hill.

Please be aware of the touts here they are very aggressive to westerners.

CTM has 2 buses departing for Casablanca.

Journey time is 6-7 hours.

Tickets are around 110 dirhams plus 5 dirhams for luggage.

Please use prices as a rough guide only.

Tetouan CTM bus station is on the corner of Rue Sidi Mandri & Rue Moulay Abbas at the bottom of the hill.

Please be aware of the touts here they are very aggressive to westerners.