Tarifa and Morocco !

Ohla from Seville, Spain!

We have good news......We finally got a new tire on our car! This means we can drive over 80km per hour again! Unfortunately we had to drive back from the Algarve in Portugal to Seville and now we are going back to Lisbon tomorrow. We only have two weeks left and still have so much we want to see and do.

Tarifa is the most Southern coast of Spain. We heard in was beautiful but our main reason to go there was to catch the ferry to Morocco. When we arrived at our campground we were blown away. It was absolutely gorgeous, we arrived just as the sun was setting. We met some fantastic people at the camp who travelled there and decided to stay and call it home. Tarifa has several campsites and caters to kite boarders and windsurfers. It is funny because during the day all the stores are closed because they are on the beach and in the evening the town comes alive.

We were originally going to take a ferry by ourselves and explore Tangier however, it was more expensive to do that than to take a tour. So we opted to go for a tour and we are sure glad we did. To see everything we saw in one day would have been impossible. The tour started by visiting the palaces of the Moroccan Kings and seeing panorama views of the city. We stopped over to see The Caves of Hercules where it is rumored the the mythical figure Hercules, used to rest in the caves after a day of fishing. We drove to the Old town where we indulged in a traditional Moroccan lunch; Moroccan bread called khobz, beef skewers, a traditional soup, a couscous dish, a type of sugar cookie and warm mint tea. After lunch we visited a carpet store and a spice doctor. This part of the tour was a little cheesy but we took it with a grain of salt and sampled the rose cream that "makes me look ten years younger." We went through the town and got hassled to buy everything from Kleenex to toy camels.  We loved experiencing a completely different culture. As touristy as the town is, the locals have kept to their traditions and made the trip over there a memory we will never forget. At the end of the day we were exhausted and couldn't wait to get back to the campsite. The next morning we had  get up early to drive to Seville.

We will update you with our Portugal pictures soon!

Cheers,

Carmen and Carlo

Campsite in Tarifa

Tarifa Sunset

Our Campsite

A beach down the road from our camp.

Sand dunes

Wishing we did gymanstics as children



Morocco Camels



Smiles

Laughing the whole time

Better idea of how big the sand dunes were

Caves of Hercules in Morocco

Cave market

Serenading us at lunch

Local Carpets

Our traditional Moroccan lunch