Tangier is Morocco’s gateway from Europe, where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic and the ferries come in from Spain. Our Morocco tours from Tangier start right here, which makes it the natural place to begin a journey through the north. Every tour on this page starts in Tangier, is fully private, and is planned by our own family at Morocco Stunning Tours.
From Tangier the road leads quickly into the Rif mountains and the blue streets of Chefchaouen, then down to Fes and the imperial cities. You begin in a city with a foot on two continents, its old Kasbah looking across the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain. Pick-up is from your hotel, the port or the airport, with a local driver-guide the whole way.
The north & the blue city. The most popular trip from Tangier takes in Chefchaouen, the Roman ruins of Volubilis and the imperial city of Meknes before reaching Fes.
Grand tours to the Sahara. With more time, we take you all the way south from Tangier, through Fes and the Middle Atlas to the dunes of Merzouga, then on to Marrakech. A full picture of Morocco, coast to desert.
Private tours. Every trip from Tangier is private: your own vehicle and guide, your own pace, and no strangers along for the ride. Stop where you like, and we build the day around you.
Day trips from Tangier. Short on time? Spend a day in the blue medina of Chefchaouen, tour Tangier itself — the Kasbah, Cap Spartel and the Caves of Hercules — or cross to the Roman city of Volubilis. Back in Tangier by evening.
Here are our current tours departing from Tangier. Each one is private and can be shaped around your dates, pace and budget — tell us what you have in mind and we will plan it around you.
Included on most Tangier tours: a private air-conditioned vehicle and fuel, a local driver-guide, and hotel or port pick-up, with our own on-the-ground support throughout.
Usually not included: flights, lunches, monument entrance fees and tips. Local city guides and extra nights are easy to add on request.
The Kasbah sits at the top of the medina, looking over the port, the rooftops and the strait. The museum inside it, in an old sultan’s palace, holds Moroccan art, Roman finds from the area and a quiet Andalusian garden; entry is around 20 MAD. Honestly, the lanes around it are the better attraction — studded doors, whitewashed walls, small galleries, and the terrace at Bab Kasbah where everybody stops to look at Spain.
Fourteen kilometres west of town, Cap Spartel is where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean, with a lighthouse from the 1860s on the headland. Next to it the Caves of Hercules open to the sea through a mouth shaped almost exactly like the map of Africa. Yes, it’s the most photographed thing in northern Morocco, and yes, there will be other people there. Go at sunset anyway. The drive out passes the pine woods and old villas of the Montagne, which is half the pleasure.
Tangier’s medina is smaller and rougher than the ones in Fes or Marrakech, and people actually live in it rather than sell to tourists in it. The Petit Socco, which was the centre of everything disreputable in the International Zone years, is now a quiet square of cafés. Above the water, Café Hafa has been serving mint tea off its terraced steps since 1921 — Paul Bowles, the Rolling Stones, half the writers of the last century. Nothing has been renovated. Order a tea, find a step, watch the ferries leave for Spain.
The only US National Historic Landmark outside America. This was the first American diplomatic mission anywhere, opened in 1821, and Morocco was the first country to recognise American independence back in 1777. Inside there’s art, documents and a whole wing on Paul Bowles. It’s free, it’s cool inside, and it’s far more interesting than it sounds.
North to Chefchaouen and the Rif, to Volubilis and Meknes, down to Fes, and on longer trips all the way to the Sahara and Marrakech.
Yes. On a clear day you can see the Spanish coast from the Kasbah, Cap Spartel and Cafe Hafa, across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Tangier to Fes via Chefchaouen is comfortable in two days. Add the desert to make it a week-long loop.
Yes, every one, with your own driver-guide and vehicle and an itinerary planned around you.
Tell us your dates and what you would like to see, and we will send back a real plan — not a template. No pressure, and no pushy emails. Tea is on us when you arrive.
