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| Tangier - Morocco Travel Guide for backpackers |
| For more than 2500 years different races of people lived here at its strategic position on the straits between Europe and Africa. Today it's one of the most fashionable Mediterranean resorts, a haven for freebooters, artists, writers, refugees, exiles and bankers. It's a place of many cultures. The main square (Place du 9 Avril 1947) is the centre of things and the link between the medina and the new city. |
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 DAILY BUDGET in TANGIER - MOROCCO - With the exchange rate of roughly US$1 to 9 Moroccan dirhams a backpacker should be able to get by on US$30 which will cover for accommodation and three good meals a day plus the odd place of interest with an entrance fee. |
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Forbes Museum of Military Miniatures - it's found about half an hour's walk along the coast from the Grand Soco. It's the old villa owned by Malcolm Forbes (Forbes Magazine) who died in 1990. There's a great 'army' of 120,000 miniatures and dioramas depicting all sorts of past great battles. You get in free.
Old American Legation Museum - found off the medina in Rue du Portugal. There's great archive stuff on the history of Tangier and it was here that American and British agents did much of the local planning for the Allied landings in North Africa in 1942. It's free to get in.
Kasbah - on the highest point of the city; it's well worth a trip here. You go in from Bab el-Assa (one of the 4 gates) at the end of Ben Raissouli in the medina. It's a groovy place to be in; you've got a museum devoted to Moroccan arts, Cafe Detroit, set up by a friend of the Rolling Stones way back in the sixties and musicians still play here, and the Sidi Hosni palace is well worth a visit.
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The Snack Bar - located in Rue Jemaa el-Kebir; they do huge great rolls stuffed with meat, salad and pickles for about US$1.
Big Mac - on the corner of Blvd Pasteur and Rue Ahmed Chaouki. What can I tell you about Big Mac that you don't already know? They do super hotdogs for about US$2.
Carrousel - found just off Rue du Prince Hertier. It caters for homesick Brits hungry for pub nosh; you can get a full meal and a pint for roughly US$4.
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Deans Bar - located Rue Amerique Sud. It's here that Westerners have come for many, many years to prop up the bar. Serves ice-cold beer and is a great place to hang out, just like Humphrey Bogart did in the film 'Casablanca' (same country).
English Bar - on Rue du Mexique next to Restaurant Negresco. You can get a pint of Flag Speciale with Spanish-style bar snacks for about US$4
Katoubia Palace - found on Rue al-Moutanabi; you can get a real eyeful at Egyptian belly-dancers while sipping pints of beer into the wee hours.
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