- also called "Tangiers"
- or "Tanger" in French, "Tánger" in Spanish

Morocco - Tangier: Morocco - the city of TangierTangier carries an ill-gotten label of one of the most dangerous Moroccan cities. Tangier used to be a Portuguese colony, nowadays it has population about 670 000.

History of Tangier dates back to Phoenician merchants. Late the city was called "Tenga", "Tinga" or "Titga" as well. Myth says Hercules lived in the nearby Cave of Hercules. Anyway, Tangier was an important Berber city founded by Carthage colonists back in the 5th century BC. After the fall of Rome it fell into slavery of Vandals. In the 15th and 16th century Portuguese took the city, later the Spanish and then Englismen. Tangier has always been a crucial port for Europe.

Today you can find many international schools in Tangier. The city has been visited by many celebrities like Rolling Stones or Jack Kerouac. You can find here the Forbes museum of Tangie where the american billionaire Malcolm Forbes has 115 000 tin soldiers on display.

From Tangier you can easily get to Tetouan. There is a train station in Tangier and you can of course take a ferry to Europe.

Morocco - Essaouira: Morocco - EssaouiraEssaouira is one of Morocco’s most enjoyable and attractive towns on the coast. It’s charm is undeniable with its white washed and blue shuttered houses, art galleries, wood workshops, fishermen and colorful boats- all enclosed by ancient red walls. The town faces a group of rocky islands and is surrounded by an expanse of empty sandy beaches and dunes. Everything in the small center is within walking distance and the beaches are quite clean. In summer many people from the big cities come for a day or two to escape the heat and tension of Casablanca and Marrakesh. Interestingly, it is also the city that contains the "castle" from Jimi Hendrix's song "Castles in the Sand" - and it is melting into the sea, on a beach, on the ourskirts of town (though he wrote the song 2 years (1967) before visting Morocco! Perhaps he'd already heard of it...)

Many tourists are attracted by the constant wind, good for wind-surfing and surfing. The windy city has become internationally famous for its contests and has brought windsurfers from all over the world.