For travellers from Asia, Tangier carries a connection that most European visitors miss entirely. Ibn Battuta left this city in 1325 aged twenty-one, and over the next twenty-nine years reached the Delhi Sultanate, Sumatra, the Maldives, Quanzhou in China and much of the Indian Ocean world. His account remains one of the most detailed records of fourteenth-century Asia to survive, and his tomb is a modest building inside the medina here.
The modern city has been rebuilt faster than anywhere else in Morocco. The commercial port moved out to Tanger Med, 40 km east, so a ferry arrival is not a walk into the old town. The airport, which carries his name, is 15 km south-west. A high-speed line now reaches Casablanca in a little over two hours.
Every booking is private, so the shape of the day is yours: the cape and the caves before lunch, the kasbah and the tomb after, and then either a crossing to Spain or the road south. The rate is fixed before you travel and covers fuel, tolls and the driver.
Why hire a driver here
- The tomb of Ibn Battuta sits inside the old town, reachable on foot only
- Tanger Med ferry port is 40 km out of town, so arrivals need planning
- Reaching Chefchaouen means mountain road throughout, not motorway
- The medina and kasbah are pedestrian, with very limited vehicle access
- Cap Spartel and the Caves of Hercules sit outside the city entirely
Included in every booking
- Fuel, tolls and the driver's fee for the agreed route
- Airport, ferry port, hotel or Tanger Ville station pickup
- English-speaking drivers as standard on the Asia site
- Ferry timing coordination for same-day returns to Spain
- Prayer and halal meal stops planned into every route
