Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
TAXI
Pick up a taxi in Rabat close to the Hôtel Bou Regreg, on Ave Hassan II; ask for the Bab
Bou Haja or Bab Mrisa. From Salé there are departures from Bab el-Jedid and Bab Mrisa
(Dh4 one way). Note that petits taxis are not permitted to travel between Rabat and Salé.
Grands taxis for Kenitra leave from just north of the train station (Dh15).
TRAIN
Trains run to/from Rabat, but the tram or grands taxis are probably the simplest options.
Trains north to Kenitra run every 30 minutes (Dh15).
TRAM
The easiest way to travel between Rabat and Salé is by tram (Dh6).
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Around Rabat & Salé
Sights
Complexe des Potiers
(Pottery Cooperative; sunrise-sunset)
The village of Oulja, 3km southeast of Salé, is home to
the Complexe des Potiers, which produces a huge range of ceramics. The potters work at
the back of the complex, bringing in clay from a rich seam in the surrounding hills (you'll
see it on the left as you drive in), throwing and turning it on kick wheels, then glazing and
firing the finished pieces in enormous kilns. A firing takes 15 hours and reaches 900°C.
Fine domestic pottery is fired in gas kilns designed to reduce environmental degradation
and air pollution, but more rustic pieces are still fired in kilns fuelled by twigs and leaves
from nearby eucalyptus forests.
The centre has a cafe and some workshops used by basket weavers and blacksmiths. To
get here, take a petit taxi from Salé (about Dh18) or catch bus 35 or 53 (Dh4) from Bab
Khebaz.
ARTS CENTRE
Jardins Exotiques
(
www.jardinsexotiques; adult/child Dh10/5
;
9am-5pm winter, to 7pm summer)
Created by French
horticulturist Marcel François in 1951, these gardens were declared a Natural Heritage site
in 2003 and reopened in 2005 after several years of restoration. They are divided into the
GARDENS
