The Blue City of Chefchaouen, Day trip from Tangier

around 08H00, depart from Tangier towards Chefchaouen, the Blue City: the driver takes about 2 ½ hours through the Riff Mountains, passing by small Berber villages and the most breathtaking landscape. Chefchauen is famous by the blue lime-washed houses, busy squares, steep alleyways, and the best way to discover this holy town is to wander around it taking in the atmosphere. Cut into the sides of two mountains, Chefchaouen is a city with blue and white lime-washed houses. A powerful charm that you really can feel in the square, in the cobblestone medina. Sat on the terrace of a café, you can enjoy the attractive view of the grand Tarik-Ben-Ziad mosque whose octagonal minaret is inspired by that of the TORRE DE ORO in Seville. This andalusian architecture can be found in the Kasbah and its gardens, at the center of the medina. Its walls and its 11 crenulated towers, of which one used to be a dungeon house, an interesting ethnographic museum. In the small museum in the Kasbah can be found collections of embroideries colored and varied pieces of clothing like those worn by the region’s women. The famous djellaba, this long ample garment worn by the men and women of North Africa, was created here. The welcome and great hospitality provided by its inhabitants can be experienced during a visit to a traditional oil mill (there are more that 1500 of them) or a craftsman’s workshop. Over and above its weaving, Chechaouen is renowned for its basket-making and its pottery. Lunch at leisure, or on request, we can arrange a traditional lunch meal in a local Berber Family home. After lunch, time at leisure for a break time in the old medina for shopping or Mint tea in a local café, before re-board the Vehicle and drive back to Tangier.