Minutes from Ceuta we get on a bus in 10 minutes. at the nearby border. These we pass on foot and plunge immediately into another world. Surrounded by many Moroccans, we are asking of where to go, tourist guides would be happy to sell you a day trip. But we want to be traveling alone. A bus to Tetouan we find nowhere (we later find out that this can not go directly to the border, otherwise the taxi business would be affected.)
Along the coast we go by taxi to Tetouan city 45 km away. We look forward to the great Medina (old town), which was started in 1997 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Criss-cross, we wander through the medina with its souks different. Hundreds of impressions await us. In the narrow streets, we find craft shops, vegetable and fruit stands, meat market, selling spices, fabric displays and much more. We can hardly get enough. Oriental market life is all around us. Tired and hungry from all the impressions we take a break to eat lunch in a small restaurant. From a rich display of various dishes we choose what to fill in our baguette. Small, thin and freshly grilled hamburgers for its use. Everything is fine with spices cooked wonderfully.
Visit our newly strengthened the Museum of Moroccan Arts. We admire traditional crafts complex produced furniture and equipment, old clothes, tools and pottery.
Opposite is the art school, also in an identical old small palace with its beautiful park, this course are interested and we can see where the young students (male only) in their exercises in the various traditional arts and crafts.
Time passes very quickly. It's getting late, our feet are walking around from hours of hard and our head full of the many new impressions we make on the way home.
We will not forget this exciting day. In the medina, we thought we stepped back 100 years. The life and in the souks was really identical, and we saw hardly any tourists were allowed to discover a day in the original Moroccan life.
Note: Unfortunately we have no pictures made in the medina, because we did not attract attention and provoke.
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