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                <title>Hotel Continental's souvenir shop</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A shop where you will not be pestered, hassled or pressured into buying anything. If you do not have a well-informed guide, do not go into any carpet shops unless you are prepared to buy one, as you will be invited to have tea, and then be subjected to intense sales pressure.]]></description>
                
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                <title>A pre-arranged private tour</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[My wife and I took a seven day WindSurf Cruise. Upon docking the last day, we booked a pre-arranged private tour in Tangier Morocco. It was about a three or four hour tour. The purpose of this email is to let readers know that our guide, David, was a remarkable, engaging and knowledgeable young man. Of all the excursions on all the cruises we've taken, we enjoyed his commentary and his interest in our learning about all things Moroccan more than any guide we can remember. He is a real asset for his company and will be for anyone else he chooses to work for. We really enjoyed our tour with David as a private personal tour guide in Tangier..he was fabulous! We were taken to places that were amazingly beautiful and to top it off, much of the natural history was explained to us. My wife and I are both interested in conservation, and we've done plenty of it!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Asilah</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A fortified former Portuguese port on the Atlantic Coast below Tangier, Asilah is built in Andalusian style with whitewashed buildings and is surrounded by huge ramparts. It has a small medina that is easy to navigate and fairly hassle free. There are also some good seafood restaurants and beaches which stretch for miles up the coast. A good place to relax away from the madness of the big Moroccan cities. <br><br>Asilah also has an International Festival that runs for 3-4 weeks in August, with musicians and artists from around the world.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Touring Tangier</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Tangier is nothing like I had imagined (it's much better) and so very different from anything I'd ever seen before. We hired Baba, a private guide which meant we didn't have to travel around in a big pack. Baba drove us to the usual tourist spots: Cap Spartel, the Caves of Hercules, past the rich homes &amp; palaces, through the modern part of the city. Then we headed to the Medina on foot. Fantastic! It was the highlight of our trip. He asked us if we wanted to ride a camel (yes), if we wanted to see a snake charmer (no), if we wanted to visit a herbalist (no), and he insisted on holding my packages so I could concentrate on taking pictures! No sales pressure, no sales pitches. (If we wanted to, fine; if not, we moved on.) <br><br>Tangier is fabulous - right out of a movie. All you can really do is walk around, but what a walk! Be prepared for the constant (and I mean constant!) hawkers of "treasures" that one normally has to go to Chinatown to get.]]></description>
                
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