Hafa Cafe - Tangier

Café el Hafa (Arabic: مقهى الحافة).. is a cafe in the north of Tangier, Northern Morocco, located along the cliff top overlooking the Bay of Tangier. founded in 1921, the cafe still has its original decor from the old days. Visitors have included Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, The Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. The cafe is known for its mint tea, a Tangier special brew.

You may take a quick tour in the Hafa cafe, and around it during the sunset in this short youtube video below from out channel:

Like Venice and its Caffè Florian or even Paris and its Café de Flore, Tangier has its legendary café. Café Hafa (or El Hafa), a peaceful, cosmopolitan, almost magical place founded in 1921. Built on a cliff, this café offers a splendid view of the ocean. Its location, its atmosphere, and its famous mint tea have attracted many people including the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Sean Connery, and the writer Paul Bowles. In his book The City of a Thousand and One Lights, he wrote: “I am going back to the Hafa café. It is on its terrace that I continue to dream. Time has changed everything except this place. Secret and silent, the Hafa café has remained as before, magical. Generation after generation, this is where chess players, poets, writers, artists meet. And, installed on the old straw mats, they still abandon themselves to the sweet illusions of Kif ”.

To get to Hafa cafe, it is better to have a car. If you don't have one there, you can rent one or you can get there by a Taxi, there busses that go by it but it would be complicated for you to know which one to get and from where.

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Ouzoud Waterfalls

Ouzoud Waterfalls

One day Excursion from Marrakech

A one day Excursion to Ouzoud waterfalls can be done from Marrakech, since it's only 150 km away, The excursion starts at around 8 in the morning from Marrakech. The road takes roughly 1 houre 30 min to 2 houres, with few stops for breakfast and panoramic views if you want to take pictures.

Upon arrival to the village where the Ouzoud waterfalls are located you have the choice to either take a local guide (costs around 2 Euros per person) or to go explore the area by yourself.

Watch this youtube video that shows how does a one day excursion to Ouzoud waterfalls from Marrakech usually goes:

Ouzoud Waterfalls (in Amazigh (berber) language: Imuzzar n wuẓuḍ, in French: Cascades d'Ouzoud) is 110 m high (second highest waterfalls in Africa). They are located in the province of Azilal, precisely near the Moyen Atlas village of Tanaghmeilt.

As you explore the region you will eventually have the chance to see some monkeys living in the wild. Some local habitant would  suggest that you feed them and they might give you bisquits in the hope that you would tip them afterwards. Olive trees are all over the area down the falls. That has to do with the word "Ouzoud" that means in Amazigh (berber) "the act of grinding grain", you might aswell come across some small mills that are still in use.

Cliff jumping is not safe in Ouzoud falls neither is swimming in some areas. But you will notice some cliff jumpers and swimmers here and there.

The Ouzoud waterfalls excursion will continue after lunch. there are many local traditional restaurants spread all over the place where you could eat, they mainly serve Moroccan Tagines. You will have the chance to eat in nature near water, or on a terrasse while enjoying the panoramic view.

Other activities you can do there is hiking in nature though the old mills, the green valleys , the beautiful orchards, and the gorges of the El Abid River (in Arabic, "Slaves' River" ).

Or you can ride a small traditional boat that would take you under the falls for about two euros per person (see video).

The Excursion ends by a meeting in the parking where you left the car, then you will head the road back to Marrakech.

Additional informations about Ouzoud Waterfalls:

There is possibility of camping in Ouzoud waterfalls. There are reserved places for camping where you can erect your tent and enjoy few days in one of the  most beautiful sites in Morocco.

Due to the increasing number of visitors with all the issues that come with it many local and notional associations are leading projects to protect and preserve the site.

So if you are in Marrakech do not miss the opportunity to live the experience of visiting Ouzoud Waterfalls, We offer one day Excursion there among our selected places we do excursions to. If you are interested feel free to contact us.

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Paradise valley - Agadir

Paradise valley - Agadir

Paradise Valley is a section of the Tamraght River valley in the Moroccan Atlas mountains. It is located approximately 20 km north of Agadir. The valley is known for its abundance of rock pools and small waterfalls.

Most visitors to Paradise Valley travel onwards from the palm groves and gorges of the river Tamrhakht up into the mountains towards Imouzzer. The names of this and other villages differ according to whom or from where you are receiving your directions. This variance applies also to the names of valleys, estimates of distance, timetables of bus transport, and of course the cost of getting there and back. Getting to Paradise Valley and the mountains beyond requires a hire car or collective grand taxi.

Here you can see two youtube video of Paradise valley Agadir:

Part one

Part two

It was an amazing experience, the unfinished road might be a problem to reach paradise valley but mostly it is a good road, then you have to walk for about 20 mins in the valley, and that's fun because you will be walking in nature, among mountains, trees and water..

I also noticed some small "cafes" created by locals, the beautiful thing is that some of them have chairs on water so you can feel water running on your feet while you're having a drink as you could see in the video.

Paradise valley is in the middle of the road to Imouzzar, another nice place with beautiful waterfalls

This is a video of some Cliff Jumps in Paradise valley Idaoutanane:

some cliffs are pretty high, so if you are into cliff jumping then this area would satisfy your desire, waters are good, depending on what time of year you decide to visit, avoid the summer as it is way too crowded with both locals and tourists, best time of year to visit paradise valley is during the spring, between April and May, after the rain season is over and the level of water is a little high, and also everything around you would be green and the weather is mostly beautiful.

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