This city was always on the crossroads of the travellers, adventurers and all black characters… In the morning I was walking around Medina – the old, walled part of the city, with nice gates, great bazaar, narrow streets full of the people in traditional jalabas. It is still alive, not like a tourist ghetto. The top part of Medina it is Kasba – the castle. It has outside the northern wall great viewpoint so you can see all Gibraltar Strait including the rock of Gibraltar – on a clear day like today… Below the southern wall of Kasba in ghe maze of the steep and narrow streets I found the modest tomb of Ibn Batuta – great medieval Arab traveller who visited 44 countries – at this period it was real challenge.. So I think that for the big oustanding travellers such a visit is a must when in Tangier. Unfortunately the interior of the little tomb was locked… See me on the picture in front of the tomb.
Tangier still has cosmopolitan atmosphere, is very picturesque and I was happy to see it today – before it was always out of my routes…
