Yes, there’s the Casbah and the new Jean Nouvel–designed port, but the best parts of Tangier haven’t changed in half a century. All you’ll want to do when you arrive is take in the views ...

I arrived in Tangier after a quick ferry ride from Tarifa, on the southern coast of Spain. Though it’s just a 35-minute boat ride away, Tangier feels a world apart from Europe.

In Tangier, Morocco — across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain — the roosters, even more than the minaret’s call to prayer, make sure the city wakes up early.

by Rick Steves, December 28, 2023 | Though it's just a 35-minute boat ride away from southern Spain, Tangier, Morocco feels a world apart from Europe. Read more here.

I took this route on my 10-day journey, starting in Tangier and making stops in Meknes, Fes, Rabat, and Marrakech. And there's simply no better way to travel to northern Morocco.

Tangier, Morocco is just 35 minutes by boat across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain, but, culturally, it's worlds apart from Western Europe.

To the passionate, doctrinaire leftist politicos of Morocco, Tangier is a monument to foreigners, a corrupt, unclean, anti-Moroccan place that must be cleaned up and cleaned out.

In Tangier, Morocco — right across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain — the roosters, ... but it doesn’t need them; Tangier’s sights are living in the streets. To celebrate my birthday, ...